when winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine go into overdrive. just. influencing. and we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access to polling the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera. or. the second day of a russian sponsored ceasefire takes effect in syria day one sword fighting continues across the east and go to.

jane dutton this is alive and also coming up the afghan president calls on the taliban to join peace talks and save the country. more than two million cars recalled in australia the latest development in the scandal over unsafe air bags. i'm kathleen sawyer in central african republic a town that is controlled by one of the largest rebel movements in the country i'll be telling you why they are here despite the presence of u.n. peacekeepers. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has blamed syrian rebels for blocking access into the enclave of eastern go to russia's pause in fighting is in effect for a second the first attempt on tuesday failed to stop the onslaught with at least thirteen killed in fighting low. says russian that syria's allies have established

humanitarian corridors for people to flee the drivel shelling is blocking the path the u.n. says the truce is. too short to evacuate people. because the people of syria face a direct humanitarian crisis u.n. security council resolution two has established a framework for all parties to agree upon conditions to elevate the plot of civilians throughout the country russia together with the syrian government have already announced the establishment of humanitarian corridors in eastern guta now it is the turn of the militants and then sponsors to act as the militants entrenched they continue the shelling of damascus blocking deliveries and the evacuation of those wishing to leave. us from beirut in neighboring lebanon so russia is blaming the rebels on the fact that this. as well as it should what is the situation. there is an un easy call in eastern of

the fighting taking effect at nine am local time syria time of course is going to last until there is definitely a reduction in violence yesterday we saw little violence according to the syrian observatory for human rights two civilians were killed during the fighting but what the people want is a full ceasefire a lasting and a permanent cease fire of course this is a response for the people who have been living in underground shelters but they are still continuing to live underground shelters because after two pm the bombing just resumes we heard again blaming the rebels for preventing civilians from leaving and preventing aid from entering the rebels are. saying they are not bombing the border in the people do not want to leave because they don't have any security guarantees there are no international monitors where are these people going to go they're going to cross into government territory what guarantee is there that they won't be arrested or detained. or forced into conscription so the rebels the opposition

denying the accusations being made by the russian government ok so obviously the needs of the people living there are still great you know whether they stay or where they go and i'm just wondering how long this is going to go on for and what's going to be deemed a success. well the pro-government alliance has made it very very clear they want to recapture it at any cost in fact his latest statement just a short while ago saying that quote the militants entrenched in are preventing the people from leaving preventing aid from entering and saying also that they will continue to support the syrian government to get rid of what he called a terrorist threat it is clear that russia is making it clear it considers every armed fighter in a terrorist they're not differentiating between the different groups because there are different groups and some of them are linked in one way to or another to the free syrian army and then you have those which were linked to a group that we've previously known as the front now the other groups have been

telling the russians and the syrian government we will get rid of these so-called al qaida affiliates in. but this is not what the government wants they want all the rebels to lay down their arms and to leave and the people of eastern are worried because this means that a lot of them will have to leave and the area will be depopulated so this is what the procedure in government wants now how long can the people survive in eastern according to the united nations one thousand people may not survive if they are not evacuated for medical treatment immediately thanks for that. you're an expert saw accusing north korea of supplying the syrian government of the items to create ballistic missiles and chemical weapons the report is expected to be publicly released next month and outlines north korea's dealings with syria of the past ten years supplying these items would breach u.n. sanctions the syrian government has been accused of using chemical weapons report also says north korea sent ballistic missile systems to me and mock. it's

imprisoned royce's genocide appearing in a min mock court for another hearing they were a student assembled to be charged with illegal possession of state secrets they had been covering the violence against muslim in rakhine state the un is calling for immediate release. one of christianity's holiest sites in jerusalem has reopened three days after its leaders closed it in protest against israeli tax measures the church of the holy sepulture has believed by many to be the site of the chris affection and resurrection of jesus christ it reopened after the local mayor suspended a plan to make churches pay substantial back taxes on their assets a force that has this update from occupied east jerusalem. well here in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher things seem to be back to normal tourists and pilgrims they've been flocking over the last three days not able to get in through those giant wooden doors now they are able to get in to this most important

