the world's. best sights are pushed on drums that it's a very modern way to do plumbing and we've made poisons the measure of progress. the domestic population has become organized enough and active enough to believe in your assumed in the ideas of people who will kill people or more vulnerable circle of poison this time on al-jazeera. more than four hundred people killed in less than a week in the bombardment of syria's east and. we need this is just stupid. and we needed desperately. to rush blogs efforts by the un security

council to call for a thirty day ceasefire across the country. one of them recall this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. mixed messages from the nigerian government about missing schoolgirls after monday's attack. on the divided island of cyprus where gas revenue is proving to be a further wedge between greek and turkish cypriots. and the new campaign that's underway to make antarctic waters the largest protected area. it's been under siege by syrian government forces for five years but the last five days have been the worst so far for civilians in the rebel held enclave near the capital damascus relentless bombing bombardment killed dozens more on thursday

bringing the number of dead to more than four hundred more than a thousand people have been injured and the military has dropped leaflets over the area residents to leave and calling on opposition fighters to hand themselves. meanwhile the un security council is struggling to pass a resolution on a ceasefire which would allow aid into the area facing. position from russia which claims information from the ground in east and good has been fabricated by the syrian opposition to his base will have more on that in just a moment but first some avenge of ed reports on eastern goose a. good look at what they're looking. it was simply the smallest coffins the heaviest and besieged in their dozens every day for parents saying goodbye to little children is not easy. almost every family has lost someone the number of dead is so high that trenches are being dug for quick burials. was if

people linger of sight for too long they risk becoming victims of the next bombing . living rooms in offices are now makeshift morgues. for those who survived the attacks medical facilities are not available thanks to doctors without borders says thirteen hospitals have been hit in three days. since sunday the syrian government and its allies have stepped up their strikes and troops of the converging on the fence. are supposed to be bona for deescalation zones agreed upon by russia iran and turkey but the syrian government says it stopped getting what it called an area home to four hundred thousand people and russia denies it's involved in the relentless from bothering the civilians. the situation really leaves much to be decided well as you know the responsibility for the situation in eastern huta rests with those who support the terrorists tunnels like these have been crucial for rebels who have stopped multiple attempts to storm the eastern front in the past

get off numbered and their supplies have been cut off but the rebels say they will not surrender without a fight. or capabilities a week but god willing we will deal with this the regime will lose again we face similar attacks and it didn't fall and now again we will survive this. besieged city and say none of the words from people in power have done much to protect them . messages for help from eastern who have been nonstop street after street there are bodies and parents have been trying to pull their children out of the rubble the united nation calls it hell on earth for besieged people in eastern guta who feel abandoned by the outside world they might as well be living on another planet some of the job a delta zero. zero united nations humanitarian chief has been urging security council to order a desperately needed cease fire deliver food and medicine to eastern ghouta but russia has downplayed the situation automatic as the terms base reports from the un

as people in eastern continued to die in the security council they continue to argue more words of division and no sign of desperately needed action the regime wants to keep bombing and gassing these four hundred thousand people and the assad regime is counting on russia to make sure the security council is unable to stop their suffering and there's really no one use that kind of your time is right to discuss frankly what is occurring around this to mask a suburb the massive psychosis in global media outlets in coordination disseminating in recent days the same rumors this in no way do anything to help improve an understanding of the situation he said a false narrative was being presented to taint the reputation of his country this despite the fact he'd heard the un's top humanitarian official detail exactly what was being inflicted on eastern ghouta. airstrikes mortars rockets barrel

bombs cluster munitions chemical weapons. suicide bombs snipers double tap attacks on civilians in the essential infrastructure they did and in failing hospitals and schools. outside the un the campaign group highlighted the scale of the seven year long conflict and tried to shame the security council into action inside the building here in the corridor was there were frantic negotiations to try and bring a draft resolution calling for a thirty day cease fire to a vote the light is about the only thing that the scheme went into a medical decision to go eleven by the time they gathered in the security council chamber it was clear russia wanted amendments and wouldn't let the resolution pass in its current form over the past two years with russian military help the syrian

