the volunteers also act as security guards from the bamboo harvest and navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart through the time we finished scares to the fish and dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of. a coffee klatch family need the men who go to the extreme just to make a living. you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise the surf and risking it all vietnam at this time on al-jazeera. at the u.n. security council. members wrangle over wording. people plead for help.

from. trump agrees to cooperate with the inquiry into russian meddling and u.s. policy. the u.s. will move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. this man standing outside of. the school the other day doesn't love the children probably doesn't know that. the teachers love their children. the florida school new questions about how america protect. the syrian military. except to drag on after a un vote on a humanitarian ceasefire was postponed until saturday more than four hundred forty

civilians have died in six days of attacks on the rebel held. just a few moments we'll have. but first. reports on the situation on the ground. they are there not. to be too young. but in the dust and debris. left. the upper floor is on fire. crackers and i don't know what the doctor tells me to open his eyes so he can wash medical workers in eastern huta 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 and bodies are pulled out from crevices between buildings the nearly four hundred thousand people in the besieged enclave are dying in their hundreds 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 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 the opposition holds russia and iran responsible. when the dust settles the destruction is clear people have been forced to live in underground shelters. and message to the security council is for a cease fire or 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 from 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

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 the have been cheering orders flits evacuation zones convinced that this is what is going to happen to them as as well. while the suffering continues for the people of eastern ghouta the un is struggling to take action a vote of a draft resolution for thirty days ceasefire in syria has been delayed because the james pace has the details. old a frantic negotiations here at the united nations to try and get a security council resolution passed a great deal of the pressure on the russian ambassador. who has problems with some of the language in the draft resolution drawn up by kuwait and sweden at one point the kuwaiti ambassador the president of the security council appeared with the

other nonpermanent members of the so-called elected ten and he sounded upbeat 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 have been holding as a president of the city council to thank actually the eaton for their support to a lot of votes and hopefully you are so close to adopt this is illusion today throughout the day votes were scheduled then perspire own meetings were delayed towards the end of the day the us ambassador nikki haley tweeted unbelievable that russia is stalling a vote on a ceasefire allowing humanitarian access in syria how many more people will die before the security council agrees to take up this vote let's do this tonight the syrian people can't wait but in the end the security council decided to postpone its vote until saturday this was the comment from the swedish ambassador i'm trying

to facilitate a meaningful outcome of this security council so i can only protect what we're trying to do and that is to have a resolution adopted yesterday and now we have not achieved i find that extremely frustrating given what we are faced with on the ground at the end of the day the russian ambassador was chatting with his syrian colleague bash i'll jaffrey it's still unclear whether any vote will actually take place and whether a vote will pass what is certain is that the syrian government bombardment for now will. continue. the special counsel leading the investigation into alleged russian interference in the us election has unsealed the latest charges against former aide paul not afford it accuses megaforce of secretly paying former senior european politicians to lobby on behalf of ukraine and twenty twelve twenty thirteen court papers say he wanted more than two million euros to politicians. well that comes as

another form an aide to trump's presidential campaign has changed his plea to guilty on charges of conspiracy and lying to investigators in the inquiry and to alleged russian meddling in the u.s. politics rick gates as admission into case he's now willing to cooperate some provide testimony against other top aides. reports. thank you it's happened again another member of donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign walks into the courthouse and pleads guilty to a serious felony conspiring against the united states and line to investigators gates isn't a household name but it's believed he played an important role in the campaign and inauguration often seen right next to his boss like here preparing for his party's acceptance speech gates was the former deputy campaign manager for trump and a longtime business partner of campaign chairman paul man of fort gates was

indicted with manna for last october for money laundering later face charges of bank fraud and tax evasion both men originally pled not guilty gates joined the term campaign in june of two thousand and sixteen and stayed on after man a fort was fired this will put more pressure on man afford to follow suit and flip giving evidence on people higher up in the campaign he was in that critical meeting between donald trump jr jared cushion or and the russian lawyer linked to the kremlin this is now the third trump campaign official to come to this courthouse and plead guilty with that there's been a lot more talking conservative circles the president should simply pardon everyone involved under the constitution he can do that you can pardon pretty much anybody except himself it would be politically risky but there's another problem the special counsel's been working with states' attorneys and when it comes to stay crimes well there's literally nothing the president can do to interfere so far nineteen people have been indicted in connection with the investigation into

