the syrian war this time on al-jazeera the sams in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called the meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that loses forward to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new part of life it's culture. it's to. surviving syria's war people. for

safety and basic necessities. from doha also coming up. times. awaiting a decision on forming a coalition. a fourth. at the polls on sunday with migration the key issue is the anti establishment five star movement is tipped to be the biggest. us president high since the threat of a trade war with the. syrian government forces continue to bombard the rebel held. published by sara. state news agency appeared to share night operations by

government fighters activists say government forces have taken almost complete control of the town of fallujah and the last two weeks more than six hundred people have been killed syrian air planes have been dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area but rest and say it's just not an option to hold their 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 one of the little she and i am crying and my children are cried 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. 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 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 in france's president and manuel mccraw they all called on russia to stop bombing eastern hutaree 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 it's now been applied in eastern huta. beirut. an airstrike appears to have targeted aid workers in the east and. in this footage to social media rescue team can be seen helping an injured man

into the back of an ambulance the last strike hits near the vehicle doctors without borders has privacy voiced concern about the so-called practice of double tapping where an area is hits and then targeted again once a workers have arrived to help the wounded but this in greater has been under siege since two thousand and thirteen residents have been forced to find creative ways to survive and all supply lines have been blocked more on that from as i have been. on the take he said earlier border. shrooms non-native species to eastern in a view just a few kilometers from syria's capital damascus when the siege tightened in two thousand and thirteen food supplies were exhausted quickly one of the answers for growing protein needs was mushrooms. after testing they weren't poisonous biologists grew spores in the labs they taught people how to up cycle dam bed of kitchen waste and shot from grains so everyone with a small dark room could become

a farmer by last year charity workers say they were producing close to two tons of mushrooms every day. you need the right environment and tools after we succeeded in production it became an independent project to provide the spores for a good time it was difficult for people to go from the staple red rice and meat to mushrooms but when a kilo of salt costs thirty three dollars a kilo of flour costs six dollars and a kilo rice is that eleven dollars a kilo hungry people don't have much choice another problem with fuel because who hasn't had electricity for nearly five years they really used all glass to make solar panels as sources of heat and to generate electricity those with a little advance scientific knowledge built a bio gas plant which became a continuous cost effective source for clean energy well there is an agricultural region east of damascus so people also grew some food but at the risk of ongoing

airstrikes and shelling from the syrian government side however these were small projects which couldn't get it to the needs of almost four hundred thousand residents of east good for most of the supplies through a lucrative war trade via tunnels and government checkpoints this war economy and extortion like tax pushed prices multiple times to what they are on the other side of damascus. we have seen misses his home in the hooter after escaping the siege he runs a charity which helped to fund training and set up a new project he feels abandoned by the un and others who he says should be doing more than just advocacy they are calling begging. but they don't do any serious things to. happening in this area. which is maybe the worst the worst he sees meant in the last one hundred years. since the one nine hundred february onslaught many of the projects have been destroyed in the relentless bombardment people say it's been

a tough life under siege but they will not give up their lands to what they see is an army of iranian militias and russian soldiers and if given the chance they want to rebuild what's been destroyed with or without any outside help some of a job a delta zero by the on top of the turkey syria border they seventy nine people have died in the latest violence the democratic republic of congo dozens of people were killed in the. province of turkey on friday more attacks have been reported in three nearby villages on saturday at least two hundred thousand people have fled the area and recent months to escape the violence rather than 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 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 cheery region was already blighted by food shortages and now this. people are dying here and there is nobody to bury the bodies and the children are also dying of hunger there is no supervision we worried we want peace to return among the population so that everyone can go back to their homes and we can be safe. but soldiers are thin 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. health ministry says a farmer has been

shot dead by israeli troops there the gaza border died while working on his land close to the border fence on saturday israeli military says the man is approaching a restricted area warning shots were first fired into the air but she claims that when the farm did not stop soldiers shot him for counting is underway in germany and a balance of social democrat party members decide for or against entering a new coalition the chancellor angela merkel hundreds of thousands of s.p.d. members cast their ballots on saturday five months after the country's general election and painstaking talks about forming a new government a no vote by party members might force a new national elections could spell big political difficulties for the most powerful politician dominic cain has more from berlin. 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 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. 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 vanish that'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 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 angular merkel 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 kane al-jazeera berlin. hears envoy is on a three day visit to bangladesh to assess the hang a crisis is a curtis who works on the white house national security council they arrived at a particularly tense time a new accusation that men as army is bullying and intimidating range of refugees in its border with bangladesh you know estimates around seven hundred thousand ranger have been forced to leave men more for bangladesh since august last year still ahead here on al-jazeera fathomed who ten promises victories for russia during a rally with thousands of supporters at a upcoming elections. and police clashed with french activists protesting over plans to bury nuclear waste in underground bunkers.

