this is zero. and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour on live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth piron i'm coming up in the next sixty minutes syrian government forces try to push their way into rebel held. this al is after the u.n.

approves a cease fire. and 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 myanmar military crackdown against the rich and six months on her suffering continues al-jazeera revisit some of those who survived. as the one to olympics comes to an end in south korea a north korean delegation there says it's ready to hold talks with the u.s. over its nuclear program. there was no russian flag at that closing ceremony because the two failed drug tests but for russia's athletes their own picks and on a golden note in the men's ice hockey final will have little sports news from the twenty eight team games. and one of india's biggest movie stars three baby died at the age of fifty four.

syrian government troops have launched a new ground and air offensive in the rebel held on plate of eastern buthe does alice 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 the mass. because it's been on the heavy bombardment by the government and its allies including russia at least five hundred people have been killed just in the past week or let's get a better idea of the area we're talking about eastern guta and compas is the eastern suburbs of damascus and rebel mortar fire from eastern do they can reach the center of damascus a victory there is a big government priority to rebel groups hostile to each other control different sections of the enclave along with several smaller groups where government forces have tried to enter by using the homs to damascus highway and also at. let's go

straight to our correspondent osama bin job they've now he's joining us live from the turkish city of near the border with syria and osama what is the latest you're hearing about this ground offensive into eastern. but clashes have continued elizabeth since this morning between rebel fighters and groups which have been trying to set around and play from multiple fronts they've been trying to coming trying to come in from various sides but rebels have been saying that their fighters have been able to hold off this advance and the they have not allowed government forces to come in it is worth noting that morsy off the most effective parts of the syrian government's military are being used in this offensive that is the fourth brigade the tenth brigade special forces and the tiger brigades and there are at least five major groups of rebel fighters which operate in eastern including. a

formerly linked group which is being used as a pretext to attack eastern ghouta but people have been saying that that number of fighters belonging to this particular group which is formally a list for front pages linked to al qaida are very small there are only two hundred to three hundred fighters and there have been talks between rebel groups of trying to evacuate these five because because of them the attacks are continuing and it gives the syrian government the justification that if we using attack one of these groups is addition this language is one of the strongest groups and they say they have been able to hold their ground. do not have not yet at the welcome the security council's decision regarding a cease fire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted of the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in eastern guta as usual we didn't find any commitment by the syrian regime and its russian allies eastern ghouta northwest in ghouta southern wist and almost every front and

go to has been stalled by the regime on sunday in order to achieve some advance but they haven't succeeded. so jaish al islam saying that they're welcoming the ceasefire but do we have any idea when it will actually be implemented. and that is the question that everybody seems to be asking has the syrian government committed to this cease fire will they allow united nations aid to come in because the caveat in this resolution passed by the united nations security council it says that the operation against isis groups that the u.n. recognizes the terrorist groups will continue and the syrian government has been from the very onset insisting that it is fighting a lister front in eastern guta nobody knows when this fighting will stop when will there be car doors that will be called out so aid can actually move in we've been speaking to people at the united nations who say that they are ready their houses

therefore they can they can at the drop of a hot move these convoys in but that is going to be happening only when the syrian government allows them and people on the ground inside eastern with aid workers have been saying that it is not just the united nations and the syrian foreign minister of it needs to prove this it's the intelligence services which needs to approve the passage of these convoys this aid who have been stopping this aid from . the previous attempts when the united nations tried to provide aid and help the people of the season nearly four hundred thousand of them since two thousand and thirteen asama thank you very much for that for now that is a psalm of the very latest joining us live from gaza content thank you. while the un security council vote followed days of tough negotiations to get russia on board from the united nations on diplomatic editor james bates reports. for a third day diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria about sort of you 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 puter 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 the came 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 what ng government comments 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. let's move on to other news now and the south korean government says north korea is open to talks with the united states that is after the president met with the controversial former north korean general kim young and moon held talks ahead of the closing ceremony and went in the next cell had to temporarily take off a blacklist to allow the visit they accuse him of being behind two attacks in two thousand and ten that killed fifty people a correspondent natasha going to name is joining us for more on this she is live in cancun this is not the first time natasha that there have been rumors of talks between the north. and the u.s. what happened previously. yes this is the second time the united states has heard that the north koreans were interested interested in dialogue during the weekend of the opening ceremony u.s.

