andris what goes up into the environment goes around the world. best the sights are pushed on drums that it's a very modern way to defy and we've made poisons the measure of progress. the domestic population has become organized enough and active enough to proceed with your pursuit and the ideas of good will kill people or more vulnerable circle of poison this time on al-jazeera. syrian government forces trying to push their way into rebel held. just hours after the un approves a cease fire. it demands any parties to cease hostilities without delay that means right now immediately.

her again on. life and also coming up. a controversial film a north korean general meets the south korean president ahead of the winter olympics closing ceremony. they fled violence in mere mark now six months on these range of refugees tell us there still no end in sight to their suffering. the . biggest movie star dies suddenly at the age of fifty full. syrian government troops have launched a new ground and air offensive on the rebel held of eastern just hours after the u.n. security council agreed to a cease fire pro-government video shows syrian forces moving towards the area on

the outskirts of damascus the area has been under heavy bombardment by the government and its allies including russia at least five hundred people were killed in the past week alone. well let's get a better idea of this area it encompasses the eastern suburbs of damascus rebel mortar fire can reach the center of the city so victory in eastern guta is a big government priority to rebel groups hostile to each other control different sections of the own clave along with several smaller groups government forces of try to enter by using the homes to damascus highway and also harass. all right this speaks live now to our correspondent. on the turkish side of the border with syria and so it was just hours after that intense session at the united

nations in new york and they agreed to a ceasefire and that's when government launched this new phase to its operation on . a small team there's nothing immediate about the cease fire as soon as it was announced they were syrians who expressed concerns about the language that is being used because the syrian government has been insisting that what it's fighting in eastern is what it calls terrorism it says it is fighting for a front which people. say is not the case people have been describing to us that the number of elements for fighters is very small between two hundred to three hundred fighters in a in an enclave which is home to four hundred thousand people in the last two i was we've seen the government step up its attacks from multiple fronts trying to enter the eastern route from all sides they are rebels who have been sending us updates about how they have been trying to hold their ground some say that they've been able to capture some syrian soldiers

a number of them have also been killed so it is a very very much an active front opposite of what it was supposed to be just a few hours ago and we heard from the united nations and we heard from saying that this cease fire should come into effect immediately and that we're looking at pictures being shown on syrian state t.v. and it looks as though the weaponry is incredibly heavy what sort of weaponry and they are encountering on the side of the rebels. but the rebels since two thousand have had some heavy weaponry to themselves as well there are some tanks there some machine guns that they've been using but it's more or less a lot of weaponry that rebels say that they have and also because it's been on board. since two thousand and twelve a besides a few smuggling routes into areas which are also under the government control now there haven't been much better and much of it than that have been gone in that have

been going into eastern route so this offensive according to rebels on the ground is a fight for survival they've been saying that they have nor their place to go and they've been citing the example of other places where rebels gave up and how they were defeated by government forces many of them were killed in the battle for eastern in that poll and many families were displaced and they don't see giving up their position as an option they say they will continue to fight as long as they can and they've been appealing to the international community to try and help for a cease fire on the government side we've been heading into the fourth brigade it's the tenth brigade it's the special forces including the tiger forces which are taking part in this operation on the rebel side there are multiple groups which are which have been very entrenched in eastern in the last five years their fortified their positions and they have repelled a number of government advances in the past has been but it is going to be difficult for them to stave off an attack which is continuing from multiple fronts and obviously in large numbers as most of the syrian government seems to be

surrounding the rebel enclave of the symbol to some avenge of aids. thanking. well the u.n. security council vote for days of intense that to get russia on board from the united nations has that diplomatic it's a change of pace. for diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria you've got an agreement with the russians now. today we're going to see if russia has a concert the russian ambassador conferred with his syrian counterpart whose government has continued without rest by the bombardment of eastern even as the negotiations dragged on 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 that 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 are you worrying. 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. 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 of the united nations and in other news our professors have failed to stop a controversial former north korean general from crossing into south korea to attend the closing ceremony of the pier on chang winter olympics kim young child has just held talks with the south korean president moon j in ahead of the ceremony so all had to temporarily take cho off a blacklist in order to allow him to visit they accuse him of being behind two attacks in twenty ten that killed fifty people. well we've been speaking to see

