like a public bus and twenty four seven above the tree drive is. a unique portrait of a small gulf nation living under siege what made this different was they targeted. their pain to be forced to leave would just be all and then again it has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe. it's normal for business. has become a move. beyond the blockade at this time on al-jazeera. incendiary bombs rained down on rebel held east and go to driving up the death toll further as the un security council wrangles over ceasefire plan.

hello i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up we were poor from northeast nigeria where the government has apologized to the families of dozens of missing schoolgirls for giving them false information plus it's time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers. president trump rallies a conservative faithful saying a school with no guns is a dangerous place. while being fashionable in east africa has become a bit more difficult thanks to textile troubles. the death toll continues to climb in syria where the government bombing of a rebel held and place near damascus shows no signs of abating rockets have been fired into eastern ghouta for a six straight day pushing the death toll to four hundred forty three people. since

sunday well the u.n. security council was due to vote in the past few hours on imposing a thirty day ceasefire in syria but it's all been delayed by continued last minute negotiations a summer binge of a brings us more now on what's happening in eastern guta. there's a larger audience every church 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 r.t. to open his eyes so he can wash it out medical workers in eastern 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 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 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 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 from the outside it 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 what are battling good 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 flits evacuation zones convinced that this is what is going to happen to them as well. residents in several groups in eastern guta have written a letter of demands to the united nations pleading for an end to the violence they say they support the resolution the u.n. is preparing to vote on but 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 and penalized for war crimes over its use of chemical weapons unless these demands of

a filled in the u.n. votes to act the residents say they're losing hope. in seven news two of my sons have gone and one of their wives and my daughter everything is gone murphy lives there for you have is that we've been to many shelters but there was nobody to look after us north droops nothing we are 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. do not remember as 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 under shelling. all seriously is agency says that one civilian has been killed and sixty others injured after several neighborhoods in nearby damascus were shelled it blamed the shelling

on what it called terrorists. or united nations security council meanwhile is still waiting to vote on a resolution it has been trying to vote on a resolution demanding a thirty day truce in syria this would allow for a deliveries and medical evacuations but it's reported that last minute negotiations have been taking place with russia seeking guarantees that rebel fighters would not shoot into residential parts of the capital damascus. as you can see the whole ten members 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 could 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 all the efforts and hopefully we are so close to adopt this is illusion today well the

u.s. president on the trumpets also have been speaking about syria in a media briefing with the australian prime minister malcolm turnbull trying to criticize the role played by allies of the syrian government can only help it has more from washington as warplanes continue to pelt eastern tell the white house has said very little beyond strongly condemning the attacks but now in a joint press conference with australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull donald trump had this to say i will say what russia and one iran and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace i will tell you that we're there for one reason we're there to get isis and get rid of isis and go home we're not there for any other reason and we've largely accomplished our goal but what those three countries have done to people over the last short period of time is a disgrace but when pressed by

a reporter for what both leaders believe would be a solution to ending the bloodshed neither had any answers beyond suggesting that the solution must come from the region through diplomacy. at least eighteen people have been killed in the somali capital after two car bomb explosions police believe the first blast near somalia's intelligence headquarters was caused by a suicide car bomb or the second blast happened near the parliament building police say the blast were followed by gunfire near the president's home. 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 false announcement sparked anger among the families the girls were taken from their school in the town of duchy and yobe a state on monday amid address was the first international journalist on the ground and sent this report from. disappointment induction i was up

to parents were told that daughters have been rescued the state government are poorly traced say 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. this is to keep the kidnappers but they're older sister wasn't as lucky. the incident leaves them devastate. their no one 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. mabel was poor 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 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 and up 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 grief is too much for her family is that 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 their school more than

a third of them are yet to be found one hundred edris al-jazeera doxie u.s. president has made his first conservative little political action conference speech since becoming president trump used the conference to look back on what he has accomplished over the past year as and fresh in our ports from now. ah this was donald trump on home grown surrounded by supporters people won over by his first year successes so relaxed he even made a real joke about his here i try like hell to hide that balls but folks i worked hard as he started talking there was one protester who produced a russian flag he was quickly show to down and a score to doat. fifteen months on from the election donald trump again relived the when i and what it times felt more like a campaign rally of old he talked about the successes his administration had brought the lotus cheer for a decision in the middle east we officially recognized jerusalem as the capital of

