true confessions might never be cleaned up there are many but not or a cynical example of communist propaganda and i wanted to put up the baby girl on the walk bear oh i want to do it the whole in twenty ten al-jazeera access to north korea to investigate the alleged use of biological warfare by the us during the korean war rewind revisits dirty little secrets at this time on al-jazeera. so that what we'll see. elsewhere in syria on likely war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity. a warning from the u.n. human rights chief to those responsible for atrocities you will be held to account .

hello i'm with al jazeera live from doha also coming up again a fascinating mourns its dead at least sixteen killed in coordinated attacks in the high security. italy's five star movement riding high in the polls ahead of sunday's election and back from the brink japan's most revered bird is making a comeback. the u.n. human rights chief says government has strikes on the besieged syrian on claims of eastern ghouta probably amount to war crimes they'd rather al hussein says shelling from the rebel held zone into damascus would be two and all those responsible should be prosecuted at least twenty three civilians were killed as government forces reach more ground from rebel fighters on friday some avenge of

a dreadful from neighboring turkey. makeshift clinics in eastern who to have been filling up the wounded most of the civilian casualties are women and children. waiting for the civilians to receive so we can preserve their lives we are waiting for a reaction from the world. but that wait for the world to help stop the attacks and has gone on for years and since the government's latest offensive began last month morgues have run out of space for the dead. instead of receiving worshipers on friday this mosque god bombs people here say syrians iranians and russians are mocking the united nations and the security council since again and i'm a cease fire resolution on saturday there have been hundreds of attacks in eastern guta you would have thought it was already what this mosque was here to praise god there were no weapons or cannon here the regime bombed it ten minutes before the ceasefire so why use the world silent on these war crimes those allegations have

echoed at the human rights council the un human rights chief says the syrian regime and its allies are potentially carrying out crimes against humanity what we are seeing. elsewhere in syria are likely war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity to civilians are being pounded into submission or death the perpetrators of these crimes must know that they are being identified. not dos years are being built up with a view to the prosecution and that they will be held accountable for what they have done day five of the five hour pause in fighting with no different from previous days with more air strikes and shelling close to seven hundred people have been killed in the relentless from bodman the choices for nearly four hundred thousand people are to starve surrender or die. in addition to the attacks on residential areas rebel positions on the front lines are also under heavy bombardment usual

islam and fail after ramadan fighters have been holding meetings with families to assure them they are not going to retreat we asked a doctor in eastern huta about the potential crimes against humanity remarks and he replied with a question has the world drawn another red line and said never again he asked because the assad government's attacks on civilians have become more brazen strong words from the u.n. humanitarian chief but like other statements and resolutions they remain just that words with no action. in the turkey syria border and the u.n. has released satellite images of parts of eastern asia which show increased levels of destruction in the course of just a week i know from the u.n. described the images to al-jazeera. well these images shows us that there has been increases and heavy bombardment in using guta and in particular in

duma that reanimate is based on a satellite image taken this morning to an image taken on the twenty third oath temporary so what we observe in the imagery is continued. to continue shelling and continued damage to infrastructure in doing this as if a case into it can be sometimes it's been to distinguish between residential areas and businesses etc but but we do observe damage to a large number of different types of buildings including what seems to be residential areas so it's quite widespread damage that you observe including you know damage to infrastructure where our service roads areas etc we see certain areas where there's severe damage to a week ago and other areas where there's no damage that we can see in the satellite imagery to certain areas but also out of that state but what red damage but there

are definitely areas that we see you know heavily affected. the prime minister. is expected to visit the army headquarters which came under attack on friday at least sixteen people including eight attackers were killed in coordinated raids on the capital when this is speak of attackers using guns and explosives during the assault our correspondent the nicholas hawk has more. downtown ouagadougou on friday another attack at the heart of the keno hasse's capital coordinated and well planned the targets the army headquarters the french embassy and its cultural center witnesses say some of the attackers came by taxi others in a pickup the started shooting set fire to the truck and continued to fire you know we did hear that there was so much gunfire damage everywhere two policemen went

