this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important level wise to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provoke the whatever it is people do to setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. the syrian government forces attack eastern ghouta from the ground and the just a few hours after the un approves of thirty day ceasefire. hello martin dead this year with al jazeera live from also coming up controversy is

the winter olympics come to a close a former army general blamed for the sinking of a south korean warship arrives from north korea also ahead. they killed my father killed my mother i feel skeered i don't want to go back to me and my her family was killed in the miramar military crackdown against the ranger six months on al-jazeera revisits those who survived. one of india's biggest movie stars sridevi dies suddenly at the age of fifty four. but we saw it in syria where news just coming in is telling us that government troops have launched a new ground and air offensive all of the rebel held of eastern ghouta close to the capital. damascus the area has been under heavy bombardment by syrian forces and

their allies with at least five hundred people killed there in the past week government troops are trying to enter the on clay for multiple fronts and this just hours after the u.n. agrees a thirty day ceasefire for syria let's go to some a binge of aid our correspondent who is in gaziantep that's in southern turkey very close to the border with syria bring us right up to date then with the military developments that have occurred ever since that u.n. resolution was approved. amati in the last few minutes we've heard from rebels on the ground who say that they have pulled at least one front attack on one front on east and they say a number of fighters their numbers could be as high as twenty five have been killed which were trying to enter from the government side it is a multi pronged operation that the syrian government has launched and it is approaching from multiple fronts the three major fronts are. near

the duma and homs near homs and damascus and also from one of that me in air bases which has been under the control of and has been contested in the last five years so multiple fronts are being used by the government to try and squeeze as much area as possible out of rebel control and these are the front lines that the rebels have been holding for years they have been pushed back at some at some stages but they did then they have been able to make those gains again it's not just the ground incursion it's also as you mentioned artillery shells and it's strikes that are happening in various neighborhoods one activist says that in just doing the. problem we have counted at least one thousand shells landing in the last couple of hours so it is an intense campaign that is continuing on the besiege of an enclave people have been telling us about how difficult the situation has been and this

would only make matters worse for civilians which are nearly about four hundred thousand of them. stranded in the streets and do we know who the regime is claiming to target in these fresh attack. but the government has insisted that it is tugging but targeting what it calls a lister front formally deformity known by the affiliates but forces on the ground have been saying that this is not the case in eastern voted there's a very limited presence off a list of front some analysts but their numbers to be some in-between. two to three hundred fighters most of the rebels are free syrian army a u.s. backed a rebel army which turkey also supports israel who are fighting who have been fighting since two thousand and thirteen when this area was besieged so it is worth knowing the history of this area as well since two thousand and thirteen when the besieged

event the area was besieged people and rebels develop tunnels that but to try and smuggle in goods as well as weapons that has been stopped since last year because the government has taken surrounding areas as well so it is it has been a tough few months and we've seen this relentless campaign which began last sunday where people have been saying that it is imminent that a and a ground incursion would occur and since last night since the united nations security council resolution people were afraid that whenever there is talk of a ceasefire or a peace deal the government tries to squeeze as much as possible before the implementation phase exam all right as some have intervened live from gaziantep in southern turkey thank you very much well that u.n. security council vote came after weeks of intense negotiations from the united nations is that diplomatic at it again space. for a third day diplomats work frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria about we 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 dawn 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 this so long and that is illusion that the wanted to make sure that it is not used as a pretext for any military action because we had some trouble so what in. government governments on that in the recent days any good in today some of the variability cause these negotiations were extremely hard getting a ceasefire across syria will be even harder can they get a stop to the bombardment in eastern guta there is an exemption in the resolution allowing continued military action against al qaida al nasra and eisel 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. before term baraka is here with me in the studio he's director. for conflict and humanitarian side is in the institute and is a professor at the university of york in the u.k. it's one thing isn't it to finally approve a resolution in new york what about the implementation of it on the ground in east asia and beyond of course i think the implementation is going to be very difficult and there is illusion has two main doubts the first has got to do with the timing when does it actually start to take effect from and the wording of it that russia agreed to simply say without delays now without delays is too broad and can be interpreted anywhere usually those resolutions will say from midnight four o'clock in the morning give a particular time for it to start to become an effective the second which i think is more problematic is that it excludes certain organizations including affiliates . and so on and that can be interpreted and will be i think interpreted by the

syrian government as an excuse for them to continue some kind of pushing on to the east to go to now is establish military strategy isn't it when you are facing the imposition of a cease fire that you try for as much military advantage on the ground before it comes into force what do you think the endgame is for the syrian military in terms of how it deals with and the four hundred thousand civilians who are there but i think the objective has really been set almost two years ago and started with hamm's then aleppo in july two thousand and sixteen and now we're seeing a lot of and the objectives very simple the they're trying to trap people in two enclaves with the fighters justify continuous bombing and then get them to the negotiation table as happened with a stand and elsewhere then the the negotiations that gets to for an agreement of