vice president mike pence was prepared to have a secret meeting with the north korean delegation here at that time the delegation was led by kim jong sister kim it was a historic arrival here in south korea for her it was the first time a member of the ruling kim family had stepped foot on south korean soil since the war so the meeting was arranged by the south koreans they were the intermediary it was supposed to take place at the presidential blue house in seoul only the north koreans and the americans would attend two hours before that meeting the north koreans backed out ostensibly they might have been upset because earlier that week vice president pence had talked about another round the strongest round yet of sanctions coming to north korea in an attempt to get it to denuclearize and also met with north korean defectors so going into the closing ceremony white house was

saying that there will be no talking with north korea and just earlier today elizabeth the north koreans responded to the largest package of sanctions that the u.s. is imposing on it by saying that the u.s. is trying to undermine an improvement of relations between north korea and south korea and that is. the united states is bringing the threat of war to the closing ceremony of the delegation is here through tuesday the north korean delegation american delegation led by trump president trump's daughter and senior advisor i believe leaves prior to that so we'll have to see if it's going to happen now or later or at all and get natasha even what the u.s. pos and this new set of sanctions on saturday that saying through the south korean government that they will hold talks with the u.s. what does this mean. i think that

a lot of analysts believe that what we've seen in the last several weeks and really since the beginning of the year when the north korean leader rather agreed to participate in the olympics is that north korea is feeling the heat of the sanctions and is looking for a way to dial down tensions after a pretty hostile twenty seventeen that's the sort of pessimistic side of things a lot of people think that north korea has waged this charm offensive during the olympics in attempt to somehow ease up on the sanctions continue to build its nuclear program and its economy president of south korea on the other hand has been very bullish about the process saying that he believes this is part of a reboot of korean relations but he does stress that dialogue between north korea and the united states is key for that kind of improvement in relations it will be

interesting to see elizabeth if president moon will take advantage of kim jong invite to visit at the earliest possible time it's a very tricky geo political situation for him and domestically there is obviously a lot of south koreans who aren't happy about that but if president does go to north korea for intercourse talks it would be the first time that kim jong un has met with the president of south korea since he took office seven years ago right natasha thank you very much for that for now that is a topic and i am joining us live thank you. and we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including travel to johannesburg local markets it's a fine line between traditional cures and protecting endangered animals china's ruling communist party sets the stage for paying to stay in power indefinitely.

now the hells are often made of plastic sheets and much of their food comes from aid agencies jobs are few and there's barely anything to fill their days this is the reality facing the hindu refugees sheltering in bandra there six months ago on the twenty fifth of august reports emerged of one hundred muslims escaping an army crackdown that was launched in retaliation for a string of attacks by a hinge of fighters by the end of the day the number of newly arrived refugees in bangladesh reached about three thousand within a month the number had spiraled to half a million at past six hundred thousand by october swelled by over who had initially opted to stay in the state where fighting was going on but were then forced out by january of this year almost seven hundred thousand one hundred were living in squalid makeshift camps photographic evidence of mass graves emerged that rights

group said pointed to a genocide and then just two days ago human rights watch produced satellite imagery that it said showed. at least fifty five of the more than three hundred sixty one hundred villages attacked by myanmar's forces. track down some of the revenge of we first met when the exodus began in charlotte dallas has their stories. six months ago as you said identified as a nine year old. refugee one of six hundred eighty eight thousand who streamed across bangladesh border. fleeing what they call a targeted campaign to wipe them out we first met her in december she'd been shot three times in the leg and armpit by a soldier at close range. she says 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 my hour 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 in one 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. 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 their wounds have healed but their nerves are frayed they fidget constantly they say they need help but they are too proud to big . pride motivates many to carry on muhammad or haasan is eighteen years old he's in studio on his feet he says he was shot three times by soldiers twice in the back once in the chest he lived by playing date. when i came here i became paralyzed couldn't walk move couldn't even move my hands after taking medicine i can now move and walk but still very much in pain. his wounds have healed well since we met him in october at this point he knew two of his brothers had been shot and killed he has since learned eighteen family members died in the correct. muhammad rule and others are considering their future in november

