and one that many people here think the government will fail. from satellite technology two three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems they're challenging systems and shaping you want it's about creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. incendiary rockets rained down on rebel held east as the u.n. security council struggles to agree on a cease fire plan. no

i'm in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up a report from northeast nigeria where the government has apologized to the families of dozens of missing schoolgirls for giving them false information. it's time to make our schools a much harder taller for attackers president rallies the conservative faithful saying a school with no guns is a dangerous place. and the u.s. confirms it will open its new embassy in jerusalem this may for the seventieth anniversary of israel's founding. the death toll continues to climb in syria where government of a rival held enclave near the capital shows no signs of abating rockets have been fired into eastern ghouta first six straight day pushing the death toll to four hundred forty three people in the past week alone meanwhile at the united nations

a vote is expected to take place this hour on imposing a thirty day ceasefire in syria after last minute negotiations. reports from gaza on the turkey syria border. there's. evidence here 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 ali to open his eyes so he can wash medical workers in eastern guta are calling for urgent assistance because of the continuous heavy bombardment . 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 what's taken 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 she 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 a truce for days airstrikes and bombardments have 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 is 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 orders flits of evacuation zones convinced that this is what is going to happen to them as well. all residents and civil groups in eastern go to have written a letter of demands to the u.n. pleading for an end to the violence they say they support the resolution the u.n. is preparing to vote on but who are opposed to the forced evacuation of residents from their homes they also say they hold both russia and iran responsible for the violence and they want president bashar assad and his government to be tried for war crimes over its use of chemical weapons unless these demands of a filled in the u.n.

votes to act residents say they are losing hope. in seven news two of my sons have gone and one of their wives and my daughter everything is gone murphy lived there for you have is that we've been to many shelters but there was nobody to look after us north dreams nothing we're taking care of four children and one of my daughters gave birth four months ago no one helped us they didn't even offer milk for the baby. boomers. who have been made as if we only have our clothes in the shelters we are staying in the dark have a look at this do it look at the trash and water what can we do this doesn't make any sense this is life under shelling. last minute ago she actions have been pushed back as you were saying earlier so there's been a delay on that u.n. security council vote for a thirty day ceasefire in syria let's get the latest on this now from our diplomatic editor james bays he joins us from un headquarters what's happening

there behind the scenes james and is it by any means certain that a vote will take place. not certain at this stage a vote was supposed to take place three hours ago and in that time since then there has been nonstop negotiation in the corridors you see people huddled on phones people are huddled talking to their capitals all around the security council have been people in conversations and the main conversation of course is with russia over the language of this resolution they are changing we're told some words that the russians do not like some passages of the resolution are being negotiated as we continue to speak the latest information coming from the french ambassador in the last few moments from what the last told reporters we continue to work very hard it's too early to say that we're going to get a vote passed is what he said just moments ago earlier the kuwaiti

president of the security council it's interesting that the lead on this is not being taken by permanent members like france is actually being taken by the elected ten members of the security council the kuwaiti president was flanked by the other nine of those members as he gave this upbeat assessment as you can see the whole are ten members of the way out here just to show that we are all united and we want the draft resolution to be adopted today at two thirty we're still working on. the language on some of the but i did ask but we are almost there and we would like you know as a been holder as a president of the council to thank actually the eight ten for their support to our efforts and hopefully who are so close to adopt this is illusion today. so james

optimism there from the bassett a bit even if this resolution is adopted how difficult will it be to enforce a cease fire in syria it's going to be very hard indeed this is been such a hard nigger resolution to negotiate but in some ways the negotiation that we've seen in syria of a cease fire is the easy bit implementing it is the hard bit and there are so many different groups involved remember this is not just about east ghouta that is why they are trying to get this through now the resolution would cover the whole of syria so you have to see whether the various various different military groups that are fighting will comply in these the turn that includes the various fighting groups who has influence over them some arab nations have some influence as do some western nations also the syrian government i spoke in the last couple of hours to

the syrian ambassador to the u.n. bashar jeffrey i asked him if there's a resolution passed will you comply with the cease fire he simply said we will get back to you on that and remember in other parts of syria there are other armies and other countries involved look for example at the situation in our free in the ongoing turkish offensive there will turkey stop its operations as a result of a resolution if one is passed clearly we're not at that stage yet for now and i'm not saying it won't slip again for now the security council meeting and the vote scheduled to take place in about twenty two minutes time and i thanks very much james basically one thousand a share and wrangling continues over that draft resolution for syria. officials in northeast nigeria have apologized for telling the parents of dozens of

