sorry chant it touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty slow that it's just the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected and the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's pretty sure to tell great to catch all the international list of threats and species. rebel forces admit that losing territory any single a syrian aircraft dropped leaflets telling civilians to leave but many say it's not an option. hello again i'm so tired and this is around is there a line from london also coming out just hours until the polls open in the italian

election we'll look at why the anti establishment my stomach spent looks set to win the most votes the u.n. says it's the worst place in the world to be a child where in guatemala to find out why and calls for greater representation of ethnic minorities on screen as hollywood prepares for its biggest night. syrian government forces are continuing to push into the rebel held and clave of damascus rebel fatah forces on the argument saying they are losing territory in the area since february eighteenth more than six hundred people have been killed in the bombardment so in airplanes and on dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area despite severe shortages of food and medicine people say that's just not an option zain of all the reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. 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 cried because i am unable to buy anything for them by situation is very bad we have no money. and for the past two weeks this is what the people have been facing. 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 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. and their psyche appears to have targeted aid workers in eastern goods and this footage uploaded to social media rescue team can be seen helping an injured man into the back of an ambulance then as strike it's the vehicle doctors without borders have previously voiced concern about the practice of doubles happening whereby an area is heads and then targeted again once

aid workers arrived to help the wounded. elsewhere in syria at least thirty six pro syrian government reportedly being killed by turkish airstrikes in africa on friday the turkish military released this footage which it says are its helicopters targeting kurdish y p g positions in the west of a frame forces loyal to the syrian government are helping repel the turkish offensive forty one turkish soldiers have been killed since the operation began in january. it's allianz are heading to the polls on sunday births 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 and the leading a five star movement has already said it will not go into a coalition with any of its rivals lawrence leamer reports from rome. it says much about the state of politics here the party making all the running is the anti

politician party its thirty one year old leader held several part time jobs before entering politics five stars entire proposal is to create a citizens' block in opposition to the corrupt excesses of the political scene. but five-star have vowed not to do a coalition deal with anyone else in a country in which you can't do government without a coalition it leads many to wonder if they would prefer not to gain a government. big want to. probably be camera defer political parties to transform into influencing the transformation in derby configuration of the need to go see them we doubt government responsibility. i was the political bloc with the best chance is this group led by the it's home for silvio berlusconi the eighty one year old appears to hold a magnetic attraction to his far right allies who campaigned entirely around

identity politics blaming the european union for what they see as an invasion of black people and muslims over the mediterranean. or if they gain power they claim they would deport four hundred thousand people to libya earlier a ringing endorsement of the european union's suppose liberals were us. anyone who arrives here illegally must be sent back if we keep welcoming them and look after them the state will collapse it doesn't work economically or socially. but if the polls are accurate the far right might not get enough votes for a stable government many italians are revolted at the idea of berlusconi choosing the next prime minister so what then. it's hardly unusual for italian politicians to promise one thing. and then change their minds and even though silvio berlusconi insists his right wing coalition is the only wall for many suspected in the events

of political stacey's he in the center left might do a deal for a sort of grand coalition supposedly for the good of italy but even that would only be a temporary measure with a view to even more elections. all of it reflects a bigger malays in european politics from rome to london berlin there's a lack of confidence no clear direction hoarsely al-jazeera road. or federico santi is a europe analyst at the eurasia group specializing in italy and the euro zone he spoke to us about who is likely to vote for the anti establishment pass a five star and why. five-star is been quite good at harnessing the widespread and establishment support that's that's in the country i think to look quite well and the election whether they can make inroads with more moderate as well as elderly voters as you mentioned will be a key factor in determining whether they can actually have any hope of actually

getting to government which i think will be much harder for them despite the fact that they have pretty good chance of being the largest party in terms of votes i think it's soft in their position on this for a long time the been very hesitant to show any cooperation really with a more established mainstream political parties that seems that change the least. you know in terms of their declarations but in practice you know i still struggle to see them working constructively with any of the other parties in the political spectrum in a way because coney pioneered this brand of right wing populism that is so widespread today so it was ahead of his time in a way in the ninety's paradoxically today he's seen as a almost reassuring figure compared to the for the far right almost a safe pair of hands right and i think he's maneuvered quite skillfully over the past few months to ensure that his party will play a pivotal role in any coalition government that might emerge after the election when you look at the economy all of the possible coalition options that are on the table they really range from bad to worse now this doesn't necessarily mean that your exit or exit will be at stake any time soon doesn't mean that election outcomes no matter how unexpected may actually undermine the fragile economic

