i would have been under the ada. the most that a. plane is. on the nineteenth of december twenty sixth mahmoud hussein was detained by the egyptian authorities he remains behind bars without a trial al-jazeera world investigates his case and media repression in egypt journalism is not a crime at this time on al-jazeera. still l o l l e a lot. more than four hundred people killed in the last thing we are hearing about syria's eastern europe to. me is a sustained just say she posted it and we need it desperately but russia blocks efforts by the un security council to call for

a thirty day ceasefire across the country. looks a whole lot when you're watching all jazeera life i had quarters here in doha also coming up. our movie stars our politicians they're all more protected than our children at school they had all the largest gun lobby in the us breaks his silence about the deadly florida school shooting. also pressure mounts on donald trump's former aides pulled manifolds and rick gates as they face dozens more charges of bank and tax for all. and the australian deputy prime minister barnaby joyce steps down after weeks of pressure over an extramarital affair.

so you can be welcome to al-jazeera it's been an 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 on klav of eastern ghouta near the capital damascus relentless bombardment killed dozens more on thursday bringing the number of dead to more than four hundred more than a thousand people have been injured the military has dropped leaflets over the area urging residents to leave and calling on opposition fighters to hand themselves over. the un security council is struggling to pass a resolution on a ceasefire to allow aid into the area there's opposition from russia which claims information on the ground in eastern guta has been fabricated by the syrian opposition now james bays will have more not in a moment but first disarm a binge of their reports on eastern ghouta. it was so good 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 it people living there outside for too long the 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 seems to be converging on the field and. supposed to be bought off for deescalation zones agreed upon by russia iran and turkey but the syrian government says it's start getting what it called in an area home to four hundred thousand people and russia denies its involved in the relentless one bottle of civilians. the situation really

leaves much to be decided well as you know the responsibility for the situation in east 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 for the rebels say they will not surrender without a fight. are capable of to use a weak 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 the so besieged city and say none of the words from people in power have done much to protect them . messages for help from eastern hooter 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 alter who feel abandoned by the outside world they might as well be living on another planet

some of the job as they are. now the u.n. humanitarian chief has been urging the security council to order a desperately needed cease fire to deliver food and medicine to eastern ghouta but russia has downplayed the situation on diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations as people in eastern kentucky need 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 of kind of your time is right to discuss frankly what is occurring around the 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 invading 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 laws there were frantic negotiations to try and bring a draft resolution calling for a thirty day cease fire are to a vote obama is

a problem the only thing for. this game went into a medical billing of 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 gate the assad regime wants finally to win it whatever it takes including civilian casualties and outright lies it do you to know that you are killing civilians at least include not only when we are saying that many of these faking us are staged by you. by your cousins. by you know by the terrorist by the syrian moderate opposition there was a sense of exasperated and despair that we some don't buy sweden's ambassador i do

think that we are tested today not just. representing our countries but as human beings and that is a massive responsibility a test for now they have failed james pays zero at the united nations well it stayed on the american continent now because the u.s. president donald trump is not backing away from his controversial proposal to arm 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 white house correspondent kimberly how could how small. arming teachers in the classroom is a controversy ally dhea being promoted by president donald trump to 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 all 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 every 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 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 of accomplishment that in the past has proved difficult can really help get al-jazeera washington now the sheriff's deputy who was on juice he where the shooting happened apparently waited outside the building for four minutes without getting inside he's not resigned and an investigation is underway what i saw was a deputy arrived at the west side of building twelve take up a position and he never went in when that. yes he was he went in addressed the killer killed the killer. well staying in america now more charges have been filed against president transform a campaign chairman and his business associate paul manifold and rick gates face additional criminal charges of bank and tax fraud special counsel robert miller

filed a thirty two count indictment on thursday in october motherboard and gates were charged with conspiracy to launder money both have pleaded not guilty is investigating possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the twenty sixth election how did you castro 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 ford 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 and 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 well still ahead here on al-jazeera a close to pay for international military forces from africa so how should seek help fun to poke around. that story straight after the break.

from. its twin in chanting death to greece. hello again as we look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia and see this area of rain we've got over afghanistan with some snow a higher elevations obviously there were twelve us rain but certainly to head up into the hindu kush is going to result in some heavy snow fall elsewhere we've got one or two showers around the caspian sea and jerry are settled weather across the advance what continues with a threat the further rain in time certainly quite a bit of cloud around two and heading into lot of parts we can you see this area of rain developing kuwait through up into northern parts of iraq and even iran seeing some rain at times but recently i've been chippy largely dry highs of eighteen