missing schoolgirls that their daughters have been rescued after being seized by alcohol around the falls announcement sparked anger among the families the girls were taken from their school in the town of duchy and you know based on monday i met address was the first international journalist on the ground there and he sent us this report from dutch. disappointment induction 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 like. the incident leaves them devastate. the living 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 for the girls 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 scale the problem with the friends of the school on this case 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 but she was one of the school girls to come. model is in the hospital she fainted on hearing the her daughter was and from a grief was too much for her and. she said march 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 residents hope the tragedy will be a strong group of the twenty four incident where more than two hundred seventy two girls were kidnapped from the school or the third of them are yet to be found for her to al-jazeera. at least eighteen people have been killed in the somali capital after two car bomb explosions police believe the first blast intelligence headquarters was caused by a suicide car bomb or the second blast occurred near parliament's headquarters police say the blasts were followed by gunfire near the president's home. the republican governor of florida has announced a raft of state measures in response to last week's attack on a high school which left seventeen dead rick scott is proposing to raise the minimum age for buying a gun in florida from eighteen to twenty one years old is also calling for active

shooter training for all students and staff and a mandatory law enforcement officer in every school and that's despite the news that there was an armed officer at the school in parkland but he stayed outside and fell to confront the gunman and that deputy has been criticised by the u.s. president who said he did a poor job but addressing the conservative political action committee conference in maryland trump stood by his calls for more security and schools. 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 i'm in our schools. when we declare our schools to be gun free zones it just puts our students in far more danger. when at the end of that speech

president tom also announced what he's calling the largest ever set of sanctions on north korea sanctions on pyongyang aims to aggressively target the shipping and trading companies a target one person twenty seven companies and twenty eight vessels we announcement comes two days before the closing ceremony of the pyongyang winter olympics on sunday north korea is sending one of its highest ranking generals former intelligence chief kim young child is believed to have plotted several attacks on south korea is attendance is seen as a sign of a thaw in relations with the south president tribes daughter ivanka will be leading the u.s. delegation but south korea says the two sides will not hold a formal meeting let's get more from our white house correspondent kimberly how kit and so we're just seeing the overtures between north korea and. the u.s. ally south korea we also have at the same time the u.s. pushing for more sanctions against pyongyang what does the trump administration

intend to do. well the treasury announced in fact they would be putting in some of their strictest sanctions yet against north korea the idea is to maryam isolate north korea that has been able to in the words of the united states sustain itself and continue to find out its nuclear program so what the united states has done through the sanctions program is slap the sanctions down on one individual twenty seven companies and twenty eight shipping companies or ships now the idea here is that there are also countries that are involved in conjunction with this shipping it is allowing north korea to continue to get things like energy supplies and so on so the feeling is this well some of these may be located in other countries like china singapore taiwan hong kong there are these sanctions will in fact be able to kind of go outside of the traditional borders and allow for

the targeting of these individuals and companies as well what this is going to do is prohibit any american who may be doing business or conducting business in this way to prohibit them from that further isolating north korea from the united states financial system all right thank you very much kimberly how it was all the latest on that from the white house and with al-jazeera much more to tell you about on the program a former adviser to donald trump's presidential campaign expected to plead guilty and ruggedness rusher investigation more tell you how one tweet from a reality t.v. song called stack almost one point three billion dollars. it's cold across much of europe getting cold is still as we go on through the next

few days. we have already cost of. river here nasty conditions set in this does happen every maybe three four five years so it's not that unusual but i'm usually enough and that very cold air is going to stay in place for quite some time further south we go to the stir that's making its way across the mediterranean just not a little further north woods lots of unsettled weather here and to the north of flats what is really turning to snow we've had some big snow across parts of croatia schools and roads have been badly affected in the process to saturday as that cold air hovering around freezing in vienna in minus twelve the top temperature in moscow and even to western parts four degrees celsius the high in paris twenty six celsius in london going into sunday is colder still a keen easterly wind really making things feel pretty better as we go on through the next couple of days and further south some more rain more snow coming in across central areas of the mediterranean pushing

a little further north was the northern parts of africa still quasi what a stiff wind you know just coming out of algeria highs in algiers thirteen degrees . in two thousand and eight rocky 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 are you didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim would be elected to the united states comes but ten years on mort has changed rewind islam and america at this time on al jazeera.