abdul fi showed us his house right across the border the bangladesh government's agreed to repatriate the revenger but six months on they refused to return. they want a guarantee of safety compensation for the destroyed villages and citizenship something they've been denied for thirty five years. 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 for their 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 dallas al-jazeera now china's ruling party is considering removing term limits for the president and vice president the communist party wants to change the constitution so that leaders can serve more than two consecutive terms the amendment would allow president xi jinping to be selected as leader again in two thousand and twenty three the party elected him as its head for a second term last october palin has more from hong kong. well there was much speculation he would be angling to stay beyond the next five years back in october when he was addressing the chinese people's congress he laid out a vision of thirty years and a very ambitious vision of china's development both socially infrastructure advice and financially now this has to has to go through a parliament but it's inconceivable that this will be blocked in any way as parliament this tactic politicians that are loyal to the ruling establishment

paying well now if this goes ahead be china's most powerful modern day leader as he's also the leader of the military he will become a cult of personality many fear much like mao tse-tung was during his thirty tenure thirty year tenure which ended in one thousand nine hundred seventy six now there's also concern that under his rule china will see many of their human rights or many of their rights squeezed even more under his tenure so far we have seen china turn into more of a surveillance state descend very quickly crushed it's also of great concern to the people of hong kong as unders easing ping's rule we've seen the biggest blows to hong kong's democracy movement people here are now concerned about how he will or whether he will continue to treat hong kong as a special in ministry to a region separate from the rest of china. well let's get more on this now we're

joined by george magnus associate at the university's china center and research associate at the school of oriental and african studies in london he's joining us via skype from london mr magnus it's a real pleasure to have you with us on al-jazeera so why do you think that we are seeing this proposal now given you know the two term limit was introduced after maliki don't steps to ensure china what it succumbed to authoritarianism it was so why is the communist party considering that smell. yeah well i think as your correspondent said in the package just now from hong kong. it had been expected and certain speculated last october at which time of the nineteenth party congress in beijing that president's engineering might want to stay on for longer than ten years which is that the two five year terms and in fact the surprise not surprise i think the the the breaking of norms actually in china was

highlighted by the fact that we did not find out last october as we would have expected to who might be next in line to succeed presidency in twenty twenty two so in a way the writing has been on the war i think it it's come as a bit of a surprise because the meeting where all of this was decided was held in sort of meet january and so it's been kind of under wraps a little bit for until now and this is a big week of meetings in beijing by the way. for the national people's congress and which is the annual legislative session and another meetings as well so there's some this wasn't quite we didn't expect this to come out over the weekend but they go. it's a corporation basically sitting pigs. you know the the way he's kind of becoming baited really as a call leader and and as an integral and

a very powerful man in china and what does that consolidation of power that writing on the one as you say mean for not just the country but also for the opposition to she in china are they more likely to say come out in the open if there's no end in sight for this presidency. well that's a good question i mean the the reason that these two five year term limits were introduced to mouse death. i mean was the separately to him proof the governance system in china so that there would be orderly succession and people would know that you know how the succession would take place and when. you know the political system would would kind of move into action to do that so what's happened now is a bit of a retrograde step back to the way things used to be before this rule was

introduced. which basically means that you know there isn't really an institutionalized wired in which succession can be assured according to a timetable so this i mean president's vision thing unquestionably has opponents and i'm just not very obvious at the moment and are certainly lying low in the presence of obviously very powerful thorax area government with the anticorruption campaign in full swing. but whoever they are and wherever they are the factions within the party that are out of she do not approve of order or do not necessarily like the idea of cision being potentially being president life will be very interested i think to think about what the implications now will be. and i think it will introduce a degree of factional instability in the future a very interesting mr magnus we thank you very much for your time and your insights