this the managing editor of korea exposé he says the korean talks of bookended this is a lympics have been just a stock let's clear this all reason there it committed to making sure that this limits does launch us and that we did gains but that it would actually be dialogue we north korea and we have seen this in the gestures it is not formed in trying to get north korea to come here offering to shoulder the cost of hosting this very large contingent and also having north koreans participate in the actual games by way of joining on into her an ice hockey team so it is true today you know china is a hard liner and there's a lot of the incoming here and the government use incurring or heavy political balls but it does not change the fact that you know also is also the person who is

in charge of the united front departments phoria that is that got them an organ responsible for managing the relations so it is the hand that look houses. and they're trying to really make the best of. well this is a scene live in the chuang where the closing ceremony for the winter olympics is now underway in attendance the north korean cheerleaders you may remember them who captivated the world over the past few weeks a real hit edition a high level delegation of officials from north korea is also attending as you just heard and also there is ivanka trunk the champ the daughter of president trump who is leading the u.s. delegation so that's a scene live in the pier in china at the moment. china's ruling party is considering the removal of term limits for the president and the vice president 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 be selected as leader again in twenty twenty three the party elected him as its head for a second term last october reading to refugees in bangladesh are living day to day six months on since the start of a brutal crackdown by the mia more military the un has condemned the atrocities calling them a textbook case of ethnic cleansing almost seven hundred thousand range of now cross the border into bangladesh since august we tracked down some of those we met when the exodus began charlotte bellus reports. as usual big old was one of six hundred eighty eight thousand revenge or if you g.'s who have streamed across the me and marburg latish border playing 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. again they kill my father killed my mother i feel scared i don't want to go back to me in ma 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 is here recovering from different weapons of war these two sisters say myanmar soldiers tied them to trees and rapes them their mother father and three siblings were locked inside their home which was then sister lives not much has changed since we first met the teenage girls in january they care and crucible long camp got them you know carbs although

bright and colorful the girls say they are main cloaked in darkness. 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 to 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 asked the world to provide justice for all. 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 live with scars on their bodies and in their minds charlotte bellus al-jazeera. christian leaders in israel have closed the church built at the site of jesus's burial to protest against new tax lands the church of the holy circle sepultura in occupied east jerusalem is a major pilgrimage site for christians jerusalem jersey to say a proposed tax on church property is proud of a systematic campaign by the israeli government against christians christians believe jesus was crucified buried and resurrected at the site. where the check is in that firm will look at how the standoff between serbia and kosovo is holding

back a once mighty mining company. hello his note quite a lot this winter in japan in particular where i'm pretty sure records being broken the is not as cold now but the wind directions the same so snow showers are still being born and formed and blown across but they're not in abundance as you can see temperature wise we see temperatures rising if you look at the korean peninsula nine in seoul red to fourteen in beijing emits a rapid rise in temperature even the cold air is minus five five inventive allstar minus seven back in mongolia so the coldest to ravish is not migrating although to be honest surprise minus three in and up to zero is still pretty cold you can see there's the snow there not for any longer in holland shoot tokyo's eleven degrees

reflects a slow warming trend as you might expect as we slowly approach spring now is a while away yet it feels quite warm the rest of china as well shanghai is thirteen hong kong is where it should be at twenty one but once more we start to feed most you're in so having had rain about three or four days ago it's starting to form again right in the middle of china with that on shore breeze bringing up the south china sea moisture which is generating its own showers anyway anywhere from the central southern philippines down through borneo to sumatra have been some quite big showers and they're coming back again. i would have. to say he was detained by the egyptian authorities he remains behind bars without a trial al-jazeera world investigates his case and media repression.

