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and welcome to. my headquarters in doha with me and ron i'm also ahead south korea's president brings up the case of so-called comfort women again drawing a complaint from japan. another of the u.s. president's closest advisors steps down. i'm scott either in bangkok or a new medical study is young i think there's a pretty good mix i. think the basic problem is that story. the third day of a partial ceasefire and serious begins in just under two hours but so far the daily pools and fighting has provided little relief for people in the rebel held on klav the five al reprieves men to allow the sick and to to leave and to get in but now

also in government troops are reportedly planning a ground assault and sporadic bombings continue. in turkey near the border with syria. digging more graves is how some spend the five hour pause in the daily bombardment of eastern guta with many deaths every day the local council arranges for mass burials on the syrian government side of the buffer deemed crossing buses and ambulances waited for civilians to cross but people deny a claim by the russian president that some civilians crossed over on the second day of the pause in fighting. we have managed to get out quite a big group of those who wanted to leave but the second group could not leave because the militants just did not give them an opportunity to do so people in eastern called the five hour daily pause in hostilities a joke they ask how can anyone expect them to want to cross to the same people who bomb them for the other nineteen hours of the day not much has changed for the

nearly four hundred thousand in besieged east and many have been stranded in basements like this one. this woman says her family has survived on pieces of radish for the last three days. there is human flesh everywhere says this man who also tells how he has been disabled by his injuries there are similar tales of despair in other shelters and i have the situation here is just hunger and sickness no showers the children sleep hungry here. activists say the price of bread is one hundred times more than just a few kilometers away in the syrian capital damascus and very expensive rice is rarely available this woman says she found some spinach near the river and that's going to be their meal. medical supplies are limited and many hospitals have been destroyed doctors in eastern hold to have recent a list of eighty five people to the united nations who are mostly women and children among the more than one thousand people who urgently need medical

evacuation but in east of water no aid has come in and then on the people who are sick or wounded have been able to go out osama bin dhabi and others iraq. on the turkey syria border. where russia's ambassador to the u.n. has contradicted that in a person's claim that large numbers of people have been moved out of eastern gota a diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations just days after these ambassadors unanimously demanded a ceasefire their resolution continues to be ignored and repeatedly violated the u.n. undersecretary general mark local cristobal the world's most senior humanitarian official you know we're told them he would answer some of the question is why he's received in recent days have there been any medical evacuations. have any civilians left eastern ghouta. is there any actual improvement in the humanitarian situation in eastern guta since the passage of the resolution demanding as it did

unimpeded access. he ended his briefing with one last question for the ambassadors when will your resolution be implemented. the u.s. and the u.k. put the blame squarely on russia since we adopted resolution twenty four zero one russia has announced a daily five hour humanitarian cause in the it's in the aerial bombing of civilians in eastern guta this is senekal callous and in flagrant defiance of the demands of twenty four hour winds. the russian ambassador didn't repeat earlier claims by his boss president putin that a large number of people had been evacuated but he said some medical help had been provided to eastern ghouta underscores the need for the parties to agree on human ukrainian pauses these of binocular he read part of the resolution passed on

saturday before giving his explanation why it was not yet halting the violence because there's a new stooge attorney. did you read the resolution the whole resolution we stated that any enduring pause must be preceded by agreement by the parties for deescalation demanding an overnight and immediate halt toss deliveries suggests either a failure to understand realities on the ground or a deliberate exploitation of human tragedy. the three main opposition fighting groups in eastern cooter of written a letter to the president of the security council they pledged to kick out the group the council still refers to by its form and i'm al nasra they also say they will give the un resolution their full support the syrian government's representative ambassador bashar jeffrey was in the council chamber he gave a typically rambling nineteen minutes speech but he made no such commitment james days. at the united nations. let's move on to other news now in south korea as