on this that is george magnus joining us live from london thank you. now celebrities politicians and millions of fans are paying tribute to celebrated indian actress three there who died suddenly at the age of fifty four she first rose to the top and multiple self indian language films and then went on to conquer bollywood she became one of the country's biggest superstars off to her performance in a bollywood classic of the nineteen eighties mariana holland has more thank you she stepped into bollywood at a time when the industry was largely a my you my. true davey's performance in this eighty's blockbuster mr india turned heads and redefined the place of female actresses and bollywood for river. film critics described her as a show stephen a mr india became

a cult classic and suddenly sridevi was filling sentiments the we. can't. keep. comic genius through the crowd pleasing ai it was his skill and beauty as a dancer that truly captivated audiences who was who not only was she started out as a child actress in southern india maybe black eyed. 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 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 see. yes you want to. be getting. 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 didn't do as prime minister narendra modi many in india was shocked at his sudden death there are space for the surf and should never do richard rose i didn't at that particular time for females to come to that level was a little difficult was the first news flash on my for me everybody at my home was very sad. she stopped acting after him marriage to film producer bernie cup poor but made a successful comeback in two thousand and twelve with a hit movie english vinglish.

but many will feel the true division i was packed to shoot. it is time for the weather now and finally the rain is easing in the us rob thought leaving some legacy yes it's no surprise that because it's rain we're talking about the legacy is widespread flooding in some states not in all states for example if you watch this this line of cloud here it's been pulsing up and down the same line for about the last week maybe two weeks but specifically the last few days has been running up some texas through arkansas or kentucky this for example is can talk you know i have got to tell you how much rain has fallen see the result states been declared a state of emergency there's a potential flooding in arkansas where this lake is fairly came up in missouri to this largely it's where creeks rivers actually overflowed in some cases just simply

the amount of rain now it hasn't quite finished but it has moved away for the. time being so far jump away from the videos and show you what's happening and i got a frontal system take you to wait on the front itself to get the additional problem where to place all storms this tornado for example on the kentucky tennessee border did some damage to one farm stand another not been widespread but because of front you do tend to get these things because the front are not moving very far it might pass back again as well but it looks like the time being the rain's going to georgia but look at this little hint down in texas we go to twenty four hours or it might just come back up again and rain temporarily still in kentucky this very much rob still ahead the news hour nigeria's president calls the plight of missing schoolgirls a national disaster and. to search for them. plus why jerusalem stretch of the holy sepulcher has shut down and what hear from the golden girl of

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delegation cells accused him of organizing two attacks in two thousand and ten that killed fifty people and one hundred refugees sheltering and told that they feel there is no end to their suffering it is six months since hundreds of thousands of from a military crackdown. state. let's get more on our top story now on syria and al jazeera correspondent mohamed al jazeera reports from inside that. russian and syrian government warplanes have been stopped targeting the residential areas of eastern we can hear they're flying over us to target the different districts and towns people stuck here are very scared the syrian regime forces have attacked eastern due to from several different fronts with a bit dancing it's control of parts of the area the opposition says fighting is on

the. owing in more than twenty syrian regime forces have been killed while another group of them has been captured the fighting is happening even after the un security council's decision to demand a cease fire that would have led aid and assistance to reach the people of eastern . well let's get more on this now we're joined by a madman bashar al jazeera senior political analyst joining us live from london my van. good to have you with us thank you for your time firstly you know we were waiting for the cease fire agreement now for it to be implemented and given the exemptions will the syrian government actually stop that spun bottom and well you know the syrian government and its russian backer have something else in mind completely different what they really are intending to do here is to take control. because in the latest. strategic game if you will that the turks and the iranians and the americans and the russians are playing