possible russian collusion have flipped making it likely that. arrests are coming and making it harder to say there's nothing here it discredits more and more the claim that this is just fake news there's nothing there of there's nothing there why are people pleading guilty they usually do that in order for prosecutors to get people more powerful in this case closer to the president what's not know just how high this will go if it's possible it could lead to the president himself patty klein al-jazeera washington. the u.s. president has spoken at america's largest gathering of conservatives saying the exactly what they wanted to hear from many things from immigration to north korea donald trump all saying is the speech again call for teachers to be armed and idea he proposed after last week's school shooting in florida alan fischer has more ah this was donald trump a homegrown 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 their 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 escorted out. fifteen months on from the election donald trump began real live there when i and what it times felt will look a campaign rally of all he talked about the successes his administration had brought the lotus cheer for a decision in the middle east we officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel was 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 the guns they teach the white house the childer 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 this was this is the sort of reaction donald trump could be expected from sea power the told us to agree this was going on. from the twenty sixth in election campaign revisiting themes that he knows plays well with this course of course. 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 fischer al-jazeera at this conference in maryland. the u.s. has confirmed it will move its embassy in israel to jerusalem and may the opening

will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of israel's founding referred to by palestinians as the nakba or the catastrophe by president mike pence and that is just in the mood for not take place until next year this isn't december to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem sparked protests in palestine and around the world medical mystery action to choose the death of the palestinian catastrophe the next. move the baghdad embassy of the day was moved in this expedition fashion reflects startle insensitivities to what goes on this region which. would shoot straight films our position that the us can no longer be part of the peace process. the u.s. administration has become be part of the problem and not part of the solution and we condemn this move and this book i think did the choice with the strongest possible. as it is i guess by the u.s. decision of ses demonstrations every friday since the announcement and it was no

different this week tell stuff it has more from gaza. but this is one of five confrontation points along the gaza israeli border jaime we've seen. people gathering for the last couple of hours they've been throwing stones at israeli forces close to the feints on the other side is just in the last few minutes that a second person has been injured we understand was shot by israeli forces and in the process of being taken away in an ambulance the first person we understood around twenty years old was shot in the leg and has been taken to hospital now we've been seeing these kind of protests in the gaza strip every friday since donald trump's announcement in december that he thinks the jerusalem should be the capital of israel but it's important to recognize that these protests here today it's much more than just that let's not forget that the people in gaza have

suffered for ten years of an air sea and land blockade this being opposed on them by israel the rougher border crossing with egypt has also been closed since two thousand and fourteen and very occasionally opens up the egyptians saying that they keep that closed because of security concerns ongoing security concerns with darsheel eisel on the other side of the border so these these people have suffered horrifically and that suffering continues to escalate. at least eighteen people have been killed and twenty others injured in the car bomb attacks and the somali capital mogadishu the first blast happened to the checkpoint in the president's residence while the second was in front of a popular hotel group claimed responsibility for both attacks still ahead. they can just after we broke out monday fast we heard gunshots they were everywhere. moments of

horror. as the military takes over the control of the streets of rio de janeiro we find out why critics oppose the brazilian government's latest move against drugs gangs. by the springtime of a mountain lake. on the wind. some good spells of sunshine into southern areas of china over the next few days still a little on the gray side to sas today here on kong around twenty two degrees think of cloud outbreaks of rain into the central areas i was slog back towards the southwest as we go on through sunday a bit brighter skies coming back in hong kong at around twenty four celsius at this stage with good spells of sunshine sunshine the showers meanwhile across southeast

asia big downpours there into malaysia still have the flooding rains continuing across a good part of indonesia particular across java we had some flooding issues here with anything that wetter weather lingering on as we go on through sunday you can see the cloud and the rain pushing right up across the peninsula thailand stinks and lava showers from time to time and that wet weather will ease its way across the by a single heading towards sri lanka could see some clouds and rain spilling in here over the next day or two notice the pattern right up towards the northwest of india coming in across pakistan to the snow as it moves over the himalayas that there delhi with the top temperature now going up to around twenty nine degrees thirty five in that pool further south maybe go with that wet weather starting to set in across the eastern side of sri lanka colombo with a top temperature of thirty one. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. a unique poor trait of a small gulf nation living under siege maybe this friend was they targeted said.