journalism is not a crime this time on al-jazeera. of the top stories here it out there syrian government troops have launched a new ground offensive the rebel held on. after the u.n. security council agreed to a cease fire. a controversial north korean general has met the south korean president. ahead of the p.r. china lympics closing ceremony kim the young is leading the north korean delegation

souls accused of overnighting two attacks in twenty ten that killed fifty people. refugee sheltering in bangladesh have told their they feel there is no end to their suffering it's six months since hundreds of thousands escaped from a military crackdown in rakhine state. a major u.s. companies filing legal action against djibouti after the east african nation seize control of a container terminal durrell a port is located on the important. street that's between djibouti and yemen and it gives access to shipping lanes linking. europe asia and africa is one of several calls in the region run by dubai based d.p. world others are controlled by the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen of which the u.a.e. is a member of the dispute between the u.a.e. and djibouti has sparked regional concern as almost all the imports destined for

neighboring ethiopia move through dora lay is also used to transfer aid into yemen mohammed involved reports. the contract signed in two thousand and six for d.p. world to operate the drala container terminal in the port of djibouti was meant to last for thirty years but in two thousand and fourteen djibouti launched a lawsuit against d.p. world accusing it of bribing a former port director to secure favorable terms then on thursday the government terminated the contract. for the west apprised of the contract is so unfair and detrimental to our rights and our national sovereignty and that so many years after signing it when we asked about the need to enlarge the ports and build new ones we were told we had no right to do that the bike is infuriated and has described the move as oppressive and cynical and as an illegal seizure designed to force the dubai ports world to renegotiate the terms of the concession d.p.

world is seeking international arbitration djibouti says the season is finally perfectly comfortable to upright its like. this is a bit disappointed to us. there to ten percent. who we bring. in with that we're ready to sell it so why don't they don't sell cars but behind the dispute there was fierce international competition to control the red sea the port of djibouti is considered one of the most coveted pieces of real estate in the horn of africa strategically located on the state of baghdad meant that the shipping lanes link the indian ocean to the red sea channeling more than half a cargo between europe and asia djibouti is also close to regional conflict zones including yemen somalia and sudan as well as the swiss canal because of its strategically important position the united states chose duty to set up its first permanent military base in africa more than

a dozen drone flights are operated daily from camplin one year as well as training and planning for security operations across the region. france also has a military base in djibouti and china set up its first major military base overseas there japan italy spain saudi arabia station troops there as well ironically the country more dependent for its economic survival and djibouti has no military presence landlocked a few open receives eighty percent of its imports from the port china is building an additional port for djibouti and it has recently built a much needed railway line for the transportation of passengers and goods between ethiopia and djibouti the decades long border dispute between djibouti and there it's really made ethiopia's interest in closer ties with judy more important reports suggest that relations between djibouti and the united arab emirates soured after the u.a.e. started military cooperation with eritrea. it's not clear hold replace the united

arab emirates in djibouti with a sudden turn nation of the d.p. world contact one hundred five. a celebrity's politicians are millions of fans are paying tribute to celebrated bollywood actress three davey who's died suddenly at the age of fifty four she appeared in more than one hundred films and several indian languages but it was her performance in one of them that would transform her into india's first female superstar but on a whole new ripple thank you she stepped into bollywood at a time when the industry was largely a male done my. true davies performance in this eighties 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. can't touch you. comic genius through the crowds would be a new moon was going on but it was his skill and view she is a dancer that truly captivated audiences. was a god she started out as a child actress in southern india. and went on to appear in more than a hundred films mean 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 overtook him my old costars to become the box office draw. it paved the way for

today's bollywood stars to seamlessly make the moves from bollywood to. hollywood's themselves you want to. forget. the 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 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 was cut too short. for i listening to and of record now he's a journalist and

