what makes this moment this era we're living through so unique this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important level right to publish it. to be offensive or provoke the for whatever it is people do. setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. calling a truce russia orders a temporary ceasefire in syria's rebel held east and goes after days of government airstrikes. jane darkness is al jazeera live from doha also coming up

a shakeup in saudi arabia as the kingdom replaces its military chief and other senior defense officials. u.n. resolution taken a many run for fueling the war in yemen fails. prosecutors in south korea push for tougher sentence for asked of president park going to hate you is accused of corruption. after ten days of intense bombardment on syria's eastern go to the fighting is supposed to stop at least temporarily russia has ordered a pause in the fighting which is now in effect the five hour ceasefire in the rebel held district is said to last from nine am and two pm local time every day but activists say there was heavy shelling overnight more than five hundred fifty people have been killed in the past ten days on sunday opposition doctors reported a suspected poison gas attack russia says evacuation cordle's will be set up tell

our civilians to leave the area more than four hundred thousand people are trapped in the eastern goods and it's unclear where they will go in other districts been under siege since twenty thirteen so the daily pools could offer some responded but it does fall short of the un security council resolution passed on saturday it demanded a thirty day cease fire to allow aid to be delivered and for the critically ill to be evacuated then how to joins us live from beirut zain a how's it playing out what are you hearing. zain i'm just running if you can hear me. just wondering how they yes i can hear you say how the pause in fighting is playing out what you're hearing about how it's going to work. yes sure. but we seem to be having a sound is there polish is for that the u.n.

space has a seven jerrick says the truce is better than nothing. we stand ready as soon as the conditions are safe for truck drivers humanitarian workers to roll into these areas. we for that to be effective cease the fighting needs to stop we need to ensure that there are no roadblocks whether physical or administrative. whether or not for five hours is enough not enough it's a difficult question to to answer five hours is better than no hours but we would like to see any sation fosse's be extended. thirty days as the security council said but we will effort to do whatever we can within the time that we're able to work a believe xenophon i can hear us now is and i'm just wondering what you are hearing about this cease fire this pause in fighting if it's come into effect and how it's

playing. yes it came into effect approximately an hour ago what we understand is holding eastern is quiet a very different picture really than what we've seen over the past ten days relentless bombardment heavy artillery shelling airstrikes more than five hundred fifty people killed thousands injured so the people of course will welcome this but at the same time they are criticizing russia for what they're calling a game they say that this decision for a five day daily truce violates the decisions taken by the u.n. security council that calls for a thirty day cease fire so the people of eastern want a permanent and lasting cease fire because what they believe the choice that they're being given now is either to die or to leave and to be displaced because if they choose to stay and because we have to remember that the russians also announced a humanitarian corridor which people the civilians will be allowed to leave so if

they don't leave then they become legitimate targets but these people have a very big problem and that is a lot of them are wanted by the government simply for any opposition activities so they're scared they say that they have no guarantees that once they cross into government controlled territory we have to remember that these besieged by government forces if they cross into government controlled territory they could be arrested or they could be killed so they have no guarantees if they do that so the choice is to die or be displaced we're also hearing from the higher negotiating committee nasr who represents the main a syrian opposition body in exile and he's saying. what the pro-government alliance wants to do is empty and a population change so this is the feeling among those but what has become clear is that the pro-government alliance has taken the decision and that is they want to recapture eastern guta no matter what cross eastern border is

a thorn in the side of the government it's right close to damascus the government seat of power the rebels there are able to target damascus with mortar fire so at the city and has been taken and we are going to expect more attacks if the rebels do not surrender all right zain thank you's in the heart of reporting. the saudi arabia's king solomon has replaced top military commanders in the shake up of the kingdom's defense ministry the reshuffle includes the army's chief of staff and the heads of ground and defense forces saudi state media also announced a plan to develop the ministry but didn't elaborate on how that would happen no official reason has been given for the overhaul but it comes as saudi arabia faces growing criticism over the war in yemen so who's in and who's out the most notable dismissal was the military chief of staff general abdul rahman been. been sidelined and will become a royal court consultant he's being replaced by the former commander of the royal