that pain to be forced to leave would be awful and then again it has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe others are in downs but it is not a majority of business. has become movie united. beyond the blockade at this time on al-jazeera. again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories the syrian military bombardment of eastern ghouta looks set to continue with the u.n. vote on a humanitarian ceasefire postponed until saturday all the four hundred and forty

civilians have died in six days of heavy attacks on the rebel held and. the u.s. has confirmed it will open its new embassy in jerusalem in may much earlier than expected cities have condemned the announcement as provocative system december to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem spot protest in palestine and around the world. and u.s. president donald trump says the god of the florida school west seventeen people were shot dead did a poor job try to push for peace to schools to teachers and schools from florida's governor is proposing raising the age limit to buy firearms from eighteen to twenty one. well this marks the first major step towards gun control in the states is as john had to report. florida's governor else lined the biggest state wide change in gun laws in decades we will require all individuals purchase seem firearms to be twenty one are older by other nations standards republican rick

scott's plan to raise the age for gun buyers is modest at best but here in the u.s. it marks the boldest legislative response yet to one of the deadliest school shootings in american history defying president trump and the powerful national rifle association i'm an n.r.a. member i'm also a father there is nothing more important than the safety of our children at age nineteen a gunman legally bought the a ar fifteen semiautomatic rifle he used to kill seventeen people at stoneman douglas high school in the florida city of parkland where the sense of trauma still linger my wife and son go to school my wife's. his assistant point you're. before a friendly crowd in washington president trump again pitched his own plan to arm teachers across the united states concealed weapons it's concealed so this

crazy man who walked in wouldn't even know who it is that has it that's good or bad that's good and a teacher would have shot the hell out of him before either what happened was that in the park when shooting a good guy with a gun declined to confront the bad guy with a gun and armed sheriff's deputy at parkland during the shooting to cover outside throughout the massacre he's since resigned trumpet a response for that to this man standing outside of the school the other day doesn't love the children probably doesn't know the children the teachers love their children they love their pupils they love the students. they doing it also from love now they have to be very adept i'm not talking about every teacher i'm talking about a small percentage but people that have great ability with weaponry with guns those are the only people i'm talking about but they'll protect the student the president is largely touting the n.r.a.

is lined with some of the biggest names in corporate america faces mounting pressure to sever ties with the gun group from amazon dot com which runs an all a.t.v. to the insurer metlife which is ending discounts for n.r.a. members here for many students in parkland who streamed out of class in protest by the hundreds on friday only an outright ban on assault weapons will do they prepared to return to school on monday less than two weeks after getting an education on violence in america it was never part of any class plan john hendren al-jazeera thousands of along with police and we had taken control of the west side of the city as part of a wider security operation but president michel ordered the military takeover in response to a recent spike in violent crime. reports many are skeptical that. any. irani porches is alone and still in shock she's wondering how her beloved son could have

been shot by army soldiers not in a faraway battlefield but right in the neighborhood where they live. her son bitterer is a family man a hard worker who stays away from any trouble but two years ago when driving back home with friends after watching a football match peter was shot by army soldiers at a checkpoint at the entrance of the shanty town he lives with his family. he was shot twice with a machine gun and he was taken to the hospital in a military tank. the military was in the middle of a sixteen month long operation troops backed up by the police stationed in his neighborhood around the clock to crack down on crime and drug gangs the shooting of the third was a mistake and it cost him dearly he's now confined to a wheelchair still too scared to want to speak on camera or even be filmed eventually the military occupation of the neighborhood ended but now the troops are

coming back with even more power than before or even that is president michel tamar ordered the military this week to take complete control over policing in rio in an attempt to bring back law and order after a surge in violence there are sixteen million people that live in the state of rio de janeiro and the security for all of them now rests squarely with soldiers from the army the last time the military played such a prominent world was over thirty years ago the time of the military dictatorship the government says now is the time to get the army back on the streets because they say here in rio the police have failed. but lawyers credo echoes this sentiments of many here says that the hundreds of millions to be spent on militarizing rio would be better channeled into dealing with the root causes of the city's problems. so we need education better health jobs better planning there's no miracle that the military can solve but the army for sure plans to go back to my

