a shining city strutting from the rubble of a devastated. the chechen president one of the crime. and all constraint of the war. in the. days to remember. and tale of repression chechnya war without trace at this time and now disease. 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. hello again i'm suits us and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up

it's allianz will head to the polls in just a few hours the anti establishment five star movement looks set to win the most votes just why is it so popular more than forty people are reported dead in ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo. and germany social democrats prepared to announce if that willing to form another ground coalition but i'm going to cause conservatives. syrian government forces are continuing to push into the rebel held enclave of eastern goodson is a mask activists say they've taken almost complete control of the town of funny since february 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 or medicine. people say that's just not an

option they know how the reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. i was a little shot through or is desperate he is 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 crying because i am unable to buy anything for them my 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 massacre as against the people of eastern 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 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. and then asked trying to press have targeted aid workers in a single in this force it uploaded to social media a rescue team can be seen helping an injured man the back of an ambulance then and asked strike at the vehicle doctors without borders have previously voiced concerns about the practice of double tapping whereby an area is hits and then targeted

again aid workers arrive to help the wounded. thank. you. 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 but let's take a closer look at the main players in this election former prime minister silvio berlusconi has launched yet another political comeback his fourth italia party is part of a center right coalition that is on track to form the next government the eighty one year old can't hold public office because of a tax fraud conviction but he could become king maker for italia could form a coalition with the league a party led by matty or salvini it's euro skeptic and anti immigrant that contrasts with the party of current prime minister paolo gentil only the democratic party or

p.d. is pro europe and pro immigrants but it's failed to engage young voters luigi de mayo is the prime minister ariel pick of the five star movement an anti establishment anti corruption party which burst on to the scene five years ago it could win the most votes of any one single party but not enough to govern alone has this report. a rainy monday night in this is cillian 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 all have in common is a desire to take back political control from people who they believe to fail 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 itself or 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 and 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 it's the man your five star policy that's still written on the level of bullet points and lack a lot of detail but none the less for all these people what this party represents

is the basic power of outrage against the corrupts and useless political class and that's and that's a low looks like being enough for that five the biggest party there for me 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 organized the universal basic income for the poor in feel sick 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 this kind of list of desires to some extent is a really wonderful but there is it a lot of problems in deposit. 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 the leader in south think 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. and the developer is in rome for a certain the game they're obviously getting a lot of and signed off on the star really expected to do well in the election on sunday. well yes they are but it depends how well obviously luigi

demaio is a different kind of figure from the parties the movement's historic leader better grillo if you can call him historic for a party that was only founded in twenty eleven luigi in the final rally here in rome on friday said that he'd seen a poll that had been conducted after the last legal ones two weeks ago unpublished then but he said that was very surprising in the five star movement in his words a one step away from victory will victory for any group in parliament means as you were saying forty percent now five star not protected to get that they're the biggest largest bloc but they've ruled out forming any coalitions and so it really is hard to see how they would be able to actually form form the next government silvio berlusconi's alliance roughly ten percent ahead in those latest opinion

polls but the five star movement have been grabbing votes from both right and left as lawrence was saying only issues like fighting youth unemployment they have stayed away in large part from some of the major themes of the other policies like immigration they say that they're going to fight corruption and basically be a breath of fresh air a new kind of politics for italy whether they can do that depends whether a they can get enough votes but be whether they can actually reach out to other parties as well i was really are the key themes we're talking about. just mentioned immigration obviously the economy unemployment is that what people are really going to think about when they make that cross on sunday. yeah i think those are the main themes immigration really is something that people on the street will tell you is a concern because of the rapid arrival of hundreds of thousands of people via the mediterranean

in the last few years a lot of commentators have said that actually there's a lot of misinformation fake news if you like being spread during the campaign by many different sources which has led to the public to overestimate the number of. arrivals for example that it's only not point four percent of the italian population who are refugees or asylum seekers that's around a tenth of the the percentage in sweden but nonetheless people do say that it's impacting on their job prospects in the northern league part of berlusconi's coalition directly say that they're taking jobs away from young italians and so advocate repatriation sending people back whether that's possible in the short term debatable but the other thing is youth unemployment one in three of the under twenty five's are jobless and hundreds of thousands of italians have left the country such as britain to seek work so yes it's the spending power that people

have the perceived threat from immigration some of the parties on the far right have linked that to crime although experts dispute the link there and so it's really really because of these themes are shared by some of the parties it's hard to say who will actually do the best out of it great to get out they found a db out of their life right. at least seventy nine people have died in the latest into ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo dozens of people were killed in the village of mazar on friday evening and more attacks have been reported in three nearby villages on saturday more than two hundred thousand people have fled the area in recent months to escape the violence paul brennan reports witnesses said the ethnic lendu militia went from house to house hacking people to death with machetes and burning the buildings afterwards the victims came from the majority ethnic him a group of the number of fatalities makes this the most deadly attack in the recent

