we are innovators we are activists we are rebel geeks madrid at this time on and just you know. al-jazeera. swear every. syrian government forces attack eastern gator from the ground and from the air just hours after the un approves thirty day cease fire. hello welcome to it is there live from doha i'm martin dennis also coming up. one

of north korea's most controversial generals arrives for the closing ceremony of the winter olympics in south korea also coming up. they killed my father killed my mother i feel skeered i don't want to go back to me and my family was killed in the mia mom military crackdown against the ranger six months on al-jazeera revisits those who survived last week. one of india's biggest movie stars died suddenly at the age of fifty full. but let's start with the breaking news coming from syria then syrian government forces have launched a new ground and an air offensive on the rebel held on klav eastern ghouta close to

damascus the area's been under heavy bombardment. with at least five hundred people killed there in the past week government troops and now trying to enter the own clave from multiple fronts just hours after the u.n. security council agreed to a thirty day cease fire for syria let's go live now to our correspondent who's monitoring developments in syria. that's on the turkish side of the border with syria some of bring us up right up to date with the events that have occurred on the ground in syria ever since that u.n. resolution was approved. when i spoke to the people right after the u.n. security council resolution they would afraid and those fears seem to be proving right since the last few hours we've been hearing reports from various fronts cross eastern that government forces have been trying to make good advances trying to reach the level defenses in hottest in tougher but in duma homs damascus highway

multiple entrances to eastern and to the attack rebels have been saying that they are putting up with distance but because this is being hit from several fronts it's not clear how long will they be able to hold off their number of troops according to state media that are taking part in the operation the tiger forces the fourth brigade the tenth brigade and a number of other militias are also taking part in this offensive to take eastern ghouta now the united nations security council resolution talked about giving the forces that are involved on the ground of the free reign to attack. i saw an. organization with the united nations classifies as terrorist organizations so this is probably the pretext that the government has already been using to attack eastern with it because it says that it is under the control of. but that is denied by people on the ground analysts who we've been speaking to say that the number of

fighters that a listener has is probably somewhere between two to three hundred. which is home to more than four hundred thousand people and what are you hearing then from the residents the civilians who live in this area that has suffered so much already. because this bombardment sunday much day eight off this latest offensive by the syrian government there have been a number of attacks on residential areas and medical facilities to people have been forced to live underground now we've been hearing that in the. last the advances by the ground forces have been preceded by a number of artillery attacks and air strikes one report from dubai says that they've counted at least eighteen shells landing in the last hour or so it is a ferocious attack from the air from on the ground batteries artillery batteries as well as strikes so people have been telling us in the last few days how difficult

it has been for them to cope and they're also using the same shelters the same underground tunnels that the rebels use as well so when the syrian government targets them they've already been force already been forced underground and they will be there is fear among aid workers one doctor just told me that they've afraid that people trapped in these underground shelters will also come under attack now that the government is targeting specifically these underground yes but the rebels have been using their defenses all right now thank you very much as some of our correspondent everything live there from gaza and. well the u.n. security council's approval of this resolution came after weeks of intense negotiations here's our united nations correspondent editor james face. for a third day diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria he got an agreement with the russians now. today we're going

to see if russia has a conscience the russian ambassador conferred with his syrian counterpart whose government has continued without rest by the bombardment of eastern puter even as the negotiations drag gone diplomats have been working around the clock exhausted frustrated and in some cases angry most of the discussions focusing on the exact wording of one paragraph in the end they agreed to a place an immediate cease fire with one comes into force without delay it meant they could vote. it was unanimous but there didn't seem to be much unity in the chamber every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering group getting to a vote became a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not for syria not for iran i have to ask why as they dragged out the negotiation the bombs from assad's

