most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated the perspective american media coverage what part of this can you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it when i go what you speak it would be very her and her ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind at this time on al-jazeera. the u.n. call for a cease fire is ignored and syria's war there are more airstrikes more. as government forces bomb east and. other them are there a live from doha also coming up the white house response to north korea's offer for

talks saying certain conditions must be met. on his way tax plan has led to the closure of one of christianity's holiest sites. in. bollywood reacts to the death of one of india's biggest movie stars dies suddenly at the age of fifty four. and he's twenty seven people have been killed in syria by russian un syrian as strikes on rebel and place of east and damascus the continuing bombardment comes to spicing u.n. security council resolution demanding a cease fire rescue volunteers say toxic gas has been used to help helmet spokesman told the village of funny i was hit by missiles containing poisonous gas one hour from. the. report.

before i this is what the united nations agrees has to stop i thank me for. hours into the un security council has thirty day cease fire declaration forms kept dropping on eastern. medics to build a dozen of them that's an e.g.d. from more than one hundred years strikes. and artillery bombardment all of which was supposed to and continues in the rebel held area home to four hundred thousand syrians what experiences from the b.b.s. and. don't give us high expectation it's the fish and. what's. he says will start as soon as possible one of the possible we don't know we don't we don't know what will. and then here this is a big number of population it won't be a solution three bring them one or two homeboys and one be the solution and we

evacuated one thousand or two thousand of them to be sorted out of little as feared government forces try to enter eastern huta from three sides attempting to seize as much land as possible before the cease fire is implemented reinforcements from the syrian army's fourth and tenth brigades have been circling east include the for days special forces and troops from the elite tiger battalion are also on the front lines i. bulldozers and tanks are deployed to breach of defenses iran and syria maintain that the security council resolution allows the targeting of what they call terrorists to win this fight facing large approved numbers and heavy fire power levels and they have held their front line so far killing and capturing some soldiers should think about how we welcome the security council's decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and. and this suffering must be

lifted to 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 . northwestern go to southern with almost every front and go to has been stored by the regime on sunday in order to achieve some advance but they haven't succeeded . many besieged people have been stranded in underground shelters for days and fear the worst to come. we can't eat because there's nothing to eat our sounds have no work my son has five children and he doesn't know how to feed them we will die hungry without food we've been targeted in our homes have been destroyed we have done nothing to be treated and targeted like this but eastern good has been intensely targeted for the past week the u.n. called it hell on earth. the calls the victims in syria martyrs that have been conversations between the leaders of france germany and russia to drive persuade

the assad government to stop attacks and allow in humanitarian aid that's when the people will continue to face what they see is annihilation. of the turkey syria border. correspondent mohamed al jazeera areas. and send this update. now on the how the a lot of our. russian and syrian government warplanes have been stopped targeting the residential areas of eastern greter 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 the aim of advancing its control of parts of the area the opposition says fighting is ongoing in world and 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 east.

the north korean general attending the closing of the winter olympics in south korea has suggested his country is willing to hold talks with the united states at the ceremony he said just meters from us present donald trump's daughter ivanka the second name has more from. from protesters at the border and the stadium to uncomfortable questions asked by reporters all over it was a controversial arrival at the closing ceremony of the winter olympics for the north korean delegation. some south koreans are angry about the delegation leader general kimmitt young is thought to be behind attacks against the south including the sinking of a warship in twenty ten that killed forty six sailors no. wounded a president of korea is the most surreal symbol played during the north korea hero. role in

a protest. no prisoner and the north korean dictator this is a. south korean president moon jay in use the games to reboot into a korean relationships. the so-called peace olympics included a joint women's hockey team athlete celebrating korean nationalism by marching under a unified flag as well as a visit by cameo john the sister of the north korean leader she arrived with an invite for mood to visit yeah. it's a two hour test and it was a good olympics and we are so concerned about it last year but it went so well many north koreans came and i wish this could lead to unification. it was interesting it was an honor for us to host it i really enjoyed it and. even the choice of olympic venues was symbolic gang one province is divided between the north and south of

