in two thousand and eight raggy omar traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you have to be american first i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim the be elected to the united states congress but ten years on what has changed rewind islam in america at this time on al-jazeera. activists say syrian government forces are using incendiary rockets to spark fires and rebel held eastern data as the un security council struggles to agree a ceasefire plan.

hello i'm in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up government officials apologize to parents falsely told their missing daughter has it been rescued we have an exclusive report from nigeria. president trump announces a new wave of measures against north korea targeting shipping in the transport of coal and fuel and the u.s. confirms it will open its new embassy in jerusalem in may this year. we begin in syria where the government's relentless bombing campaign on a rebel held in the capital shows no signs of abating rockets have been fired into eastern for a sixth straight day pushing the death toll to four hundred thirty two people in the past week meanwhile last minute wrangling at the u.n. security council is delaying a vote on imposing a thirty day ceasefire to end the hostilities some have been reports from gaza on

the turkey syria border. there's obvious evidence yet they call out for those left on another floor but in the dense dust and debris it's hard to see who's left the upper floor is on fire. the doctor tells me to open his eyes so he can wash medical workers in eastern guta are calling for urgent assistance because of the continuous heavy bombardment but the syrian government calls this rebel propaganda. as it was not only with you know we are saying that many of these faking it was all staged. by whom. by your cousins. by by the terrorists by the syrian moderate opposition. incendiary bombs are now appearing in the night skies weapons intended to start

large fires when they hit the ground. people in bodies are pulled out from crevices between buildings the nearly four hundred thousand people in the besieged enclave are dying in their hundreds graphic videos we've chosen not to show you contain body parts scattered in the aftermath of the latest onslaught by the assad government and its allies how to be a bad what's taking place in eastern is a genocide and a crime against humanity in violation of international and humanitarian law and the perpetrators should be held liable accountable and cannot escape punishment under any circumstances russia is to blame for directly being involved in the military campaign and even apartment we are shocked by what we see happening now in eastern and we fear that the situation will will worsen the opposition holds russia and iran responsible. when the dust settles the destruction is clear people have been forced to live in underground shelters. along with the message to the security

council is for a cease fire or truce for days airstrikes and bombardments of forced families and children into underground shelters we can't do anything we can't even go outside to get food but when the outside looks like this there aren't many places people can go to the ferocity of the bombardment and the arrival of troops on the outskirts of water battling with fighters it's reminiscent of what happened to other rebel held parts in places like homs and aleppo entire populations were evacuated to new places in syria and people inside besieged with there have been cheering order of evacuation zones convinced that this is what is going to happen to them as well. al-jazeera arabic correspondent mohammed al jazeera areas inside east and go tear and sent us this update on what's happening. now. the aerial bombardment on guta has been without interruption as the russian and the regime jet

fighters are still pounding the city around the clock the shelling is targeting critical installations like hospitals and residential areas any moving object within the residential areas is a target to them the picture behind me speaks volumes this is living proof the residential buildings are destroyed there's no movement on the streets residents have fled their fear shelling by russians jet fighters the regime's artillery and rocket launchers we are standing in the most dangerous spot that the recon planes in the jet fighters are hovering which was a russian and syrian have a copters hovering above our heads any sign of life in ghouta has been targeted nothing has been spared above all critical installations of residential buildings were targeted alike bakeries hospitals schools you name it they're either destroyed or now out of function the situation in eastern cooter is nothing but catastrophic we cannot continue covering the situation life as it is very dangerous here and the jet fighters and helicopters are coming our way let's get more on what's happening

now with our diplomatic editor james bay u.n. headquarters we were expecting a vote on the u.n. security council resolution calling for a cease fire across syria but while there's no sign of that happening. you know if we can show you the live pictures from the security council chamber where an hour ago a vote was scheduled that was pushed back for an hour for further negotiations and as you see now the security council is virtually empty in fact moments ago they went round the horseshoe table and took up all the agendas that were on the desks of each of the ambassadors and put the war again because we're told there is a nother delay i've heard a short time ago from to the ambassadors who left the security council others are still in the area of the security council and discussions the equitorial guinea ambassador and the ethiopian ambassador left so they were told there would not be a vote we're told for several hours and i can tell you the word now is the new