christian holy site however behind the scenes there is still some uncertainty what has been struck is an interim deal which is allowed the jerusalem municipality to suspend for now its attempts to collect back taxes from the three churches involved the armenian greek orthodox and roman catholic churches it's also allowed for the suspension of any proposed legislation which would see the israeli government have the ability to claim land seize land which the church had sold to private investors that is something that the church says is discriminatory along with the attempt to claim taxes from what it says should be tax exempt properties in and around jerusalem for the tourists for the pilgrims this of course is a very happy day it was very important for us and they quit impression for us because we are we waited three days to come in and we have no chance to call there and it was very impressive for us it was on our our tour and i actually

thought we may not get to come and so now i think it really joyous the price to be able to come in here so christians once again have access to sites such as this the slab where jesus said to have been prepared for burial the question now is how this is resolved the plan is for a committee which includes ministers the jews from his party. and others to try to come sign some kind of long term agreement as to how to solve the divisions that still exist between the church in your forty's there are some voices that question when that gives too much power in the long term to israeli authorities well in the short term it does seem that they've backed down the standoff has been resolved the differences that created it have yet to be. afghanistan's president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate political group as part of negotiations aimed at ending the more than sixteen years of war are so funny was speaking at a meeting of nations trying to build a framework for peace talks but he reiterated that the group also needs to recognize his government has proposed releasing prisoners and

a review of the constitution officials from twenty five countries the e.u. and nato are meeting as part of the kabul process in the afghan capital let's bring in tony berkley he is live in kabul one in twenty can we expect any significant developments anything new coming out of this. well actually very very little new but it is quite notable that this is the first time the president danny has mentioned this in public previous presidents president karzai for example said similar things but i think it's walking towards a more positive direction in afghanistan at the moment there are sticking points of course is what he said the taliban do not recognize the afghan government they wreck say they are puppets of the americans they say they will only deal directly with the americans the americans say they will only deal with the taliban with the afghan government on board so there are lots of stumbling blocks of course the

constitution is another one because the taliban are against many aspects of the constitution present danny said that see a line in the sand and that should not be crossed particularly when it comes to the women's rights but there have been signals in the last i think couple of weeks which suggest that things are moving on the. an assistant secretary at the state department for asian affairs. coming to kabul saying the door was open for talks with the taliban we have an open letter from the taliban saying that they're ready for talks with the americans but they don't didn't put their snorkel stipulation in that the american military would have to withdraw first so there are indications things are moving along but slowly and tony what is the situation on the ground now and can what's happening on the ground shape the move for peace or impede it. well the taliban have

a saying they say we have the watch me they have the watch meaning the american technology but we have the time and that's time is on their side if you look at what the americans have done the last seventeen years they spent a trillion dollars a year and lost two thousand four hundred lives now they're considerably beefed up their forces from eight thousand to nearly fourteen thousand and aerial firepower is being brought to bear more and more but on the ground the taliban are using the suicide bomber as a weapon more and more one is canceling out the other in many respects and everybody says that they can be no winner in this war because both sides cannot do it the taliban controlling the countryside the americans with the afghan forces they could control in the city so it's a stalemate at the moment but the only people losing out i think are the civilians they're still getting civilian casualties and it's not going down it's not decreasing tony betty with that live update from kabul thanks tony. so his government has ordered the recall of more than two million cars with airbags made

by the japanese firm to cut it says it's not satisfied with the results of voluntary recalls carried out by vehicle manufacturers last year faulty card airbags have been linked to at least twenty three deaths every around the world there's no doubt that this is one of the largest and most significant recalls in the nation's history with a total of four million cars affected by defective airbags this equates to around two hundred seven cars on the road tragically there's been one death and one case of serious injury in australia as a result of the deployment of these air bags and the government just doesn't want to see any more. that's mostly coming up. very old man technology that talks to you and to each other we look at what's been called a new industrial revolution plus. forty million indonesians are living in areas