degrees here in the arabian peninsula it's going to be fine i think through much of friday but cloud is going to spill down and with it will come the risk of some rain at times now here in castle you hardly seen a drop of rain all way through the winter but i think could begin to change from subtly almost through the coming week a much more unsettled picture and certain across parts of saudi arabia we could well see some heavy rain at times through into southern parts of africa we've had some very heavy showers across the eastern cape those are dying away at the moment but still some heavy downpours like you affect in zimbabwe and through toward some beer as we come through in the movie it should be fine with highs of thirty one expected in winter. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us sunset there are people there are choosing between

buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. your child is there i'm still rather a binder of our top stories the syrian military has dropped leaflets over eastern cooter calling on residents to leave for their own safety and opposition hard just to hang themselves over more than four hundred people have died in the rebel held in clay during five days of bombardment meanwhile though still no agreement at the u.n. on ordering a cease fire to allow

a did its face the opposition from russia which is accusing the media of a massive disinfo mission campaign. also more charges have been filed against the former aides to the trump campaign pol pot of fourteen brigades face tax and bank fraud charges in october they were charged with conspiracy to board a bunny both have pleaded not guilty. australia's embattled deputy prime minister barnaby joyce has resigned after revelations of an affair with a former staff member joyce will step down from the cabinet but will remain in parliament safeguarding the government's one seat majority joyce who had campaigned on family values and left his marriage of twenty four years and is expecting a child with his former media secretary he also faces the former sexual her of formal sorry sexual harassment complaint which he which has been referred to the police now the scandal led to

a falling out with the prime minister malcolm turnbull but i will say is that on monday morning at the party room i will step down as the leader of the national party and deputy prime minister of the stroke now of an informed the acting prime minister mathias cormann of this i've been for my colleagues. of this and there are a couple of other things that i'd like to clearly say the i want to thank the people of new england i'm so humbled that the day to day was whilst walking round the. table and i don't want to. either sneaking suspicion some and inviting but they were so good offering their support. the people of tamworth the same the people the small towns i'm so humbled and i thank you for the overwhelming support people literally running up and someone crying often their support to me and i just say i died deserve the support that

you've given me well being koch is a senior lecturer of global politics at murdoch university joins me now live from perth via skype good to have you with us mr cook on the program a bot to be joy certainly sounding very upbeat but it's been weeks in the coming change because he was quite adamant that he wouldn't go. and i think that one thing is chinese does this story just hasn't gone away i think he was hoping things would die down the people would get tired of of to repeating it maybe you know would start circling him is that i've been doing over the last weeks but it's just no signs and it's clearly a distraction for the government as part of the reason all containable was somewhat sort of disappointed if you know he's not a little bit critical of bobby joyce so i think it's mostly just the fact that it's just dragged on so long in terms of the fact that he says he's going to step down as leader of the party but he won't resign it's paula stepped down from that do you

think his constituency or the public at large will have something to say despite what he's just said now on camera. i think i think as he was saying i tend to think that he's brought about a lot of people so then he said very much a high profile one of the highest profile national leaders we've had for some time so i think he has a fair amount of popular support that will still be there and you know many of us are thinking that waldo malloy you know they will have to appoint a replacement for him this is the end of bobby joyce's political career and most of us are expecting him back sometime in the near future there's a lovely phrase in that mud sticks and if you stand on the platform of family values and then you have an extramarital affair it obviously reflects on those that you do business with and in this case malcolm turnbull and his government how does this reflect on him. yeah he said lee hamilton will it was so.

to be joyce. then clearly i think the mud was sticking as he said so he had to withdraw that's a poet and some of them tangle in it in a difficult position that if he didn't coming out criticizing about to be joyce in the first instance it took him some time to move to a sort of critical position with respect to joyce so i think it does once again sort of the problem of malcolm turnbull's having strength of leadership in the extent to which people are seeing him is not the strongest leader that we've had as prime minister of course with all the joy stepping down who are the likely candidates to take over and can they actually work with malcolm turnbull. well i'm going to take the mine contender this point is this. malcolm. this is a minister's opponent journalist. i think he will be the person most likely there are other. can of the other possibilities but

neither of those two there's different for different reasons no other those to. joe so i think that it will be malcolm acoma who will take it over and. a conservative you know very conservative very strongly against same sex marriage during you know . so he's a he's a very much can say that it morally conservative leader and and you know continually is generally to say to be progressive by within his own party and so i think. it's a difficulty between market mccomb. what we shall see certainly interesting times for australian politics. from perth now problem. now brazil's military has raided a prison in rio de janeiro after the senate signed a decree putting the army in charge of the city's security a riot broke out in the prison on sunday with prisoners complaining of a crowding now the government hopes that giving the military control over years of

policing will curb violence driven by drug gangs operating across the city gabriel it's on the house 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 a 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 wave sweeping over the city troops have been on the streets in 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 ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 . now the united nations children's agency is warning cyclon season could aggravate pole living conditions for refugees in bangladesh unicef says at least five hundred thousand children are at risk of disease in unsanitary and overcrowded camps more