target time nothing scheduled is three pm the reason for all of this they are still at this eleventh hour negotiating. and so what it what changes have been made to the version which russia did not support on thursday what's being done to try and get their backing for this today. well there certainly have been changes that were made on thursday after that security council meeting that achieved nothing just division around the security council table there were then meetings throughout the evening on thursday new york time they changed some of the language and language that really if you looked at the change in words you and i probably wouldn't notice the difference for example the old security council resolution said several signs that the security council decides this will happen the new change is in the in the version they changed overnight becomes de mom zz so

that's a call for something to happen happen rather than the security council actually deciding it should happen which is slightly lot stronger given a resolution from the security council is in essence international law so a slight change in some of the language but not enough for the russians the russian foreign minister gave a news conference a couple of hours ago he says that they are ready to supporters akira the council resolution but they still have changes and my understanding is the negotiations taking place right now are not just taking place at the security council and actually there are meetings going on just outside the chamber you see the horseshoe chamber of the security council in the rooms outside that which are part of the closed security council area there are negotiations underway with many of the ambassadors the in there but negotiations beyond new york taking place in national capitals about this and i thank you very much our diplomatic editor james ways with

all the latest on that upcoming u.n. security council cease fire resolution for syria that for now has been delayed. officials in northeast nigeria have apologized for telling the parents of dozens of missing schoolgirls that their daughters had been rescued after being seized by boko haram the force announcement sparked outrage among the families the girls were taken from their school in the town of baystate on monday there is an mit address was the first international journalist on the ground and sent this report from. disappointment in. i was up to 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 probably escaped the kidnappers but they're all the sister wasn't just lucky the incident leaves them devastate. the number one of them meaning as they came just after we broke out 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 girls school we were refused access to film 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 scaled the perimeter front of the school and this caved but some girls say they saw some of their schoolmates being led into a waiting truck. so literally and his family thought they too will receive fourteen

year olds and up but she was one of the school girls to come. in to tell us the mother is in hospital she fainted on hearing to her daughter was and found the grief is too much for her. he said much is 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. residents hope the tragedy will be as long as the twenty four incident where more than two hundred seventy goals like kidnapped from the school or the last third of them are yet to be found one hundred eighty degrees al-jazeera doctrine now two car bomb attacks have hit the somali capital mogadishu killing at least three people one blast it was near the country's intelligence headquarters the second happened near parliament a security force is thought to repel gunmen who are trying to attack the

president's residence has been no immediate kind of responsibility for the attack. now u.s. president donald trump is announce what he's calling the largest of a set of sanctions on north korea trump was addressing the conservative political action committee conference in oxon oxon hill just south of washington sanctions on pyongyang aggressively target its coal industry by focusing on shipping and trading companies all this comes two days before the closing ceremony of the pyong chang winter olympics on sunday both korea is sending one of its highest ranking generals former intelligence chief kim young is believed to last it's several attacks on south korea is attendance is seen as a sign of a thorn relations with the south president trumps daughter ivanka will be leading the u.s. delegation but south korea says the two sides will not hold a full needing to be on fischer has been watching that speech in seoul oxon hill

maryland and joins us now so trying didn't say a great deal on north korea but we are expecting sanctions aimed at deepening the pressure and isolation of the regime did we get any indication from trump on what the administration might do next. well the administration the white house gave a briefing this morning off the record to correspondents to the media saying look there are going to be a big announcement during the speech the president is going to tighten sanctions on north korea this is all about forcing them closer to the table to discuss their listed program and their nuclear program we were given details that would involve sanctions on twenty seven shipping companies twenty eight vessels and one named individual but what we got from donald trump who was caught up in the moment really of addressing sea park a group of his real b. supporters was that it was almost came as an afterthought at the end of a speech and so we didn't get the detail that we expected we didn't get the rhetoric that we were expecting instead what we will look for is some information

