in syria citizens are collecting evidence you know what about it bill has shot of crimes committed against civilians we've moved out of syria will go six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice it puts a she will face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human tricks syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story a feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know is that it turns liberally but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to do the work in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

marches continue across the world in solidarity with students in the u.s. demanding tougher gun laws. alliance has them seeking this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up only one rebel group is left in eastern with pro-government forces edging closer to taking control. treat them better rallies across australia in support of asylum seekers. aiming to get a leap ahead in life the challenges for south sudanese in trying to forge a professional sporting career.

a lot of protesters are rallying worldwide in solidarity with demonstrators demanding tougher gun control laws in the u.s. they have been more than eight hundred official marches in thirty seven countries in hong kong hundreds of join the call to prevent gun violence in the u.k. it was a minute's silence and a lion outside the new u.s. embassy in london and in france families gathered near the eiffel tower in paris to urge u.s. politicians. to protect children not guns but the inspiration for it all came from washington hundreds of thousands of people descended on america's capital for what were called march for our lives events the calls for action came from teenage survivors of last month's school shooting in florida where seventeen people were killed and again i got reports from washington. i on the streets of washington d.c. the crowd swelled and voices rose in unison. trial

lives protest was led by the students of marjorie stoneman douglas high school in florida with seventeen lives were lost and the gonzales survived the shooting in face the crowd in tearful silence for six minutes the time it took the gunman to take so many lives you know i could comprehend the devastating aftermath or how far this would reach or where this would go for those who still can't comprehend because they refused to i'll tell you where i went right into the ground six feet deep. that. protesters came from across the country to show their support many here have been touched by the plague of gun violence and of long campaigned for change i just think it would be great if they enacted gun regulation that kept weapons of war off of our streets i have a young son who is about to be in can their garden and so making sure that the places that he goes actually safe and secure. among the speakers eleven year old

niamh wilder his pledge to take political action at such a young age resonated with many my friends and i might still be eleven and we might still be in elementary school but we know we know life is needful for everyone and we know what is right and not. i we also know that we stand in the shadow of the capitol and we know that we have seven short years until we do have the right to that i the students of marjorie stoneman douglas high school may have started this protest alone but the voices of far from solitary here in washington d.c. hundreds of thousands joined the coals for gun reform and around the world eight hundred other events made this a truly global affair the refrain never again from this new generation has never been. my name card. students who. simply read the names of classmates and teachers that were killed

last month this was. last as it was a cool to action on the. washington john henry reports now from another big demonstration in chicago. tens of thousands of people have come out on a freezing day in chicago to join this march and there's a good reason it's happening here chicago more than any other major city in the united states is affected by gun violence six hundred fifty people were murdered by guns in this city thirty five hundred. and believe it or not that is a drop from the year before gun violence here is a major problem even though gun laws here are fairly strict that is because the gun laws in the surrounding states are not strict and people bring those guns over the border many people here pictures of victims and. in many neighborhoods in chicago everybody knows someone who has been shot and i can tell you

a personal story my own two sons high school age sons had their school on lockdown just two weeks ago because of a threat of an active shooter that thankfully did not end in any kind of shooting incident but it illustrates the fear that these children are under end the fact that it is high school age children who are leading this drive in the past they have already changed the law in florida and in other states and now they are pushing congress which is tending to be lagging behind the people when it comes to major change in the sixty's it is the children who are leading this change and they hope to push congress and state legislatures to change the nation's gun laws. syria's government is closing in on eastern huta duma is the last remaining rebel held area outside the capital damascus and fighters there on negotiating a surrender deal with russia they now hold reports. they are being sent into exile

the forced transfer to the rebel held province of idlib in the northwest of syria as the second deal of its kind in eastern huta. one of three rebel factions that controlled the rebel enclave agreed to surrender what was left of its stronghold in the southern pocket up to seven thousand people fighters their family members and opposition activists who don't want to live under the government's rule or are afraid to are leaving. we will leave but one day we will return they have managed to silence the revolution but will never die we will return to liberate our land and the revolution will return he repeatedly asked the international community for help but they didn't do anything it's very difficult time for us but we will return thousands more were bussed out of another rebel pocket in eastern huta the town of harassed which surrendered on wednesday they are syria's newly displaced but. they used every kind of weapon against us in an eastern water in general