nearby the army headquarters there was a car with around four to six people and they opened fire there was an explosion we saw a lot of shots fired and a lot of smoke and then people started running. eight soldiers were killed several others wounded in sent to hospital after an hour long battle eight attackers were killed by the armed forces the army continued to comb the area looking for more attackers that may be on the loose fighter groups and this is how it repeatedly target burkina faso the country's capital is home to a base for the french special forces deployed in the sahara to fight rebel groups clashes and frequent attacks have led to tens of thousands of people fleeing the area fighters regularly attack police outposts in the north of the country last year an al qaeda affiliated group attacked a turkish restaurant in walker dugu killing one thousand people in two thousand and sixteen thirty people died in an other attack on a hotel in a restaurant in the city. but this is the most brazen attack so far. these three

locations are some of the most safest and secured in this country many people here say in their able to attack these places then no one is safe with the death toll likely to rise. is again in warning fearing what comes next because hawk al jazeera out walking to. the charity doctors without borders has suspended all work from the northern nigerian town of ron following an attack by suspected back around fighters at least three aide workers and eight security personnel were killed in the raid in borno state on thursday night a female nurse is also reported missing early abduction of one hundred ten schoolgirls in northern nigeria last month has again highlighted the challenges millions of children face to get a basic education on top of the threat of violence is decades of corruption in

nigerians education sector as well as resistance from parents armitage this has been to the city a soccer turn in the country's northwest but the government is now paying parents to take their children to school. on the dusty streets into a classroom i did finally get your education. like ten thousand other goals to have a chance to pursue our dreams of becoming a doctor thanks to a government funding scheme. a grandmother says the fact they have no ideas as a school has also used their waters. soakaway hoping exposes girls like her to a lot of dangers like rape getting knocked down by vehicles she safe and better off here in school. where the united nations children's fund launched a twitter cash assistance program imprinted fourteen in rome and four girls in schools in support of state rose from twelve to fourteen percent. the state

government wants to encourage as many goes as it can providing parents with forty one dollars every year to keep that voters in the classroom they feel of comfortable and only willing to release them to go to school so we with that work if it is for the peculiar benefit that you're getting from the proceeds of hawking by these girls release them to us let them go to the classroom every month we'll give you this much but critics a corrupt local education administrator is the implementation of the first program and fear the new one will also feel that isn't people who operate in on the system so you never succeed. you have to get a read of this people and under do poorly is. education. at fourteen the same spices of the streets but still hopes one

day operators will allow her to get an education. i don't know why they don't want me to get school i really want to study no education is useless i just want to go to school for parents the priority is to save enough money from hawking before she's married. it's estimated ten million children of school age are still roaming the streets of nigeria although face it education is free tickets official corruption has had a devastating effect on public schools parents who can afford to take their kids to that's offensive private school. but only a few can especially here in a region with one of the highest rates of poverty in nigeria comedy grease. in the united states police arrested a student suspected of shooting dead his parents at central michigan university heavily armed police for hours searching for the nineteen year old john hendren

reports. a domestic dispute turned deadly police say when a university student killed his parents and fled leaving more than one hundred police officers on a manhunt he should be considered armed and dangerous if your opponent mr davis campus police at central michigan university say they took nineteen year old james eric davis jr to a hospital thursday night due to a drug related incident on friday morning the parents who came to take him back to suburban chicago for spring break were dead police could not say why. eric davis sr was a former army national guard officer and part time policeman who had served in iraq his wife was a cancer survivor the shooting put the university on lockdown leaving students behind closed doors helicopters and police cruisers scouring the area for a wanted gunman the gunman left no note no explanation in the shooting coming just two weeks after another nineteen year old gunned down seventeen people at

a high school in florida increases pressure on president donald trump and congress to increase restrictions on guns in america vice president mike pence was in detroit a two hour drive from the shooting in mount pleasant michigan our hearts go out to the fall and everyone in the mount pleasant community that's been impacted and especially to the local state and federal agencies who are working together as we speak on the apprehension and the investigation with most students now gone on spring break police are now searching the gunman's dormitory for clues as to why a family reunion turned deadly john hendren al-jazeera mt pleasant michigan lots more to come here at al-jazeera including four years after flight m h three seventy disappeared the families of those on board.

