a survivor of a genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but it didn't come to heart and he's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. holding them here is that all. you know hope of finally laying the past to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because you need to if i could just find a think about i could bury him bone hunter at this time on al-jazeera. it's a scene of immense suffering and possible war crimes syrian aircraft dropped leaflets on eastern ghouta telling civilians to leave why many say that's not an option. they aren't suited for this is al jazeera live from london also coming up egypt's

top court rules in favor of saudi arabia in a controversial deal that gives the kingdom two islands in the red sea. no one will win out rights particularly as anti establishment five star movement looks set to win the most votes in sunday's election just why is it so popular and the u.n. says it's the worst place in the world to be a child where in guatemala to find out why. syrian government forces are continuing to push into the rebel held enclave of isa good. activists say they've taken almost complete control of the town of frontier since february the eighteenth more than six hundred people have been killed in the bombardment syrian airplanes on are dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area despite severe shortages of food immense and people say that's just not an

option they know how the reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. is desperate use just one of about four hundred thousand people trapped in eastern huta which is under attack. he is very ill and poor living in a besieged enclave means medicine and food are hard to find i remember quite a lot of the roads here are i am crying my children are cried because i am unable to buy anything for them what we buy situation is very bad we have no money. and for the past two weeks this is what the people have been facing. the only airstrikes artillery shelling more than six hundred civilians have already been killed. syrian aircraft are dropping leaflets over the besieged rebel held eastern huta some provide information and what they call safe exit out of the enclave others urge rebels to lay down their arms promising amnesty if they turn

themselves in the pro-government alliance has been calling on civilians to leave and blame rebels for using them as human shields. for many especially those involved in opposition activities crossing into government territory is not an option there are no security guarantees and people don't want to leave their homes the only one of the year russia is a terrorist state and it has carried out the massacres against the people of east and the humanitarian corridor they talk about is aimed at displacing the people and changing the demography of this region. there are voices of defiance from inside the war zone but the suffering is immense it's not clear how long they will be able to ensure. the syrian national coalition the main opposition body in exile is calling on the united states to enforce a cease fire that was recently adopted by the un security council it also wants

washington to stop what it calls russia's monopoly of decision making in syria the us president donald trump discussed syria with germany's chancellor angela merkel and france's president and manuel mccraw they all called on russia to stop bombing eastern hooter and to force the syrian government to stop offensive operations against civilian areas. destroying civilian infrastructure and making the lives of civilians unbearable are part of a military strategy that has worked in the past and it's now being applied in eastern huta. beirut. egypt's top court has validated a deal to transfer to red sea islands to saudi arabia the agreement was signed when king solomon visited egypt in twenty sixteen sitting between the two countries in the red sea to around and santa fe remain largely. but they lie in a politically sensitive area you hear going to them is al-jazeera is middle east

analyst he says that while most have it one might agree with the decision it's important the eagle process is followed. i believe. it was very important for the region him to get the approval of the consider usual court and i mean the ruling today's ruling you know proves that. the constitutional court which is the highest judicial body in egypt is really part of the routine litany just respond the fact that the way they have egypt did the two others two in favor of saudi arabia is totally. came in a flagrant way it was a flagrant violation of both the local the chips in los and the international law again but you know things happen and unfortunately in and the light of the fact that there is total absence of them obviously in egypt things happen them

. nothing nothing we can do for now to reverse this thing it's really is go to the polls on sunday but it could be some time before the country's leadership is decently did no single policy appears on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government at the last and the rights are expected to fall behind the region demaio is five star movement which is run on a platform of anti establishment and anticorruption barnsley looks at the changing shape of the telling him politically. a rainy monday night in this is city in city of palermo and they're pushing to get into the theater the man they've all come to see is the leader of the five star movement what they'll have in common is a designed to take back political control from people who they believe the failed it is different this is not the. organization so it's made to buy from people everywhere someone to make

a cup right to do something for it's sad for the community for the parson 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 touched at 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 its time an international joke. oh yes 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 its the many of five star policy that still reckon on

the level of bullet points and like a lot of detail but none the less for all the people what this party represents is the basic outrage against the corrupt and useless political class and that's and that's a low looks like being enough to make five the biggest party this early in this election. five star has been on a journey no longer the sheltie populism of the founder of bet that below 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 organize the universal basic income for the poor in the all six cities like road these ideas look pretty difficult to achieve but it seems less important than the fact that they say the little. movement is