families who were hiding in underground shelters were killed in the bombardment the civil defense was not able to retrieve their bodies from under the rubble down there saying. it was a very bad situation the children were hungry because of the siege and scared because of the bombing they didn't have milk we pleaded with aid agencies but no one helped us they were sent to the rebel controlled northwestern province of idlib which is already crowded according to the united nations one million displaced persons who left other opposition held areas after they were recaptured by government forces live there it's also not a safe place airstrikes are have increased in the past week killing dozens of people many of them children. unicef partners report that seventeen children were killed yesterday in. heavy violence near a unicef supported school for students to flee to an underground shelter in

a nearby building which then came under attack. around one million children live amid escalating violence and. it has been attacked of the air for years and a few months ago government forces have their allies launched a limited ground offensive for the first time in years if the pro-government alliance launches an all out offensive to recapture adlib many warn it could be an even worse humanitarian catastrophe it is a deescalation zone according to an agreement between russia and turkey to reduce the violence across the country but so was eastern huta violence continued in both areas despite the agreement the syrian government has now consolidating its control over eastern huta the third rebel faction jaish al islam will soon hand over the town of duma the pro-government alliance is declaring victory but it came after years of siege five weeks of relentless bombardment and almost two thousand civilian deaths. beirut a car bombs exploded near the center of

syria's rebel held city of killing at least fifteen people the head of the civil defense agency says it happened near a main hospital in the provinces syria's largest remaining rebel stronghold. thousands of people have taken part in marches in australia calling for better treatment of asylum seekers australia resettles almost nineteen thousand refugees a year but the united nations has criticised its hardline policies designed to deter those fleeing their own countries from looking for a new life in australia andrew thomas is at the march in sydney. there are protests rallies happening in towns and cities right across australia on sunday but the one about three thousand people so far in sydney and in melbourne likely to be the biggest people here say that the refugees who've been sent by australia to mass on in the proper new guinea and snow route many of whom have now been there for almost

five years have suffered enough and should be brought to australia they also think that australians refugee policies are hinged with racism earlier this week peter dutton the immigration minister suggested that white south african farmers who are being kicked off their farms could perhaps be given refugee status here in australia this for a man who has spent his career it seems to people here keeping other refugees in other places out this is what from the refugee action coalition said to me earlier i think the role of the demonstrations we're seeing around the nation today is precisely to say pete adopting is not legitimate he's not legitimate in saying that you know white south africans who haven't asked us for help a more deserving of australian asylum than the countless numbers of people fleeing war zones who have there are thousands of people here and thousands more in melbourne and in other places across australia but in the great scheme of things these are still relatively small protests australia's media rarely reports more

than a tiny bit on the souls of ants and in terms of politics by the governing liberal policy and the opposition labor party broadly agree on the tough policies and that's why not much looks likely to change. or even rental is a spokesman for the refugee action coalition he joins us by skype now from sydney thanks very much for being with us so what do you hope to achieve with these demonstrations. so we'll see people being absolutely flabbergasted at what's happened in the star year with his comments about you know white south african farmers there's also been a massive community outpouring more almost a hundred thousand people have actually signed a petition because the government attempted to deport the tamil family that's been here for four years in queensland took four years and in spite of their being court appeals for them they tried to deport them there is a growing community concern in the sayed so we want to make it very clear to the government and to the labor party who will win the next federal election to study

that that there is a movement in the style you are very very determined to in a short attention and to bring people from you and that it's still a struggle. but that did the forces that you're going up against here and in terms of public opinion and and politicians are not weak to say the least and there is the fact that they these rallies have not gotten a great deal of coverage in australia i mean how much of a you're facing quite an uphill battle here in changing minds on your. there there is an uphill battle let me be ridiculous this is just otherwise about community opinion it's very much on a start i mean in the main the number of polls which is said very clearly that a majority of people think refugees from that center really should be able to start i mean there's a battle to make it you know a city give it sufficient community white and political white and it's right in your introduction we're up against a bipartisan support of the labor party supporting the particular tension position