more from the justice department also from the treasury department at some point in the next couple of hours and perhaps when donald trump has a news conference in the next couple of hours at the white house with the prime minister of australia he may be asked the question that will give some more idea of his thinking behind these sanctions certainly is a see it was well chilled by the white house that this was going to be the big moment in the speech you see part but instead what we got really was a rehash of donald trump's campaign themes from twenty sixteen although he did mention gun control and a few other issues which are ongoing and he still has to. but he also talked a lot about the successes he says he's delivered in the first year and to this crowd that's exactly what they wanted to hear right he's always came to emphasize that as the allen and also mention gun control we had in reiterate his support for at least considering the idea of arming teachers and other members of staff and

schools what did he say about. oh well there's got to walk a fine line somewhere like sea fight because this is a pro-gun crow they're very much in favor of the n.r.a. he talked about how he met with the families and the victims of the shooting in florida and have been deeply impacted by what they said that he said that this government will do something to improve gun laws but you know there are talking points circulating around republican circles in democratic circles as well when people keep saying the same thing and donald trump did exactly that when he addressed the question of skills as far as he's concerned being open targets when you look at other aspects of american life. why do we protect our airports and our banks our government buildings but not our schools. it's time to make our schools

a much harder target for attackers we don't want to mean our schools. when we declare our schools to be gun free zones it just puts our students in far more danger. for the president said to the crowd that he was considering looking at background checks he wanted to make sure that people who were mentally ill did not get access to weapons but he also stepped away from the idea that he's mentioned a couple times in the last few days that he would like to see the age limit for those who can buy guns being raised and also talking about banning pump stocks which remember he came to prominence cheering the shooting in las vegas at the end of last year when a gun can be converted essential to fire bullets a lot more quickly when it's called a bomb stalk because he didn't mention either of those at the n r e a very much against those two ideas i don't think donald trump wanted to risk the chance of

being good but he has said that he's going to do something simply because he's been affected by these stories from survivors and families who will no be watching very closely to see what it actually delivers thank you very much alan fish and oxon hill maryland. while trying to speaking that the republican governor of florida was announcing state measures in response to last week's school attack rick scott is proposing raising the minimum wage for buying a gun in florida from eighteen to twenty one years old is also calling for a mandatory law enforcement officer in every school. you know al-jazeera much more still ahead a film is displaced by violence in the central african republic the u.n. says half the population is in. the desperate journey in the hope of a better life we look at how the refugee crisis is hitting the big screen and about in film festival.

we've got some rather unusually wet weather coming in across the middle east over the next couple days i don't get it often get the chance to say that that cloud stretching its way across afghanistan pushing over towards the northwest of pakistan slightly clearer skies to come in behind but it's a very young settle picture across much of the middle east a lot of arab looks fun to drive beirut around eighteen celsius away nineteen the the baghdad as we go on through the weekend much of iraq can expect to see some rain syria also seeing some clouds and rain that will make its way down towards kew way gradually moving a little further east with as we go on through sunday a little bit of snow over the high ground that's certainly a possibility a couple at around twelve degrees celsius but i cloud are right but if iran seeing some very disturbed weather then over the next couple of days should be somewhat

drought across the levant but notice there ensues syria we saw him for his central parts of turkey will run in the full cost for the year and right in the forecast to a crusty arabian peninsula which i believe over the east as i said no the process saudi arabia gusty winds pushing through his some very wet weather we are going to see some flooding inevitably that rain will make its way down across costs are as you go on through saturday push for the south was across the u.a.e. as we go i wanted to sunday by disguise behind but looking very wet for the u.a.e. .