there. is a payment if the tension continues into tourist income so peace is very important to our economy north korea participated in the olympics and this has become a basis for establishing peace here and that means a lot to us. for the russians the games and did as they began marching without their flag two of their athletes were disqualified after testing positive for banned drugs four years on from the sochi doping scandal russians were only allowed to compete under an olympic flag as all athletes return home the question here is what happens after the olympics. the u.s. announced its toughest package of sanctions against north korea on friday with the hope it will pressure the country to denuclearize whether that will work when others saying sions have failed remains to be seen and there's no word yet on when president moon might travel to the north if he does he'll become the first south

korean president to meet kim jong un since he became leader seven years ago natasha going to al-jazeera south korea what an estimate has more from washington on the possibility of talks between north korea and the u.s. . well the united states the white house specifically said the same afternoon that any talks with north korea would have to lead to that country dismantling its nuclear program it said it's really unclear at this point whether these proposed talks are a step in that direction and the state department essentially said the same thing and washington is seems to be taking a wait and see attitude about this because north korea hasn't yet said if there are any preconditions to these talks whether it's putting anything on the table specifically its nuclear program the timing of this is also curious as well north

korea is proposing this just a couple of days after the u.s. slapped these additional sanctions on the country making it more difficult for them to trade oil and coal north korea is calling that an act of war and there are some conservatives here in washington who think that these sanctions might finally be having an impact on north korea and maybe they're using these proposed talks as a way of getting some economic relief from these sanctions certainly the optics are there as far as a thawing of relations we saw vice president pence at the opening ceremonies at the olympics saying that potentially there could be talks if the north koreans would talk about potentially dismantling their nuclear program we saw the president's daughter at the closing ceremonies in the same general area as representatives from the north and south korea's but again these are two countries north korea and the

united states who have had a very very icy very tense relations for a half a century so it remains to be seen whether anything will happen from these talks after the glow of the olympics. to his presence he could be reelected in twenty twenty three under a new proposal put forth by the ruling party that wants to change the constitution to remove term limits for chinese leaders the vice president also be allowed to serve for longer than the current two term limit the congress party electors for as president c. as its head for another five years last october church leaders in occupied east jerusalem have closed the holiest sites in christianity of what they say is discrimination by the israeli government the speed sensors on the church of the he sampled her believed to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ high force that explains the chance to experience sunday mass of the place where they believe christ rose from the dead draws pilgrims from

around the world to the church of the holy sepulcher but this sunday the greek orthodox armenian and catholic churches which jointly run the site announced its abrupt closure protesting against measures which they say would constrain the rights over church property is that the mind. which we're in. this is the. levi only. and some of the right the church leaders say they face a twin attack first in the shape of a demand by jerusalem city government what it says is more than one hundred eighty million dollars in back taxes and secondly from proposed legislation which would seize retroactively for the state church land sold to private companies or sundays in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher always thronged with

tourists and christian pilgrims many of whom are travelled a long way to see this most important holy site it's always an atmosphere of emotion today the chief atmosphere though is one of disappointment the belief that jesus christ died and if you was buried here would have liked just to go there and have the east point if you will you know that would we be able to understand it better you know i i don't know if the sides of the party overall but you know it certainly is going to get the public attention to do this and hopefully it drives a quicker conclusion the christian patriarchates only large areas of often prime real estate in and around jerusalem much of it at least to the state palestinians have criticized the greek orthodox patriarch the selling property inside the old city the jewish settler groups and others jerusalem's municipal leaders say only properties being used for religious activities should be tax exempt not those rented commercially they've already frozen about nine million dollars in assets of

the greek orthodox church we're talking about other places that the church own factors hotel and they have been exempt wrongly from paying city taxes for years and years and years and the mare at the moment is trying to correct a wrong that was done that affects us from evidence every single day and ministerial discussion on the bill to allow seizure of already sold church land has been postponed to next week the author of the proposed law says it's designed to protect the rights of those living on the land from often anonymous offshore entities church leaders say their long established rights are being trampled in what they call an attempt to weaken the christian presence in jerusalem ari force at al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. gyptian courses frozen the assets of a prominent opposition figure accused of having contact with the outlawed muslim brotherhood former presidential candidate apple photo was arrested on the fourteenth of february after calling for a boycott of next month's presidential election he has his own political posse and

his distance himself from the muslim brotherhood for years a bull foot pedal out this month where he was critical of president fattah el-sisi and i geria government has confirmed that one hundred ten girls remain unaccounted for after an attack by the armed group boko haram in the country's north east gunmen overran a school in the town of jap she last month monday. said initially denied that any of the girls had been abducted jurors information minister says additional police and security officers have been deployed to schools present muhammadu buhari called last monday's abduction by boko haram a national disaster. on al jazeera. the standoff between cost of serbia over a prominent mining company. and the obesity rates in mexico has tripled in the last two decades detail why health officials are blaming us.