government represented by ambassador bashar jaffrey has turned the tide of the war now using russian diplomatic gade the assad regime wants finally to win it whatever it takes including civilian casualties and outright lies do you janaya that you are killing civilians at least include not only medina we are saying that many of these faking us are staged. by you. by your cousins by your by the terrorist by the syrian moderate opposition there was a sense of exasperated and despair that was summed up by sweden's ambassador i do think that we are tested today not just as ambassador representing our countries but as human beings and that is a massive responsibility a test for now they have failed james pays out zero of the united nations.

yes present all trump is not backing away from his controversial proposal to some teachers and suggested they should be paid a bonus he's under intense public pressure to pass tougher gun laws following last week's mass shooting at a florida high school a white house correspondent kimberly hellcats has more. arming teachers in the classroom is a controversy ally dhea being promoted by president donald trump prevent school shootings if you harden the sights you're not going to have this problem because these guys who lack courage will never go into those schools he says he wants to encourage educators to become comfortable with the gun even offering bonuses for those with firearms skills i want my schools protected just like my banks are protected trump made the comments on thursday at another white house listening session following the shootings in parkland florida that left seventeen people dead

most of them teenagers. since the school shooting fellow students have made their voices heard and brought pressure to bear on trump and other right of center politicians to tighten gun restrictions arming teachers is not what they have in mind that's their plan anyway mark barden lost his son in two thousand and twelve when the sandy hook school shooting school teachers have more than enough responsibilities right now. then to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life on twitter trump attempted to clarify his position and floated other proposals such as background checks for those buying a gun raising the legal purchasing age to twenty one and again suggesting the end of the sale of so-called bump stocks that increase a weapons fire power not zero but some of those ideas are at odds with the biggest gun rights group in the united states with national rifle association or n.r.a. pushing back against any effort to limit gun ownership the elites don't care not

one whit about america's school system for them it's not a safety issue it's a political issue they care more about control and more of gun owners agree they were right to protect ourselves protect our children so if they're properly trained why not be able to use that i think that it would send a message across the nation that we are taking it in this into our own hands we're fighting back and we will be the first line of defense and while there is support for at least some of donald trump's proposals even the most basic limits on gun ownership will require congressional approval an accomplishment that in the past has proved difficult can really help get al-jazeera washington more charges have been filed against former aides to the trump presidential campaign paul not a fourth rate gates by special counsel robert miller of those two count indictment

includes tax on bank fraud charges in october metaphors and gates were charged with conspiracy to launder money both of painted not guilty robert miller is investigating possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the twenty sixteen election. has more from washington d.c. . it is important to point out that the name donald trump is not anywhere mention in these new charges that are filed these thirty two counts account for money laundering of about thirty million dollars as well as filing false income tax statements they predate the time that these two men accused of these crimes rick gates and paul manna for it had joined on to the trump campaign however the significant part is the timing of filing these charges where kate's had been reportedly been ingo in negotiations with investigators to possibly flip and

cooperate with the investigation for c. ably it's in exchange for a lighter sentence to give investigators more information that could help them bring down bigger fish the fact that these charges were filed against him is an indication that perhaps those negotiations have stalled in this is a chance for investigators to show just how much information they have stacked up against these two men bigger picture here though is as the investigation continues into russia's meddling in the twenty six thousand u.s. elections and perhaps the role that trumps campaign had in this that investigators are closing in they're finding more details that they are showing on paper here and certainly casts even a darker shadow on the administration brazil's military has rated rio de janeiro's prison off to the senate side to creep putting the army in charge of the city security a riot broke out of the prison on sunday with persons complaining of overcrowding