from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis hello again there are some quite interesting weather across southern and eastern parts of china with this developing frontal system we got some warm air coming up from the south temperatures above average for this time if issue there thirty one degrees for the head through monday we're going to find temperatures falling back to shanghai coming back down to nineteen degrees but still we saw a woman pushing up and it's certainly very warm across much of vietnam there thirty one degrees and annoy and fine conditions extend across the rest of indochina so moving down into southeastern parts of asia i think the northern part of the philippines is good right across leaves on the number thirty three degrees for borneo weather conditions not too bad a few showers but nothing particularly heavy and the same really goes for much of java and bali and further towards the east of the indonesian archipelago

a few showers but a good deal of dry bright whether it was pretty decent up through then they put it into southern parts of thailand across cambodia and through to vietnam and that continues to head on through into monday so facia then well we've got an area of rain pushing up into northern parts of india up in the hill stations there some snow fall is likely delhi there looking at highs of thirty degrees further towards the south we've still got the risk wanted to share a fate in sri lanka colombo they're looking at highs of thirty degrees maybe right into thirty one as we head into monday. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. true confession smart big money but not all right cynical example of communist propaganda. to put it in the paper to learn more and i want to do it on a pole in twenty times al-jazeera access to north korea to investigate be on the juice of biological warfare by the us during the korean war rewind

revisits dirty little secrets this time on al-jazeera. and again you're watching out stare his from lines of our top stories syrian government forces continue to bombard the rebel held enclave of east to go to their damascus they just pictures from syria's state news agency appeared to show night operations by government troops activists say government forces that have taken almost complete control of the town of. at least seventy nine people have been killed in the latest into ethnic violence the democratic republic of congo dozens

of people were killed in the village of cloth a on friday more attacks reported and three nearby villages on saturday. and vote counting is underway in germany on a referendum that will decide at the social democrats will back a new coalition. if they approve the union the new coalition to take office in about four months a no vote might force new national election. and as that is goes the polls on sunday but it could be some time before the country's leadership has decided no single party appears on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government and the third of his reports from lawrence lee takes a look at the changing shape of italian politics. a rainy monday night in this is silly in the 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 the failed them is different is not that. organization so

it's made to buy from people everywhere some to make appropriate to do something for itself or for the community for the person and that's exciting for us. in he came just thirty one years old luigi to my old spoke for nearly an hour without notes he didn't mention immigration once the touchstone issue for a right wing looking to turn working class italians against refugees but he mocked endlessly the corruption of mainstream politics which he said made italy and international joke. it's we had better scolding from one side and bronzy from the other they stole the future from my generation. i can't understand how they dared to show their faces and promise to change things when they had twenty years in government and didn't do anything the whole point was about transparency

the message that italy needs a totally new politics in all its the many of five star policies are still written on the level of bullet points and like a lot of detail but none the less are all these people what this party represents is the basic power out for a. corrupt and useless political class 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 found a better grillo no longer do they wanted to lead to leave the euro or the european union but they still insist they will never do coalition deals with the other parties they despise instead five-star now demands a totally green economy funded by a publicly owned investment bank which organizes the universal basic income for the

poor in chaotic cities like rome these ideas look incredibly difficult to achieve but it seems less important than the facts that they say the most all. of meant is a sort of. day hour long as you go in to try to collect consensus and electors from every part of a 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. at 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 it was their leaders are urging in sample the if they want to govern alone only the backing of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters to give them any chance lawrence lee al jazeera in italy. it's election season russia

as well but with a more sus an outcome in store present that i put in a address thousands of supporters at a rally in moscow for election he is expected to easily win giving him a fourth term and the kremlin joined a whole 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 all those who want to support a president who votes for him that's payment. for bishop future. such sports it's like a sport there is one leader and then there are outsiders the chillun just like that said you can compare it with a sports race and here we are at the olympic stadium was the. after eighteen years in power putin is going for another six year term constitutionally possibly his last but the result isn't really in 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 is making his way into a state. that you deliver she's not sustainable you want to make a country brought forward looking into the future because i'm sisters lived 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 them i would get around seventy five percent had turned out of promises he made in his speech to parliament a few days ago not just economic growth but financial technological advances in the years to come and keep promise to restore russia to its rightful place as a nuclear and military superpower right our eyes with the united states that we're not played extremely well with people in far corners of this country moving many people can simply not imagine another leader who are able to achieve all our group

who are going to hold down to zero last. place in france have used tear gas on protests as opposed to plans to store nuclear waste era town and the northeast from or a david chase who reports. the anti nuclear protesters found their progress blocked by the police as they approached the forest site where high level radioactive waste 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. 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 would be very five hundred meters underneath these fields in a complex stretching for fifteen square kilometers. the first trains carrying their 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 on to 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 impermeable iraq which allows us to store radioactive waste in a safe manner for at least one hundred thousand years. the police are also trying to make the area impermeable to demonstrators last month they cleared a protest camp set up in the hoods above the area. i sit 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. chaytor al-jazeera. is present on trump has stepped up his rhetoric and a growing global trade fight with a threat to increase taxes on european cars it comes after the european union want to tit for tat tariffs on american products if trunk goes through with a plan to put a twenty five percent tutti on steel imports astray and canada have also made