saudi air force general fired been awhile while the changes were approved by consignment analysts say it is the crown prince mohammed bin sol man who's likely to been behind the moves he's seeking to modernize the kingdom's image in the first shake up in the shake up the first female was appointed as deputy minister for labor and social development the director of the gulf study center at catholic university where he says the latest changes are part of a preparation for m.b.a.'s to succeed his father. i think this is a package of changes started when consumed man came to power and it includes changing the economic sector where around cause is being controlled by hamas on money his team the media sector also controlled by his team and now they move to the ministries the move now is to the military i think this is part of the preparation the platform for him for his you know. which is

expected to come soon actually rather than later i think that's the confirms the fact that you know mohamed has been sandman is likely to become the king of saudi arabia sometime soon but not as was expected will be late and the end of the day there are those leaders who are on the ground who are running the whole operation in yemen but those all those people also in the scene and i think the vision they are to blame some time of the mistakes to place in anywhere i think the war in yemen there is a serious failure when it comes to the saudi arabia that is growing because system from international community and there is a serious pressure that saudi arabia so the stop should stop what they are doing now and change course if it's needed and i think saudi arabia is trying now to open up to the international community by trying to open up airports and ports for support food or medical support so they can reduce the pressure on the so you know

bit government and alliance russia has vetoed a u.n. resolution which would have named iran for fein's prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of heathy rebels in yemen instead the security council unanimously adopted a russian proposed resolution which didn't mention iran diplomatic editor james bass reports from the united nations in new york. for the middle east this was an important moment. russia for the first time casting its veto in the security council to protect iran it came in a moment of high drama in the council chamber to rival resolutions on yemen put to back to back votes. the one vetoed by russia was a u.k. draft back strongly by the u.s. which contained criticism of iran it received eleven votes in favor because of russia's position it failed they moved on to russia's own draft without any mention

of iran security council members aware that sanctions in yemen would collapse if there was no new resolution back to unanimously it led to angry exchanges the u.k.'s resolution was a simple common sense when it called out iran for giving the who these the tools to threaten yemen's neighbors and to threaten freedom of navigation through the red sea at this common sense attempt to hold iran accountable has failed as governor i will be frank the wording in the british draft is liable to have dangerous destabilizing ramifications and this is not only a political to the situation in yemen but also to the region overall this will never to believe escalate regional tensions and lead to conflicts among key regional players the vote had been postponed for several hours as the u.k. tried but failed to reach a compromise with russia the acting british ambassador had earlier told me he wanted his resolution to reflect the findings of an independent panel on yemen but

that report was not only critical of iran russia doesn't like the outcome of certain expert panel reports but just doesn't like the messages doesn't mean it can undermine everything they say so we'll be watching our colleagues for the good of the united nations system to vote in favor of virus but your text doesn't reflect everything in the panel of experts or bosses or mention of us torture camps is not the same mention of the bombardment by the saudis in the gallatin of that in the resolution so our textbooks in all parts of what i'm about to assert our text has the support of the council on this moment is thank you very much in the end he did receive the support of the majority but the key takeaway is the fact that russia was prepared to cast its veto the trump. administration constantly says that terror on is the stabilizing the middle east region and that it's prepared to take action we've now had confirmed what we expected that russia will block the un route to any such action james bros zero of the united nations south korean prosecutors are

demanding a thirty year prison term for former president park geun hye she was removed from her post last year over an influence peddling scandal that hit the country's business and political elite parkin has standing trial on charges of bribery abuse of power and corrosion which she denies rather mcbride is in solid rock tell us more about the charges she faces. it is jane a very long charge sheet a whole array of charges ranging from alleged bribery abuse of power even to things like discriminating against artists who she felt were opposed to her government regime all of this dates back to twenty sixteen and an unfolding scandal when most of this alleged wrongdoing eventually came out and a lot of it is related to longtime friendship with choice one still a long time confidante of parts together these two women were said to abuse their