everyone is trying to gain their own area of influence contiguous floors and the i said the regime at this point in time backed by russia will not tolerate having opposition anywhere within their area of influence and hence regardless of all the talk of the you arm the syrian regime i think intends to continue its own slot against the syrian people against the syrian opposition against the armed groups because it must as it feels take control of all of that area surrounding damascus all the way up to aleppo and given their world iran and what we've seen not just in the last week but you know during the many years of the siege on eastern ghouta isn't the rebels defeat certain and if so should they not surrender to save further lives. yes i guess the question could be asked that

way and it could be asked the opposite way is it really worth the price of hundreds of thousands of syrian deaths millions of injured and millions more of displaced and refugees just for bashar al assad to stay in power is it worth it is this whole seven six year war and this backing by russia the last three years and the backing by iran the last seven years and this continuous massacre of the syrian people the continuous war against the syrian people for seven years worth it just for bashar al assad stays in power as a dictator or of course we can ask the question should the syrian people continue to resist the dictatorship that repression and the oppression of the assad regime and its backers in the run and moscow i guess it's up to our viewers around the world to decide which is which but in the meanwhile i think it is unprecedented of

the fact that the syrian regime with all its prowess with all its military might backed with the most you know committed regional power iran and the most committed global power russia. for now three years slash seven years is under a bow to defeat those syrian fighters in various parts of syria who are fighting for a different future in syria so the incompetence. slash bullying or the of the assad regime backed by iran russia is yet to be able to defeat the senior position so i am all over how much the syrian opposition is capable of withstanding the repression and the oppression of them are immense and of course the heavy cost of human life so while i would love you know predicted long time ago

they would have been defeated well guess what they continue to resist they have nowhere else to go. thank you very much for your time as always that is our senior political analyst joining us live from london thank you. now three days of airstrikes have pounded a rebel held port and west in yemen displacing thousands already in need of aid dozens of hooty fighters have reportedly been killed by the saudi led coalition attacks on her data and the as time reports. one of the saudi led air strikes spared little here who data is the strategically important port city in western yemen saudi warplanes have repeatedly targeted surrounding neighborhood since thursday reportedly killing dozens of who the fighters and civilians before the start of the civil war nearly three years ago today the port handled around seventy percent of yemen's imports including critically needed food and humanitarian supplies since then it's become one of the most complex front lines controlled by

who the rebels it is either being bombed or blockaded by the saudi coalition but in recent months the us government which backs the saudi led bombing campaign against the iranian backed who these has sent cranes to the data to replace those destroyed in airstrikes all part of efforts to increase the amount of aid into yemen but help is only trickling in while yemenis suffer what the united nations described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis at this camp for the internally displaced on the outskirts of who data few have received any kind of help. and i have four kids and i don't know what to do to feed them i have nothing and can do nothing we don't have furniture we don't have beds would not have blankets we have nothing the u.n. says nearly all of yemen's twenty five million people need some form of humanitarian assistance with close to half of the population in acute need of support.

the numbers of displaced people are increasing day by day here and who dated there are more than twenty one thousand displaced we urge the government and politicians and aid organizations to do more to help displaced people who are living in misery their numbers are increasing and the aid doesn't reach them quickly enough there is a severe shortage of food and the prices of goods here are very high since the war began more than ten thousand people have been killed and yemen's economy crippled with the fighting showing little sign of slowing. the military crisis is only getting worse. well major u.s. ports company is filing legal action against the african nation seized control of a container terminal. on the importance of straight between. and access to shipping lanes linking europe asia and africa as one of several ports in the. world controlled by the.

the dispute between the u.a.e. and regional. imports destine from neighboring ethiopia moved. it's also used to transfer aid and to yemen. the contract signed in two thousand and six for d.p. world to operate the container terminal in the port of g. was meant to last for thirty years but in two thousand and fourteen launched against d.p. world accusing it of bribing a former port director to secure favorable terms then on thursday the government terminated the contract. surprised 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. infuriated in the house described the move.