president has japan has not resolved the issue of so-called comfort woman. who was speaking at an event to mark in one thousand nine years since korea rose up against japanese several thousands of korean women before stand to sexual slavery for japanese soldiers during world war two japan says to apologize to and offer to compensate victims well let's get more on the small correspondent rob upright is joining us live from seoul for what has been the reaction to the statement by the south korean president in japan rob. this comments from jay and come on a day that is full of symbolism they were bound to cause annoyance in japan this is the commemoration of an uprising in the last century by koreans against japanese rule and indeed the event took place at a former prison that was used by the japanese colonial rulers to imprison political prisoners and korean freedom fighters and muna referred to the suffering of the

korean people in particular these so-called comfort women as you mention that saying the japanese has never really atone for its crimes regarding the comfort women that's what believes along with many people here in south korea that's despite an agreement in twenty fifteen that was meant to have resolved this issue once and for all and according to the japanese the issue has been resolved comments like this from moon he has made them before but still they have hit home they have caused an annoyance there was bound to be an angry response from japan and indeed japan has now given a terse response. what president said is it gets to japan south korea agreement and it is totally unacceptable and extremely regrettable we immediately lodged a complaint with the south korean government the greenman isn't violent irreversible solution to the issue and japan has conducted all of the obligations based on the agreement and now we're just south korea to do the same. japan is

also reminded south korea that this spat comes at a particularly difficult time it is a time that when japan says it should be working with south korea and the united states offering a united front to what it calls the belligerence of north korea and this does nothing to help the alliance with regard to the recent improvements in relations between north and south korea moon is also used his speech to call for to build upon the goodwill that has been generated over the olympics and the talks that have taken place calling for specific projects that will advance economic progress and peace if that does take place then they would be tangible signs of the improving into korean relationship all right rob thank you very much for that is rob mcbride live in seoul thank you now lake united nations report has once again highlighted

violations of the arms embargo in libya the united arab emirates and egypt and the report the u.n. banned the sale of weapons and military support groups in libya since two thousand and seven mohamad and these he reports. armed groups in libya are continuing to receive foreign support from nations aiming to influence who will control the oil rich nation that's according to a panel of united nations experts. after the fall of moammar gadhafi in two thousand and eleven during the arab spring libya spiraled into civil war between rival political factions international sanctions were imposed in reaction to gross and systematic violations of human rights the latest report highlights countries that have both directly and indirectly fueled the ongoing conflict in libya it mentions the repeated air raids by the egyptian air force on the oil areas to support the forces of renegade general khalifa haftar. countries in the gulf as

well as you see there foreign policy not only as directed towards intergovernmental relations but as putting governments in place in various countries or imposing policies that are in line with their definition of national security and their geopolitical designs and on the other hand you have come to see a business opportunity here and the group willing to exploit that. the u.n. panel reported last june that the united arab emirates violated international law by supplying half their forces with attack helicopters and other military aircraft pro half the groups have been accused of kidnapping and torturing journalists activists and religious figures in eastern libya some of whom faced extrajudicial executions this latest report is set to be submitted to the un security council for further action in hopes that it can counter foreign influence in the war torn nation hamad the d.c.

al-jazeera. and this international says egypt's army is using banned cluster bombs and its military operation in north sinai the rights group may be accusation after analyzing this egyptian military video that says the munitions serial number circled here proves beyond doubt that it's a u.s. made cluster bomb which could only have been dropped by the egyptian air force but the military says the weapons were improvised explosive devices planted by so-called terrorist elements. the white house communications director is stepping down the first to leave the post since the us president came to office picks as one of don't trump the longest serving advisers and previously worked for the trump organization she also served as press secretary during the two thousand and sixteen election campaign it comes a day out to hex testified before a congressional panel investigating alleged russian interference and that campaign . well bill schneider is a political ad alist and he says hex was an important and