recovery that started to take hold in the country and what it does mean however is that they think that italy or italy's economy will main a something of a liability i think for the rest of europe going forward and a fairly large liability at that. i'm ali based affiliates of al qaeda has claimed responsibility for friday's attacks on an army headquarters and french embassy in neighboring. countries prime minister says he's revolted by the attacks in which eight people were killed. ten main comments while meeting the chief of the sites in the capital where the assault took place security forces killed eight of the attackers and several arrests have now been nicholas from walkerton. 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 headquarters 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 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 up a clip tic 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 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 you know faster to remain united and to support the security for. says. least seventy nine people have died in the latest ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo dozens of people were killed in the village of masai on friday evening and more attacks have been reported in three never by 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 haim a group and 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 body little children are also dying of hunger there is no supervision we worry that we want peace to return among the population so that everyone can go back to their homes and we can i say. that soldiers often on the ground despite the reassurances of the army in the summer you will see why we are here with official 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 lendu 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 a on al-jazeera

standoff in a french feel this person asked his classroom over plans to store nuclear waste there was a small town and jamey social democrats for a pattern now see if they're willing to form another grand coalition wrangle americans conservatives. welcome back or stop by look at weather conditions across the strait here and we've got this very slow moving trough of low pressure give me some really big storms across queensland with some flooding rainfall rates of anything up to one hundred millimeters during the course of a twenty four hour period from these storm systems so flooding remains an issue much the top and the jury not looking too bad a few showers room but generally ok cool for melbourne they're just twenty degrees silly looking at twenty five as a move the forecast through to monday pretty warm for perth you'll notice at thirty

one degrees otherwise twenty two is my son in sydney across into new zealand we've got a few showers to contend with on the west coast of both the north and the south island but otherwise weather conditions not too bad there should be a family of brightness around and eat a pleasant a day for much of the country on monday with twenty five as the high in auckland but some showers are likely here later on heading up into northeastern parts of asia we've got some snow across northern parts of japan further south it's all looking very mild and very pleasant but we are going to see an area of low pressure developing which going to bring heavy rain across southern parts of japan with quite a mount area snow fall on its northern edge modest still for shanghai beijing looking pretty good with highs of eight and it should be a chilly one invited bastar. from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming

young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems their challenging systems and shaping you want it's about creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back reminder of the top stories seven al-jazeera syrian airplanes are now dropping leaflets telling people to leave the rebel held enclave of. more than six hundred people have been killed as during the government's nearly two week long

bombing campaign italian pollsters predict sunday's election will be a three way race with no single party on trucks to gain the required forty percent to form a government and at least seventy nine people have died in the latest into ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo with the attackers going house to house liking people to death and burning buildings. behind says it's arrested one hundred sixteen members of what it calls a terrorist network set up on funded by iran's revolutionary guards which is broadcast on bahraini t.v. and legend lee show weapons ammunition and explosives to be used in attacks on the government and security forces are trained sonny led government regularly accuses a rome of supporting armed groups inside the sheriff shia majority country iran denies the government's crackdown on dissent since mass protests in twenty eleven

it often accuses opponents of having links to iran 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 was no significant opposition he's expected to easily when they forced her on march the eighteenth journey home reports from moscow. 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 is the word for those who want to support a president who votes for him that's the case. 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 into a state look at him still it she's a little strong you want to make a country brought forward looking into the future because i'm such a little here we live here our children live here and our children unlike grandchildren will live here. the opinion polls presumably don't lie president putin's popularity ratings consistently of the moment around seventy five percent for granted 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 nuclear and military superpower writes our eyes with the united states that will

replace exist remotely well with people in far corners of this country moving many can simply not imagine another leader who are able to achieve all earlier who are showed a whole culture zero. germany social democrats are counting the ballots the members voted on whether or not to enter into another coalition with angela merkel the result will either let merkel finally form a government or than five months after 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 or 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 they are nihilists 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 there is it's pretty high we've been in a 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 party is 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 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 french police have repelled