from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello there it's mostly dry forests in eastern parts of china at the moment there's not a great deal of cloud showing up on our chart for monday but things change as we head into choose day because the winds are all feeding up from the south bringing in a lot of moisture and that's giving us quite a bit of wet weather across the central belt of our chart and further south there's been a lot of rain here over the past day or so and that's thanks to this weather feature that's making its way across the philippines has given some of us some very heavy rain and it all sort of drawings up to what's going on a bit further south for some of us in borneo we're also seeing some heavy rain too that's gradually trying to push its way towards the north as we head through monday and into tuesday but for now it's not quite reach reaching us in vietnam so for some of us here it does look like it should be drawing just the outside chance of

a shops if you're unlucky now over towards india is just in the north we've got some wet weather that's edging its way eastwards into nepal but the next system is building here it is on the satellite picture making its way already into pakistan by monday lunchtime it's across many of us with some heavy rain making its way into the western parts it's not going to stick around for too long though it will clear out the way so choose day doesn't brighter for many of us here thirty three as a maximum in karate for many of us across india it will be a draw a day too. the weather sponsored by qatar and use. my would have been to get the it up ahead of the muscle and use up a lot of loose. on the nineteenth of december twenty sixth mahmoud hussein was detained by the egyptian authorities he remains behind bars without a trial al-jazeera world investigates his case and media repression in egypt

journalism is not a crime this time on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour at least twenty seven people have been killed in attacks across eastern goosen on sunday despite u.n. security council's resolution demanding a cease fire in syria rescue volunteers say toxic gas has been used in attacks on the rebels and taped of a capsule damascus. a north korean general attending the closing of the winter olympics in south korea has suggested his country is willing to hold talks with the united states the white house says the dialogue with the north must end with its

denuclearization. and church leaders in occupied east jerusalem of closed the holiest sites in christianity response to what they say is discrimination by the israeli government managers of the church of the honeysuckle cup believed to be the site of the chris pixley resurrection of jesus christ angry a proposed taxes on the church. there is here is councilors due to vote on monday on a resolution that would condemn iran for providing weapons to rebels in yemen the country has been engulfed by civil war since twenty fifteen the saudi backed government forces fighting who the rebels allied with terror on many have reportedly been killed in recent days strikes on the port of her diet i'm just tired 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 we don't 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 a little sign of slowing humanitarian crisis is only getting worse in al-jazeera. he says it will discuss the possibility of extraditing a syrian kurdish leader has been held in the czech republic. muslim the former

co-leader of the democratic party of p y d been arrested in prague he was added to turkey's most wanted terrorist list earlier this month and considers the p y z and its armed wing the y. p.g. so-called terrorist groups with ties to tell he's banned kurdistan workers party. kosovo's prime minister is promising to revive one of the region's largest companies to help fight youth unemployment but the plan is far from straightforward as no neighboring serbia says it owns the mining for cost if it wants to develop under similar reports from attributes or. trap 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 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 mit's of pizza leaves a process at the age of two years. 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 are 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 bringing 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 cause of ars government nationalized to save it from bankruptcy now the prime minister says investment is on its way economy and investors find their way. to ward off the fact that this will not happen because you can assure this work yes yes it's already in a process will not take months much of weeks to be ready for a partner but the company's management is skeptical the serbian government accused kosovo of theft when trapped 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.