fighter jets continued to fall in the three days it took us to adopt this resolution how many mothers lost their kids to the bombing and the shelling why we negotiated so long and that is illusion that they wanted to make sure that it is not used as a pretext. because we had some trouble so what in worrying. governments on that in the recent days any good in today some of the variability cause these negotiations were extremely hard getting a cease fire across syria will be even harder can we get a stop to the bombardment in eastern guta there is an exemption in the resolution allowing continued military action against al qaida. and i saw and some diplomats fear that the syrian government will assert that those fighting in eastern guta have links with those groups james pays out his era at the united nations by

listening to rodger shanahan now his research fellow at the lowry institute for international policy in sydney australia thank you for joining us it's a supreme irony isn't it that the moment that there's a glimmer of hope of respite for the people of eastern ghouta they actually start to face even more suffering because the bombardment from the syrian army is increasing. well certainly that was always going to be the issue really trying to get a cease fire resolution through the united nations russia found a politically convenient not to block that resolution but made sure the resolution had enough wriggle room in it so that both the syrians and russians could still prosecute built a campaign against peace and good while saying there was a thirty day ceasefire in place now there isn't i mean the this the resolution has been passed but the cease fire is certainly certainly far from being implemented

one of the mechanics of getting a cease fire agreed in new york actually implemented in syria. well school question and this is where lots of ceasefires come unstuck because. you can have the policy all the policy that you want in terms of resolutions but practically implementing it on the ground is not the responsibility of the united nations but it may speak thought through about how exactly you do it i think this is probably going to be one of those occasions where we have a resolution that sounds good on paper in terms of a ceasefire but how do you practically implemented on the ground with no independent observers to make sure that it's maintained no penalties if you don't maintain it and also the kind of. issues involved with it where you can still write the cease fire so long as you're tying certain segments of the armed

opposition groups it's a very difficult issue and i don't think the ceasefire is what my state would assume it today and so conceivably then the the suffering civilians of of syria will continue to suffer because it's going to take some time before these intense negotiations this next round of intense again stations actually yield yield something positive in terms of getting that laying the weapons making them silent and giving them some peace and access to all sorts of medical and humanitarian aid . yeah listen if if if we're going to go to try and understand the way that syrian regime is going to play their position in a sense it is going to be quite similar one way to show you had what we've seen before in homs and also in a certain aleppo that is the regime tries to encircle an area that's awesome fighter from other elements of the armed opposition groups. because there are

a range of activities weekend areas that are trying to incite prescribe terrorist groups with the broader elements inside there and then that make it the military made if it and prosecute the military campaign to such a point where they try and come up with a negotiated solution at the end of it in return for. them and sliding down the weapons and being escorted out of that area then humanitarian aid is the lead in and i think that's why this kind of play out a nascent those but it's actually a much larger area than we sayn before says going to take much more if it on the part of the syrian regime to do that and so it's going to take a lot longer i think are i vow to have shanahan thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts on pleasure. the north korean general accused of ordering an attack on a south korean naval ship in twenty ten in which dozens died has just arrived in

south korea kim yong charlie is the thing the delegation for the closing ceremony of the winter olympics they have been protests against his visit the test again aim has the latest from gun nung. hundreds of protesters tried to block a border bridge as this high level north korean delegation crossed into the south to attend the closing ceremony on saturday an estimated three thousand protesters in seoul burned the north korean flag and photos of leader kim jong un and the general leading this delegation so who is this general his name is kim young short he's a hardliner general believed to be responsible for attacks on south koreans most notably the sinking of a warship in twenty ten that killed forty six sailors as he arrived in seoul on sunday reporters asked him about that more shit he didn't answer now the south korean government is asking people to look to the future to look at the bigger

picture noting that the general right now is in charge of affairs with south korea that he does have a say in north korea's nuclear program and he is precisely the right person at the right time to be here moon is also saying that he believes this will only enhance the spirit of so-called reconciliation between the two koreas this is not the first time that the general has been to south korea he visited in twenty fourteen to attend military talks with the international olympic committee is upheld this ban on russian athletes implemented because of widespread taping of the twenty fourteen games to failed doping results during this year's winter olympics the russian the things won't be able to monch on to their flag of the closing ceremony the one hundred sixty eight athletes have been forced to compete as neutral athletes at these games. well for the coming year doubt is there including nigeria's president