his era of the address the shooting in florida seeing he'd been deeply affected by the stories of survivors and their families there are not enough tears in the world to express our sadness and anguish and he pledged his administration would take steps pushing again the idea of arming teachers and more people that work in those buildings people that were in the marines for twenty years and retired people in the army the navy the air force the coast guard people that are adept at dept with weaponry and with guns they teach the white house a child a big announcement in the speech about tough new sanctions on north korea but caught up in the moment it was delivered almost as an afterthought with little detail that was promised i do want to say because people have asked north korea we imposed today the heaviest sanctions ever impose on a country before was this is the sort of reaction donald trump could be expected from c.p.r.

i almost agree this was donald trump in the twenty six thousand election campaign revisiting theme that he annoys plays well with this core support. yet the speech did detail challenges that lie ahead in an election year the iran deal immigration health care and the growing call for gun reform in america alan. al-jazeera at this conference in maryland it out still to come the u.s. confirms it will open its new embassy in jerusalem in may this year alister new leaders call it an obstacle to peace. and what begins on the afghan section on a massive gas pipeline that will link several countries and has the backing of the taliban. how i would say some massive down poles into parts of queensland australia was

a crowd showing up on the satellite pitch a while ago cosa sunshine coast pushing up towards cape york peninsula and in the across the gulf of carpentaria breastbone has seen sixty three millimeters the fright and twenty four as little further north there we've had a hundred eighteen millimeters of rain in twenty four hours lots of thunder heads here or more thundering down poles as we go on through the next few days right up through cairns pushing a little further north was more very wet weather coming through for the southeast slushy dry not cheap and little humid there into melbourne twenty six celsius we'll see that change as we go on into the part of next week twenty four past should be allowed to dry also want to see showers as we go on into sunday the showers they continue across the top and more the parts of australia in sequence that into the southeast and for that we go in melbourne now one of them around twenty degrees celsius it will fill a good deal fresh of the cloud and rain moving out of victoria will slide its way across the tasman sea and yes he's heading towards new zealand so we will see the

west the weather eventually pushing towards the south all of the sas day sunday that's that rain really will set in here further north so we lost a father dry out in the oakland twenty four degrees. on counting the cost how corrupt is your country transparency international has the latest global rankings venezuela makes history by launching a crypto currency can south africa plug a hole in its finances as cape town faces a water shortage counting the cost at this time. there's no one way of telling the story keeping is telling right and to be respectful it's great to get to know the person for he tells.

welcome back a look at the stories making headlines this hour hi jerry and officials have apologized for misleading the parents of schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram and on monday dozens of girls are still missing despite the military claiming they had been rescued. as president donald trump has reiterated his belief that school shootings could be stopped by teachers trying to carry weapons even though there was an armed guard at the school that was attacked last week. and as bombs continue to rain down on syria's eastern the u.n. security council has delayed its a vote on a resolution calling for a thirty day cease fire until saturday so let's get the latest from diplomatic editor james braze he joins us from the from un headquarters and james as you know

that the pictures that we've been seeing today emerging from eastern guta really shows that the. situation keeps reaching new levels of urgency though that doesn't seem to be reflected in what's been happening at the u.n. today. no yet another day of failed diplomacy at the united nations the ambassadors of the security council basically around the security council chamber for nearly all the day huddled in discussions on their phones to their capitals and at various points in a room with the president of the security council trying to hammer out an agreement the problem is clear there are clearly russia which doesn't like the language in the draft resolution this is the existing draft resolution amazingly i can tell you that it's the paragraph number one here that they have a problem with no one can actually agree the language on the first substantial

