forced to be displaced by their governments in one nine hundred twenty three it was very greek and turkish villagers return to their roots almost a century later. and reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. people should be forced to move from where they were born which are. the great population exchange at this time on al-jazeera. it's a scene of immense suffering and possible war crimes syrian aircraft roughly flips on eastern good sets telling civilians to leave why many say that's not an option. hello i'm success and this is not just there

a long way 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 price but it's allays anti establishment falling star movement looks set to win the most votes and sunday's election just why is it so popular and us hollywood prepares for its biggest night we look at the often forgotten costume designers to tell stories on screen stage by stage. syrian government forces are continuing to push into the rebel held and clay of a single senate in moscow activists say they've taken almost complete control of the town of haifa near since february eighteenth more than six hundred people have been killed in the bombardment syrian airplanes are now dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area despite severe shortages of food and medicine people say

that's just not an option zain all 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 what a lot of the roads here are i am crying my children are cried because i am unable to buy anything for them every my situation is very bad we have no money. and for the past two weeks this is what the people have been facing up. to the. airstrikes artillery shelling more than six hundred civilians have already been killed. syrian aircraft are dropping leaflets over the besieged rebel held eastern some provide information and what they call safe exits 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 over here 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 that 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. elsewhere in syria at least thirty six pro syrian government fighters have reportedly been killed by turkish airstrikes in a free and on friday the turkish military released this footage which it says are its helicopters targeting kurdish y p g positions in the west of offering forces

loyal to the syrian government helping repel the turkish offensive forty one turkish soldiers have been killed since the operation began in january 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 twenty sixteen sitting between the two countries in the red sea tehran and sun affair remain large they are occupied but they lie in a politically sensitive area you hear going to name is al jazeera middle east analyst he says that while not everyone might agree with the decision it's important that the legal process is follet. i believe. it was very important for the region 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 stress upon the

fact that the way they have egypt did the two are those two in favor of saudi arabia is totally. came in a flagrant way it was a flagrant violation of both the local the egyptian laws and the international law again but you know all things happen and unfortunately in and the light of the fact that this total absence of the marcos' in egypt things happen and nothing nothing we can do for now to reverse this thing. italians go to the polls on sunday but it could be some time before the country's leadership is decided no single party appears on track to gain the required forty

percent to form a government of the left and the right are expected to fall behind the way due to my is find still movement which is wrong on the platform of anti establishment and anti-corruption lowenstein looks at the changing shape of italian politics. a rainy monday night in this is city and 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 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 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 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 corrupts and useless political class and that's that's a low looks like being enough for that five the biggest party this early 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 the all six cities like road these ideas look pretty difficult to achieve but it seems less important than the fact that they say it's a. movement is a sort of. they are. in the try to collect consensus and electors from every part of the political market so discount off list of desires to some extent is a really wonderful but there is that

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 boy who was a leader in sam think though if they want to govern alone they'll need the backing of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters to give them any chance lawrence lee al-jazeera in italy. on the day bob or his life or as a rome and the same five star movement oversee catching a lot of attention but just how well are they actually expected to do at the polls . well see they are expected well it's very possible that they will be the largest single party nationally in the last opinion polls two weeks ago they were on twenty eight percent out ahead as the

largest single party leads to my own rally that you saw part of in lawrence's report there at the parts of the popular on friday nights demaio said that he'd seen an unpublished opinion poll which suggested that they could do better than most people expect he said that we are one step away from victory well the party has changed some of its policies you heard the phrase take back control that was something the advocates of britain leaving the e.u. breck's it have used for europe but here it's taking back control from the political class as they say as they see it a political class that has been corrupt for decades on both left and right but they have ruled out forming a coalition in parliament the building behind me so it may be extremely tricky for them actually to grab power unless they soften that stance and dimaio has suggested something called a government coalition not quite clear what he means by that he says he won't be offering ministries to other parties will wait and see but certainly on the other