calls the plight of missing schoolgirls a national disaster he sends more soldiers to search for them. the nice pink skies by the time half. hour is the sun sets in the city of angels. it's been snowing incessantly this time not so much in the alps as the apple nines and across the path in the balkans but a bit further east as well this is a picture from italy and it's not here the depth of snow is not the only place in the world has had record snow depth and the snow is still falling less so on the italian side a bit further east across the adriatic the watches cloud is actually of a turkey different system altogether but this is the area i think we'll see more snow for the next twenty four to forty eight hours because the cold air is pony pushing in and then it's coming against the wind is bringing all the most from the

effectively warmer waters of the train in the adriatic so northern italy bosnia croatia this sort of area and ounce of albania or northern breeze there will be a lot more snow but look at the temps just the north mana seventy was almost two in berlin these are maximum temperatures and not get any are they getting lower so also snow piles up here across the balkans the real cold start to set in this coming week will be frigidly arctic all the way from eastern europe right to the west attempts by day as a maximum are going to drop nine times could be really cold this is a late bit of really quite severe winter for europe. the weather sponsored by qatar and greece. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on

talk to al-jazeera at this time. was. hard to take a look at the top stories here it out easier syrian government troops have launched a new ground and air offensive on the rebel held on klaver. which has been under heavy bombardment for the past week troops tried to enter the area just hours after the u.n. security council agreed a thirty day cease fire for syria. a controversial high ranking general is leading

north korea's delegation for the closing ceremony of the china lympics kim. has been accused of ordering an attack on a south korean ship which killed dozens of sailors in twenty ten have been protests against his visit in the capital seoul. i'm going back to the top story al jazeera correspondent mohammed al jazeera he reports now from inside. the house. points from the syrian regime in russia still flying in the skies targeting some locations in eastern the warplanes have already targeted ship. in a village and the area the syrian regime has targeted these areas many times after the cease fire and the decision to open safe corridors to allow aid and assistance into east. one of the main military factions in eastern grew to have stressed their full and serious commitment to the cease fire agreement to pave the way for the

urgent need to end the area it seems that the russians and the syrian regime showing a commitment to the security council decision to apply a cease fire and to allow the urgent assistance to reach the needy people of east and greater or to take those with critical illness as injuries to hospitals outside the area people here are still in the shelters they are still scared of the warplanes targeting the residential areas no one knows whether the aerial rights will target other cities or villages during the coming hours or not the opposition says that there are two russian warplanes and a third belonging to the syrian regime flying in the skies of eastern europe. the range of refugees in bangladesh living day to day six months on since the start of a crackdown by the me a tree the u.n. has condemned the atrocities calling them a textbook case of ethnic cleansing nearly seven hundred thousand have crossed the border into bangladesh since all this we've tracked down some of those we met in the exodus began. as usual big omas one of six hundred eighty eight

thousand revenge or if you g.'s who have streamed across the me n. mar bangladesh border fleeing what they call a targeted campaign to wipe the males we first met her in december the nine year old had been shot three times in the leg arm in arm pit by a soldier at close range. six months she's still in pain and has decided she won't go back there my dad if they kill my father killed my mother i feel scared i don't want to go back to me and they were bombing houses sitting them on fire pulling people out from their homes and shooting them torturing me and i'm scared to see all their all at the moment and i still feel like dying a fire remember those days. when they raped our women and you can see what they did to this child. there are thousands of asia's here recovering from

different weapons of war these two sisters say myanmar soldiers tied them to trees and raped them their mother father and three siblings were locked inside their home which was the incision lines not much has changed since we first met the teenage girls in january they care and crucible long camp got them you know cabs although bright and colorful the girls say they remain cloaked in darkness. of the day is an image and we can't go back to burma if we are asked to we don't have parents brothers and sisters no house to live there where should we live the bangladesh in myanmar government's made a deal to repatriate the revenger but six months on they refused to return in november abdul fi showed us his house right across the border he says ranger want a guarantee of safety compensation for the destroyed villages and citizenship something they have been denied for thirty five years rubble this idea of money we