praised the benefits of the north american free trade agreement but critics in mexico it's come at a cost to blame for an obesity epidemic david has more from mexico city. like many mexicans these days beyond a what does first stop on her way to work is here a convenience store workers are sweet and yogurt cookies and a jello cup make for a breakfast on the go it's a trend the thirty year old teacher says is impacting her health and that of her colleagues and students. there are more children who are overweight who have diabetes and hypertension i see too many students too many families with poor nutrition we don't know how to eat properly. mexicans are hocked on junk food and the impact has been devastating over the past twenty five years obesity rates have tripled and diabetes is now the leading cause of death in the country eating habits

in mexico began to change in the one nine hundred eighty s. because of an increase in foreign investment but this transformation really took off ten years later with the signing of nafta the north american free trade agreement. health experts say mexico became a dumping ground for cheap low nutrient highly processed foods from the united states causing diets here to mirror those of their northern neighbors those that use all the mass of all the damage we see in our society is caused by the consumption of high fructose corn syrup. sugary drinks and it's all connected with the industrialized nation of food and the money route explains the causes of the beastly. yannis mother. has witnessed this change firsthand she says persuading her family to eat traditional food like tortillas is an uphill battle. these days most young women don't like to.

for the ease of buying. fried chicken instead of making rice and beans instead of making lemonade they buy another soft drink the changes have been bad without government intervention mexico's health crisis is expected to get worse advocates say future trade agreements should take health into account protecting the very people they're supposed to help david mercer mexico city large crowds of mourning fans have got outside the home of bollywood actress as they await the return of her body from dubai the thirty four year old who starred in more than one hundred films died suddenly of a heart attack at a family wedding on saturday police are forced to put up barricades around the neighboring roads as the crowds swelled throughout the day tributes have been paid to the star from around the world right. now as her life. i guess she stepped into bollywood at a time when the industry was largely

a mile down main. street davey's performance in this eighty's blockbuster mr india turned heads and redefined the place of female actresses and bollywood for eva. be a. film critics describe her as a show of stephen a mr india became a cult classic and suddenly sridevi was filling sentiments the we the it was the egypt was. comic genius true the crowd thank you it was a i think it was his skill and beauty as a dancer that truly kept device with audiences who thank god i'm not only was she started out as

a child actress in southern india maybe black eyes. and went on to appear in more than a hundred films being to make you feel like many actresses of her generation she went by one name tree davey but unlike how the leading woman she quickly over took him my old costars to become the box office troll and it paved the way for today's bollywood stars to seamlessly make the move from bollywood to hollywood's themselves you want it was getting i am fifty 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. never in ramadi many in india was shocked at his sudden death. this was

a certain friendship but never the richie rose i think at that particular time for females to come to that level was a little difficult was the first news flash on my for me and everybody at home was very sad. she stopped acting after him marriage to film producer bernie cup or but made a successful comeback in two thousand and twelve with the hit movie english vinglish . but many will feel true division like this to show. this is these are top stories at least twenty seven people have been killed in attacks across on sunday despite the un security council's resolution demanding a cease fire in syria rescue volunteers say toxic gas has been used in attacks on

the rebel held and play of the capsule damascus correspondent mohammed al jazeera airy as any sin and send this update. now on the how the. russian and syrian government warplanes have been stopped targeting the residential areas of eastern greter 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 the name of advancing its control of parts of the area the opposition says fighting is ongoing in world and twenty syrian regime forces have been killed while another group of them has been captured and the fighting is happening even after the u.n. security council's decision to demand a cease fire that would have led i need an assistance to reach the people of eastern. north korean general attending the closing of the winter olympics in south korea has suggested his country is willing to hold talks with the united states the

white house says dialogue with the north must end with its denuclearization. church leaders in occupied east jerusalem have closed the holiest sites in christianity in response to what they call discrimination by the israeli government manages in the church of the holy sepulcher believed to be the sites of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ and proposed tax plans nigerian government has confirmed that one hundred ten girls remain unaccounted for after an attack by the group boko haram in the country's northeast overran a school in the town of last monday and large crowds of mourning fans have gathered outside the home of bollywood actress sridevi as they await the return of her from dubai fifty four year olds who saw her more than a hundred films died suddenly of a heart attack at a family wedding on saturday piece of force to put up barricades around neighboring roses the crowd swelled throughout the day those are your headlines i'm back with

more news here on al-jazeera that soft inside story. donald trump the gulf crisis the u.s. president is soon to meet leaders who imposed the blockade on eight months ago but what does he have to offer the saudis and their allies and would he force a settlement on u.s. allies in this volatile region this is inside story.