uptick in violence between them. footage from as a shows some villages looking shocked others appearing vengeful and angry the a cheery region was already blighted by food shortages and now this. people are dying and there is nobody to bury the bodies children are also dying of hunger there is no supervision we worry we want peace to return among the population so that everyone can go back to their homes and we can say. that soldiers are thin on the ground despite the reassurances of the army you know somebody would have said why we are here with additional instructions from the president to see what is going on and see how to resolve the situation. the violence in the province of authority has forced two hundred thousand people to flee their homes and the town a visit by the provincial governor did little to reassure some of them to him and then do a longstanding enemies that outbreaks of low level violence have been common but

not on such a scale is this paul brennan al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera what's next on donald trump's terrorist hit list the u.s. president threatens to impose duties on your pain products as the war of words ask a likes and standoff in a french feel this process is class with police and the plans to store nuclear waste. hello and welcome back the worse the snow is gone from many parts of europe but we still have some snowfall to contend with particular across parts of russia of this twenty four hour some really cold air still entrenched across that part of the world meanwhile out towards the west we call that low pressure system bring him out of the air up from the southwest visibility problems and then melting snow be an issue so flooding could well be a significant problem across parts of the u.k.

. so although conditions generally through the course of monday central parts of europe so not as cold as there have been by any means but still pretty disturbed weather down through the adriatic into parts of the balkans on the other side of the mediterranean we still got a few showers affecting coastal parts village here in tunis here with some bruce wins because you come further along the coastline is looking fine and car is looking pretty warm in the moment temperatures there well on into the thirty's as the flow comes up from the desert southwest heading into central parts of africa we've still some heavy showers across parts of east africa through uganda towards gabon d.r. congo much of west africa there looks should be largely dry and fine plenty of sunshine for akra and ghana and highs of thirty two then into southern portions of africa as a tropical cycle and running close to madagascar otherwise fine and south africa twenty three in cape town.

forced to be displaced by their governments in nineteen twenty three. it was very bad greek and turkish villagers returning to their own destiny to. reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. people shouldn't be forced to move from the land of the born rich or. the great population exchange at this time. welcome back to remind all of the top stories there and al-jazeera syrian airplanes are now dropping leaflets telling people to leave the rebel held enclave of east

and more than six hundred people have been killed in the government's nearly two week long bombing campaign terry impulse to predict sunday's election will be a three way race with no single party on track to gain the required to present to form a government and at least seventy nine people have died in the latest into ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo where the attackers going house to house a can people to death and burning buildings. u.s. president all trump has lashed out at the e.u. at what he describes as a trade imbalance the president says the u.s. has an eight hundred billion dollar yearly trade deficit because if with what he called very stupid trade deals and policies and his latest target appears to be europe well behind easterbrook is in washington for us so as a moderate you just turn it's all about the pressure that's been coming on him or

is he just getting even more irate about the situation. well he seems to be getting more agitated sue when it's saturday and often the president will take to twitter and he did today and one of the things that he tweeted was a threat to slap tariffs on european cars coming into the u.s. and this threat seems to be prompted by the you saying that it would in against those steel and aluminum tariffs slapped tariffs on american products going into europe and those products included bluejeans and bourbon and harley davidson motorcycles now the president's own party says that slapping these tariffs on these steel and aluminum tariffs are a bad idea it would spark a trade war and it would actually those tariffs would do more harm than good to american manufacturers and american jobs particularly in areas like the u.s. auto industries and the parts industries which use a lot of specialty steel in u.s.

cars and auto parts so he doesn't seem to be backing down so it's kind of tough to determine at this point where things will go from here indeed i mean he's tapped out this on other subjects before now and then nothing's happened off the words he's not quite followed through this has the potential to escalate if indeed some of the within the policy doesn't. right and it's important to point out that this is one of those issues that the president campaigned on this trade immigration dismantling obamacare tax reform these were these are issues that are near and dear to his or this is something that he campaigned on and he's followed through on some of the threats when it comes to trade he said that he wanted to potentially get out of nafta and the u.s. is currently renegotiating nafta he did not like the transport sipek partnership

and the u.s. scrapped that plan so now he's moved on to to trade in these tariffs and so you know it is hard to say where this can go from here but this is something that could be devastating to the u.s. economy particularly jobs and it could do a lot of damage to the progress that he's already made on tax reform here good to get your thoughts speaking to us live from washington d.c. egypt's top court has validated a deal to transfer to red sea islands to saudi arabia the agreement was signed wanting some of this is egypt in twenty six team sitting between the two countries in the red sea to run and some affair remain laws the occupied but they lie in a politically sensitive area. bahrain says is one hundred sixty members of what it cools a terrorist network setup and funded by iran's revolutionary guards which is pearl