want to tell the world of we want to live like human beings we want to educate our children and we want to live a peaceful life with our family we ask the world to provide justice for us. myanmar's government continues to deflect accusations of ethnic cleansing and even genocide justice for the revenger is hard to come by. i have no father no mother and so much pain if i have to go out to collect firewood it's so painful. those who survived the crackdown in the camps with scars on their bodies and in their minds charlotte ballasts al-jazeera. the parents of more than one hundred missing schoolgirls in nigeria have joined the bring back our girls movement against global prominence during the mass abduction of schoolgirls from chibok in twenty fourteen the harrumph eyes is a believed to have taken the girls from their school in north eastern europe

a state six days ago on the digits has more from the nigerian capital abuja. the mood is not of shock and anger anger because the nigerian government has failed to properly explain how many kids or how many students have been taken from that college and what exactly happened there now shock in the sense that many people expected nigeria and the security agencies to learn from the mistakes of two thousand and fourteen inches when more than two hundred and seventy schemes go schoolgirls have been kidnapped by boko haram more than one hundred of them are still unaccounted for our group of activists have been pushing the nigerian government to rescue the girls now we spoke to some of them who expressed shock and dismay that four years on the nigerian government and the nigerian security services have not learned anything from the war for peace and out before it's four years a one hundred twelve people go but only to be woken up tuesday to realize that

more schoolgirls were abducted and we're back to square one when many nigerians expected the government to beef up security around vulnerable places like schools especially boarding schools in the northeast of nigeria now in the case of she that clearly did not happen and many nigerians will be watching the government closely as a low security agency is to see whether or not these girls are rescued in the next few days or so. there's been a show of support in israel for the thousands of africans who are facing deportation thousands of people protested in tel aviv against israel's plans to deport the migrants and refugees in february these really governments such as handing out notices to twenty thousand men saying they risk being jailed if they didn't leave by the start of april the migrants and refugees many of whom are from sudan and eritrea have been offered three and a half thousand dollars and the plane ticket to what's being described by the

government as a safe destination in sub-saharan africa. a growing number of high profile u.s. companies a cutting ties with the national rifle association following last week's shooting at a florida high school more than half a dozen companies say they will no longer of the discounts to the n r a's five million members it follows a social media campaign by gun control activists calling for a boycott on brands with n.r.a. partnerships. the u.s. congress is releasing classified memo by the democrats two weeks after president trump blocked it because of security concerns it rebuts a document prepared by the republicans on the house intelligence committee which was made public earlier this month the republican memo alleged f.b.i. bias against the president during its investigation into his presidential campaigns links with russia the white house signed off on the release of the democratic memo only after reductions are being made. dozens of protests of taken place across

italy as tensions rise in the run up to next weekend's election the leader of the anti immigrant league party addressed thousands of supporters in milan and in rome protests as relative against what they fear is a return to italy's fascist past sonia reports. really the crowds in milan but they are salvini one to the ear of the whole nation only days away from italy's problem entry elections this was the largest gathering given by the right wing populist leg up party it may have started out as a northern italian secessionist movement with a desire to separate from what it called a backward southern region but this is italy politics here is a mecurio game sensing the change it rebranded itself as the party for all italians with the same anti immigrant populace program. we want a federal more efficient country which takes care of the north and the south

employment taxation immigration the league has grown up in many ways and mr snyder really has a lot in common with far right on european leaders and see european union like soccer ozone he's also against the big macs and their dominance over the economy the only ones who are really going to. listen is anti immigration policies and here there are plenty of people who support that group given the refugee crisis that has had its lead meticulous. in the last four years some six hundred thousand people have arrived in italy by sea but it has coincided with a tougher session and high unemployment and the infrastructure has barely been able to cope immigration rhetoric has surfed to whip up sentiments here kim possible is interested me going to join this is the government has imposed this uncontrolled migration on its unregulated and it's not fair. i want to clean italy i want more in. poignant less crime we have little these are legal immigrants