evacuation and irregular them into a different enclave now we started with many of those in place now we're down to. three around there are dead labor and go to and i think what will happen next is that they would push them further up towards that lead and there would be the area where there would be more broader settlement reached with the support of the church and the sad fact is that we'll pretty much certain that we're going to see a massive increase in civilian casualties it's is this has been the real sad story of the whole syria war over the last seven years and i don't think the syrian government for that effect the russians have particular concern over this issue because of the russians really wanted to stop the bombing they could they control their space so they could very easily ask us to stop the involvement full time barack i thank you very much indeed most welcome thank. now in just two hours from now south korea will hold the closing ceremony of the winter olympics having

several controversies around the shiz games including this one a former north korean general kim young child who's leading the delegation for the ceremony he's also due to hold meetings with top south korean officials well so had to temporarily take him off a blacklist to allow him to visit they accuse him of being behind two attacks in twenty ten that killed fifty south koreans well have been protests against his visit and our correspondent natasha getting has the latest from cancun. 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 ship 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. meanwhile the international olympic committee has up held its ban on russian athletes implemented because of widespread taping of the twenty four team such a games to fail today the results are in this year's olympics mean russian athletes

why be able to march under their flag at the closing ceremony the one hundred sixty eight athletes have been forced to compete as neutral athletes at the games i.o.c. president thomas bach says the failed steps were hugely disappointing and prevented the i.o.c. from even considering lifting the ban the i.o.c. executive orders to date the site first not to lift the suspension of the russian olympic committee for the closing ceremony of the olympic games yung chang two thousand. therefore no delegation of the russian olympic committee will have taken part in these olympic winter games not want to come here and out there including nigeria's president calls the plight of these missing schoolgirls a national disaster and he sends more soldiers to look for them.

out of the rain is coming back again we've seen some significant dam poles in the southern philippines recently but if you look at the brightness of the white top class you can see them across borneo and down to sumatra as well and that sort of figure in two days is not that unusual i've seen it in but one year so it's creeping up on the roof falling in singapore probably not quite a long but it's dry again in thailand it's clouding up in vietnam and cambodia it's quite warm and thirty five humid degrees you can see but that's the line of rain that's repeatable for next few days not exactly the same place but in similar sorts of areas if we jump south the equator get to the really wet bit of australia recently it's been queens and not so much the door so you go actually down towards brisbane and beyond afternoon shouts of others and they're going to do the same

thing again of the next day or so that might well not temperatures back a bit twenty one in the city but still thirty four in brisbane these could be very tellingly heavy showers not quite as warm further west but in the sunshine you've got adelaide in melbourne persib it cools not it's cooled down a bit now springs one thirty five now up to thirty eight but we were about forty not much many days ago if you look just down here the screen lots coming to new zealand again. from satellite technology to 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 new ones it's about creative thinkers shaping their continence future innovate africa at this time on

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they are returning to our top story the situation in syria al jazeera correspondent mohammed. reports from inside the. planes from the syrian regime in russia still flying in the skies targeting some locations in. the warplanes have already targeted chiffonier village. area the syrian regime has targeted these areas many times after the cease fire and the decision to open doors to allow assistance into eastern. corp's one of the main military factions in eastern greter have stressed their full and serious commitment to the cease fire agreement to pave the way for the urgent need to enter the area it seems that the russians on 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 illnesses or 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 right will target other cities or villages during the coming hours on. not the opposition says that there are two russian warplanes and a third belonging to the syrian regime flying in the skies of eastern greater. range are refugees invalidation living day to day six months on since the start of a brutal crackdown by the me a man military the un has condemned the atrocities calling them a textbook case of ethnic cleansing almost seven hundred thousand ranger have crossed the border into bangladesh since august we've tracked down some of those we met when the exodus began charlotte bellis reports. as use a big old was one of six hundred eighty eight thousand revenger if you g.'s who have streamed across a million mark bangladesh border fleeing what they call

a targeted campaign to wipe them else 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. 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 one 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 is 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 then sit a life 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. as 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 governments 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 robin joe 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 their hanjour 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. china's ruling party has proposed removing term limits for its presidents and vice presidents the communist party wants to change the constitution so that chinese leaders can serve more than two consecutive terms the amendment would allow president xi jinping to run for office again in twenty two two she has been president since twenty thirteen and would have set down in twenty twenty three

under the current constitution he was reelected to his second term last october. the parents of one hundred missing schoolgirls in nigeria have joined the bring back our girls movement it gained global prominence during the mass abduction of schoolgirls from chip in twenty fourteen back around five is a believed to take in the girls from this school in north eastern europe a state six days ago ahmed interest has more from the capital of. the movies died 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 intervals when more than two hundred and seventy schools got to school girls have been kidnapped by boko haram more than one hundred of them are still unaccounted for a group of activists have been pushing the nigerian government to rescue the chip

