al jazeera. a unique portrait of a small gulf nation living under siege but maybe this friend was they targeted sent . pain to be forced to leave would just be all and then gains by the celeb it has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe i'll turn down its normal part of business. has become more united. beyond the blockade at this time on al-jazeera. for a vast system started running to give that she and i fell down but someone picked me up that was the last time i saw her she was taken al-jazeera is on the ground in northern nigeria as officials try to find out exactly what happened to almost one

hundred schoolgirls. hello again i'm asking dennis your without is there a live from doha also coming out. the u.n. security council's juta vote on a cease fire for syria's eastern goose are but it's unclear if russia is on board. the european union doubles its funding for efforts to fight helmed groups in africa's sawhill region plus. the australian deputy prime minister steps down after weeks of pressure over an extramarital affair. but first there's concern in northeastern nigeria after the government retracted a statement claiming dozens of abducted schoolgirls have been rescued suspected by her on five this took the girls from the school in your state all monday evening

al-jazeera zama dangerous was the first international journalist to get there he sent us this report. disappointment inductions i was after parents were told that daughters have been rescued the state government apologized saying the information was not true. for the relatives of more than one thousand students the wait has just begun. some say it's all over again. these sisters have not only escaped the kidnappers but they're all the sister wasn't just lucky the incident leaves them devastated. and i know one of them long as they came just after we broke our monday fast we heard gunshots there was chaos everywhere she tried to comfort us but it only got worse four of us sisters started running to give that she fell and i fell down to her but someone picked me up that

was the last time i saw her she was taken. neighbors poured into their home to offer support at the go school we were refused access to from inside i would necessary some of the attackers dressed in military fatigues drove through the school gates but before they got in many of the girls alerted by the gunshots fired early on the scale of the problem with the friends of the school and escaped but some girls say they saw some of their schoolmates being led into a waiting truck so literally and his family thought they too were received fourteen year olds but she was one of the schoolgirls taken in to tell us the mother is in hospital she fainted on hearing that her daughter was and found a greek is too much for her but there isn't much was expected of the second year high school student for now they continue to wait hoping to hear good and definitive news about the return of their child. residence the tragedy will be as

long as the twenty four incident where more than two hundred seventy goes like kidnapped from their school more than a third of them are yet to be found. al-jazeera can the united nations security council is due to vote on a draft resolution which would demand a thirty day cease fire in syria's eastern guta at least four hundred people have been killed in government airstrikes on this rebel held on glade this week alone activists say forces loyal to president bashar assad have begun firing rockets which cause fires aid workers are struggling to cope also a binge of aid reports from the turkish city of gaziantep near the syrian border. because that's what did look good thank you thanks. it was some really good the smallest coffins the heaviest and besieged there are 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 outside for too long they risk becoming victims of the next bombing. living rooms and 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 in terms of the converging on the fence. supposed to be blown off or 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 its involved in the relentless from bodman of 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 residents 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 with al-jazeera. the european union is to double its funding for an

african body that aims to combat armed groups across the sahara region leaders of five african countries are in brussels for a fund raising summit they need to raise more money to fund the joint military force of works alongside french and u.n. troops the so-called g. five so hell group is made up of soldiers from mauritania mali became a fascination there and chad let's go to our correspondent let's hear from our correspondent natasha finn december the french president held a fundraising conference for the g five sile force fact 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 to leave this month. it

is urgent that this force be operational to the international community whose serious decisions in libya have disastrous consequences for the security of our countries must show greater solidarity with the silent. 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 haram and affiliates of al qaida and eisel as well as crack down on weapons and people trafficking instability in libya is worsening the crisis. we have to fix the causes we've brought spread in 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 force in this 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 the 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 urgent we needed and important step in cooperation in a region where so many people have been killed in violence or forced to flee their homes or let's go live now to natasha who's at the conference in brussels in the tasha given that there was a commitment made by the africans

a hellion groups european partners for the funding that must be rather disappointed that they're having to come back cap in hand just a few months after that initial commitment so what's been the tone of the conference so far. well we had some very strong words in the opening remarks here at the conference in brussels it was interesting to hear the head of the african union commission was a fucking muhammad he said that there is a collective responsibility responsibility on all sides he said that the international community spent a lot of time and resources fighting what they call terrorism in different parts of the world but they are not doing enough in africa's sile he also said that no international force can replace the responsibility of african leaders on the ground and that is something that needs to be taken account going into the future so it's very interesting indeed to see the fact that this is real sense of urgency for this some of the something needs to be done that's the message from the european leaders

that's a message from the african leaders and the president of new jerry set the tone when he said right at the beginning of this conference that unless something is done in africa sile it will simply descend into chaos reductive is your. diversion ladies and gentlemen we have to stand for we have to act change what is going on in the sahara region if we dined to the risk is that this area of the world will be submerged by violence and chaos that's a hell is one of the external borders if you lack of the european union it's like a shield it's a dam which needs to stand firm and should never crack that's why security is so important so natasha president joseph who there pointing out where the mutual interests life you like because this isn't a european it's not our truism that is leading europe to be meeting with these presidents is it. no we heard from the