than seven hundred thousand have crossed the border from myanmar following a military crackdown in august now leaders from nations of africa's a hell region are trying to raise money to pay for an international military force formed last year to combat growing violence from armed groups they're meeting with politicians in brussels and getting a lot of help from france the tasha butler as well finn december the french president held a fund raising conference for the g. five sile force back then a promise of one hundred million dollars by saudi arabia added money already pledged by the e.u. france and the u.s. but just over half of the five hundred million dollars targeted was raised the funding shortfall prompted the president of one of the so-called g. five nations to call for more support earlier this month literature just at first so what it is urgent that this force be operational and the international community

whose serious decisions in libya have had disastrous consequences for the security of our countries must show greater solidarity with the. the joint military force known as t. five was launched last year by the leaders of new share picking a fast so charred mali and mauritania backed by france its five thousand troops will work alongside un peacekeepers in mali and french soldiers already deployed in syal its mission is to stop cross border attacks from armed groups including boko her arm and affiliates of al qaida and eisel as well as crackdown on weapons and people trafficking instability in libya is worsening the crisis. we have to fix the causes with what is spreading violence the big reason is a full look at afi and this is responsibility of the international community g five style and european union leaders meeting in brussels on friday hope to raise enough

money to enable the force to be fully operational within weeks more money for joint forces in the sensual but some analysts say can only be successful if it's allowed to fully cooperate with the national and international forces already deployed and his operations must go hand in hand with more developments in the region and it must win people's trust that it's vital that the rights of the people are respected there must be proper training you can't have troops for example who don't even speak a local language it won't work or if the g five force can gather the necessary money to carry out its mandate it will be an urgently needed and important step in cooperation in a region where so many people have been killed in violence or forced to flee their homes natasha butler al jazeera brussels a federal court in germany is set to decide whether diesel cars can be banned from certain cities in an effort to cut pollution the decision has the potential to

cause problems politically in germany where the automotive industry is a major part of the economy public aim is following the case from berlin. today's ruling is all about air pollution what causes it devices such as this of filtering measuring the levels of pollution in the environment of the big cities and it's the cities which are potentially going to be the ones that would implement a ban if that is the decision of the court the point to make is that those bringing the case believe the environmentalists believe that diesel engines are a prime cause of elevated levels of dangerous emissions that they say dangerous emissions in the atmosphere the automotive industry disagrees it believes with the measures it has brought in is implemented alongside the coalition government are enough not to see a ban brought in the point with then b how could a ban be inforced certain cities notably dusseldorf and stuttgart would very much like to be able to introduce

a sort of blue badge scheme if they could which would be put on all cars that didn't emit dangerous emissions the question will be whether the court feels now is the time to bring in a kind of decision which would make a barren possible. now 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 stephanie decker went to take a look at 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. and mom 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. yeah wrote a poem called a wish this is the artist's interpretation of her dreams the best and the only 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 more i don't want children to suffer like we heard. 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. you're watching al-jazeera i'm so whole robin these are our top stories the syrian military has dropped leaflets over eastern calling on residents to leave for their

own safety and opposition fighters to hand themselves over more than four hundred people have died in the rebel held enclave during five days of bombardment meanwhile there's still no agreement at the u.n. on ordering a cease fire to allow aid into the area it's facing opposition from russia with the u.s. accusing moscow of blocking any meaningful action. also u.s. president donald trump has told america's largest gun lobby the national rifle association that the u.s. needs to toughen up some rules on gun control he's also said that the legal age to buy guns needs to be raised from eighteen to twenty one last wednesday seventeen people were killed in a shooting at a florida high school. the sheriff's deputy who was on duty at marjorie stoneman douglas high school a power he waited outside the building for four minutes without going inside he's now resigned and an investigation is underway what i saw was

a deputy arrive at the west side of building twelve take up a position any never went in when this was. yes he was he went in addressed the killer killed the killer. more charges have been filed against former trump presidential campaign aides paul manifold and rick gates by special counsel robert miller thirty two count indictment includes tax a bank fraud charges in october another fourteen gates were charged with conspiracy to launder money. but australia is a battle deputy prime minister bobby joyce has resigned after revelations of an extramarital affair with a former staff member joyce will step down from the cabinet but will remain in parliament joyce who had campaigned on family values left his marriage of twenty four years and is expecting a child with his former media secretary he also faces

a formal sexual harassment complaint which he has referred to police those will happen to be back with more news in thirty minutes to stay with us here on al-jazeera facing the realities of growing up when did you realise that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activist to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on and talk to al-jazeera at this time. hello welcome to the new year of the stream a live one out there and i'm femi oke a now now that may to meet driverless cars and robot caregivers all once part of some inside my fantasy but the future is he at right now today on the street. the story of human evolution is one that is intimately tied.