of gold 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 people who are hoping that before it's four years older than twelve chibok girls did but only to be walkin up on tuesday to realize that most girls were abducted and we're back to square one when many nigerians expected the government to beef up security i don't vulnerable places like schools especially boarding schools in the northeast of nigeria now in the case of cheese that clearly did not happen and many nigerians will be watching the government closely as well as security agencies to see whether or not these girls are rescued in the next few days or so. has been to show support in israel for the thousands of africans who are facing deportation crowds gathered in tel aviv to protest against israel's plans to deport the migrants and refugees in february these really

governments started handing out notices to twenty thousand african men saying they risk being jailed if they didn't leave by the start of april the migrants and refugees many of whom come from sudan and eritrea have been offered three and a half thousand dollars and a plane ticket to what's being described by the government as a safe destination in sub-saharan africa. because of its prime minister has promised to revive one of the region's biggest companies as a means of fighting use unemployment bought the mining firm is steeped in controversy because serbia says its owns it andrew symonds reports now for mature of it sir. show used to be one of the former yugoslavia is biggest companies mining plentiful minerals with good profits and thousands of jobs kosovo's war change that you don't have to look far to see damaged buildings and the conflict two decades

ago decimated this business now the few miners who remain a part of a dysfunctional company that's cut into these a kosovar albanian miles and we've recently been celebrating their country's tenth anniversary of independence not far away is the other half of trips run by the minority cause of all serbs they're more likely to listen to serbia's government than their senior management at the firm's headquarters on the south side of mitchell pizza leave. that to your need according to the law should be governed by one single executive management and they should be unified as we stand now neither us nor they can be developed it shouldn't be divided more than twenty two thousand people work for this company two decades ago before the war now fewer than two and a half thousand are on the payroll the management say that if the political problems with serbia could be worked out they could make this company the biggest

employer in kosovo once again. but the issue is the need for a major investment the technology for lead and zinc processing needs breathed into the twenty first century and that's only one area that needs attention elsewhere whole factories need replacing it was in twenty sixteen that cars of ours government nationalized to save it from bankruptcy now the prime minister says investment is on its way economy and investors find their way always to ward off the fact that this will not happen. yes yes it's already in a process will not take months matter of weeks to be ready for a partner but the company's management is skeptical the serbian government accused kosovo of theft when trip she was nationalized half of the workforce is cause of

all serb so even if the investment arrives the politics could destroy any hope of profits and jobs andrew simmons al-jazeera mich of its cause of the u.s. congress has released a classified memo two weeks after president trump blocked its publication the democratic party memo rebuts a republican memo alleging f.b.i. bias during its investigation into the president's links with russia the white house released the democratic memo sense some. flooding is expected to worsen in america's midwest and southern plains a state of emergency has been declared in kentucky and in parts of missouri people living along rivers streams and creeks in affected areas are being warned of rapid rises immortal levels. celebrities politicians and millions of fans are paying tribute to the celebrated bollywood actress sridevi who died suddenly at the age of fifty four she had appeared in more than one hundred films but it was her

unexpected performance in the single movie that would transform her into india's first female superstar lydia honed reports thank you she stepped into bollywood at a time when the industry was largely a male done my. true davey's performance in this eighty's blockbuster mr india turned heads and redefined the place of female actresses and bollywood for eva. film critics described her as a show stephen a mr india became a cult classic and suddenly three davies was filling sentiments the we. cut. the in egypt was. comic genius true the crowds could be

a new moon was going but it was his skill and view she is a dancer that truly captivated audiences. was a was a action that she started out as a child actress in southern india maybe black eyes. 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 of the leading women she quickly overtook him by all 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. yes you want to. forget it i have family says she suffered a heart attack on saturday while attending a wedding in dubai here 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 bernie cup poor but made a successful comeback in two thousand and twelve with the hit movie english vinglish. but many will feel she did use this catch to shoot. i. take a look at the top stories syrian government troops have launched a new ground and air offensive in the rebel held. 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 to syria a sum of binge of aid is following the story from gaziantep near the turkey syria border. government forces have been trying to get advance is trying to reach a level defenses in hamas the in darfur but in. homs damascus multiple advances to eastern and the attack rebels have been saying that they are putting up a distance but because this is being hit from several fronts it's not clear how long will they be able to hold up 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 v.t. eastern ghouta. a controversial high ranking general is leading north korea's delegation for the closing ceremony of the pure winter olympics kim young child has been accused of oldring an attack on a south korean naval ship which killed dozens of sailors in twenty ten have been

protests against his visit in the capital seoul. the international olympic committee has unanimously held its bond of russia a decision that will prevent russian athletes from mulching under the flag at the closing ceremony i.o.c. president thomas bach says two failed drug tests by russian athletes will hugely disappointing in prevented any consideration of lifting the ban it six months since a military crackdown began forcing hundreds of thousands of to flee to bangladesh almost seven hundred thousand of cross the border into bangladesh since the twenty fifth of august tributes are being paid to one of india's biggest female movie star . died of a heart attack at a wedding in dubai she was fifty four making her debut at the age of four she acted in more than one hundred films. often overshadowed to male. and those are

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