side there is also a strong possibility that the coalition led by silvio berlusconi will emerge as the strongest force to try to form a government in the days and weeks after sunday's election many many people had written off silvio berlusconi he can't stand himself but he does have his fans and not just that the northern league has grown recently they held their final rally on friday saying again that immigration was a key problem for italy and people who've arrived in recent years are taking jobs away from young italians so as well as anti-corruption and as you mentioned i am a gratian what else is one of the dominant themes of this campaign what are people actually going to be going to the polls regarding. well one of the key things of course is money in people's pockets and unemployment

youth unemployment in italy for the under twenty five is around one third the country also got the second highest ject debt to g.d.p. in the eurozone and that's a huge challenge for whoever is in government. about a basic income many of the parties have actually promised a universal guaranteed income for example the five star movement has said it should be around one thousand dollars some people have even said that they would make it higher economists are asking where is the money going to come from but it's certainly a war of words if you like between the parties as to who will do the most for working class italians who are not just concerned about immigration in terms of what it's doing for the economy but in terms of how it's changing society there's been a lot of tensions on the streets in this campaign there have been campaigners for

the far right and for the far left to be physically attack and that's worried a lot of people very concerned that the groups that are on the fringes of the parties who are in parliament are being pushed by dangerous rhetoric towards violence and i think all of the main parties have said that they don't want they don't associate themselves with those groups but there has been some leakage between the kind of slogans that they've been using so most people hoping that sunday goes peacefully but not daring to guess who's going to be in power many thanks dana the ballot i live for us on the italian elections coming from rome. still to come on the program standoff in a french field a clash with police over plans to waste in a small town and why nigeria's government is having to pay parents to take their kids to school in northeastern states.

welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've got a largely dry conditions across the eastern areas temperatures looking pretty good there for marty and in kazakhstan tashkent then is back you stand around the caspian sea is also looking pretty good turn around at nineteen degrees now we've got some rain and some snow around the caucuses and unsettled weather conditions here generally but certainly looking quite warm for lebanon now beirut twenty three rising to twenty four as we head through into monday with the winds having come up from more southern parts of africa now as we move down into arabian peninsula's also looking good here dry conditions fine conditions maker thirty four here in doha is warming up temperatures of twenty eight degrees in fact and in very close to thirty as we head through monday despite an increase in cloud let's head down into southern portions of africa we've got

a tropical cyclone which is just running towards the east coast a mother going to be bringing more heavy rain here but otherwise for much of south africa weather conditions are fine same goes for much of botswana once you get up into parts feingold or through zambia and towards zimbabwe then we've got some heavy showers developing and as we head into monday we'll likely see some heavy downpours affecting lusaka with highs of twenty four.

welcome back a reminder of the top stories sarah knowledge is there a syrian airplanes on now dropping leaflets telling people to leave the rebel held enclave in eastern guta more than six hundred people have been killed during the government's nabi two week long bombing campaign egypt's top coat as a holiday to the deal to transfer to the red sea islands to saudi arabia the agreement was signed one thousand salmond visited egypt and twenty sixteen and italian pollsters predict sunday's election will be a three way race with next single party on track to gain the required forty percent

to form a government. begin a fast as prime minister says he's a voltage 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 sites in the capital ouagadougou when the assaults took place security forces killed eight of the attackers and several arrests have now been made nicholas haq. this is the of any of the nation the main artery of the capital ouagadougou and this is where a taxi packed with explosives on friday drove up this road and detonated a bomb inside the military had orders simultaneously down this road a few hundred meters away in the french embassy the french cultural center there too and it took place these are supposed to be some of the safest and most secured areas in this country people here say if attackers are able to penetrate these