day where victor was shot and still lives and that leaves his mother theory is she doesn't want them to set aside that in. when the military say it's an order i ask her who it's not for us who are poor black and live in slums it's for those who live in the richest area of rio de janeiro. for a mother still hurting for a son left crippled for life by the very forces that were meant to protect him. gabriels sandow al jazeera rio de janeiro. nigeria's president is promising more troops to join the search for dozens of schoolgirls kidnapped on monday. specter of the abductions. with interest was the first international journalist on the ground and has this report from. 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 devastated. and then i'm wondering 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 but someone picked me up that was the last time i saw her she was taken. neighbors poor into their home to offer support and the girl 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 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 greek is too much for her but there is a much as 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 would be a small group of the twenty four incident where more than two hundred seven to goals like kidnapped from their school more than a third of them are year to be found. doctrine here council president says the u.k.'s approach to the next stage of brecht's

negotiations is based on pure illusion making any use out of brussels on tasks that britain must still trying to cherry pick its future relationship but the european union has reports of a breakthrough in british cabinet talks that u.k. prime minister to is amazing county with treat checkers senior ministers are thought of decided on a plan called managed divergence and u.k. can select some evil but stick to post bracks at the u.k. government seems to be moving towards a more detailed position. however if the media reports are correct. i'm afraid that position today is based on religion. it looks like the cakes it was a feast to a life. from the very start of it's been a key principle of turn to serve and that can be no cherry picking.

slow single market a la carte. this is and will continue to be a key principle i have no doubt. after the war in syria to the place have been millions of people have been forced to leave their homes wide their plight as a major theme that they see as balance film festival so medicaid 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 risk not close drift. 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 paid little so certainly that is the view the film's director wants the

viewer to take. refuge in hope. that they will find. somebody in a film. very important korea. 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 the status refugee in lebanon who forms a catering company with friends in the. camp south of beirut and around all of the economics you know i live with most of them wished for something related to cooking because they're good at cooking and it's something they do daily. 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 and taking their dignity and their power back and having this is unbelievable will to finish but i've always told stories of like underdog stories always always people who face you know incredible odds and their lives and what they're doing and so i think we're really . in doing this not just for herself but for entire community really embraced this opportunity. the berlin film festival will soon be drawing to a close but the issues many of its films of highlighted will not. dominate al-jazeera.

without our top stories syrian military bombardment of east and go to look set to continue with the u.n. vote on a humanitarian cease fire into saturday well of four hundred forty civilians have died in six days of heavy attacks on the rebel held. the u.s. has confirmed it will open its new embassy in jerusalem in may much earlier than expected have condemned the announcement as provocative cision in december to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem sparked protests in palestine and around the world at least eighteen people have been killed and twenty others injured in twin car bombings in the somali capital mogadishu the first blast was there the presidential palace and the second in front of a popular hotel group says it was responsible. his present donald trump has repeated his calls to schools florida's governor is proposing raising the age limit by far arms from eighteen to twenty one years it comes after seventeen

people were shot dead in a florida high school last week tramples a crystallized the florida school guard for failing to enter the building see a security guard doesn't know the children doesn't love the children this man standing outside of the school the other day doesn't love the children probably doesn't know the children the teachers love their children they love the pupils they love the students doing it also from love now they have to be very adept i'm not talking about every teacher i'm talking about a small percentage but people that have great ability with weaponry with guns those are the only people i'm talking about but they'll protect the student investigation into russian interference in the u.s. election is on sale the latest charges against former trump april man of fort he's accused of secretly paying european politicians to lobby on behalf of ukraine and twenty twelve and twenty thirteen. they will forward from beirut gates is change

his plea to guilty on charges of conspiracy and lying to investigators in the inquiry indicates he's willing to cooperate and provide testimony against other top aides those are your headlines stay with us the inside story. they are images dominating u.s. airwaves since the shooting at a florida high school young protesters vowing never again most weren't even born when congress passed its last gun control law but can they help bring change now this is inside story.