prone to landslides on stuff possibly brought in from by jonah got out in central java the people are risking their lives clearing the road after the most recent landslide. however we got the usual rash of showers across much of southeast asia the heaviest of which appears to be around borneo pushing across into malaysia some more heavy downpours affecting jobby and i says we have had a recent flooding here really over the past few weeks and those heavy showers looks set to continue as we go on through the coming days if anything west of weather sliding a little further south which as we go on through friday runs into the heavy showers that we have also affecting northern parts of australia queensland has been really struggling with some huge downpours and these flooding rains will continue to go on

through the next few days to townsville seeing further heavy downpours pushing the all the way up across cannes easing up towards the cape york peninsula a little change as we go on into friday actually the heavy showers remain in place a further south is fine and dry thirty celsius in adelaide more clout there into melbourne temperatures at around twenty five degrees and similar values for path now tearing away here we have cloud making its way towards new zealand as we go on through the next day or two so turning increasingly wet across south island as we go on through thursday a few showers into the north island temperatures getting up to around twenty three degrees and not too bad as far as those temperatures are concerned it looks even what is still as we go through friday. from the bamboo harvest of navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart to

the time we finish are scared to the fish and i'm dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying but if i don't go by coughing my family needs the men who go to the extreme just to make a living but not you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and surf and risking it all vietnam at this time on al-jazeera. what you know is there amount of our top stories russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has blamed syrian rebels for blocking aid access into the enclave of eastern go to russia and fighting is in fact for

a second day the first attempt on choose to fail to stop the onslaught with a decent searching killed in fighting. afghanistan's president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate political group as part of negotiations aimed at ending more than sixteen years of washer funny was speaking at a meeting of diplomats trying to build a framework for peace talks. straight his government has ordered the recall of more than two million cars with airbags made by the japanese firm to cart it says it's not satisfied with the results of voluntary recalls carried out by vehicle manufacturers last year faulty car to air bags have been linked to at least twenty three deaths worldwide. fighting in central african republic between muslim and christian groups has forced more than a million people from their homes and more than two million that's half the population needs humanitarian aid the conflict is now spreading to areas that were once considered peaceful and the largest rebel movements controls the northeastern

town of brega from where catherine sawyer has this exclusive report. on rebel gunmen make sure that everyone entering bria is unarmed and don't belong to rival groups the checkpoint is controlled by the popular front for their innocence of the central african republic the n.p.r. sees one of the largest factions of what was a mostly muslim armed group called seleka. the town is an important supply routes and has the largest diamond mines in the country. so we are all abundant we are not bundy it's all militia. we have structures we're not so just get out of line we deal with them when i see one commits a crime we have a judicial system to deal with that. business is a town center which is only now coming back to life after the groups which had

previously quite exhausted began fighting just over a year ago this is the main markets in which. they keep people here. they talk and support. and the arrangement that seems to be working well now. at one end of town and right on the doorstep of the un peacekeepers base is accomplished placed people all a christian more than seventy thousand people in brianna have been forced to flee their homes the un says this kompas been infiltrated by gunmen from. a largely christian group in the competent high that. during the fighting it is then to block a moment sure that a good safely. out of the ones who protected us in the company more what you see in bria plays out in many other towns and villages across the country people who are living together have now created their own religious and ethnic boundaries

binoy lives on the christian side of town he says he can go to the muslim dominated market during the day but has to return before nightfall. even at night i don't sleep well. afraid that people might come and kill me i always have to be prepared to run. most of the country is controlled by armed groups often fighting of a min drawls cattle and trade routes forging an easy alliances and then violently breaking up un peacekeepers in the central african republic are overwhelmed and caught up in all this central african such as you who are just trying to stay alive catherine so al-jazeera bria central african republic then a doyle is director of the media and communication division at the international organization for migration he joins us on skype from istanbul it's good to see you again and tell us what your experience is of what's happening there what you are