the government hopes that giving the military control of policing will driven by drunk drug gangs operating across the city. has the latest from rio de janeiro. here on the streets of rio de janeiro everything seems normal like any other day but below the surface there is real apprehension in a worry in this city about what's to come in the last couple days we've seen army soldiers patrolling highways maybe even lead to operations inside a local shanty town or bell as they're called here and they were called to help restore order at a local prison during a riot it's all part of the militarization of rio it was ordered by president be shelled tamar to combat a huge crime and violence waves sweeping over the city troops have been on the streets of rio before but they were just here is back up to the local police force now that's changed the military has been ordered by the president to completely

take over all security aspects in the state police are still on the streets patrolling but they are subordinate to the military and the top of public security official is now an army general this is the first time since the military dictatorship in brazil in did in one thousand nine hundred eight that the military has taken over like this while everyone in this city agrees that crime is now out of control people disagree if the military is the solution to fix it there are already three thousand troops here in rio when the decree was signed those troops now have a much different role than they had before they are now doing police work it's unclear if the federal government plans to send more soldiers here but what's already been decided is that the militarization of rio will last at least until the end of the year. there are several greek politicians being investigated taking bribes from a swiss drug company. and the art of war an exhibition in lebanon highlighting the

plight of syrian children. through tranquil in the arabian. and if the gondola. hello again across much of southern and central china the weather conditions are looking somewhat better during the course of friday we lost all the rain which be in effect in this area temperatures but average for the time of year so fairly bright into vietnam we've got some heavy showers here not looking particularly want just nineteen degrees celsius and as we head into saturday it's more of a southerly flow expected but then you start to see some rain developing across the central parts of china up towards the river valley elsewhere across into china looking too bad for laos and the amount with highs of thirty four expected in young gone into southeastern parts of asia for the philippines weather conditions to be

looking good at the moment staying that way through the course of friday so heavy showers likely if the borneo kuching seen some fairly big downpours but it should improve as we head through into saturday shares for java and bali and if you shout out through the mill a potential but as you head up through into thailand not only is that him particular mark i think for much of come bodie and southern parts of vietnam at least the weather should be drawing fine into south asia is a fine picture for most here just an outside chance of a shower affecting more eastern parts of sri lanka but in this is the area of cloud and rain moving into northern parts of pakistan a lot of snowfall expected for the north meanwhile in delhi we're looking at highs of thirty one. the with sponsored by the use. of. five countries. four days. three thousand konami tents. two generation. one

by. syrian refugees on assume real journey to see me. on the bright side. i witnessed documentary at this time and how to see you. there again you're watching us as or as reminder of our top stories this hour the syrian military has dropped leaflets over eastern ghouta calling on residents to leave for their own safety and opposition forces to hand themselves over more than four hundred people have died in the rebel held and played during five days of of bomb ball plans. meanwhile though still no agreement at the u.n. on ordering a cease fire allow aid to enter the area as facing opposition from russia which is

accusing the media of a massive this information campaign. and water as have been filed against former ace of the trump campaign by special counsel robin roberts pulled out of fourteen rape gates faced tax on bank fraud charges they were charged with conspiracy to launder money both of pleaded not guilty. angry parents of dozens of missing nigerian schoolgirls have accused the authorities of lying to them the state governor has apologized saying some of the girls have been rescued when they were actually still missing. says dr. village on beast. on monday ninety one students from the school there have since been reported missing the disappearance is one of the largest is back around the duct and more than two hundred seventy school girls in the town of chibok and twenty fourteen. since thursday we're here we're looking for our child we didn't see them and actually they did not inform us where our children are the early yesterday soldiers brought