welcome back a look at the top stories this hour as bombs continue to rain down on syria's east includes enclaves the u.n. security council is still negotiating on a resolution calling for a thirty day cease fire. officials apologize for misleading parents of schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram and go bay state on monday dozens of girls are still missing despite military claiming they've been rescued. and u.s. president donald trump reiterated his belief that school shootings could be stopped by a well trained teachers despite having an aunt god at the school attacked last week . now the united states has confirmed that it will open a new embassy to israel in jerusalem in may the opening will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of israel's founding but it's much uglier than expected vice president my parents had suggested the moved from tel aviv to jerusalem would not

take place till next year in december the u.s. announcement of the move sparked angry protests in palestine and solidarity rallies across the world. palestine's children goetia decide that says that the embassy live shows that us as a composite of a problem american ministration to choose the date of the palestinian catastrophe the nakba the mood of. the embassy of the biggest move in this expedition fashion reflects startle insensitivities to what goes on in this region which created it which which tree ferns our position that the u.s. can no longer be part of the peace process. the u.s. administration has become part of the problem and not part of the solution and we condemn this move and this provoke. with the strongest possible terms the palestinians have staged demonstrations every friday since the u.s.

decision into samatar aconite jerusalem as the capital of israel and this week has been no exception as charles traffic reports from gaza the. people have been protesting here for the last couple of hours this is the third person that we've seen injured so far today one person shot in the leg by israeli forces that are around two hundred meters in that direction now these protests have been happening every week since donald trump's announcement that he saw jerusalem as the capital of israel and we understand that there are protests like this happening in at least five different points in the gaza strip today. even with the body of a ship and we are not afraid of the israeli threats we are used to them. they can. only present this a campaign is known for its criminality and. our people and we will continue our struggle to defend our people or. support to recognize that this protest is not

just to do with donald trump's announcement indorsing a future capital city for israel is being jerusalem it should do with the people in gaza two million people living under ten years of a blockade by israel a land sea and air blockades to do with the fact that the rough a crossing with egypt has been pretty much closed now since two thousand and fourteen the statistics say that the u.n. give out a shocking thread about fifty percent unemployment rate here the local municipalities of the recently closed up to fifty percent of services so that means a lot less water available a lot less electricity and there. and started now pumping rule sewerage into the sea because there isn't the fuel there is the electricity to refine this sewerage are the plants so the people here as i say exceptionally angry with the situation

they're also very concerned about these reconciliation efforts reconciliation efforts between hamas who have governed here in gaza since two thousand and seven and fatah there are three delegations hamas delegations still in cairo those talks are ongoing and as yet there is very little to show from them president transform a campaign aide wait gates is car impairing in court where he's expected to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy against the u.s. and lying to special counsel robert lola as get more on this story from patty calling in washington d.c. how important is this and what could it mean for the murder investigation well it means the moeller investigation continues at a clay to clip pace this is the nineteenth person indicted the fourth person who we believe has flip to what happens in u.s. prosecutions of probably prosecutions around the world when you're looking at what is potentially a conspiracy and that is the miller focus was there collusion between the trump

campaign and russia you look at the lower levels so and this isn't a small level this isn't a coffee boy is the white house likes to dismiss some people. top campaign aide he was a close associate of paul metaphor and he was the chairman of the campaign ran it for a good couple of months and this is on top of the former national security adviser and another foreign security adviser so this is just another reminder that the miller investigation is proceeding now along with paul metaphor gates was facing dozens of charges that could have landed him in prison for decades this way he will avoid most of that time served will probably serve some time in prison because of the two counts that he's pleading guilty to the bigger question is what is he giving them this will make it much easier for the team to prosecute paul metaphor and we believe paul metaphor knows a lot of what out of the campaign after all he ran it and let's think back to that

meeting we now know took place between people who are linked to the kremlin and the president's son and son in law paul man of fort was in that room so paul metaphor now is looking at the equation it's going to be much harder for him to mount any kind of defense especially if there's a credible witness who was a close associate of his providing testimony so this definitely increases the pressure on paul beneforti to follow suit and provide evidence higher up the food chain as they say and so what does that tell us then about the direction the investigation could go in next kaley. position within the trunk campaign means that he has some very interesting information to offer potentially that could lead to perhaps the guilty pleas. it's quite possible in metaphor it wasn't with the campaign all that long a couple of months and then his ties to the ukrainian leadership that was closely linked to russia came out so he had to resign didn't he stayed he stayed through the inauguration played an important role and that was often seen in the white