a media between trump and other white house star her timing could have been better she testified before congress she didn't answer a lot of the questions in fact she acknowledged that in her tenure as the white house communications director she had told some white lies meaning she's not spoken the truth but it was an innocent decision it didn't do any damage or harm we don't know what they were and she was a very valuable person to present a job she was known to be the one in the white house who understood him best and who was able she was called trump's translator namely she understood what he wanted better than anyone else and she could explain that to the white house staff she will be missed. and the us president's former campaign chairman has pleaded not guilty to charges related to that investigation into alleged russian meddling the charges against poor man of fortune crude allegations of conspiracy and making false statements about. ukraine

on the set to begin and september. and all of this may remember the president's america first promises throughout the election campaign well now he's looking at rejoining a multinational trade do u.s. treasury secretary steve says high level discussions are taking place on what's known as the trans-pacific partnership tribal repeatedly attacked the campaigning in one of his first acts as president. of the pact japan has led efforts to keep the deal to live among the remaining eleven members and says it is no longer up. to the head on the bulletin went to. continue to face persecution at the hands of security we have an exclusive.

hello and welcome back to look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia we've got some snow across these eastern areas from afghanistan up through becky stan towards kazakhstan funny conditions around the caspian sea but we also got an area of low pressure bringing some heavy snowfall across eastern parts of turkey standing into georgia armenia and then that will push through across azerbaijan through towards northern parts of the caspian sea as we head into friday at that stage fine conditions for beirut there nineteen by dad pleasant enough twenty four and sixteen is the high in tehran here in the arabian peninsula we've

had some pretty nasty showers around the gulf states of last twenty four hours or so still the risk of the old shower on thursday but i think generally much drier brighter picture for many they get in temperatures still well up twenty five as a high in doha and then as we move into friday still ferment of claire own but i think it should stay a largely dry on the other side of the potential of warm from record their high of thirty four but further south certainly for the mountains the chance of wanted to heavy showers give the risk of flash flooding for southern portions of africa we've got some really heavy showers across east africa extending into parts is in bob way and some beer further south should be largely fine highs of twenty two in cape town . the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated the perspective american media coverage part of this case 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. that to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories there's been no letup in attacks on civilians at least in ghouta as the russians pools and hostilities and as of thursday activists have reported government shelling and fighting on three from the five hour truce on wednesday. south korean president who says japan has not resulted issue of so-called comfort women who were forced into

sexual slavery during world war two he was speaking at an event marking ninety nine years since korea voice up against japanese rule japan has launched a complaint with south korea's government and dollar trumps white house communications director is stepping down the third to leave the post since he came to power thirteen months ago. ahead as one of the u.s. presidents longest serving advisors. well meanwhile trial has been meeting party leaders to discuss reforming gun laws and he told them to seriously consider a raise in the age limit for buying assault style rifles like the alpha fifteen used in the florida school shooting two weeks ago trump a few senators of being afraid to take all the national rifle association we have to keep the guns out of the hands of those that posed a threat. and this really includes background checks and i know senator that you're working on things joe i know you're working and. i mean i look at

a number of the folks around the table you're working in different bills we have to get in we have to get it done we have to get them done. and they have to be strong the background check say look i'm the biggest fan of the second amendment many of you are i'm a big fan of the n.r.a. but i bet i had lunch with them with wayne and chris and david one sunday and said it's time i. am going to stop this nonsense and start. the u.n. says it seen an increase in the past two week from the number of venezuelans fleeing economic troubles at holland brazil has already declared an emergency in response to an influx of venezuelan mine quins. joined one family as they arrived in brazil. it's even a swell in mother and son on a remote highway the hope leads them to a better life the lady basket is forty six years old and her twenty two year old

son kenna reese they crossed the border into brazil and are now trying to reach bolivia the nearest city it is one hundred eighty kilometers away they cannot afford a bus ticket so for the past three days they have been walking and still have one hundred sixty kilometers to go if the people have been nice offering us some people stopping cars and give us some water we just want to get to the nearest town and it hopefully find a job it's hard out of my mom and i know that's what we need to do again. the trip is remote there are no services around them only asphalt and it's dangerous i was as they walk the mother tells me she said it's come to this but hopeful brazil will be a place they can find work in the meantime kenner collects aluminum cans he hopes he can then sell. just to up an estimated one thousand venezuelans who in the past couple weeks have gathered along the northern brazil border outpost to come into

