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this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up south korea's president says japan must do more to acknowledge its role in world war two sex slavery. why lack of education is no barrier to teaching children in central african republic. a busy day in washington as top aide resigns and the president seems to change direction on guns. the third day of a five hour humanitarian pause has just begun in syria's eastern go to but still no aid has gone in and have left the area which has come under heavy bombardment since february eighteenth residents say they don't trust the truce that these thirty three pro-government faces including eight officers died in battles with rebel forces in the past few hours and on wednesday fourteen civilians were killed in

russian and syrian government air raids in several towns across the river long doctors say the situation is beyond critical. that. in the past ten days there was a lot of pressure on medical care and we have large numbers of the word today now seem to as there are thousands of wounded and more than five hundred martyrs there is a shortage of medical supplies we have been in a besieged area for more than five years the regime perhaps its medical care for the wounded it is extremely hard to work with the medical supplies we have we did everything in our power but we have an extreme shortage of medical supplies a lot of supplies are not even available we cannot ensure any medical supplies some that we are only supposed to use once we use twice some specialist care is not even available and go to for example we only have one nerve doctor and it is impossible for him to treat all the wounded emergency rooms are limited and they were full from the first day you know despite the humanitarian pause and. have been governed

airstrikes asama vinge of aid reports from gaza in turkey near the syrian border 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's side of the buffer been crossing buses an ambulance has 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 port and 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 a 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 manager 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 having left 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 he 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 are gently need medical evacuation but in the 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 job. on the turkey syria border russia's ambassador to the u.n. has contradicted president vladimir putin's claim that large numbers of people have been moved out of different james bays reports from the united nations area proof just days after these ambassadors unanimously demanded a cease fire their resolution continues to be ignored and repeatedly violated the u.n. undersecretary general mark mr the world's most senior humanitarian official told them he would answer some of the question is 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 when 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 in the aerial bombing at civilians in eastern good. this is senekal callous and flagrant defiance of the demands of twenty four a one the russian ambassador didn't repeat earlier claims by his boss president putin that a large number of people have 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 this 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 bart's formal name. they also say they will give the un resolution their full support. the syrian government's representative ambassador bashar al 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 south korea's president jane says japan hasn't resolved the issue of the so-called comfort woman and then spoke at an event

to mark one thousand years since korea rose up against japanese rule thousands of korean women were forced into sexual slavery for japanese soldiers during world war two the government of japan has apologized and offered to compensate victims robin upright has more from south korea's capital seoul moon j and criticism came on a day that is full of symbolism here in south korea it's a national holiday commemorating a failed uprising by koreans against japanese colonial rulers and the event took place at a former prison that was used by japan to house mainly political prisoners and freedom fighters move to japan still had not fully atoned for the treatment of these so called comfort women women from korea who were forced into sexual slavery at the service of the japanese military moon like many people in south korea

believes that japan has never really fully come to terms with the issue that's despite an agreement that was signed in twenty fifteen that was meant to have resolved this issue once and for all the criticism has hit home in japan which has issued a very terse response. what president said is against 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 thing japan also very pointedly reminded south korea that this latest spat comes very difficult time when japan and south korea along with the united states should be showing a united front to the village or its of north korea with regards to into korean relations and also used his speech to call to build upon the goodwill that has been

generated during these limpid games saying that north and south korea should be looking towards collaborative projects that will build to wards peace and economic progress if that is followed through if they can agree on projects between north and south korea that would be very tangible evidence of an improvement in the korean relations unicef says one of its workers and four teachers have been killed in central african republic it says a third of children are missing out on an education because of the fighting between armed groups many schools have been destroyed or are being used as camps for people in this case the violence has been so i reports from the eastern town of where. children learn basic math and social sciences from teachers simply smug. is one of

only three teachers for the four hundred children who study here standard two and three pupils share one class because is not enough space to land separately they're going to himself is lining up a job he's never been to high school and was only trained for a month by a children's aid agency before starting to teach yes so. i decided to teach other literally and can have a bright future one day but if i make a difference in the life of one child that child make a difference. he's one of the hundreds of community teachers here many with very little education themselves who've been hurriedly recruited and trained to fill the gap left by professional teachers who fled the war but at least this children have a classroom to come to every day many others in more remote areas in central african republic have no schools no teachers no way of getting an education in many

parts schools have been destroyed lu ted or are occupied by armed groups many children have been displaced and others are forced to walk instead of going to class we may be losing generations of children in this country when they go to school what they learn we're not sure it's something that will get them to where you know you would want any kid in this in this world to to go in terms of you know becoming a productive adults who can live peacefully in his or her community. is twelve years old and often who sounds kerosene for a leaving his not been to school for two years. if my business grows i can feed myself. but i don't walk i cannot even afford anything. he the country badly needs about fourteen thousand teachers those stepping up like i did say they're doing the best they can in the most trying of times to ensure their