a sort of. they are. in the try to collect consensus and electors from every part of political market so this kind of list of desires to some extent 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 and many complain the five-star won't be any different to the rest of the boy who was the leaders urging in south 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. where the db is in rome for us right now and the team or it does seem that five star are saying all the right things same seem to be

a breath of fresh air but how well i at six back to perform tomorrow. so you got really is one of the key questions as to who gets to be the biggest party in the building behind me in the lower chamber of parliament after the election they are they were heads when polling finished two weeks ago in about twenty eight percent the biggest single party but they were around ten percent behind that coalition of former prime minister silvio berlusconi and two other major parties five star themselves at that rally on friday night that you saw in lawrence's report there when i was down there and to my own said that he had seen an unpublished report an unpublished poll excuse me suggesting that they were going to surprise many people and in his words the party is one step away from victory but victory for him as lawrence said means not entering into the any alliances or

coalitions well that will be extremely tricky unless they win a number of marginal seats in the south of italy they're not likely to get a majority in parliament and they will need to reach out to other people they say they're different they're not part of the old what they see as a corrupt is stablished moment going back decades in twenty thirteen they first entered parliament seen as rather disunited and not with a clear message will now they say that the young modernizing policy reaching out to the left and the right it really is hard to predict there how well they'll do and interestingly how they would see the key thing they thought the key issues of this particular action i'm guessing they are economy and unemployment. quite rights they are particularly strong with the one in three of italy under twenty five's who are unemployed. suggesting that in

power they would bring in a guaranteed universal basic income of around one thousand dollars a month they want to raise taxes on energy companies interestingly one of their big things has been to oppose a move towards compulsory vaccinations despite an outbreak of measles recently so they still are a policy which has some very unique policies one of the areas lawrence was saying that they stand out is in not having moved to a harder approach on immigration which even the ruling democratic party have done in recent weeks so they're really trying to distance themselves in that on that is she bought that issue is something that does concern many italians and some of the other parties have said in different proportions that they would start to deport some of the hundreds of thousands of migrants that have arrived in this country

over recent years and it's very very possible that silvio berlusconi ends up not himself but his coalition ends up being the largest bloc in parliament with the support of the far right in the in in the shape of somebody a group called the brothers of italy who really do advocate sending back a large number of migrants a colorful election and our life around thanks very much. still to come on the program germany's social democrats prepared to announce if they're willing to form another ground coalition with angela merkel's conservatives and then meet the japanese ranger who is helping to save the country's most famous from extinction.

welcome back we've got some really high temperatures across parts of eastern china at the moment twenty five degrees in shanghai and looking pretty warm for fuzhou and hong kong now this is a frontal system further towards the north and that's going to make your inroads into southeast and there is so shanghai will see a big drop in temperatures as we head on into monday meanwhile fuzhou in hong kong and start to see want to shower is pretty warm conditions across vietnam where there are twenty dying degrees and across the rest of indochina rosie speaking quite conditions they're fine and dry into south asia and here you can see a massive cloud moving up across northern parts of india and pakistan and into india so there's some snow likely over the himalayas and some of the hill stations will see some falls a snow but otherwise a woman for delhi there thirty two degrees and coming southward hyderabad at thirty seven showers a possible for sure lancaster the old downpour certainly possible in colombo here in the arabian peninsula where the conditions are all looking good at the moment twenty eight degrees here in doha fine conditions around the rest of the

gulf states there in abu dhabi at twenty four degrees on the other side the potential should be a fun one in mecca highs of thirty four degrees and also expected and brought down santa in yemen with highs of twenty three. to take also been less than one generation to the developing countries and one of the most developed countries in the world we have to be prepared for just a need for new brigadier and feeing to pretty rough and tough men singapore's founding father created a nation of political dynasty but a family disputes undermining that legacy what's happened to the family and what's happened in singapore's institutions i just don't know what would have caused the whole grief people in power investigates the house that leave at this time on al jazeera.

welcome back a reminder of the top stories here an al-jazeera syrian abstains are now dropping leaflets telling people to leave the rebel held enclave of east and guta more than six hundred people have been killed during the government's nearly two week long bombing campaign egypt's top court says validated a deal to transfer to the red sea islands to saudi arabia the agreement was signed one clean sound one visit to egypt in twenty sixteen and italians will head to the polls on sunday but pollsters predict it will be a three way race with no single party on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government. tens of thousands of supporters of russia's president vladimir putin have gathered in moscow to hear him speak ahead of the election later this month