e.u. foreign policy chief frederica greenies saying that they are going to up the amount of funding that they going to give to this g five style force and the reasons behind that were quite clear she said that stability has to be pulled to this region because also europe has seen more and more refugees leaving this region and coming to european shores and that is something that most european leaders have been very open about wanting to stop she said that more money must also be given to the zeile not just the military solutions but also for developments on the ground to provide opportunities for young people not all part of the plan those are all the pieces of the puzzle that have to be put together she said it's not about charity is about trying to work hand in hand to stabilize a region where violence has become worse and worse over the years the trash about to live in brothel thank you. lots more to come here at al-jazeera including know mohammed downs east africa says imposes secondhand players from the west is killing off their local industries plus the youngest victims of syria's civil war express

their pain through all. however got the usual rash of heavy showers now across much of southeast asia little area started to push its way towards the philippines will turn things increasingly wet already been very wet seem to java we have had reports of landslides due to some very heavy rain having a persistent rain for the past few days here and that really heavy rain will continue over the next few days as well showers now extending back up across the peninsula todd also seeing some of those showers as we go on through sat com sunburst very similar picture was whether the across a good part of it in asia. and notice it turns increasingly wet across the

philippines by this day's staying pretty wet across the eastern side of australia meanwhile we still got these a very very large funda heads rumbling away for a good part of queensland down across the gold coast down into the southeastern corner some pieces of cloud rolling through victoria can expect to see a little bit of wet weather as we go on through saturday twenty seven degrees there in melbourne will be fired in troy again twenty seven for perth as we go on through sas day go on into sunday at present chance a greater chance of seeing a little bit of wet weather southern parts of the way cool southerly winds coming into melbourne by sunday with a high of eighty. once held in one of australia's toughest detention centers now a world renowned surgeon when he's follows dr moon. and returns to his hometown baghdad to give amputees the hope of walking again at this time on al jazeera.

al-jazeera. where every. tough is a take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera they've been scenes of disappointment in northeastern nigeria after the government retracted a statement claiming dozens of abducted schoolgirls have been rescued suspected boko haram fighters took the girls from the school in your base state on monday evening. the u.n. security council is due to vote on a draft resolution which would demand

a thirty day ceasefire in syria's eastern guta at least four hundred people have been killed in government airstrikes on the rebel held on klav since sunday. the european union is doubling its funding for joint to african forces body there's a md and combating armed groups across a sale leaders of five west african countries are in brussels to raise two hundred fifty million dollars. now let's go to a suffolk a and rwanda tanzania and uganda in particular because they've banned the import of secondhand clothing and now they could face threats of trade sanctions from the u.s. malcolm webb reports from the ugandan. capital kampala. this sounds tells passing shoppers there's a deal on secondhand clothes for this market in uganda's capital kampala people take their pick from a pile among the more than one hundred fifty million u.s.

dollars worth of used clothes ported in east africa every year mostly from the u.s. and the u.k. imports that uganda rwanda and tanzania agreed to ban to support their own textile industries. marjorie doesn't agree she looks after three orphans and gets their clothes here i think it's it's wrong because not everybody can afford for clothes. so that they all people would not afford clothes most of them would make it up to actually about that so it's not good it's not a good idea but some east african government think it is good to support the few local producers like this factory in kenya they hope to create much needed jobs and increase exports. for the u.s. says the ban violates free trade agreements. threaten trade sanctions kenya's pulled out. back in uganda just next to the second hand market there are many new clothes on sale almost none

a made in east africa almost all i made in china and many of the new clothes imported from china are made in western styles several african countries used to have thriving textile industries making fabrics and patterns like the as industries as suffered in recent decades and many of those fabrics clothing all of the ones here and now made in china instead of. the reasons why it's cheaper to manufacture in china than most other places how many economist or grafters no i gather says several things are needed to revive the local industry to not just banning secondhand imports of. the wood one day. but in the longer term. in the sense that will support domestic manufacturing now domestic manufacturing use something that you cannot boast. decision. because a new drama you need to be industry you need. attendant. back

in the market the traders make a run for it when a city official arrives they don't have a trading license. minutes later they're back and forcing a ban on imported used clothes might look a lot mind this betrayed employees tens of thousands they mind wish to one day have a job in a clothes factory but this how they survive malcolm webb al-jazeera come parlor uganda after weeks of pressure australia's deputy prime minister barnaby joyce is stepping down but he'll remain in parliament to keep the coalition governments one seat majority the conservative leader campaigned on family values but he's come under fire since it was revealed he'd had an extramarital affair with his press secretary he faces a separate sexual harassment complaint which he has referred to police. i have asked that that be referred to the police i've asked for the lot of the person

who's made the allegation and i've asked for bharat of defense to be referred to the police. but it's quite evident that you can't go to the dispatch box why she's like that surrounding so our candidate into any discussions about that as you understand if it's going to be before the courts come before the courts but what what 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 but in cook is a senior lecturer of global politics at murdoch university in perth he says despite being a relatively popular figure joyce couldn't withstand the pressure from the scandals . i think it was hyping it things would die down the people would get tired of of to repeating it the media would start circling him is that i've been doing over the last weeks but it's just shown no signs and it's clearly a distraction for the government that's how the reason all containable was somewhat