pupils learn at least the basics catherine al-jazeera bria central african republic and in part three of our coverage of the conflict in central african republic we look at the security challenges and why the country is turning to the european union to train its soldiers told trams white house communications director is resigning she's the third person to leave the role since the us president came into office thirteen months ago hope hicks's triumphs longest serving advisors she previously worked for his business organization was press secretary during the election campaign a resignation comes one day before after she testified before a congressional panel investigating accusations of russian interference in the twenty sixteen campaign bill schneider is an international affairs professor at george mason university he says hope picks acted as an important intermediary for

trump and the white house staff. 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 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 person 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 hicks is the latest in a series of high profile departures since trump took office in general last year as soon after his national security adviser mike flynn was forced to quit admit that he had misled the vice president about the nature of his conversations with the russian ambassador to washington in may the president fired f.b.i.

director james comey for his handling of the bureau's investigation into the twenty sixteen election campaign more close advisers resigned two months later white house press secretary sean spicer and chief of staff priebus was in july and he's got a maci was appointed vice house communications director but lost in just ten days in the job on clay to trump dismissed close aide and chief strategist steve bannon and president chimes approach to the way from the traditional republican party stance on guns signaling he wants to see tougher than just nation brought in during a bipartisan meeting on gun violence trump called for expanded background checks and told politicians to seriously consider raising the age limit for purchasing some firearms trump also accuse senses of being afraid to take on 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 them we have to get them done between them to get them done. and they have to be strong for background checks hey 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 on sunday and said it's time i. am going to stop this nonsense it's time. that's was still ahead on al jazeera brazil struggles with an influx of people escaping economic hardship in venezuela and. i'm scott either in bangkok or a new medical study has found the big young athletes participating in the i'm not bored of the boxing but these basic running health problems that story coming out.

hello and welcome back well europe's weather what can you say about it remains incredibly unsettled massive amount of cold air driving across many areas plus low pressure systems coming in as well this one coming in from the southwest he's going to result in snow on its leading edge across the u.k. we've got snow pushing up across parts of france through into switzerland northern parts of italy more snow across more eastern areas though through thursday that should be a slightly improving situation ahead further towards the east still some snow friday across parts for mania and bulk area and then towards the west towards the temperatures are coming up but the price of paying a lot for the edge of that frontal system is some really heavy snowfall across parts of the u.k. and down through france more wet weather coming into the iberian peninsula as you move down into north africa weather conditions here thankfully are nowhere near as

unsettled we saw some fairly brisk winds in the showers for the coastal parts of morocco and algeria come further towards the east where the conditions generally looking much quieter in fact fine weather expected in caro with highs of twenty six into central parts of africa looking pretty large across parts of east africa at the moment some showers for bon otherwise across west africa femina sunshine it should be bright in akron ghana with high sierra of thirty two.

parter. and again you're watching al-jazeera amount of our top stories the third day of a five hour humanitarian pause has begun in syria's eastern goods on wednesday fourteen civilians were killed in russian and syrian government air raids on the rebel enclave the u.n. estimates more than five hundred eighty people have been killed and well of a thousand injured since february the eighteenth. south korea's president j.n. says japan hasn't resolved the issue of so-called comfort women thousands of korean women were forced into sexual slavery for japanese soldiers during world war two

japan has described moon's comments as extremely regrettable. donald trump's white house communications director is resigning copecks made the announcement today after she testified before a congressional panel that's investigating accusations of russian interference in the twenty's sixteen election rescue workers in most of us still searching through bombed out buildings seven months after the rock iraqi government declared victory over iceland the city they found more than three thousand bodies and they still much work to do a warning might find some of the pictures in one package disturbing. it's a city in ruins with entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble the most damage is in most of all city that stood for centuries before the i saw this is where i sell fighters for to the bitter end. and as bulldozers sift through the grim reality of

war emerges in the rubble of booby trapped and bombed out buildings shrapnel shell casings and dead bodies plenty of them and. we found many bodies including arson ones scattered all across the neighborhoods you can see the bodies all over the place and in huge numbers we need support from the international community and organizations we have limited capacities we need help to lift the soonest you know . and diseases also to help people go back home in real life back to mosul also. hundreds of bodies of i still fighters were found they will be buried in mass graves but it seems that it's the civilians who paid the highest price in this war so far more than three thousand bodies have been retrieved and still counting. uncovered in the trappings of war they will be delivered to forensic labs in order to be identified and ultimately returned to their families even if many are beyond

recognition and will remain anonymous a group of volunteers is helping out young people who despite the stench in the air the emotional and security challenges say they want to bring mosul back to its own glory i mean we come here each morning pull out the bodies and put them in bags there are many obstacles our capacities are limited the roads are blocked with rubble we can barely knew and we sift through it with our hands our only tools are rubber gloves and face masks. stuff is overwhelming he's just in a day visit to his home town alone he doesn't want his family to see how mosul has become a city of the dead. we need more help to get rid of these bodies as soon as possible the smell is unbearable and disease is spreading people are reluctant to come back because of this many are afraid they could enter their houses and find a booby trapped body from a nice old guy. a fraction of most of all city has been cleared so far one