retaliate threats proper else has more from los angeles. trump's tweet storm began saturday with a claim that the current multihull national trade agreements the united states observes are quote very stupid unquote and the president said other countries laugh at what fools u.s. leaders have been no more he tweeted adding an exclamation point then he threatened to increase taxes on a key european import to the united states saying if the e.u. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers we will simply apply a tax on their cars the european union in exports approximately six billion dollars worth of automobiles to the united states on an annual basis plans to increase tariffs on steel and aluminum were announced earlier this week but have not yet

been made formal it has the idea that is has been denounced by leaders around the world in the e.u. in canada and elsewhere and also by members of president from own party which is generally in favor of free and open trade as well as economists in the united states and corporate heads economists say that if this trade war does proceed as a trump has indicated it will lead to higher prices for american consumers price increases that will slow the u.s. economy and add to inflationary pressure and further more risks undermining the entire edifice of multinational trade agreements the globalization agreements that have been negotiated very painstakingly over the past several decades. to bush's government has handed management of a port sees from the united arab emirates to

a state owned company the dora lake container terminal is considered one of the most coveted pieces of real estate in the horn of africa djibouti is nationalization of the port last week as a furious at the u.a.e. from djibouti mom and dad joe reports on the fallout. at this newly nationalized dollar container tunnel in djibouti walker's report for duty until last week they were employees of the u.a.e. owned by fortune world which in two thousand and six want a concession to operate the port for thirty years. i am the ports new leadership is working hard to manage and if fallout from the government's takeover and also reassure the workers hand that a new company called orally contain a time you know management company is now in charge on one hundred percent by djibouti you the employees are witnessing the making of history and you are key to our success the government of djibouti seized control of the port saying its

contract with d.p. world was damaging the contrary a statement from the office of the president say the agreement was one sided and compromised the sovereignty of the nation the more was a setback for d.p. world stealth two political on smart and such for ports on the red sea coast but people we talked to on the streets a happy about the government's takeover well. we support the president's decision the only took back what belongs to us or dubai ports was here for a sabotage they were against the booty developing a dark head. we are happy with the departure of dubai ports there is no point catering for the interests of those who don't care about your own. just days after the demotion government console its agreement with dubai ports world the company has signed a deal with the bric our republic of somalia and ethiopia one that gives it the majority stake in the port of better but the most west somalia somali government

has described the agreement as illegal. on an affront to its sovereignty. there are concerns here about the nineteen per cent stake if your bill was awarded in the bill but a port deal could deny djibouti some march needed business despite its small size has become an important player because of its position on the bubble mandeb street a crucial shipping lane to europe from the gulf and asia it has been the gateway to long looked if you appeal for more than two decades with most of the hundred million strong nations exports and imports passing through djibouti officials here have been quick to downplay the agreement a little bit better though with six operational ports and two others under construction they say she butties able and willing to serve the anti african continent and beyond mohamed atta well just to boot.

this is out there these are our top stories syrian government forces continue to bombard the rebel held enclave of async near damascus he says pictures from syria's state news agency appear to show night operations by government fighters activists say government forces have taken almost complete control of the town of funny or at least seventy nine people have been killed in the latest enter after violence in the democratic republic of congo dozens of people were killed in the village of must say on friday more attacks were reported and three nearby villages on saturday pastimes health ministry says a farmer has been shot dead by israeli troops at the gaza border dar died whilst working on his land close to the border fence on saturday the israeli military says the man was approaching a structured area and was fired upon hafter after ignoring warning shots. as president donald trump has stepped up his rhetoric in

a growing global trade fight with a threat to increase taxes on european cars comes off the european union warned it would impose a tit for tat tariff on american products if trump goes through with a plan to put a twenty five percent duty on steel imports in canada have also made retaliatory threats vote counting is underway in germany in a party ballot that will decide if the social democrats will back a new coalition. if they approve the union the new coalition would take office in about four months and no vote might force new national elections the u.s. envoy is on a three day visit to bangladesh to assess to him to crisis says who works on the white house national security council has arrived at a particularly tense time there are new accusations that many miles army is bullying and intimidating ranger refugees there is border with bangladesh u.n. estimates around seven hundred thousand have been forced to leave me and off of bangladesh since august last year police in france have used tear gas against

protesters opposed to plans to store nuclear waste in a town live in the northeast the two groups clash in a field near the proposed waste site the environmentalists oppose plans to bury nuclear waste five hundred meters below ground. that i had lines on the back with more news after inside story. in the heart of capital it happened despite a regional. campaign looking further into. inside story.