paragraph of this resolution they've gone back and forth on it for a long time after final meeting in the last hour they've decided to perspire on everything and come back on saturday just before they postponed it the u.s. ambassador nikki haley who's not actually here at the u.n. she's got a deputy working for her here but she said it's unbelievable that russia is stalling a vote how many people will now how many more people will now have to die as a result of that that's the tweet from nikki haley i put that tweet to one of the key people who's been negotiating it the swedish ambassador own off scoob one of those who has been drafting this resolution he said i want to ask him if he concurred with that he said certainly what he would say is he's extremely frustrated but he hopes that there can still be a resolution passed and they'll continue working he said for a forceful resolution to be passed on saturday similar language coming from the

president of the security council months or maybe the ambassador of kuwait as he left saying that they will be back again here as i said at midday new york time tomorrow for another attempt at a vote on this resolution but i can tell you between now and then they may have left this building but the phone calls the negotiations will continue thank you very much our diplomatic editor james base where all the latest from the united nations. now former donald trump campaign a poll man a fourth is facing a new indictment as part of the investigation into claims of russian collusion in the u.s. election when a fourth is accused of paying for me european politicians more than two million dollars to support a pro russia in production government in ukraine it comes as his fellow former trunk campaign official rate gates pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and false statements that could mean

a jail term of between fifty seven and seventy one months gates a man of force have been charged with more offenses as part of the investigation by special counsel robert muller in other developments the u.s. 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 its much earlier than expected vice president light pence had suggested the move from tel aviv to jerusalem wouldn't take place till next year well in jordan has this update. the news the u.s. embassy would move from tel aviv to jerusalem on may fourteenth king not in a communique but in a tweet from israel's intelligence minister i would like to congratulate donald trump on his decision to transfer the u.s. embassy on israel's seventieth independence day no greater gift than that a short time later the u.s. president donald trump confirmed the news in a speech i was hit by more countries and more pressure and more people calling

begging me don't do it don't do it don't do it. i said we have to do it it's the right thing to do it wasn't december trump announced he was moving the embassy to jerusalem. and the anger of those who said the u.s. was basically giving jerusalem to israel outside of final status talks with the palestinians the palestinian president mahmoud abbas was among those who condemned trump but at the u.n. security council this week it was clear abbas had moved on he told him about the era of the u.s. as an honest broker is over and that it's time to try something new for any on a grammar i would call for the convening of an international peace conference by mid two thousand and eighteen based on international law and relevant un resolutions with broad international participation including the two concerned parties and regional and international stakeholders one toasting a politician says the embassy is an affront to his community choose this date this

presents a very serious provocation to the palestinian side besides the fact that moving the embassy to jerusalem is by its participation in violation of national a u.s. based analyst called the move in date very bad foreign policy rather than just giving jerusalem away to the israelis what he could have done is said we will acknowledge jerusalem as the capital of israel if you dismantle all the illegal settlements and so what he stand now it seems given away very big valuable check and essentially gotten nothing in return the ambassador david friedman and a few aides will join current consulate staff at their office in jerusalem a new building won't be built for several years there's no denying the embassy move will affect any and all peace talks going forward rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. and east africa rwanda tanzania and uganda have banned the import of

secondhand clothing to boost local industries there is now has more from uganda capital. this sound tells passing shoppers does a deal on second hand clothes to 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 imported in east africa every year mostly from the u.s. and the u.k. imports that uganda rwanda and tanzania could create to plan to support their own textile industries but margery can eke a dozen degree she looks after three orphans and gets their clothes here i think it's it's wrong because not everybody can afford and clothes. so that they all be able we're not afforded clothes most of them would make it up to actually about that so it's not because it's not a good idea but some east african governments 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 since it threatened trade sanctions kenya's pulls out. back in uganda just next to the second hand market there are many new clothes on sale almost none are made in east africa almost all made in china many of the new clothes imported from china are made in western styles several african countries used to have thriving textile industries making fabrics with partners like these as industries or suffered in recent decades and many of those fabrics including all the ones here and now made in china instead of. the reasons why it's cheaper to manufacture in china than most other places are many economist or grafters no i gather says several things are needed to revive the local industry to not just banning secondhand imports of. wood one day.