welcome back with al-jazeera a look at the day's top stories now as new waves of bomb strike syria's east and the u.n. security council is struggling to reach agreement on a resolution calling for a thirty day cease fire that. nigerian officials have apologized for misleading parents of schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram in yobe a state on monday dozens of girls are still missing despite the military claiming they've been rescued. and u.s. president donald trump has announced what he's calling the largest ever set of

sanctions on north korea a target pyongyang shipping and trading companies. all in our stories are watching closely the you know the u.s. has confirmed that it will open its new embassy to israel in jerusalem in may the opening will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of israel's founding but its much earlier than expected vice president might and suggests that the move from tel aviv to jerusalem wouldn't take place until next year in december the u.s. announcement of the planned move sparked angry protests in palestine solidarity rallies around the world is following this and joins me now from washington so it looks as though there's been a decision to hasten the move of the u.s. embassy in israel any clarification on why. a senior u.s. official has told me that the move is happening in coincidence or to coincide i should say with the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the state of israel

which is may fourteenth two thousand and eighteen now this does not mean that all of the staffers at the u.s. embassy currently in tel aviv will be moving immediately to jerusalem there just isn't room at the existing u.s. consulate general law offices to house all of those officials so my understanding is that only the ambassador david friedman as well as a few of his aides will be moving from tel aviv to jerusalem to officially set up the embassy the bulk of the operations will continue to take place at existing consulate offices in jerusalem there are two or three campuses that make up the current consulate offices there as well as the existing u.s. embassy in tel aviv which will then become a consulate of its own the bigger picture is going to be how quickly people can be

transferred from essentially the mediterranean sea to the city of jerusalem because they have to figure out where they're going to build a new embassy have to put that out to bid for both architects and for construction firms and they will have to come up with a design that meets u.s. federal law governing the construction and the security measures for new embassies and consulates around the world that could take some time but this is going to happen it is sooner than many have expected but already there is early signs of all welcome from the government of prime minister benjamin netanyahu one of his top cabinet officials tweeted congratulations a short while ago on twitter thank you very much rosen and jordan with the latest from washington. the united nations refugee agency is urging the international community to help with humanitarian efforts in central african republic agency says

half of the population acquires urgent assistance fighting between various armed groups plunge the country into a civil conflict in two thousand and thirteen catherine sawyer now reports from the town of briere. down there says she had a farm and have family didn't rely on anyone for their basic needs before march last year she lives in brianne a town in north eastern central african republic that was considered relatively peaceful but then conflict between several armed groups started on all her neighbors had to flee so now they live here in a calm for displaced people that is on one end of the town and right at the doorstep of the un peacekeepers. the gunfight started at night we hid everything of ours was destroyed i came here with nothing. more than seventy thousand people in brianne have been displaced in just over a year there's a religious element to the fighting but the rebels are also in conflict of

a minerals cattle and trade routes and what they leave behind is a trail of death destruction and misery it's really hard to imagine house dead people as they fled from this neighborhood with christians and muslims used to live here before the fighting intensified last year different groups blame each other for the destruction of the power also in the north is another area where there was no fighting until recently displaced people receive food aid at the town square around sixty thousand have fled from violence and moved into the town that already had forty thousand residents the fighting in central african republic is spreading fast with many armed groups and forced un peacekeepers in the national army. overwhelmed so are aid workers who are often unable to reach many of those. one out of two people in the central african republic are in need of humanitarian

assistance and protection and due to the resurgence of violence and the fighting of armed groups particularly here in the north of the central african republic in power that has led to a massive displacement of people the u.n. is appealing for just over half a billion dollars this year money that will help people like cook to suzanne who says she has nothing left to go back home to. men came to my religion on sunday and we'll skip the next three my husband and a neighbor were killed i don't even know where my nephew yes this situation is desperate many of those we spoke to said they would rather be home fending for themselves or right now home is not an option catherine saw al-jazeera bria said told african republic. now in the seventh day of his official trip to india canadian prime minister justin trudeau is finally met his indian counterpart in around her modi trip has been dogged by controversy ever since modi only sent in