areas then no one is safe of an attack now earlier today the prime minister visited the site of the attack now there are many people wounded there are no official numbers that the authorities here wouldn't allow us to go inside the hospital but the prime minister told me that the scenes inside the military headquarters were up a clip thick so he's calling for all of the people in paso to unite to come together to continue their trust in the armed forces deployed along this a hell with other countries involved in the g five hell led by friends this is where people here in this government believe the attackers came from now the prime minister is calling for unity this this other attack he's calling on people from brick enough to remain united and to support the security forces. more than

forty people have believed to have been killed in the latest round of ethnic violence to hit the democratic republic of congo the bodies were discovered in several villages in north eastern true a province more than one hundred people have died and two hundred thousand have fled their homes since december. the families of those on board the missing malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy have held a vigil for their relatives almost four years after the plane disappeared without trace the boeing triple seven was carrying two hundred thirty nine passengers and crew when it went missing on the way from kuala lumpur to beijing fluence louis has been speaking to the families united by grief and a quest to know the two families and friends of those on board malaysia airlines flight three seventy gathered in kuala lumpur to mark four years since the plane disappeared graced novenas mother was on that flight and grace has been leading the

demand for the search effort to continue in the beginning it was a lot about myself about michael and about. my feeling and my how upset i was at how things were going but as time went on it became more and more about a vision fifty about a more global issue a more national issue about setting a good reset and we don't want something like this happening again m h three seventy disappeared on its way to beijing from kuala lumpur in march two thousand and fourteen. crash investigators say the flight ended in the indian ocean a path that drastically different from its intended direction is not clear how or why that happened after a two year effort the malaysian chinese and or strayed in governments suspended the search then in january ocean infinity a private exploration company hired by the malaysian government began a new search it will be paid if it locates the wreckage within ninety days it's not yet known if the search will continue if the plane is not located within the

stipulated time families of the passengers have never given up hope but they understand that this could well be the last attempt even if the aircraft is found retrieving the wreckage could require substantial time and effort extensive marketing will have to be undertaken to determine the spread of the wreckage i imagine that c.c.t.v. robots recent dail to take pictures and video all of the wreckage so they can come up with a lifting plan decide which of the most important parts to look from the surface and then come up with a plan to do that perhaps then will there be some concrete answers to one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur. a standoff is developing over plans to store nuclear waste in a small french town police are conference confronting environmentalist's who are protesting the move they're upset over proposals to bury nuclear waste five hundred

meters below the ground he's already removed and activists can't close to the site which is east of paris. so the expected confrontation has now started the demonstrators have got. eight hundred yards of the of the forest where the nuclear waste. will be built in the twenty's presence here but the demonstrations are determined to try and push their way through and will help you stay for a fight is now beginning. place in slovakia have released seventy talionis who are being held as suspects in the murder of a journalist and his girlfriend tens of thousands of people marched through bratislava on friday nights to remember young crazy for the seven arrested businessmen had been named by cuisia in a report into alleged political corruption involving the italian mafia ukrainian

place have shut down a political protest camp and arrested at least fifty people in the capital here six protesters and four police officers were injured in the fighting supporters of opposition leader mikhail saakashvili set up the makeshift camp last october they've been calling for the creation of an anti corruption course they say they found grenades and smoke bombs in the raid. and the people in wales remain cut off by snow off the days of weather transports been affected across much of the u.k. israel way lines and airports closed the cold snap has been blamed for dozens of deaths across europe. the doctrine of one hundred ten schoolgirls in northern nigeria last month has again highlighted the extreme challenges millions of children face in getting a basic education on top of the threat of violence is that because of corruption in nigeria's education sector and resistance i parents actually addressed travel to

the northwestern city of sokoto where the government is now paying parents to take their children to school. on the dusty streets into a classroom i desire is finally get you an education. like ten thousand other girls should have a chance to pursue our dream of becoming a doctor thanks to a government funding scheme for hearings a grandmother says the fact they know how does a school has also used their waters so 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 ruhlman for girls in schools and supporters stage 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 their daughters in the classroom they feel of confortable and