and. designed to force the dubai ports world to renegotiate the terms of the concession. international arbitration he says the season is final. it's all right this is a business this is the politics. in which we were ready to. go. 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 babel 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 camp limone 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 on 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 the opium and djibouti the decades long border dispute between djibouti and there is really a 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 the sudden turn nation of the d.p. world contact one hundred five or does it. christian leaders in israel have closed the church building the site where jesus is burial is said to have taken place to protest against a new tax the church of the holy several occupied east jerusalem as a significant site for christians they believe jesus was crucified and buried there before resurrecting reports from outside the church. well it's sunday and perhaps the most important christian site in the entire world and the man who holds the key to the church of the holy sepulcher has been here in front of what is a locked door and the reason for that closure which the patriarchates involved the catholic greek and armenian patriarchates who run this church they say this is an

unprecedented measure to try to combat what they say is distance systemic discrimination against christians in the holy land both through tax demands which have been made by jewish names municipality and by a proposed piece of legislation which they say would allow the israeli government to appropriate their property this is that about the and then present then did that back against christians in their holy land. here levi on the. most basic. and further right. that they only get. off relations to be. heard. so in the square outside we have large groups of disappointed tourists many of whom travel a long way to visit the church of the early several for the reason that we've got to this point well essentially there are two of them the first is the jerusalem's municipality is trying to redefine church property saying that that which is used specifically by the church is for press bill which is being promoted which seeks to

potentially according to the patriarchates anyway appropriate church land the israeli government's perspective on this is that the church has been selling some of that property and that the people who own apartments and houses on that on that land now don't know who owns it and that is an unsustainable situation the church as far as it's concerned says that this is discriminatory racist even evokes the appropriation of jewish land in europe during the dark days of the last century they say that this is an attack on christians here in the holy land. israelis have demonstrated their support for thousands of africans who are facing deportation the rally in tel aviv follows one unknown to us is being sent to twenty thousand mostly sudanese and eritrean men have been told they risk jail if they don't start to leave by april they've been offered three thousand dollars and a plane ticket the israeli government says they'll be flown to a safe place in subsaharan africa. now the parents of more than 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 chibok in two thousand and fourteen the boko haram fighters are believed to have taken the girls from their school in your bay state six days ago the us has more from the capital abuja. the mood is that 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 in trouble when more than two hundred and seventy schemes go to school girls have been kidnapped by boko haram more than one hundred of them are still unaccounted for group of activists who've been pushing but i did in 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 world. before it's four years one hundred and twelve people go to but only to be walking up on 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. now traditional medicine plays an important part in many african cultures that in south africa some animal conservationists say endangered and threatened species such as leopards are being used to make it despite regulations on trade dead animals used by hay this assault openly in local markets tanya page

reports from to have. these traders are suspicious of strangers but not so afraid that they'll stop what they're doing any day of the week they were threatened and endangered species on display but that's we showed our video to conservationists. stiffle. and we didn't that looks like i wish that was the trade in in leopard's is supposed to be highly regulated the convention on the international trade in endangered species have leopards near the top of their list trade in big cat parts is permitted but only in exceptional circumstances it's because it's a cultural issue that they want. the traders sell to healers who use it for muti or traditional medicine which plays an important role in many african cultures and is widely practiced conservationists have been warning for years about the illegal

trade in animal pots yet two of johannesburg's big muti markets we found evidence of threatened species at both and there are several other markets like that around the country the government says it's trying to strike a balance between education and enforcement the challenge is what we saw. in the department itself we have plus minus. i would say fifty inspectors. to so many. in total we have for the country we have two thousand eight hundred and something inspect us traditional healers communicate with and sisters to diagnose and treat patients many africans use it in conjunction with western medicine. for an example and if you hit it in order for me to hear that hated of quarter kids. the nose of her. it's very powerful in the mind and it has