but that's also changing every every rally in australia union union speakers there will be resolutions of the labor conference saying no july you know this year there will be an out of the by the left to china you know labor policy but i think what's most important is that there is a you know there is a growing movement there is a growing shift in community institutionally with the truth about the churches the unions the lawyers the medical profession there is nobody in australia that supports the hard line position that's me tell you can live the colonization and i think the other point is that the situation on medicine the road gets worse they've got no they've got no solutions the us deal isn't going to offer them a solution and as that crisis keeps drawing the problems for the government keeps getting bigger well they did the treatment of the people in our has been in the headlines quite a lot of a share are you surprised then. that these protests didn't baps get more published and they're getting. look the government sits very high you know on the public and

i think it's telling as i said before that no one hundred thousand people have actually signed the petition within a week about you know about the channel family you know there was literally two stories about that in the media yeah yeah but there is a very big network community network now that he's able to respond you know to those to those kinds of crises in spite of the factory mayor he had three thousand in the strikes me in sydney i think they will get that out but i need to couch the nonetheless a groundswell you know of opinion that may not be ready yet to to mobilize to belly instead the unions you know support the. rather than not sure detention i support you know the rallies that we need to get to a point where they're a much larger union contingent in the rallies to make it very clear that we we are moving to a point where we've got a critical mass in the community direction trying to these policies could speak to

ian rintoul joining us there from sydney. after thousands of people have protested in tel aviv against israel's plan mass deportation of every train and sudanese migrants the israeli government has ordered more than forty thousand undocumented migrants to need in exchange for money and a plane ticket the supreme court has suspended deportations and demanding more information on the plan before it can go ahead. i keep eldar is a senior columnist for the news website monitor he is criticizing prime minister benjamin netanyahu his policies as racist. these people. human eyes and tell you how has being able to shut the border between israel and egypt takes credit for this and his message is that if we don't stop them we will get how familiar and we lose our. jewish

identity here in israel so it's again it's like the spin on iran and posting and taro so these people. just are not part of us and this is the truth. do human is a fiction of people and you know we have. about one hundred and fifty thousand illegal. immigrants from ukraine from europe but they're white and this doesn't seem to disturb you know but. you know. this is part of. kind of racism israel has to tackle and i'm afraid they're going to hell is riding on this fear. of stopping it and unfortunately we'll find ourselves and we are riding on a tight one day where you will become the victims of this type. at least seven

people have been killed in a shootout with police in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro security forces say they were searching for suspects involved in a police killing when their patrol came under attack the families of the victims disputes the police account brazil's many think took command of the city last month in an attempt to curb rising violence. the sierra leone's high court has upheld a request to postpone cheez days presidential runoff and when claims of electoral fraud the ruling all people's congress filed an injunction demanding allegations of irregularities be investigated before the vote goes ahead none of the presidential candidates secured an outright majority in the first round earlier this month the court says it will hear the electoral commission's response on monday. there are much more still to come on al-jazeera how yemen is war is worsening regional tension hundreds of people being expelled from southern cities. always extremely

disappointed in shock and australia's cricket she vows to investigate confession of cheating from one of his test players. however still some stormy weather across central parts of the mediterranean it's all making its way further east clearer skies come back in behind but we have high pressure in charge than i would towards the west some very stormy weather just rolling in across the bay of biscay still some of these storms in place there on that western side of the med it's right and that's all making its way further temperatures not even up nicely but time starts on sunday twelve celsius in london temperatures about where they should be thirty degrees there for paris and for madrid which will see some right and of plenty of rain to into central parts of the

matter at this stage that what's the weather hitting back into greece further north as we go sunshine comes through seven celsius in vienna ten or eleven there for warsaw and for over the next couple of days so wintry weather still a possibility into remain ian or possibly mania on monday as model where pushes in from the south bumping into the cold air that we some snow it will gradually turn back to right further west generally dry basin places that showery right but it is bring to roll some wet weather just brushing the fog north of africa algiers just eleven degrees celsius here very disappointing on sunday we'll see some wet weather still in place for north america but it clears through and warms up for monday.