estimate puts the number of civilian this at ten thousand it could be higher for people who wouldn't couldn't leave their homes during the war the devastation is a testament to what happened here but their voices will never be heard but at the. a leaked u.n. report is highlighting violations of the embargo in libya by nations aiming to influence the conflicts united arab emirates and egypt named in the report last year the u.a.e. was accused in the other un report of supplying libyan forces with attack helicopters and military aircraft the un has banned the sale of weapons to armed groups in libya since twenty eleven james dorsey is a senior fellow at the s. rajaratnam school of international studies in singapore he says the problem is a lack of international oversight. i think we're dealing with two issues one is you

have countries in the gulf as well as egypt who see their foreign policy not only as directed towards intergovernmental relations but as governments are 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 we've got to dysfunctional if you wish international governance the security council is not capable of taking decisions because of various veto rights individual states realize that they can do things without being called to account and as long as you don't address those very fundamental problems i don't see how you're going to change things on the ground for un peacekeepers have been killed in mali when their vehicle is a land mine for the troops injured in the explosion i'm up to a region it happened on the road linking the towns of and bani six million soldiers

were killed in a similar incident on cheers day. the u.n. says it's seen an increase in the number of venezuelans leaving the country over the past two weeks they escaping the severe economic crisis brazil has declared an emergency in response to an influx of venezuelan migrants. on the spoke to one family as they crossed over into brazil. even a swell in mother and son on a remote highway they hope leads them to a better life the lady basket forty six years old and her twenty two year old son kenya reese they crossed the border into personal and are now trying to reach bolivia the nearest city it is one hundred eighty kilometers away they could not afford a bus ticket for the past three days they have been walking and still have one hundred sixty kilometers to go 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 hopefully find a job it's high my mom and i know that's what we need to do. 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 have an estimated one thousand venezuelans 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 a situation deteriorates in venezuela more coming every day these menace wayland's 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. but you know 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 venezuelans sort of fled the country in the past two years are refugees this is dollars on the people who are crossing every day the border into the gulf and on a sound protection and humanitarian assistance this is definitely a much a crisis. 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 in is in a better place. on a highway in northern brazil american football players in professional boxes of

highlights of the long term effects of repeated head trauma but there's a whole vulnerable group of athletes suffering similar injuries thailand's child boxes scott had 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. how many i was knocked out once a pasta full of people hit the floor when i regained consciousness i thought of it does like. his father also started boxing. 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 or m.r.i.'s were taken of five hundred children under fifteen years old from similar social economic backgrounds it lasted five years included non boxes and incorporated psychological testing this is the first complete in my study of the. 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 the damage stop the maturation the foot the mature ation of some function of the brain function the memory of the dutchman the higher brain function is not well developed yet and when it got them this is 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 and treating me like i was

doing the matching venue like this one here at bangkok the arena. big boats are exciting for boxers like possible but with the increased intensity they are also more dangerous than sparring since my tie is part of thai 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 a maximum young books the safety of but the enforcement of the law result weakness . with an estimated one hundred thousand child boxes in thailand many of them unregistered 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 harder al-jazeera bangkok.

this is zero these are the top stories the third day of a five minute tarion pause has begun in syria's eastern go to bed residents call the russian a truce a joke with a deliveries and medical evacuations yet to begin on wednesday fourteen civilians were killed in russian and syrian government air raids on the rebel enclave the u.n. estimates more than five hundred eighty people been killed and well over a thousand injured since february the eighteenth. south korea's president's moon j.n. says japan hasn't resolved the issue of so-called comfort woman japan has described men's comments as extremely regrettable thousands of korean women were forced into sexual slavery for japanese soldiers during world war two. no. resolving the comfort women issue the government of japan as the perpetrator should not say it is over the inhuman crimes against humanity cannot be covered up by saying it is over the unfortunate history should be remembered even more and learning from such

a history is the real resolution to be issue donald trump's white house communications director is resigning hope pics made the announcement today after she testified before a congressional panel that's investigating actions of russian interference in the twenty sixteen election she's the third person to leave the role since trump came into office thirteen months ago and the us president has broken away from the traditional republican party's stance on guns signaling he wants to see tougher legislation brought in a bipartisan meeting on gun violence called for expanded background checks and told politicians to seriously consider raising the age limit for purchasing some file arms elite your report is highlighting violations of the arms embargo in libya by nations aiming to influence the conflict the united arab emirates and egypt are named in the report last year the u.a.e. was accused in another un report of supplying libyan forces with attack helicopters and military aircraft the un has banned the sale of weapons to armed groups in

libya since twenty eleven as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story. just is in the same. time journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out in the media or opinion the listening post at this time on al-jazeera. continues its conference in geneva often discrepancies between what officials tell the un and what happens. so how come the governments in respecting human rights this is inside story.