house in the early months of the truck presidency so it is quite possible that he has some information now if you read the indictment against gates and against manifold of read all thirty seven pages it is very damning it goes line by line it has bank accounts bank account numbers transactions it is a very thorough indictment so you got to believe the man of course lawyers are looking at this and say well this is going to be a tough case now so far man a forty officials have said he's not guilty and basically put out a statement that he remains loyal to the president that was probably seen as maybe a suggestion to president donald trump that perhaps he should pardon man a fort and that is something the president could do and there's been more talking conservative circles that president should just come in and pardon everybody who's involved with that under the constitution the president could pardon pretty much anybody except himself it could be political damage politically damaging but more than that it might not even be effective because mohler what's seen as a very wise move has also been working with state attorney generals and so if he

was pardoned for federal crimes there's nothing the president could do to stop him from going to prison on state charges he very much patty klein in washington. rush hour is marking its annual holiday dedicated to honoring its military veterans it's a hundred years since the red army was founded and despite undergoing a decline following the collapse of the soviet union it's once more become a force to be reckoned with jonah hill reports from moscow. it's a hundred years since the first volunteers signed up to serve in the brand new red army almost immediately their task was to defend the october revolution in a civil war against anti communist forces. the red army would later succeed in fighting back hitler's invading nazis at a cost to the soviet union of millions of lost lives. these days the founding of the red army is much more broadly as

a tribute to old military veterans in president vladimir putin's russia the achievements of the revolution to play down the occasion is an excuse for displays of communist nostalgia on a fairly small scale those non-mental not for none of the red flag is all flag it's the flag of victory in the great patriotic war children of those victors they were . the red army then they began transform. extend this into great especially in the beginning of the nine then there were several waves of different kind of reform and now actually they're more or less back where they began and increasingly resembling a kind of new projection of the red army which is that understandable because right now the russian army has more or less the same enemy as the red army did during the cold war and i mean enemies the united states and its allies where in the cold war

number two russia's modern military has been rebuilt at vast expense both to counter the expansion of western alliances like nato and the european union and also to advance russia's own geo political ambitions since then the. search and water wars were georgia. crimea now syria right now yes. but right. we bear army is good and maybe the. best in the world but some with long memories place less stock people military hardware you voice from official guard on our troops is our bodies our soldiers have always been stronger and had the best command is there are no americans who can come here and threaten us. and the world has once again come to respect russia's military might for many that is a welcome you chapter in the country's history channel al-jazeera moscow. in

a story that's very much of its time reality t.v. star kylie jenner appears to have knocks more than a billion dollars off snap chat stock market value with a single tweet general valle she no longer uses the social messaging app and asked if anyone else had stopped as well snap chat shares dropped more than six percent wiping off one point three billion dollars and recent redesign of the app has led to a backlash from its uses as more of everything we're covering right here at comment analysis and video on demand don't forget you can watch us right there as well by clicking on that little icon on the right and side of the screen al-jazeera dot com is the address. a quick look at the top stories now a new wave of bombs has struck a rebel held enclave near syria's capital ahead of a u.n. security council vote calling for a ceasefire for

a six straight day syrian government and allied warplanes have pounded the densely populated area of eastern ghouta or than four hundred forty three people have died in the offensive since sunday meanwhile the united nations security council is due to vote in the next hour on a resolution demanding a thirty day truce in syria to allow the age of reason medical evacuations about was delayed due to a flurry of last minute ago shay sions with russia seeking guarantees that rebel fighters will not shoot into residential areas in the capital damascus as you can see the whole eaten member of the we are here just to show that we are all united and we want the draft resolution to be adopted today two thirty we're still working on. the language on some of the but i grasp what we are almost there and we would like you know as of been holder as a president of the council to thank actually the eaton for their support to our

efforts and hopefully we are so close to adopt this is illusion today and all the top stories u.s. president donald trump says school shootings could be stopped by well trained teaches made the comments while addressing the conservative political action committee conference in maryland he also criticized the armed officer at the school in parkland where seventeen people were killed last week after it emerged he was armed but failed to confront the gunman. officials in northeast nigeria have apologized for telling the parents of dozens of missing schoolgirls that daughters had been rescued the falls announcement sparked outrage among concerned families in the town of bay state girls were taken from their school by book around fighters on monday night and at least one hundred one girls a still missing. the united states has confirmed 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 it's come much uglier than expected as vice

president mike pence that suggested the move would not take place until two thousand and nineteen. as the headlines up front is coming up next day with out as they are. did lot about putin to help donald trump win the u.s. presidential election and how free and fair with russia's own presidential election next month going to be one of putin's leading opponents i'm speak to a former top cia spy.