welcome back much of southeast asia is as you'd expect generally not too bad with a few showers coming through some big storms rome for borneo for instance but much of the philippines actually looking quite good at the moment manila should be largely drawing with plenty of sunshine scattering the showers across java and bali much as you would expect up through the many clincher weather conditions fine for singapore kuala lumpur and then northward into thailand and across into cambodia and southern parts of vietnam with the team in city seeing a high of thirty three degrees heading down into a straight here we still have a lot of really severe storms affecting parts of queens and that sort of circulation of low pressure is going to move very slightly towards the southeast servants twenty four hours being see the extent of the rain we've had with vast amounts coming down one hundred millimeters in places and that's likely to be an ongoing problem through the course of sunday and across western australia it's

looking pretty warm there for perth at twenty nine degrees through into monday warms up if anything but still those showers continue for queens and heading down into new zealand where here weather conditions russia looking fairly quiet at the moment we have got the risk of a few showers on the western coast of both the north island and the south island but really through the next twenty four forty hours for many areas it should be largely fine. on counting the cost the italian job what the next government has to do when it comes to the economy the first draft breaks a treaty gets a frosty reception in the u.k. plus we'll explain what five g.'s all about and if it even matters counting the cost at this time.

let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the u.n. human rights chief says strikes on the besieged syrian enclave of probably amount to war crimes and those responsible should be prosecuted at least twenty three civilians were killed in government raids on friday at least sixteen people have been killed eighty others have been injured in bikini fesses capital walk into eight gunmen were among those killed during the coordinated attacks on the french embassy and the military headquarters. attempts are being made to stop the

old south african flag being displayed the nelson mandela foundation has asked a court to ban it saying it represents hate and racial discrimination welcome web reports from johannesburg. the symbol of the apartheid era government of africa's old flag is controversial to many deeply offensive here members of the white supremacist a.w.b. party held at the funeral of their leader in twenty ten the nelson mandela foundation has asked a court to ban the church's displays of it the flag is synonymous with a part of it and to have it displayed is really it's a celebration of the apartheid crime against humanity and humiliation of its victims it's unambiguously. expression that denies the human dignity of those who suffered under apartheid and particularly black people. from flag was designed the end of apartheid the rainbow nation. the twenty ten

world cup it was graced the old one they were to be seen. but not everyone agrees the old ones should be banned after a forum is an organization that represents afrikaners who are among south africa's white minority its deputy c.e.o. told us the organizations against anyone flying the flag should not be banned if someone stands somewhere waving the old south african flag that's not hate speech it's offensive it's not hate speech if that person wears the flag and says let's go unheard black people then it hate speach. the petition to ban the flag will be presented to the equality court which says in here opponents will also be able to make that case and if the nelson mandela foundation succeeds and the flag is banned anyone who flies it thereafter could face a penalty and it's unlikely to ever amount to more than a fine this couple were both born after the end of apartheid hole. trying to live with one hundred ninety six hours of live on

a minute to maintain the world never even heard of it but after we explained well i think if it's often some people who should be paying i mean after all it is an hour but they just like so yeah i think it should be paid if it often seems like some other people in our country it's a free country you see everyone it's will come here so i think you can still have it is the cause. where you come from and where you are now it is rare for the flag to be shown in public but the nelson mandela foundation wants that to end once and for all malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. if he is holding parliamentary elections on sunday and it's clear there may be no clear outcome both the left and the right are expected to fall behind the anti establishment five star movement lowers the reports. a rainy monday night in this is silly in city of palermo and they're pushing to get into the theatre the man they've all come to see