a very very. traditional healers say it and says does demand a certain animal endangered or not they must obey but in helping their patients some species being hurt for now it seems that in a country with so many challenges stopping the illegal trade is not a priority for the south african government tanya page al-jazeera johannesburg. we have the sports news to the head. to head. march on al-jazeera. with potential challengers out of the way egypt's president. is poised for a second time in. a series of stories that highlight the human triumph against the

odds as president putin dominates the russian political scene his reelection becomes more apparent. with media trends changing listening post analyzes how the news is being covered. and as more people around the world struggle to find clean drinking leaders and researchers gather in brazil to address a critical issue march on al jazeera. on counting the cost how corrupt is your country transparency international has the latest global ranking. makes history by launching a crypto currency south africa plug a hole in its finances faces a water shortage counting the cost at this time. we

. believe. it's time for sports now here's joe elizabeth thank you very much the president of the international olympic committee has hinted that russia's suspension from the olympic family could be lifted soon that despite two russian athletes testing positive for drugs at the winter olympics russia's competitors had hoped that they would be allowed to mulch with their country's flag at the closing ceremony. but the i.o.c. executive committee declined because of those failed tests now although president thomas barr did suggest that russia wouldn't be out in the cold for much longer. to order these from russia fade this year don't try. this was

hugely disappointing. in addition to other considerations related to the i.o.c. from even considering lifting the suspension for the closing serve. the suspension of the r.c. response either we believe it was the freeze or else you need your face you as prefer there are no if it will be violations by members of the over. what despite the disappointment of not being able to raise their flag russia's olympics ended on a golden night in the men's ice hockey decider as they be to beat germany in a dramatic final the olympic athletes from russia came back from a goal down to equalise three three with fifty six seconds left in regulation time forcing the game into overtime carol kappas off then school the sudden death goal to secure a first gold in men's hockey for

a russian team since one thousand nine hundred ninety two although they could be more trouble for russia's delegation as the victorious hockey team sang the national anthem over the top of the olympic an anthem cheering the medal ceremony the russian anthem was also banned along with the flag. germany did win the whole man bobsled their fourteenth gold of these olympics and it was a second gold medal for pilot francesco friedrich who also won the two management he's just the second man in thirty years to win both disciplines in the same games it was a tie for a silver between the second german sled and south korea. curling has experienced a huge boost in popularity in south korea during these games and that largely thanks to their women's team dubbed the garlic go as they come from a garlic growing region they grabbed a silver on sunday losing in the women's final to sweden eight to three this week winning their third impact title. and in the final event of

the olympics in her final race norway's cross country skiing star merit further added to her legacy she won the fifteenth medal of her career and fifty of these games alone in the thirty kilometer mass start the thirty seven year old had already become the most decorated winter olympian of all time in pyung chang and with that norway confirmed their place at the top of the final medal table thirty nine medals is a record for any nation at a winter games two more than the united states won in vancouver eight years ago they finished with fourteen goals the same as germany who were in second place both match the best ever gold medal hole set by canada in twenty ten canada the united states and the netherlands round out the top five with host south korea finishing seventh. now double and gold medalist

a celeb carried the flag for the czech republic at the closing ceremony the twenty two year old grabbed an unprecedented double when she won thirteen super g. and snowboarding parallel giant slalom it's the first time an athlete has won gold in skiing and snowboarding in a lympics and she shared the secret to her success. i'm having fun and that allows me to do what i love without pressure because. my biggest goal should be always to enjoy the run to have the best run able not to win the gold medals although i want to win all the gold medals but the first thing is just to. whatever learned and have fun with it you consider yourself a role model now for other. better know. as to what is there but definitely one of the best things to come out of these

games elizabeth great stuff well two thousand and eighteen has come to an end and we're going to leave you with some of the best images for me and the rest of the team at out.

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. their challenging systems and shaping. it's about creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor of it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the

swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber for remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. i am doing this for the benefit of. so many see the importance of our guys.

who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. syrian government forces try to push their way into rebel held east and good just hours after the un approves a cease fire. it demands all parties cease hostilities without delay that means right now immediately.