but in the longer term. in the sense that the. support domestic manufacturing now the most money. is something that you cannot boast. up front decision. because you knew. you need the industry you need. to invent the fork president dimity. back in the market traders make a run for it when a city official arrives it don't have a trading license minutes later they're back in forcing a ban on imported used clothes might look a lot mind this the trade employs tens of thousands they might wish to one day have a job in a clothes factory but this is how they survive malcolm webb al-jazeera come parlor uganda construction a started on the afghan section of a major gas pipeline linking turkmenistan pakistan and india crucially the eight

billion dollar project has the support of not just the u.s. and pakistan but also the taliban tony berkeley reports from kabul. in afghanistan these days there is not much to cheer about on friday there was an exception construction began on a pipeline project to carry natural gas from turkmenistan through the country to india and pakistan workers welded the first link of pipe crossing the border between turkmenistan and afghanistan's goes are a district near hereat. a ten billion dollars project will bring jobs and income. but this project brings electricity gas work and life it brings like to the dark homes in afghanistan pakistan and india and also brings energy to each of our investors had with. the ceremony was watched by took many stones president the prime minister of pakistan and india as minister for external affairs who joined by video link the project known as tappy the initials of the full countries is being

described as a new page in regional cooperation and hopes for a better future. than you have and then after a long time afghanistan is taking part in a regional project which will provide jobs for our people i'm hoping that this regional cooperation will result in closer relations between the countries and that it will help afghanistan become more stable but one that russia with the turkey project brings a message of peace so it will help to bring peace in our country and also in the wider region the tension between the countries in the region will reduce. the pipeline will run one thousand eight hundred fourteen kilometers and carry thirty three billion cubic meters of natural gas each year it is expected to be completed by january twenty twenty security in herat was tight for the ceremony but the taliban has given its support for the pipeline reversing an earlier stand observer say this is probably because of its close ties with pakistan which will take forty

percent of the gas and make a profit of twenty five percent on the sale. with the security fears softened the main focus now is attracting the investors to raise the capital to complete the project but for now everyone seems to be happy this project takes many boxes money jobs prestige and importantly regional cooperation and that's the kind of good news event that doesn't happen all too often in this part of the world tony berkeley al jazeera kabul from syria to me on the plight of refugees has dominated the news agenda and inspired countless creative works about in film festival filmmakers have focused on telling a different side of the story as done when it came reports. 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 if. there's and there are there are there they will find. a pair of eyes. and somebody in a film say. i have an informant for you 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 but as a camp south of beirut and i am the only other thing i'll say that i love with him and i had to do that if not both of them are not obvious how we always act like i'm going out 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. dominate came. earlier. a quick look at the top. stories this hour a new wave of bombs has struck a rebel held enclave near syria's capital for six straight days syrian government and allied warplanes of pounded the densely populated area of eastern ghouta more than four hundred forty three people have died in the offensive since sunday. meanwhile the united nations security council has delayed its vote on a resolution demanding a thirty day truce in syria which would allow a deliveries and medical evacuations this afternoon gauche ations with russia which is seeking guarantees that rebel fighters will not shoot into residential areas in the capital damascus. u.s. president donald trump has reiterated that shootings could be stopped by armed

teaches despite an armed officer being at the florida high school where seventeen people were killed last week he made these comments while addressing the conservative political action committee conference in maryland trump also criticized the armed officer at the park and school for failing to confront the gunman. officials in northeast nigeria have apologized for telling the parents of dozens of missing school girls that their daughters had been rescued the false announcement sparked outrage among concerned families in the town of bay state the girls were taken from their school by boko haram fighters on monday night with at least one hundred one girls still missing the u.s. 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 israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has praised the decision as

a great day for the israeli people. you're up to date with all of our top stories more news coming up from doha in twenty five minutes time that's after counting the cost which starts now. the benefit of saddam. so you see the importance of. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. has i'm sick of this is counting the cost on that visit or your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week how corrupt is your country we'll talk to transparency international about the latest global rankings also this week the petro venezuela becomes the first government in history to launch its own crypto currency plus south africa's new president needs to plug

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