about seventy two girls and now we're waiting for them and dumped to see whether they were among those risk you'd david as a counterterrorism security an organized crime analyst he says there's a lack of credible information coming out of nigeria i think that's one of the biggest problems you know the information you know comes you know and you know nobody has been able to. verify the information as to you know how many goes on the scene you know if book romas indeed in you have to goes and this is the biggest concern to that is different but you know the government local government you know has the incentive most of the students back home you know for a while with brick without actually having any investigation or city which of the students have been be seen how many has been captured by bookworm or if at all in your to go house has been captured by a book or african refugees in israel's whole lot detention center have gone on a hunger strike in protest against their president of seven eritreans who refused

to leave the country where. the men are the first to be jailed under a new deportation scheme many of the first seven thousand african refugees and as well have been given up to be given premiums to take up a cash offer to leave for wonder or face and definite jail. british charity oxfam has been suspended from operating in haiti for two months well in the ongoing controversy over sexual abuse allegations the carby and islands government has temporarily revokes the aid organizations permission to work in the country it follows revelations that solve sexually exploited victims of an earthquake and twenty and the deputy director of the un's children's agency unicef has resigned after complaints about inappropriate behavior in a previous job just simple science was the c.e.o. of the u.k. charity save the children until twenty sixteen on he was that three workers

complained about inappropriate text messages comments about what young women were wearing unicef says it was not aware of the complaints was appointed for saif. ten senior greek politicians including two former prime ministers a facing investigation into alleged bribes from a swiss drugs company of. allegedly bride politicians and doctors to raise the price caps on that. list has more from athens. the greek parliament has voted to hold a preliminary investigation into whether there are political responsibilities for two former prime ministers one former finance minister and seven former health and labor ministers over the last fifteen years they are thought to have been potentially susceptible to charges of either soliciting or accepting bribes and money laundering in other words illegally processing the proceeds of those bribes if they did indeed receive them one of the former health ministers and labor

ministers who spoke in his own defense passionately defended his record he was the man who served as labor minister between two thousand and nine and two thousand and eleven the very beginning of greece's economic adjustment program that was the socialist government which started the serious fiscal austerity program that continues to this day and he said he had found health a health budget that was worth thirteen billion dollars and in his time that was reduced to about eight billion dollars similarly within that budget the pharmaceutical expenditure that he found he said was worth about seven billion dollars and that was reduced by almost half so how could it be he said that i received bribes to raise the pharmaceutical expenditures of the state i was doing precisely the opposite similar remarks came from all of the other defendants all of

them denying the charges against them many of them saying that they're willing for the investigation to proceed in order to clear their names the investigation may take one of two root. could decide that there are political responsibilities in which case under the greek constitution it is parliament which most effectively act as a court of law for the politicians or it may decide that parliament will not involve itself in any further investigation and hand the case back to the traditional authorities. pursue the charges against these politicians and former politicians as ordinary citizens. cyprus's accuse turkey of obstructing us offshore gas exploration in the east mediterranean tax separates want a revenue sharing agreement to be finalized before any trailing off that divides the island can start said to her own ports. greek cypriots say it's their sovereign right to explore for natural gas 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. using means not being caught for me with international law is trying to hijack you know weary 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 ankara 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 to it. the greek cypriots kicked us out

in one nine hundred sixty three and oak by the republic now they are trying to steal what is ours we want a lot of this the potential for natural resources further complicates 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 copying now is preventing us from the negotiation because you cannot you know. when 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. the 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 that her there are on the divided island of cyprus the lebanese capital beirut is hosting an exhibition highlighting the plight of syrian children it aims to raise awareness of the challenges and trauma suffered by millions of displaced children. went to take a look. this sculpture of a young boy and girl represents the childhood of millions of syrian children killed

injured orphaned or displaced their young thoughts displayed here in beirut through art inspired by their poems. if you want to do anything with the aid agencies they don't call you by your name or your family name they call you by your number this is very upsetting i want to be called by my name ya wrote a poem called a wish this is the artist's interpretation of her dreams manifest on the other me this is my goal i have a wish i want to finish my studies and become a lawyer so i can defend the rights of children all i don't want children to suffer like we suffered. haunting images paint a picture of trauma experiences that have abruptly ended a carefree childhood. i was very upset to leave my country and come here my house changed from a house to a tent instead of walls we have wood and instead of assuming we have a tent cover that is it the dreams of these children and their families are simple