positions to force some conglomerates in south korea to hand over millions of dollars in return for business favors now choi. sentence just over two weeks ago was given a twenty year sentence something she is appealing against but all of this scandal did lead as you probably remember to massive street protests in the capital seoul and elsewhere in south korea calling for park to stand down and she clung on to power eventually began an impeachment process that forced her downfall. does she still manteno innocence and what's been the reaction generally in south korea to her child. this has been a hugely divisive issue here in south korea it was at the time of her impeachment it has been as this has proceeded through the courts indeed her supporters have

been rallying outside the court where this hearing has been taking place she still has tremendous support amongst an older generation of south koreans more conservative types who regard her as a strong leader something which topically at the moment is somebody who's willing to take a firm stand against north korea for example but for a lot of the younger generation south koreans are kind of people who took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands calling for her to stand down. she really represents an old face of south korea really a too close or too cozy relationship between government and the so-called che bowls these are the family run conglomerates that have dominated south korea's economy and many people see her departure and now a replacement by a much more liberal progressive government as a breath of fresh air power self denies the charges indeed she says that she has been treated very unfairly by the judicial system here she has boycotted many of

the hearings and in fact was not in court for this hearing thanks for that rob. still ahead on al-jazeera. you know right. well. nobel peace laureates make an emotional appeal to save the ring. how the next generation of wireless networks will change otherwise we'll have the latest from the world about congress. from cool brisk north in fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. welcome to international weather forecast the icy blast from siberia continues to impact the bulk of europe and thrown into the mix we've got these areas of low pressure just around the preferred high and as these systems

make inroads including the one behind me then we're going to see more snow developing so really it's snow it's very low temperatures and it's severe wind chill the main features a snow is already penetrated or into rome we see here some icy shots coming from the capital of italy and also across the u.k. we're starting to see some snow flurries the shots come from east anglia but really are just a taste of what's to come it will get a lot worse before it gets better so there is the forecast through the remainder of thursday there are snow flurries coming through that's going to develop into quite an area that some of the forecast through twenty four hours heavy snow across northern parts of spain some really heavy snow across moldova parts remain gehring see the contrast between bucharest at minus seven in turkey plus eleven big negative temperatures across northern areas and those are daytime maximum temperature of course nighttime lows way way down so we'll aside the mediterranean very much better in fact the winds coming from the south temperatures generally

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top stories on al-jazeera a russian made pause in fighting in syria's eastern go to is holding so far the five hour truce came into effect just over an hour ago in the rebel held district russia says people will be able to leave through evacuation cargoes which critics dismissed as force displacement. saudi arabia's king some honors were placed top military commanders in a shake up of the kingdom's defense ministry no official reason was given for the overhaul but it comes as the country faces growing criticism over the war in yemen . south korean prosecutors are pushing for a thirty year prison term for former president park geun hayes she was ousted last year of an influence peddling scandal pakistan a trial accused of bribery abuse of power and coercion. so that it is new president still ram opposes announced changes in a cabinet reshuffle and reappointed government ministers sacked by former leader

jacob zuma they include the former finance minister pravin gordhan is the new public enterprises minister zuma as ex-wife was also appointed ram opposed as promised what he calls a new dawn to fight corruption. aftershocks continue to rattle papua new guinea after a powerful earthquake list at least fourteen people dead monday's seven point five magnitude quake caused landslides and several buildings to collapse in the country's remote highlands a five point seven magnitude quake hit on chews day local media reporting as many as thirty people were killed. and censor chief faces a new warning from three woman who like her are nobel peace prize winners they. had to condemn the violence against raising the refugees or possibly face prosecution for genocide this comes of the un's human rights council in geneva said to hear from him as minister of international cooperation in the coming hours catching

appears already on the latest. accounts of violence and bloodshed now victims share their stories with three nobel peace laureates irish peace activists wire is one of the peace prize winners visiting intervention camps she is urging lawnmowers leader aung san suu kyi to visit some of the country's most affected areas i would like to go went to burma to visit our sister laura to ask her sister laureate to go to the villages where these people and mostly been flattened and destroyed the abbott on the other side is being well covered as we speak and i would like to thank you they are popping out to the villages. of people who are actually i know there you. are right like. right. all three laureates united for the same cause tawakkol karman from yemen and iranians. also