with no significant opposition he's expected to easily win a fourth. john the hall reports from moscow. big crowds are gathering here for this stadium political rally it is in fact the old olympic stadium here in moscow and people have turned up two weeks before the presidential election in support of just one man hoping to see him here in fact it is of course blood in me uprooted. those who want to support a president who vote for him that's the payment. for bishop feature. such sports it's like a sport there is one theater and then there are outsiders the challengers that said you can compare it with a sports race and here we are at the olympic stadium. after eighteen years in power putin is going for another six year term constitutionally possibly his

last but the result isn't really much doubt there is a field of seven candidates running against him but it's more about a picture of democracy just as his critics might say this is a picture of his support and here he is now president putin making his way onto the stage look at him still it now she's a little startled you want to make a country brought forward looking into the future because i'm sitting here we live here our children live here and our children are like grandchildren will live here . the opinion polls presumably don't lie president putin's popularity ratings consistently of them i would get around seventy five percent had turned out of straw mrs he made in his speech to parliament a few days ago not just economic growth but functional technological advances in the years to come and a key promise to restore russia to its rightful place as a new career and military superpower right our eyes with the united states after going to play big stream really well with people in far corners of this country

moving many can simply not imagine another leader who are able to achieve all of their who are going to hold al-jazeera over the last group. a standoff is developing over plans to. store nuclear waste in a small french town face are confronting environmentalist who are protesting the move they're upset over proposals to bury the waste five hundred meters below the ground david chaytor. thirty expected confrontation has now started the demonstrators have got. eight hundred yards of the the forest where the nuclear waste. will be built to try these persons here but the demonstrations are determined to try and push their way through and will help you stay for a fight is now beginning. bicheno fastow's prime minister says he's revolted by friday's attacks on the army headquarters and french embassy in which eight people were killed whole coveted made the comments while meeting the army chief at the

site in the capital ouagadougou by the assault took place security forces killed ace of the attackers and several arrests have now been made more than forty people are believed to have been killed in the latest round of ethnic violence to hit democratic republic of the congo that bodies were discovered in several villages in north eastern province more than one hundred people have died and two hundred thousand fled their homes since mid december ukrainian police have shut down a political protest camp and arrested at least fifty people in the capital k.f. six protesters and four police officers were injured in the fighting supporters of opposition leader mikhail saakashvili set up the makeshift camp last october even calling for the creation of an anti corruption port. germany social democrats are counting the ballots after members ots on whether or not to enter into another

coalition with angela merkel the result will either let merkel finally form a government more than five months of the election or plunge the country into more political uncertainty dominate cain has more. thursday night in leipzig and for the social democrats the hot topic is coalition across germany the party members are deciding if they want to work with anger merkel's christian democrats again young members like binyamin girl there are clear. because of his. there's no grand vision in the scrum coalition and i think we can only develop as an opposition party i think it's not logical that the election losers build the new government contrast that with the views of older members like christoph yaps he's proud of his fifty years as a social democrat and says pragmatism is important i was also. a list i think i'm a realist i don't want germany to become insignificant in europe we need to

contribute in a way that makes our continent grow together and we can only do that with a government here that has a stable majority. certainly that's the view of the party machine reaching this point has already cost the leader martin shirts his job his designated successor and their knowledge has tried hard to gain support for the deal which many members feel is one of the head not the heart kevin out has led the campaign against another grand coalition and has encouraged thousands of people to join the party to vote it down very it's pretty high and of course we've been in the grand coalition for four years and our election performances keep getting weaker so when we've just had our worst ever result it's time to ask if this is the right way to make our party strong again. the only opinion poll taken of the party membership so far suggests a small yes vote at the same time the party's popularity is lower now than in

september's elections of the parties torn in the membership is torn people are in secure what actually would help the s.p.d. to survive all of which brings us back to sunday's vote a yes will mean angle america remains as chancellor but with leading social democrats in important cabinet posts a no will mean she probably remains as chancellor but with no majority in parliament no social democrats in cabinet and facing the possibility of new elections down the line dominic cain al-jazeera berlin police in slovakia have released seven italians who are being held as suspects in the murder of a journalist and his girlfriend tens of thousands of people marched to bratislava on friday night to remember young because e ak the seven arrested businessman had been named by a crazy act in a report into alleged political corruption involving the italian mafia.

got somalia is failing to protect the rights of its children according to the united nations its committee on the rights of the child says it's seriously concerned about the persistent high level of violence against children and high rates of chronic malnutrition in the central american nation david meserve reports from the country's south. the stanley cup son has a rare neurological disorder when he started to lose feeling in his legs she took him to a doctor but the cost for surgery was in the thousands of dollars and her husband earns less than five dollars a day working in the fields if it weren't for private donations from abroad ellis sale would have lost his ability to walk. when your children are healthy give thanks to god long look at that as though they may have but when they're sick you don't even want to see them lying in bed in pain it's so hard.