is the leader of the five star movement what they all have in common is a desire to take back political control from people who they believe the failed them is different is not the. organization so it's made to buy from people everywhere some. make appropriate to do something for itself or for the community for the person and that's exciting for us. in he came just thirty one years old luigi to my old spoke for nearly an hour without notes he didn't mention immigration once the touchstone issue for a right wing looking to turn working class italians against refugees but he mocked endlessly the corruption of mainstream politics which he said made italy and international joke. it's we had better scolding from one side and bronzy from the other they stole the future from my generation. i can't understand how

they dared to show their faces and promise to change things when they had twenty years in government and didn't do anything the whole point was about transparency the message that italy needs a totally new politics in all of this the man your five star policies are still written on the level of bullet points and like a lot of detail but none the less for all these people what this party represents is the basic outrage against the corrupt and useless political that's a low looks like being enough for that five the biggest party in this election. five star has been on a journey no longer the sheltie populism of the found a better grillo no longer do they wanted to lead to leave the euro or the european union but they still insist they will never do coalition deals with the other parties they despise instead five-star now demands

a totally green economy funded by a publicly owned investment bank which organizes the universal basic income for the poor in chaotic cities like rome these ideas look incredibly difficult to achieve but it seems less important than the facts that they say the most all. meant sort of. they are. in the try to collect consensus and from every part of political market so discuss. desires to some extent that is a really wonderful but there is it a lot of problems in the possibility of concrete translation in policies but the final rally in rome the crowd numbered several thousands of italian public is understandably cynical about politics. many complain the five-star won't be any different to the rest of the world it was their leaders are urging again sample the

if they want to govern alone only the backing of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters to give them any chance lawrence lee al jazeera in italy the european union european commission excuse me president has threatened to impose juices and some of america's most well known products like harley-davidson motorcycles bourbon whiskey and levi's jeans is in response the u.s. plans to put a twenty five percent tariff on steel imports a growing list of steel producing countries are considering retaliatory steps. meanwhile president trump has repeatedly accused chinese firms of copyright theft the issue is at the heart of the current trade friction between china and the us adrian brown reports. just over a decade ago this electrical components firm in eastern china faced an uncertain future it was being sued in a u.s.

court over intellectual property rights the chinese company for the action eventually able to prove that the plugs and other devices manufactured here were not copies the case lasted seven years chen whooshing the company's president told me he'd do it again if he had to. so this is american companies are using intellectual property rights as a tool to beat competitors from other countries the final go to rule out. the american market and the overtaxing is on the way shane money is lost us lawsuit in two thousand and ten by then he'd spent more than twenty million dollars in legal fees today he's become something of a celebrity in china's corporate world dispensing advice to other executives involved in similar legal battles or is he too good and pretty sure that this set a clear message and in lightened many chinese enterprises to deal with. their

american competitors as china shifts the focus of its economy from heavy industry to innovation it's now clear that many of its companies are paying greater attention to intellectual property it is now something that is important to down the hallway. all of these technology companies they're now fighting back they're fighting with apple or fighting with whoever it is that they believe is infringing on them so they're learning the rules of the game as it was taught to them by the west and they're in the. age in the process part of that process involves registered trademarks they can show how innovative a country is twenty years ago china had none today it has more than one point three million including ones for the electrical devices made in plant. and with chinese companies starting to grasp the importance of intellectual

property they're also prepared to defend those rights in a foreign called adrian brown al-jazeera in eastern china. the families of a symbol of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy are attending a memorial to mark almost four years since the plane disappeared for slewing has more from kuala lumpur. family members of those who were on board m h three seventy have been paying moving tribute to their loved ones at this memorial event now and they've also been saying that it's very important for the search to continue this is one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries and it's only when once the plane is located can this mystery finally be solved on the search effort is currently being conducted by u.s. based private exploration known as ocean infinity has been contracted by the malaysian government on a no sure no feed basis but it has to locate the wreckage within ninety days that