hearing from a day to day. well it's i think you very much for inviting me on and i would say that that report you just presented to viewers is just really excellent and it's exactly what is needed because central african republic is one of these forgotten conflicts forgotten areas of the world where appalling humanitarian abuses happen to very very vulnerable innocent people as we've just heard the violence is unexpected and extreme and it has as your report quite right rightly said resulted in about six hundred thousand people displaced and even more than that have left the country as refugees so we're looking at kind of a forgotten conflict which threatens to and go through this very small but very central. country on the continent of africa can something be done i mean what sort of measures should be in place now to stop this from happening should there be more international pressure is a say is

a local solution. well i think you know that's exactly the point there needs to be more international support and international humanitarian response worldwide as is now so so so overstretched that many very deserving countries like central african republic tend to get overlooked and that is why the united nations has made an appeal for about five hundred fifty sixty million dollars last week in order to refocus attention and to get the resources that support it needs at the end of the day resources for peace building resources for conciliation and resources to help rebuild the country and the structures of the country and rebuild trust between the communities because at the end of the day if they keep going in the direction that they started to go again the consequences could be tragic not just for central african republic but for all the countries around it because in twenty fourteen it seemed as though there was hope wasn't there i mean what do you think went wrong

well indeed there was hope and it went from a very very dangerous situation and very bloody situation to crawling back to a level of kind of stability and then you know very sadly the the international eyes and above all funding departed from central african republic so many organizations had to scale down their operations or including the un migration agency i.o.m. which is still there but nothing not at the same level as we were before because we can only conduct humanitarian operations where we're funded to do so and that's very much a function of the of the u.n. system of the international humanitarian system and of at the end of the of donors who responds to people like your viewers worldwide if they are moved as as we hope they are by the sort of scenes we've just seen in your report and hopefully that leads to governments being prepared to fund humanitarian response very good total editor thank you very much pleasure thank you for inviting me. indonesia's

government has warned of an increase in landslides of all the forty million people at risk across the country recent years have seen hundreds of people killed and thousands displaced during the rainy season from central java steadfast and has this report. landslides have become indonesia's most common national disaster killing more people in a year than earthquakes floods or two nominees. on february twenty two a group of farmers was buried while working at their rice fields when a hill collapsed on top of them. the danger looms mostly in that sleep populated mountainous areas like by johnny gaddar in central java here seventy percent of the land is prone to landslides put in one million people in immediate danger early in january fifty one houses were destroyed and villages were cut off after the land collapsed everyone managed to escape in

time. sri or hannah and her husband ran out of the house when huge correct started to appear and the did and it was raining and we were all sitting together as have been in evening suddenly the electricity went off and there was a rumbling noise everyone ran outside and we felt the land was moving electricity poles had fallen down so i ran as fast as i could with my two sleeping kids. not only did she lose her house she also lost her chicken farm four years ago landslides were still rare in by geneva but in the past two months there have been fifty nine. it started in two thousand and fourteen and more than one hundred twenty people died when a landslide buried a small village logging intense agriculture and the rapidly growing population are seen as the main causes. why do we see more landslides and floods it's an accumulation of environmental destruction with riverbed deforestation and that's

been happening for decades while measurements show soil in by jenna ga is still unstable and more landslides could happen locals have started to clear the road millions of people in indonesia are living on a ticking time bomb every rain shower could cause another this asked for destroying lives property and livelihoods while experts urge people here in this mountainous region to relocate many don't want to leave the government so far has only relocated people who have lost their houses but land is getting scarce and many don't want to live far away from their plantations and farms. those who insist on building new houses inside dangerous areas can still do so they are simply told to watch out and look for cracks and other signs showing that a landslide is about to happen really doesn't mean doesn't the reality is we cannot evacuate everyone these people have their lives and livelihoods here they have their plantations we always told them to be more careful. trying to prevent more

casualties early warning system has been put in place at the district chief government to help pre-planned the area as soon as possible using treats with strong roots that can keep it all together if this is not done quickly he worries a much bigger disaster could happen sometime soon stop france and al-jazeera by jem'hadar. venezuela's leader nicolas whether as officially registered himself as a candidate for a present presidential election the opposition is boycotting the vote and calling it a farce jurors main rivals are barred from standing against him or have left the country of to avoid detention and venezuela is going through an unprecedented recession with widespread shortages of basic goods and medicines also facing tough sanctions from the u.s. police and on juries have fired tear gas at protesters angry of a visit by the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. the halley demonstrations were held in the capital over washington support of