a group of environmentalists who are protesting against plans to store nuclear waste near a town in the north east the two groups clashed in a field near the proposed site protesters are upset by plans to place nuclear waste five hundred metres below the ground david chaytor reports from lorraine. the anti nuclear protesters found their progress blocked by the police as they approached the forest site where high level radioactive waste is sheffield to be buried in underground bunkers nuclear power supplies seventy nine percent of the energy to the french grid more than any other country in the world most of the demonstrators were wearing face masks to hide their identities but their message was clear on the lawn for him. it's a fight that needs because because nuclear waste comes from all over france from all over europe. we are just starting to go a long battle against the nuclear trash and the ward it represents. the

protesters moved into the surrounding fields to try and escape the police blockade but they were driven back repeatedly by volleys of tear gas. the radioactive waste will be buried five hundred meters underneath these fields in a complex stretching for fifteen square kilometers. the first trains carrying the highly hazardous cargo won't start arriving here till twenty twenty five by then it's estimated the project will have cost the french taxpayer around forty billion dollars so far the police tactics have proof for a successful they've pushed the demonstrators off the field they almost on the brink of the forest but the use of tear gas has driven them back onto the road and now they're surrounded by the police. scientists have been testing the safety of

the rock where the waste will be buried for the last ten years it dates back one hundred sixty million years it's hard almost impermeable rock which allows us to store radioactive waste in a safe manner for at least one hundred thousand years or was something on the police also trying to make the area impermeable to demonstrators last month they cleared a protest camp set up in the woods above the area. so i said here in front of you very clearly that the state would come back as many times as needed. and that was certainly the message being delivered to the demonstrators forced to retreat in the face of overwhelming police power but they promise they will be back to change or al jazeera. is failing to protect the rights of its children according to the united nations as 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 southeast. the stanley shop son has a rare neurological disorder when he started to loose 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 little look in as though all that 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. is one of the children who are 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 is the hottest. the high in gumball 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. the whole of the scieno dreams of working in a bank some day but if the government continues to fail children like him it's likely his dream will also fail david mercer al-jazeera sick at the back is what a modern. us hollywood prepares for its biggest night the oscars a group of young activists in britain are pushing for great to screen diverse a sick they've done so by recreating famous movie poster but with a crucial difference everyplace the white lead characters with black actors instead

the film is given the treatment including titanic sky full on reporter was shot down tackle a is one of the young people behind the post a campaign tells us why it's so important to improve diversity on screen. there is a high level on the representation and. the fact that on the representation it looks with links well with misrepresentation because if you're under represent them you're just he used to not being able to see people in those kind of roles and lead roles so you just automatically assume that everything is fine because you're stopped conditioned to believe it so. if just because now they're under represented it would be misrepresented as well by you know like a depicting them as gangsters as drug dealers we initially wanted to just put it on the internet and you know just leave it like that but a special patrol group found our posters and they decided to put on bus stops around brixton which was amazing and we you know just where we were grateful for

them to do for them in there and now that the campaign is elevated into what it's become now and people are paying attention to the different things that are required in media which is representation of all groups not only black people well we're specifically focusing on black people because it comes from a personal experience for all four of us many people in wales remain cut off by snow after days of bad weather transports being affected across much of the u.k. with lines and their ports closed temperatures are now starting to rise for people trying to travel are being warned to expect serious delays. have a quick look at the top stories on al-jazeera syrian government forces have reportedly taken almost complete control of the town of for near east and more than six hundred people have been killed during the government's nearly two weeks long

bombing campaign so we in planes are dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area but with no security guarantees residents say that's not an option residents are struggling with food shortages and around a thousand are estimated to be in need of medical evacuation. italians will head to the polls on sunday for general election pollsters are predicting a three way race with no single policy on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government both the left and the right are expected to fall behind luigi to maya with a fine style movement which is run on a platform of anti establishment and anti corruption. a molly based affiliate of al qaeda has ten responsibility for friday's attacks on an army headquarters and french embassy in neighboring kenya. eight people were killed in the attacks which the country's prime minister has described revolt saying security forces killed

eight of the it because. at least seventy nine people have died in the latest ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo dozens of people were killed in the village of mas a 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 bahrain says it's arrested one hundred sixty members of what it calls a terrorist network set up and funded by iran's revolutionary guard which is broadcast on bahraini t.v. allegedly show weapons ammunition and explosives to be used in attacks on the government and security forces are trained sonny led government regularly accuses iran of supporting groups inside the shia majority country which iran. i'm 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 protests are angry about proposals to bury the waste. say with this innovates africa's next. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera this is innovate africa a series highlighting innovation and creativity across a call to my bet is on the rise. today on innovate africa african scientists using satellite technology to build.