only willing to release them to go to school so we do with that work if it is for the peculiar benefit that you're getting from the proceeds of hawking by this girl's release them to us let them go to the classroom every month we'll give you this much but critics say corrupt local education administrators sabotage the implementation of the first program and fear the new one will also feel that this isn't people who are brilliant on the system so will never succeed. you have to get read all of this people and under do poorly is education. at fourteen. spices in the streets but still hopes one day our parents will allow her to get an education was i wound up as 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 baghdad all the basic education is three decades of official corruption have had a devastating effect on public schools parents who can afford to take that huge expensive private school. but only a few can especially here in a region with one of the highest rates of poverty in nigeria comedy grease al jazeera supported. colombian presidential candidate and former rebel leader rigaud long though now will undergo hall surgery the fifty nine year old also known as too much nko was rushed to hospital in bogota on thursday suffering a heart attack o'donnell played a key role in

a peace deal with the government in twenty sixteen and now it's fox political party . hollywood is gearing up for its most percent just night at the oscars that's when the actors and filmmakers behind this year's greatest cinematic fates are rewarded for their creativity with another set of artists whose hard work often gets overlooked all the costume designers are apprentice went to the los angeles fashion institute to find out more. clothes make the man as the saying goes and often they make the movie too at the fashion institute of designs museum in los angeles oscar nominated apparel is on display in all its glory fashion designer nick for rails says costume is a subtle but vital part of all great films a lot of people say you know when you really don't notice the costumes in a film and the costume designer has done their job. getting. nominated costume design in victoria and abdul sends messages about wealth class and power the

clothes especially for a victorian up to and queen victoria it's showing you who she is a queen good custom design is more than beautiful dresses it requires painstaking historical accuracy for the film darkest hour costume designer jacqueline duran went to extraordinary lengths to lend authenticity to actor gary oldman portrayal of winston churchill to sue not vanity. we loose about the actual sample growth in the world who made a lot of things to work suits and they're still in business and so they flew out a tailor from london to los angeles to fit gary oldman for the suits that he wore in the film now they did that went with him wearing a fat suit one of this year's nominees for best costume design is a film about a costume designer daniel day lewis says neurotic could jury

a in phantom threat when i was a boy. in the ninety's i definitely think that there is a bit of kudos to the profession that we as fashion designers do that is put into the film it's almost like an obama and i what i love about it is putting fashion out in the forefront you know and it's showing you how important costumes can be to tell the story telling stories on screen stitch by deliberate stitch rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. we've plenty more content on our website site just take on al-jazeera dot com. my. pick up the top stories here on al-jazeera syrian government forces have reportedly taken almost complete control of the town of haifa nea in eastern guta more than six hundred people have been killed during the

government's nearly two week long bombing campaign syrian planes are dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area but with no security guarantees i didn't say that's not an option egypt's top courts has validated a deal to transfer to the red sea islands to saudi arabia the agreement was signed one king solomon visited egypt in twenty sixteen opponents say it sovereignty over to iran and son affair islands dates back to nineteen zero six before saudi arabia was found it became known as prime minister has condemned friday's attacks on an army headquarters and french embassy in which eight people were killed paul cover to made the comments while meeting the army chief of the sites in the capital we're going to go where the assault took place is aryans will head to the polls on sunday for a general election pollsters are predicting a three way race with no single party on track to gain the required forty percent

to form a government both the left and the rights are expected to fall behind the weedeater miles five star movement which is run on a platform of anti establishment and anti corruption nadeem baba has more only five star movements campaign pledges. very particularly strong with the one in three of it's only under twenty five's who are unemployed. 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 i'm french place are confronting environmentalist's who are protesting times to store nuclear waste in a small town in the east of the country the passes are angry about proposals to

burying the waste time hundred meters below the ground today with all the headlines stay with us next stop is inside story. two attacks in the heart of looking up fossils capital it happened despite a regional mitchell found that's meant to prevent such attacks so he's not campaign looking for the intervention needed this is the inside story.