sort of disappointed if you know if not a little bit critical about to be joyce so i think it's mostly just the fact this is dragged on so long here malcolm turnbull it just was so wholly bit of to be joyce. but then clearly i think the mud was sticking as he sighed so he had to withdraw that's a poet and some it's left malcolm tantalum 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 in that sort of critical position with respect to joyce so i think it does once again sort of applying to the problem of malcolm turnbull's having around strength of leadership in the extent to which people are seeing him is perhaps not the strongest leader that we've had as prime minister so i think that it will be malcolm acoma who will take it out of her and mccomb and so the conservative you know very conservative person spoke very strongly against same sex marriage during you know recent post of

plebiscite so he's a he's a very much conservative morally conservative leader and and you know often temple is generally perceived to be progressive by his within his own party and so i think him on the scene. to help me side moments of difficulty between marco mccomb i again malcolm symbol. and unicef deputy director has resigned after complaints about inappropriate behavior in a previous til death in full size was the c.e.o. of the u.k. charity save the children until twenty sixteen while fifth three female workers complained about inappropriate text messages and comments about what women were wearing you know said says it wasn't aware of the complaints when it appointed full five. u.s. president donald trump is not backing away from his controversial proposal to own teachers to prevent school shootings he suggested that they should be paid a bonus a white house correspondent kimberly how could triple. 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 a gun even offering bonuses for those with firearms skills i want my schools protected just like my banks are protected truck 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 tribe 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 in 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. brazil's military has raided a jail in rio de janeiro after the senate signed a degree putting the army in charge of the city's security prisons started a riot on sunday complaining of a the crowding government leaders hope giving the military control of policing low curb violence from the city's drug gangs gabriel elizondo has more from rehab. 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 as backup 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 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. the chinese government to seize temporary control of one of the country's largest insurance companies the founder and chairman of the am band group is facing charges of fraud and embezzlement in shanghai the takeover is being seen as an attempt to insulate china's economy from financial risk the bankrupt japan based car parts supplier has agreed to a six hundred fifty million dollar u.s. penalty to settle claims that it concealed

a defect in its their pals but the forty four u.s.a.'s involved in the investigation agreed not to collect the payment instead they're allowing consumers to recover as much money as possible the defective airbags inflated with too much force causing at least twenty two deaths india's prime minister and the renderer modi has met the canadian prime minister justin trudeau in new delhi mr trudeau arrived in the country six days ago but he only met mr modi on friday on wednesday canadian diplomats withdrew an invitation to a former member of the band to seek group to attend an official dinner with mr truly some in india have accused members of trudeau's cabinet of supporting sikh separatism in india. a former russian diplomat and a police officer have been arrested after almost four hundred kilos of cocaine was discovered in the russian embassy in argentina four others have been detained as

part of a joint investigation between the two countries it was launched in twenty sixteen after the russian ambassador to argentina reported an attempt to move drugs on a diplomatic flight. got a moment this shipment is of three hundred eighty nine kilos of cocaine that is worth around sixty million dollars just to give you an idea of the size of the criminal drug business for the sale of cocaine in russia there's a new exhibition in the lebanese capital beirut it highlights the plight of syrian children and it aims to raise awareness of the challenges and the trauma suffered by millions of displaced children seventy dekker report. 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 consideration 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 and the for best song 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 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.

tarvaris a take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera have been scenes of disappointment in northeastern nigeria after the government retracted a statement which claimed that dozens of abducted schoolgirls have been rescued suspected back around five took the girls from the school in your bay on monday the u.n. security council is due to vote on a draft resolution which would demand a thirty day ceasefire in syria's eastern guta at least four hundred people have been killed in government airstrikes on the rebel held on klav since sunday is not yet clear whether russia will support the resolution the european union is doubling its funding for an african body aimed at combating armed groups across a hell the e.u. foreign policy chief federica mockery made the announcement as she arrived in brussels for the fund raising summit. when i did a premiere i invest in just year after year peon union with the first to believe in

and invest in this union with the fifty million euros about sixty million dollars we gave them last july today the european union will double that amount to the joint chief i for says and also receive other contributions from other members and other partners australia's every prime minister van to be joyce is stepping down after weeks of pressure the conservative leader campaigned on family values but he's come under fire since it was revealed he'd had an extramarital affair with his press secretary. china's government to seize temporary control of one of the country's largest insurance company as the founder and chairman of the bank group is facing charges of fraud and embezzlement. india's prime minister there under muti has met the canadian prime minister justin trudeau in new delhi on wednesday canadian diplomats withdrew an invitation to a former member of a band seek group to attend an official dinner some in india are accusing members

of trudeau's cabinet of supporting sikh separatism in india all right up to date elizabeth will be here in about thirty minutes but next is what i want east. i am doing this for the benefit of people so bad they see the importance of. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. decades of war have left thousands of iraqi amputees desperate to mend their broken bodies. now the chance to use cutting edge robotic for standards is giving them new hope. i'm steve on this episode one on one he's follows one man's incredible journey from refuse.