president. and on this the u.s. was one of the first nations to back in and is off to a bitterly disputed election last year the mitten and is to talk about efforts to combat illegal drugs. even as prime minister saad hariri has returned to saudi arabia three months after announcing his sudden resignation during a trip to riyadh lebanese officials accuse saudi arabia of forcing harry reid to quit and putting him under house arrest riyadh has denied this hariri returned home weeks later after french intervention then withdrew his resignation. pop star has been sentenced to six months in jail for a joke about the cleanliness of the nile river sure enough apologized after a video appeared of her laughing with fans in lebanon in august she said drinking water from the nile could give people parasites judges accused of spreading fake news she's free on bail pending an appeal. does your fridge know when it's out of

milk maybe your home as a meter to monitor heated well one of the main technology talking points of this is mobile world congress is a so-called internet of things charlie angela reports from barcelona. sorry for all that. automated connected pepper is popular he can dance and change color but he isn't solving any real world problems and that's where the focus is at this year's mobile world congress so this device you see visually impaired and blind people the internet of things or io t. is a network of devices connected to the internet that talk to each other to gather information analyze it and act on it in the possibilities are endless already in use in tennessee a folk senses wish to take where the changes and slow down traffic when visibility is poor also in the market the smart work pete which can send and receive messages

to danger this is a follow portal in iowa tea device still in development is created a holographic version of me which could potentially travel to different countries all me others in the virtual round so it has potential in education entertainment and social care all industries are now looking at how connected technologies can improve business analysts calling it the whole industrial revolution telecoms company eighteen t. a designing io t. solutions to urban a she's the dream goes from smart parking smart. electrical lights two surveillance solutions that cities need each see each city's needs are different based on what the population is like where they're located and then there is the connected home by twenty twenty two it's estimated there will be five hundred smart devices in the average family home dishwashers

t.v.'s even smaller mirrors but there is a concern that technology is running ahead of itself and security is suffering to throw israel off barely a week goes by that we don't hear some talk of solve the security attack so i think . one of three areas the manufacturers and service providers need to take a lot more care over as the small devices of analysts predict that soon most every day devices will be connected one way or another and managed by a smartphone app it will be almost unavoidable just don't use your phone charlie and al-jazeera boston there. again the top stories on al-jazeera russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has blamed syrian rebels for blocking aid access into the young players of eastern go

to russia's pause in fighting is in effect for a second day the first attempt and choose to fail to stop the onslaught with at least thirteen killed in fighting. russia together with the syrian government have already announced the establishment of humanitarian corridors in eastern guta now it is the turn of the militants and their sponsors to act the militants entrenched there continue the shelling of damascus blocking a deliveries and the evacuation of those wishing to leave u.n. experts are accusing north korea of supplying the syrian government with items to create ballistic missiles and chemical weapons the report is expected to be publicly released next month that outlines north korea's dealings with syria over the past ten years the supply of these items would breach u.n. sanctions to present reuters journalists are appearing and i mean mark called for another hearing there were arrested in december and have been charged with illegal possession of state secrets had been covering the violence against muslim rangar in

rakhine state. one of christianity's holiest sites in jerusalem is reopened three days after its leaders closed didn't protest against israeli tax measures the church of the holy sepulcher is believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ but reopened after the local mayor suspended a plan to make churches pay substantial back taxes on their assets. afghanistan's president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate political group as part of negotiations aimed at ending more than sixteen years of war finally was speaking at a meeting of diplomats trying to build a framework for peace talks australia's government has ordered the recall of more than two million cars with airbags made by the japanese firm to carter it says it's not satisfied with a voluntary recalls carried out vehicle manufacturers last year. those are the

headlines the news continues but first it is risking it all. elating violence in central african republic has forced more than a million people to balance. all of those their rights on the ground to bring new special report on how people are struggling to carry on with our lives on the going.