it is the dream of millions of other syrians it is an urgent and desperate plea they want the war to end and they want to go home stephanie decker al-jazeera. the campaign is underway to turn a vast area of antarctic water into the largest protected area on earth but i'll say it's rich in biodiversity and currently untouched by human activity like luck as on board the greenpeace ship sailing to the sixty fourth parallel in antarctica . so we're on board the arctic sunrise heading further and further south we've come through the antarctic sound which by sexy and talk the principle we're now on the web will see but not yet at the core that was that was a perspective that's out of 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 we're always through the eyes in a way that is happening is through the scope and the captain. right up there in the crows this you just. saw and he's looking for the leads these passages through the

eyes which will guide us on the dance or part of as you can see it's just incredibly spectacular we've seen plenty of water life to the penguins or three around when he met with seals and even the old tale of the whale disappearing in. the gulf region were on board is to follow that for you to have a large part of the way to the into the ocean factory and i'll read earlier i spoke to will we call him here on board the ocean team leader for green this incredible ecosystem so you have this unbelievable wildlife down the other twelve feet of the whale some scientists of the modeling suggest that more than fourteen thousand species living on the seabed it's absolutely me even when i'm talking currents you know coldest things on the planet and so far it's pretty much on touched by human activity the way we seem to stay that way we don't want krill fishing industry to expand into it we don't want any industry to expand into it and what for this year

we have the opportunity to protect the scientists in germany to pull together a proposal which is now being backed by the e.u. and the decision to happen. since october is whether it will be put off limits to human activity will be palatable so we'll keep pushing through this ice as best we can probably the reach of the sixty fourth parallel i think has remain clear like this we can take this helicopter up and get a great movie review of this magnificent i stayed here and i thought that in three or four days too i would head back up the east coast we have talked to but it's going to be solved tonight it's the area where a lot of krill fishing is taking place and then will tell you told me it's a really rough drake passage back to south america. and without zero these are all top stories the syrian military has dropped leaflets over east and goose are calling on residents to leave for their own safety and

opposition vices to hand themselves over more than four hundred people have died in the rebel held enclave to end five days of plants. meanwhile still no agreement to the un ordering a cease fire to allow aid into the area as facing opposition from russia with the u.s. accusing moscow of blocking any meaningful action yesterday russia's permanent representative asked that when asked what we should do about eastern ghouta the people of eastern ghouta u.n. officials humanitarian and human rights leaders and indeed pretty much the entirety of this council have answered stop the bombing of eastern ghouta allow medical assistance and the rest of the council is ready to act. we urge the council to move forward with the ceasefire and humanitarian resolution immediately. yes president donald trump has told america's largest gun lobby the

national rifle association us needs to toughen up some rules around gun control he's also said the legal age to buy guns e.s.p. raised from eighteen to twenty one years of age the debate over gun control has intensified since seventeen people were shot dead at a school in florida a week ago. more charges have been father against former aides to the trump presidential campaign paul metaphoric gates by a special counsel robert miller those two count indictment includes tax and bank fraud charges in october metaphors and gates were conspired charged with conspiracy to launder money. results military has raided rio de janeiro's prison after the senate signed a decree putting the army in charge this is the security riot broke out of the prison on sunday with inmates complaining of overcrowding decision to take policing as part of a security intervention to restore law and order. and spanish police and officers died after clashes between police and football fans before europa league match

between athletic bilbao and spartak moscow. the officers suffered a heart attack. those are your headlines more news on al-jazeera of the inside story. amnesty international slams what it calls trump lead politics of fate for eating away at human rights around the world as things deteriorate protest movements have been created to fight back but will activism turn the tide on certain policies this is inside story.