who are destroying it's illegal and the all over the country there is a sense of hardening attitudes in the southern city of one neo fascist group came out to defend its positions meanwhile in the capital rome the fear of a return of italy's fascist pos prompted five separate demonstrations railing against the agenda of the far right this is a country which has always had sharp divisions in the political scene but there is a fear that violent tensions of the past are making a return the sluggish economy has made many here feel hard done by and there is little trust in mainstream politicians to result it sunny diagonal al-jazeera. tributes a poor ring in because for the bollywood actress three davy who died suddenly at the age of fifty four she appeared in more than one hundred films but it was all expected performance in a single movie that would transform her into india's first female super saw mariana

holland reports thank you she stepped into bollywood at a time when the industry was largely a male. tree davey's performance in this eighties blockbuster mr india turned heads and redefined the place of female actresses and bollywood forever. film critics described her as a show steve mr india became a cult classic and suddenly three davies was filling sentiments the we. came. to. comic genius true the crowds have been wounded and was was but it was his skill and. you she is

a dancer that truly captivated audiences the air was the way i was she started out as a child actress in southern india. and went on to appear in more than a hundred films to make you feel like many actresses of her generation she went by one name tree davey but unlike how the leading woman she quickly over took him my old costars to become the box office draw. it paved the way for today's bollywood stars to seamlessly make the move from bollywood to hollywood's them selling the one i was getting. to family says she suffered a heart attack on saturday while attending a wedding in dubai her instagram account received tens of thousands of messages and bollywood fans in india and abroad took to social media to express their

condolences among them bollywood actress priyanka chopra and india's prime minister she stopped acting after him marriage to film producer boney kapoor but made a successful comeback in two thousand and twelve with the hit movie english vinglish. this is. the one. that many will feel she davies has cut too short to think that. i. was trying to say look at the top stories here down to zero syrian government troops have launch a new ground and air offensive on the rebel held on klav of east and guta which has been under heavy bombardment for the past week troops tried to enter. just hours after the u.n. security council agreed to

a thirty day cease fire to syria. a solid binge of aid is following the story for us from gaziantep near the turkey syria border the government forces have been trying to mediate advances trying to reach a level differences in how in cover but in. homs damascus multiple advances to eastern and the rebels have been saying that they are putting a positions but because this is being hit from several fronts it's not clear how long will they be able to hold off their number of troops according to state media that are taking part in this operation the tiger forces the fourth brigade the tenth brigade and a number of other militias are also taking part in this offensive to retake eastern guta a controversial high ranking general is leading north korea's delegation for the closing ceremony of the china winter olympics kim myong chol has been accused of ordering an attack on a south korean ship which killed dozens of sailors in twenty ten have been protests

against his visit in the capital seoul and the international olympic committee has unanimously up held its ban of russia a decision that will prevent russian athletes from marching under their flag at the closing ceremony i.o.c. president thomas said two failed drug tests by russian athletes were hugely disappointing and prevented any consideration of lifting the ban it's six months since a military crackdown began forcing hundreds of thousands of ranger to flee into bangladesh almost seven hundred thousand ranger have crossed the border into bangladesh since august the twenty fifth. thousands of people have attended a rally in tel aviv protesting against israel's plans to deport african migrants the men mostly from sudan and eritrea could face jail if they don't leave the country by the start of april. today those are the latest headlines here at al-jazeera don't forget there's always

a website there if you need it al-jazeera dot com i'm back in thirty minutes next to. this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important for setting the stage for a serious debate on front at this time on al-jazeera. you. mean a. band jules international airport january two thousand and seven stepping out of the black limousine is going to be as longtime president. as he walks down the torment on the presidential red carpet for the last time a small crowd of supporters gather unable to hold back their emotions.