the country they want to avoid what they say is a lack of food medicine and good jobs their homeland as the situation deteriorates and in a swale a bore coming every day these menace wailings are desperate most arrive with little or no money so when they finally cross the border into brazil they're faced with a very difficult decision what to do next. we have just enough money for a bus ticket and we'll take it as far as we can go we'll try to make a new life from brazil it's a risk worth taking because we're starving and. i'm a professional person back home but here in brazil i will take any job to get some money and have some food this is all i can do. the united nations has a team here and says the nearly two million venezuelan sort of fled the country in the past two years are refugees this is bells on the people. every day in the gulf and on a sort of protection and humanitarian assistance this is definitely much of bryce's

. as for me lady in kenner there is no time to wait they keep walking one foot in front of the other mother and son alone hoping the road ins in a better place. on a highway in northern brazil. asli goes to the polls on sunday in a fiercely contested general election migration the economy and corruption have split the political field with no clear outcome and fight and the first of three reports lawrence travels to sicily where rightwing parties are trying to capitalize on the refugee crisis sicily loves fishing in the town of is in the perfect sports it's right in the southwest corner of the island across the mediterranean tunisia is just two hundred kilometers away the old town is a warren of narrow streets there's been a north african cals by here for twelve centuries the tunisian population grew

about fifty years ago a sicilian emigrated themselves. and as the mayor proudly points out that immigration has proved hugely valuable for the economy. we needed sailors and they worked on our fishing boats we need to farmers and they worked in our fields for generations later their children is distinguishing themselves in our schools you're on the jobs market. but the africans making the journey to italy in the twenty first century of finding things far harder accuse a sicilian a vague a bit racist and you really won't like what they say back to you because this place prides itself on having an entire history of being welcoming and hospitable to everybody but the problem is that the european union has so badly mismanaged the refugee reception crisis and put so much pressure on sicily that even here attitudes are shifting. head north up the coast to palermo and you can see how

sicily has suffered the economy bled dry by the math and ignored or insulted by political parties that regard southern italians as stupid peasants one of those very parties used to be called the northern league now is taken northern out of its name and is actively campaigning in sicily having spent years being rude about being poor it's now trying to convince them that refugees are causing their poverty effectively. but so if you let hundreds of thousands of people in you can't absorb them secondly who we really letting in criminals it could be anyone. there is no analysis the refugees are damaging this is alien economy the mafia and political corruption did all that for those who try to offer opportunities to these new migrants the shifting of blame is a cynical attempt by national politicians to divert attention in sicily away from

problems that they created oh gee. now days they were political parties which are racist and they're using fear in suggesting that someone might steal what we have they promise to protect us the bald fact is that the total failure of the european union to share refugees across the continent has placed enormous strain on one of the poorest parts of italy and given the hard right swing a huge opportunity in this election mazhar and it's happy to lizzie then slave is now the exception largely al-jazeera sicily. now it's more than three years since president city cena came to power in sri lanka he took over from the government accused of human rights abuses during the war against tamil separatists but al jazeera has seen evidence of continuing torture of a phillips reports cigarette burns lash marks still visible many months on but there was worse more that i laid. my head. in the

water and. they poured petrol spray. on my head made me suffer. and i was made to lie facing down on my bed and then beat me with bet on source off my feet and securely. and where it was cruel and humiliating. crease my penis and i find difficult to talk about my pep and to me in terms of sex who taught. me to affected me among men to men. if he's not alone this support group has helped seventy six times with english lessons in art therapy who all say they've been tortured in the past three years since shoreline because new government came to power long after the end of the civil war