junior minister to meet him on a rival candidate has been accused of supporting sikh separatist intruder council that in a meeting with a former separatist scheduled for thursday is also been he's also been criticised for trying to hide bringing a family wardrobe of stereotypically indian clothing. or from the war in syria to the mass exodus of rangar muslims from the past year seems to have been dominated by news of refugees but what's it like for those on the other side of the stories that's a concept being explored at this year's ballon film festival where directors are exposing how hopes of a new life can quickly turn to something else dominic cain has more. in recent years this has become a recurring image the human cost of the refugee crisis. in the film eldorado we see the desperate journeys being undertaken for a better life. from the moment of rescue for those

adrift to the start of the process that will bring them ashore in a country where some people do not want them. and which puts them to work in jobs which pay little certainly that is the view the film's director wants the viewer to take. and there is. hope. that they will find. somebody in a film. for that florio and. or even worse the theme of migration is prominent in several films at this year's festival where collectively the different aspects of adapting to difficult circumstances are laid bare and where we see the individual human stories of failure and success. as in the film which tells the story of money i'm shot

a stateless refugee in lebanon who forms a catering company with friends in the border and a camp south of beirut and i am the only other thing and i see it i love with him and i have the attitude that if not both of them are not obvious how we always act like i'm not and what has happened in the film we see their struggles to build their business and how their efforts help to heal the wounds of war. has been brought to the screen by thomas morgan he told me why he felt this was a story he had to direct the fact that it was women taking their dignity and their power back and having this unbelievable will to finish but i've always told stories of like underdog stories so it's always people who face incredible odds and their lives and what they're doing and so i think we're really. doing this not just for herself but for an entire community really embraced this opportunity. the

berlin film festival will soon be drawing to a close but the issues many of its films have highlighted will not. dominant came. earlier. now in a story that's very much of its time reality t.v. star kylie jenner appears to have not more than a billion dollars off snap chat stock market value with a single tweet general revealed that she no longer uses the social messaging app and asked if anyone else had stopped to snap chat shares dropped more than six percent wiping off one point three billion dollars or recently design of the app has led to a backlash from muses. quick look at day's top stories now a new wave of bombs has struck a rebel held and plave near syria's capital ahead of a u.n. security council vote calling for a cease fire that for

a six straight day syrian government and allied warplanes have pounded the densely populated area of eastern ghouta more than four hundred thirty two people have died in the offensive in the past week alone meanwhile series opposition has criticized russia's military campaign in the area saying it amounts to genocide while how to what's taking place in eastern is a genocide and a crime against humanity in violation of international and humanitarian law and the perpetrators should be held liable accountable and cannot escape punishment under any circumstances russia is to blame for directly being involved in the military campaign and the compartment. the united nations security council has delayed a vote on a resolution demanding a thirty day truce in syria to allow a deliveries and medical evacuations the delay is due to a flurry of last minute negotiations with russia seeking guarantees that rebel fighters will launch shoot into residential areas in the capital damascus. u.s.

president donald trump has announced what he's calling the largest ever set of sanctions on north korea trump was addressing the conservative political action committee conference in oxon hill just south of washington as i mentioned on pyongyang aggressively target its coal industry by focusing on shipping and trading companies. officials in northeast nigeria apologize for telling the parents of dozens of missing schoolgirls that daughters have been rescued a false announcement sparked outrage among worried families in the town of baystate the girls were taken from their school by book around fighters on monday night at least one hundred one of them are still missing. and the u.s. has confirmed it will open its new embassy to israel in jerusalem in may this year the opening will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of israel's founding it's much uglier than expected as vice president my pen said initially suggested move wouldn't take place until two thousand and nineteen. as he had lines much more on top stories coming up in the news hour in twenty five minutes time do join me then

but inside story starts now stay with out there. they are images dominating u.s. airwaves since the shooting at a florida high school young protesters vowing never again mostly aren't even born when congress passed its last gun control law but can they help bring change now this is inside story.