despite having one of the healthiest economies in latin america. is in terms of wealth one of the most unequal in the region it's children particularly in rural indigenous communities often pay the price children in guatemala face a number of serious problems from chronic child malnutrition to extreme poverty gang violence to abuse in their own homes it's one of the reasons why unicef and other organizations have cold water mall one of the worst countries in the world to be a child. last year forty one girls were killed in a fire at a government run children's home outside the capital guatemala city the tragedy put renewed focus on obligation to guarantee the life and integrity of all children. the committee on the rights of the child recently published dozens of recommendations and unicef continues to push for a national system of child protection and more investment in social programs. that

at the on the new system at the end of this generation of children is the largest mall in history if we don't invest in such a large group of children the country will lose a huge opportunity to develop it could be a disaster. as one of the children who were falling through the cracks the thirteen year old started shining shoes full. time when he was just seven the little money he earns helps his family survive jim which of the hottest shows the high and gamble where i come from people work in the fields growing corn and beans it's hard work there are lots of laborers but there aren't many jobs that's why we came here for the whole of the scieno dreams of working in a bank someday but if the government continues to fail children like him it's likely his dream will also fail david mercer al-jazeera second the back is what

a modern. saturday mocks un world wildlife day aimed at raising awareness of the plight of threatened species among japan's famous red crowned cranes who find century in the wetlands and over when took their numbers and now slowly recovering off the over hunting and destruction of the habitat pushed them to the brink of extinction asama is a conservationist helping to protect them has a story in his own words. imo somehow the other chief ranger of to eat to hunt to sanctuary. the red crowned cranes are the largest birds in japan just one 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 in sidon coming the god of the wetlands they believe that animals are sick. from

around the middle of february the bird speaking to perform the courtship to young birds see partners and couples raising children dance in unison they raise their head high out to one another flap their wings run around and make many gestures it's mesmerizing i can never get enough of. these birds used to thrive on cross the whole region. and migrated to the mainland. but by the early one nine hundred s. 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 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. with their 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 humans we can also cause agricultural damage beyond sanctuary we have to lessen these incidents and they're dependent on us and let them thrive for the moment. many people in wales remain cut off by snow off

the days of bad weather transports being affected across much of the u.k. with railway lines and airports closed temperatures are now starting to rise for people trying to travel are being warned to expect serious delays it's not just the u.k. that's been struggling with winter weather much of northern europe has been snowdon and storms in the north eastern u.s. have left more than two million people without power. let's get to speed with the top stories on al-jazeera syrian government forces have reportedly taken almost complete control of the town of a frontier in a single to more than six hundred people have been killed during the government's nearly two weeks long bombing campaign syrian airplanes are dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area with no security guarantees residents say that's

not an option. egypt's top court has validated a deal to transfer two red sea islands to saudi arabia the agreement was signed when king solomon visited egypt in two thousand and sixteen opponents say egypt's sovereignty over to iran and some if it lands dates back to nineteen six before saudi arabia was founded italians will head to the polls on sunday for a general election pollsters predict it will be a three way race with no single party on track to gain the required forty percent form a government of the left and the right are expected to fall behind the weedy to meiosis five star movement which is run on a platform of empty stomachs mint and anticorruption needy bob has more on the five star movement campaign pledges very particularly strong with the

one in three of italy on the twenty five's who are already employed. suggesting that in power they would bring in a guaranteed universal basic income of around a thousand dollars a month they want to raise taxes on energy companies interestingly one of the big things has been to oppose a move towards compulsory vaccinations despite an outbreak of measles recently french police are confronting environmentalist's who are protesting plans to store nuclear waste in a small town in the east of the country the protesters upset over proposals to bury the waste five hundred metres below the ground trees have already moved an activist camp close to the site but protesters remain defiant. and became the fast says prime minister assesses the volta by friday's attacks on an army headquarters and french embassy in which eight people were killed all comforted by made the comments

while meeting the army chief at the site in the capital one. up to speed with the headlines next comes out people in power stay with us. by the time of his death in twenty fifteen singapore's founding father lee kuan yew had one widespread respect just the often take to the city states' perspective but he'd also been accused of restricting freedom of speech and repressing the political opposition now he's complex legacy is under scrutiny and made a bit of

a family dispute and growing coolness to greater democracy we've been to find out what. can he.