and you see a separate team abducting a separate team interrogating and torturing another team releasing you see a very systematic pattern of violations across the country and it's the same in the last three years as it was in the previous years under the rajapaksa regime so i'm not saying that the prime minister or the president is ordering this but clearly this is very systematic within the security forces the police and the army still was at the sri lankan embassy in london tamils protest against human rights abuses by the government that was many carried the flag of the l t t which itself carried out many abuses during the civil war there is clearly distrust between at least parts of the tamil community in this country and the sri lankan authorities we put the allegations in our report to the sri lankan government it says it takes all violations of human rights extremely seriously it argues that the situation in sri lanka is improving it says it will investigate and prosecute all

alleged cases of torture and is working with the un and human rights groups to this and a different man whom we met through different contacts but the story is depressingly similar they use some kind. of routes and just one of my legs is so upside down and did just police for a minute with the police. i totally believed that. he too was accused of supporting the l t t he too says he was tortured by the police's criminal investigation department and he too paid a bribe and fled sure lanka he's been refused asylum in britain but is appealing so many at the support group off to also being refused although the british government told us there are credible reports of ongoing tortured sri lanka and it says it has updated its asylum policy accordingly to be phillips al-jazeera london now american

football players and professional boxers have been highlighting the long term effects of repeated head trauma but more vulnerable athletes have similar injuries thailand's child boxes scott hogg of reports from bangkok. at thirteen pasta what rotten a court wants to be just like his dad a thai kick boxing champion he says it's in his blood. the pride of my thai skills the national sport here is instilled in ties at a very early age at this training gym just outside bangkok they start at nine and that has raised concerns about brain injuries. i was knocked out once a pasta bit when i hit the floor when i regained consciousness i thought of it does like. his father also started boxing at nine then became a champion at seventeen. and when i was a boxer of course i was knocked out but i think it's about training it's like

a shield to protect ourselves but that's not nearly enough protection according to a recent medical study brain scans are m.r. eyes were taken of five hundred children under fifteen years old from similar social economic background it lasted five years included non boxes and incorporated psychological testing this is the first complete it. traumatic brain injury in child boxer she says it's all about the damage of repeated minor brain trauma from blows to the head because of that damage stop the maturation the foot the mature ation of some function of the brain cup meet the function the memory of the dutchman the higher brain function is not well developed yet and when it got them miss it's very difficult for them to follow the develop and that includes memory loss and lower i.q. this is where the young bucks for all that hard work constraining me was doing the

matching venue like this one here at bangkok's the arena five big bouts are exciting for boxers like possible but with the increased intensity they are also more dangerous than sparring since my tie is part of tight culture an outright ban for young boxers is not realistic the government body that oversees boxing has read the medical study. figuring out the way to solve the problem the law should be amended for maximum young bucks the safety of but the enforcement of the lore is a weakness. with an estimated one hundred thousand child boxes in thailand many of them on registered even once the laws changed protecting the boxers will be difficult and that could mean more head injuries as the study found out the longer they fight the more severe the damage scott hider al-jazeera bangkok.

you know again i'm elizabeth random and with the headlines on al-jazeera the third day of a partial ceasefire in syria's eastern goods a begins in less than two hours about there's been no letup in attacks on the rebels on klav despite russia's pause in hostilities activists have reported government shelling and fighting on three fronts during the five alba troops on wednesday south korea's president says japan hasn't resolved the issue of so-called comfort women the food system to sexual slavery during world war two. says he was speaking at an event marking one thousand nine years since korea rose up against japanese rule japan has denounced the comments. donald trump's white house communications director is stepping down the third to leave the post since he came to power thirteen months ago as one of the president's longest serving advisers. or he's been meeting party leaders to discuss reform and. told politicians to

seriously consider raising the age limit for buying assault style rifles like the one used in the florida school shooting two weeks ago those are the headlines on al-jazeera witness was mixed. this is really an attack on it from itself is a lot of the some of the standard of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. carried out.