a film critic could how would you sum up the appeal of sridevi. well you know subtly i'm not sure i could hear the fog very clearly but i think i heard him mention that she's a bollywood star and i think i must point out a very important aspect of sri these could be a that she was not only a body with stuff she pawned standard language industries in this country she was successful not only in bollywood which is india's in the film industry she acted in some in the lagu which are along with hindi in does not just the industry she also acted in my management gotta put an act just to be set stance on any stock to be successful in. industries in which films are made in five different languages is an amazing achievement and considering that you know film industries across the world out the priyanka india film industry the probably worse than many and want

a woman to back all of that and make a success of less than not just in bollywood but across indian film industries and to have a copy of all almost what the others gave beyond but he absolutely was it the fact then that she was able to transcend language and ethnic divisions in india was that what propelled to to see to stardom. i guess we made greta the manzanar female stars then i mean she was an excellent actress she was beautiful and she was a brilliant donta she was very good that heavily emotional film but she was also very good and very well remembered for how comedy also she was she is or was originally from southern india and was comfortable in those languages and initially when she broke into the indie film industry body good there was. a hub but after a while she became so popular that even that was not necessary and you know it was just to her mean things i mean clinton and the fact that she was she was such an

amazing she was such a brilliant package the looks the acting the dancing all of that work together you need and don't really find such a combination among men or women anywhere in the woods dave thank you very much and vatican. kosovo's prime minister is promising to revive one of the region's largest companies to help fight us unemployment his plan is far from straightforward because neighboring service says it as the mining company. anderson is ripples from attributes. used to be one of the former yugoslavia is biggest companies mining plentiful minerals with good profits and thousands of jobs because of those war changed 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 new troops according to the law should be governed by one single executive management and 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 files and 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 oz government nationalized to save it from bankruptcy now the prime minister says investment is on its way economy and investors find their ways 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 micha it's called supply the name of the

airport in macedonia as capital is being changed as a goodwill gesture towards neighboring greece the airport named in honor of alexander the great is now scope here greece accuses method dania of appropriating symbols and figureheads considered to be part of greek culture both countries are working on resolving a twenty five year dispute including the name macedonia itself. let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera dow syrian government troops of launching new ground and air offensive in the rebel held on klav of eastern guter just hours after the u.n. security council agreed to demand a cease fire pro-government video shows syrian forces moving towards the area on the outskirts of damascus the areas being under heavy bombardment by the government

and its allies including russia at least five hundred people have been killed in the past week alone protests as a fail to stop a controversial form a north korean general from crossing into south korea to attend the closing ceremony of the pyongyang winter olympics kim yong troll held talks with south korean president moon j in ahead of the ceremony which is now underway seoul accuses him of being behind the attacks in twenty ten that killed fifty people china's ruling party is considering the removal of term limits for the president and vice president the amendment would allow president xi jinping to be selected as leader again in twenty twenty three the party elected him as its head for a second term last october christian leaders in israel have closed the church built at the site of jesus's burial to protest against new tax plans the church of the holy several in occupied east jerusalem is

a major pilgrimage site for christians to slim church leaders say a proposed tax on church property is part of a systematic campaign by the israeli government against christians christians believe jesus was crucified buried and resurrected at the site. the film a co-leader of the syrian kurdish democratic union party of the p y d has been arrested in prague reportedly at the behest of turkey sallies muslims was added to turkey's most wanted terrorist list earlier this month ankara considers the people id and the wife to be terrorist groups with ties to take his banned kurdistan workers party turkish forces began a campaign against wife e.g. in syria's northern african region last month. tributes are being paid to one of india's biggest female movie stars sridevi died of a heart attack at a wedding in dubai she was fifty four making head debut it fully is old yet to more

than one hundred films rodger up to date inside stories next. nigeria's missing schoolgirls dozens more are abducted by boko haram the government says it's a national disaster but what's it doing to fend off the stretch and reduce public anger this is inside story. hello and welcome.