cast on by her t.v. ad legibly show weapons ammunition and explosives to be used in attacks on the government and security forces our friends son the led government regularly accuses iran of supporting groups inside the shia majority country which iran denies the government's crackdown on dissent since must protest in twenty eleven it often accuses opponents of having links to iran. became a fossil as prime minister says he's revolted by friday's attacks on an army headquarters and french embassy in which eight people were killed pull cover to made the comments while meeting the army chief of the sites in the capital markets and grew by the assault took place security forces killed ace of the attackers and several arrests have now been maimed nicholas sack has more from. this is the irony 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 tigers 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 and 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 clipped thick so he's calling for all of the people in britain 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 france 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 you know faster to remain united and to support the security forces. germany social democrats are counting the ballots off the members voted on whether or not to enter into another coalition with angela merkel the result well either that merkel finally form a government for the five months after the election oh plunge the country into more political uncertainty dominic 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 to merkel's christian democrats again young members like

a benyamin girl or are clear. because of his thorn in the. there's no grand vision in this grand 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. realist 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 that's part. of 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 election 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 angular merkel remains as chancellor but with leading social democrats in important cabinet posts and know 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 place and so that here have released seven italians who are being held as suspects in the mayor of a journalist and his girlfriend tens of thousands of people mark so bratislava on friday night to remember a young crazy ak seventy arrested businessman had been named by kusiak in a report into alleged political corruption involving the italian mafia. french please sign for pal the group of environmentalists who are protesting plans to store nuclear waste that's how the two groups clashed in a field near the proposed site protesters are upset by plans to place nuclear waste five hundred meters below the ground police have already removed and activists can't close to the site which is east of paris but protesters their main defiant david chaytor has more from near the protest site. the anti nuclear demonstrators

got within sight of the forest where the bunkers will be built underground five hundred meters underground to store the nuclear waste but that's as far as they got the police had huge cordons across the field they use tear gas to try and disperse them and drive them back those tactics were very successful and the demonstrators are now moving back across the road down back to where they started from but this is no doubt the beginning of a whole series of protests this fight will still go on the. waste that is going to be buried in this site in this area some sort of five hundred five hundred meters underground in in clay that was formed in the jurassic period which is supposed to be impermeable will be here for hundreds of thousands of years and i

think this will be the focus of more and more protests and demonstrations many people fear that the reassurance from the curators than you do the experts that the whole area is impermeable that the radioactive waste which is very high level will not leak out it will not. allow any water to get in they fear that somehow they could be some earthquake source or natural disaster which will break open the whole area and mean that the highly radioactive waste can then contaminate the environment and so they're not going to give up this fight they are going to continue with it and at the moment it appears they're going back to lick their wounds and clear their eyes from the tear gas but they will be back. ukrainian police have shut down a political protest camp and the rest of at least fifty people in the capital here six protesters and four police officers were injured in the fighting supporters of

opposition leader mikhail seconds really set up the makeshift camp last october. many people in wales remain cut off by snow after days of bad weather transport has been affected across much of the u.k. we've grown way lines and at ports closed temperatures are now starting to rise it's not just the u.k. that's been struggling with winter weather much of northern europe has been snowed in and storms in the northeastern u.s. left more than two million people without power and don't forget we've got much more content on our website just click on al-jazeera dot com. let's get you up to speed on the top stories here on al-jazeera syrian government forces have reportedly taken almost complete control of the town of frontier 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 residents say that's just not an option it's allianz will head to the polls on sunday for a general election posters are predicting a three way race with no single party on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government of the left and the rights are expected to fall behind louis she did miles five star movement which was run on a platform of and his status went and anticorruption the diem barber has more only five star movements campaign pledges. very 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 a 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 egypt's top coats has validated a deal to transfer to red sea islands to saudi arabia the green was signed one king salmon visit egypt twenty sixteen about this age of sovereignty over to iran and son a fair island state in one thousand and six before saudi arabia was founded u.s. president on a chump has lashed out at the e.u. and what he describes is a trade imbalance he's warned that he'll apply a tax on european cars if the block imposes duties are well known american products and the money based affiliate of al qaeda has claimed responsibility for friday's attacks on an army headquarters and french embassy in neighboring bikini fast eight people were killed in the attacks which the country's prime minister has described

as a vaulting security forces killed eight of the attackers say with us on al-jazeera the listing post is coming out next. right here i get the fourth chinese economy playing. i'm trying to explain just. think that yes this is further proof that this is a sham thanks china has absolutely no doubt about that. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're following this week the rise of xi jinping and the part the chinese news media have played in that

the coverage of a head to me a palestinian who doesn't fit the mold the two biggest media companies in the world comcast and disney both want big pieces of rupert murdoch's media empire and celebrity journalism.