deadline will come up soon so there's a sense of urgency in this not to especially considering how fast the search area is and the depth of the ocean but ocean infiniti says they are conducting the search not only based on new information that's a real analysis of satellite imagery but also because there is new technology that is now available to that. search conditions be more difficult in the coming weeks simply because it's going to be in the southern hemisphere which means there will be freezing temperatures. heavy winds and strong waves which will make such conditions much more difficult the wetlands of hokkaido provide a rich habitat for thousands of species of animals and plants among them a japan's famous red crowned cranes who find sanctuary the during the winter and the numbers and now slowly recovering after over hunting and destruction of their

habitat pushed them to the brink of extinction. is a conservationist helping to protect them this is his story. chief ranger. the red cross cranes are the largest in japan. hundred forty centimeters tall the wingspan is two point four metres wide there are such dramatic birds and they're a symbol of long life and happiness the i know japan's indigenous people named them sudden come on the god of the wetlands they believe that animals are sacred. from around the middle of february the birds begin to perform the courtship dance young birds seek partners and couples raising children dance in unison they raise their head high and out to one another flap their wings run around and make many gestures it's not as my eyes and i can never get enough of. these birds used to thrive

across the hokkaido region and migrated to the mainland. but by the early one thousand nine hundred over hunting and destruction of their habitat from rampant land development caused a decline in their population at one point they were believed to have been extinct the cranes still here today are believed to originate from a handful that survived in the wetlands or spring water kept the river from freezing. local farmers first spotted them plucking corn in their fields and gave their own food to save the wintering cranes that's how the feeding began and their numbers gradually began to recover yes it's a moving history and we followed up on their effort and continued to provide a stable feeding ground when our institution was founded thirty years ago there were about four hundred cranks now there are eighteen hundred. i'm so relieved when they come back to us in winter it's good to know they were well and raise their

children safely it feels like reuniting with family. feeding is crucial for wintering cranes and we need to keep it. but they're wild birds and they shouldn't get too used to us that's why i do my job carefully even if i want to show them how much i care i remind myself to keep a distance. their numbers continue to grow but there are downsides to think about the birds can die coming too close to him and they can also cause agricultural damage beyond sanctuary we have to lessen these incidents and their dependence on us and let them thrive in the wild. traverses take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the un human rights she says airstrikes on the besieged syrian on klav of eastern ghouta probably amount to war

crimes and those responsible should be prosecuted at least twenty three civilians were killed in government raids on friday what we are seeing east and north or elsewhere in syria are likely war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity civilians are being pounded into submission or death the perpetrators of these crimes must know that they are being identified. not. built up with a view to the prosecution and that they will be home accountable for what they have dam at least sixteen people have been killed and eighty others have been injured in became a fast as capital work to do eight gunmen were among those killed during the coordinated attacks on the french embassy and the military headquarters. yes we did hear that there were a lot of shots fired and damages we were to piece by the army headquarters at least

four people were inside a car they fired there was an explosion we saw a lot of shots fired a lot of smoke and then people started running. families of those on board malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy are attending a memorial to mark almost four years since the plane disappeared it disappeared on march the eighth twenty fourteen as it flew between kuala lumpur and beijing with two hundred thirty nine people on board the charity doctors without borders has suspended all work in the northern nigerian town of ryan after an attack by suspected bomber her at least three aid workers and eight security personnel were killed in the raid in borno state on thursday night there are reports that slave arkell's or it is have released suspects who were detained for the murder of a journalist investigative reporter yann was found shot to death as well as

his fiance in their home in the capital bratislava on sunday right those are the headlines counting the cost is lacking. more than forty thousand africans are facing deportation from israel is awarded more than ninety percent of your to accept as refugees the way it is a zero point zero point one per cent of civil liberties two of those in danger of being thrown out of the country in which they sought refuge talks al-jazeera at this time. a lawyer hasn't seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week we'll look at how italy's fragile economic recovery could be at risk of melting away at if the next government fails to address and key issues stealing for a global trade war us president donald trump's announcement to.