visit a cox bazaar they say myanmar's government and suci also a noble laureate must be held accountable for what's happening to the rabindra failing to do so they warn could lead to prosecution for genocide if she couldn't is still only this going. that's a very important otherwise she will be. with the international criminal court almost seven hundred thousand to hinge a half lead the country since the start of a military crackdown six months ago myanmar's army says it's targeting terrorists these nobel laureates are urging the u.n. security council and the international criminal court to hold the government accountable suchi has not yet publicly condemned the violence. we have not only come to listen to the tragic stories of these refugees we are above all a loudspeaker for their voices to be echoed throughout the world and to make the world aware of their plight we urge the international community and governments to

help end this crisis we urge the u.n. security council to take measures to bring me and mas government to book we are the voice of the oppressed range. a call for accountability and hope that the call of these peace laureates will be heard beyond this community devastated by violence cartel opus i began. there is supreme court has dealt a blow to donald trump's attempts to end protections for undocumented immigrants who ended the country's children it's refused a plea by the trump administration to end the dream as program committee how can is more from washington d.c. . it's an issue that has divided americans for years the deferred action for childhood arrivals daca program was put in place by president barack obama it allows hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought to the u.s. illegally as children to live and work in the united states. trump wanted to end it

and plan to start phasing out the program in march raising the threat of deportation for many of the so-called dreamers but last month two federal judges blocked that saying it needs to go through the legal system so the trumpet ministration tried to bypass the federal appeals court by taking it to the country's highest court on monday the supreme court refused to hear the case well it makes its way through the appeals court. the administration is appealing lower court rulings to the ninth circuit the same court the blocked the president's controversial travel ban that would deny entry to people from mostly muslim majority countries it's really sad when every single case filed against us is in the ninth circuit we lose we lose we lose and then we do fine in the supreme court but what does that tell you about our court system the supreme court announcement is a victory for roughly seven hundred thousand dreamers. for months they've been demanding

congress act to protect them from deportation but congress has failed to come up with a solution the white house says it's not giving up but that legal process could take months leaving the ultimate fate of dreamers uncertain kimberly health kit al-jazeera washington. the company co-founded by disgraced film producer harvey weinstein is filing for bankruptcy after talks about it south collapsed announcement is creating uncertainty of a compensation for dozens of women who accuse him of sexual assault of reynolds has more from los angeles more than seventy women have accused disgraced former hollywood mogul harvey weinstein of sexually abusing them now with the weinstein company planning to file for bankruptcy it's possible those women may receive little or no financial compensation in their lawsuits against the company that's because bankruptcy law essentially puts plaintiffs of the sort that the women

constitute in the back of the line behind the other creditors for the company and the weinstein company owes about three hundred seventy five million dollars reportedly in debt now there was a previous deal to sell the company but that the end that deal did include a victim's compensation fund of about ninety million dollars but then the new york state attorney general eric schneiderman intervened and filed a civil rights lawsuit against the weinstein company and that essentially complicated things so much that the deal fell apart now according to a statement from the weinstein company the board of directors says it is an extremely unfortunate outcome both for the employees the plaintiffs and everyone else as for harvey weinstein himself authorities here in los angeles new york and london are all pursuing separate criminal investigations into his alleged activities and weinstein himself has denied any non consensual sexual

wrongdoing. after much speculation is saying baltar's finally revealed his future sporting ambitions bizarre quite the announcement his fans were expecting the a time and then pick sprinting champion said he's going to play football on sunday teaming up with celebrities to play for their charity. sports correspondent leigh weddings. tell us more about this. just checking you same boat as to his apologies now to see if that is so it is announced as he's playing in this charity match the unicef which is great for unicef great for the money rolling in june the tenth in manchester and you some posters loves manchester united the fans will flock to see usually this much is between so it is between england and west of the world saying some professional football and some celebrities mix what was some exactly it's now with the same boat but of course

this is a very modern social media story in that the heart this we whipped up around this is about the fact that people want you to prolong his sporting career he's obviously moved away from that example is item in pick out is only a few months ago but we still want to see him in action he's obviously a decent popular but is he a top level he genuinely would love to play for manchester united who would. expose with another that's not going to happen but mamelodi sundowns of got lots of pop publicity of the fact he's been training with them and people thought well maybe he could do a job for them that's top of the league in south africa he's not good enough for that maybe your price so well in this he will get a chance of a contract with an actual proper football club multi-talented manley thank you technology companies are promising to change people's lives a super fast wireless mobile metric so-called five g. systems are the main focus of the mobile world congress in barcelona charlie rangel a reform. entering an exhibition of the future over one hundred thousand people six

thousand c.e.o.'s and delegations from one hundred eighty governments here to see what new products will transform our lives but the most significant innovation is invisible five g. a wireless network that will enable self driving cars virtual reality and smart cities there's a path of evolution through mobile telecoms and you know we've gone through the first generation second third fourth generation to four g. is the fourth generation of when it comes five g. is another generation but it's fundamentally quite different to everything we've seen so far for us five g. will mean faster data transfer ten times faster than forty five d. will mean we can download a feature film on top in a second and stream virtual reality application and also i mean quick response time five people would choose the amount of time it takes the data is to be transferred

which could be especially important in connecting cars like this which might have to break suddenly it will also mean more devices them over the local service will mean millions of products could be connected to the internet from caracas to lighting systems one of those devices could be this taxi developed by while away the passenger drone operated from the control center that can travel over fifty kilometers we're still a few years away from full five g. coverage here industry leaders the united nations and government are trying to iron out policy standards and regulations and five g. compatible devices won't appear in shops until twenty twenty at the moment five years progressing very well we standardizing the technology in two thousand and eight. and then that we're looking to roll out new networks in two thousand and nineteen the leading countries at the moment for the u.s. when you. and south korea. it might be revolutionary but it's also going to be

expensive three hundred billion dollars to cover the united states is an estimate by barclays bank the majority of countries won't be able to afford five g. widening the global digital divide millions of people already don't have reliable access to the internet and as a result the knocked out of the digital economy jobs market so while this new wave of technology promise is a better future it doesn't promise an equal future charlie rangel al-jazeera bustling. i can never take you through the top stories a russian lead poisoned fighting in syria's eastern go to is holding so far the five hour truce came into effect just over an hour ago in the rebel held district russia says people will be able to leave through an evacuation kodos which critics

dismiss as force displacement zana has more from beirut. eastern is quiet a very different picture really than what we've seen over the past ten days relentless bombardment heavy artillery shelling airstrikes more than five hundred fifty people killed thousands injured so the people of course will welcome this but at the same time they are criticizing russia for what they're calling again they say that this decision for a five day daily truce violates the decision taken by the u.n. security council that calls for a thirty day ceasefire saudi arabia's king has replaced top military commanders in the shake up of the kingdom's defense ministry no official reason was given for the over hold but it comes as a country faces growing criticism over the war in yemen. russia has vetoed a u.n. resolution which criticized iran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling

into the hands of the rebels in yemen instead the security council unanimously adopted a russian proposed resolution which didn't mention iran the us is threatening its own action against iran a south korean prosecutors are pushing for a thirty year prison term for former president park she was ousted from a post last year of an influence peddling scandal she's standing trial accused of bribery abuse of power and coercion south africa's new president has announced thirty changes in a cabinet reshuffle andrey appointed governesses sacked by former leader jacob zuma thank you the former finance minister pravin gordhan who's the new public enterprises minister zuma his ex-wife was also appointed civil remedy pose as promised what he calls a new dawn to fight corruption. same bolt has finally revealed his future sporting ambitions but it's not quite there now ncer and his friends were expecting. them pick sprinting champion says he's teaming up with celebrities to play football the

charity soccer. those are the headlines the news continues but first is the stream . the only nation ever hit by an atomic bomb once again braces for the worst. when used explores life in japan under three years nuclear threat at this time on al-jazeera. the field public. ok i'm also from nigeria and your also in the stream today and the latest installment of maybe the most political entertaining and provocative yet it's still box office is a week ago smashing records and filling it with viewers of all ages it has won praise from critics at celebrities and audiences alike and it has also sparked a huge reaction from black people.