again you're watching edges there are a mind of our top stories this hour protesters are rallying worldwide in solidarity with demonstrators demanding tougher gun control laws in the u.s. the been more than eight hundred marches in thirty seven countries. syria's government is close to taking control of eastern two rebel groups have surrendered

in recent days and fighters in duma are in talks with russia to negotiate a deal. thousands of people have been marching in australia calling for better treatment of asylum seekers. almost nine hundred thousand refugees a year but the united nations has criticised its hardline policies. the un envoy to yemen has arrived in the capital which is under the control of the rebels it is the first visit since he was appointed in february he's there to arrange a fourth round of talks with who the leaders to try and end the war three previous rounds of negotiations ended with no progress. our regional divides between north and south yemen are worsening as the conflict enters its fourth year the south was a separate country until one thousand nine hundred and calls for secession are now gaining strength again are some of the reports. similes have been trying

to free central times and northern provinces where the saudi led coalition is battling hutu rebels but many have been denied entry into southern cities including aden and hundreds of northerners already in the south have been forcibly displaced in testimonies provided to al jazeera some business owners say they were told they'll be killed unless they pack up and leave. behind a shop but they stormed our places and kicked us out they even took my medication for money. she forgot i was working and i didn't at a restaurant i was kicked out i was harassed and i urge them to fear god they confiscated all stalls which belong to northerners this is my mother they took all our money with human rights watch says yemenis with more than backgrounds face difficulties and aid in the checkpoints sometimes held for hours questioned occasionally turned back or called there are good three names. i was trying to travel to saudi arabia but was turned back i had visas papers everything but they

refused to allow me to access the airport then let me go have calculus off the bus and kept a standing we asked an officer to have some mercy were old men but after he saw the id he said you're an old man and i don't want to put you in jail but i don't want you in aden i'd. say when we showed them i.d.'s they said these won't be enough they took us to prison and left us without food drink and care they said they would hold us for a little while and then they would deport us. forty years ago the elected government called in the saudi airlines to help defeat to the rebels but fighting continues in the north and no single party seems to be in control of the south. the south was the old country until unification in one thousand nine hundred and now. many there are again calling for secession divisions have also appeared in the saudi led coalition despite repeated denials of the ingenuity secessionist backed by the united arab emirates took over most of aden they took it from the forces of the internationally recognized government which is ironically supported by u.s.

coalition allies saudi arabia and as the old cracks reappear in war torn yemen its people find themselves stranded between competing interests. of those there. and later on sunday in the next part of our special series on yemen we take a look at who's behind the new armed groups that are adding to the chaos in the middle east. are thousands of far right supporters in croatia rallied against a european treaty proposal they say gives rights to transgender people protesters in the capital zagreb say it undermines traditional family values in this predominantly catholic country the treaty is designed to combat domestic violence but many object to its definition of gender they say it paves the way for transsexuals or transgenders to become separate categories the governing body for cricket in australia is investigating a ball tampering during a match against south africa in cape town australian player cameron bancroft was

caught on camera placing a small object down his trousers after working on the ball when i questioned him he pulled out such sunglasses cloth from his pocket but he later admitted it was a piece of tape that he was using to rub dirt on the ball the international cricket council has charged him with ball tampering and he faces suspension. or was extremely disappointed in shocked to. you hear the news and read the news this morning after the events in cape town yesterday and. from a cricket australia perspective we regard this is an extremely serious issue we certainly don't have all of the evidence at hand and we need we need someone to go over there and to talk to the relevant people involved to understand what happened in the detail and then we'll make appropriate decisions as to next steps but i know

people want to know more and they want to know what decisions are being made but there is an element of responsibility to understand the facts and it's not as simple as just jumping to conclusions all the tampering paul was can see by captain steve smith and senior players but bancroft was caught in the act. i guess once i was you know sort of on the on screen and coming down on. the court of law and. i don't see result in me shoving it down my trousers. the leadership knew about it and we spoke about it at lunch and. i'm not proud of of what's happened. you know it's not within the spirit of the game and my integrity the team's integrity the leadership groups integrity is come into question and rightfully so. it's not on and. it's certainly not on and it won't happen again i can promise you that on to my

ladyship. aviation fans are hailing what they call a historic day for air travel first nonstop flight between australia and the u.k. has landed at london's heathrow airport the quantas airlines plane is the first to complete the fourteen and a half thousand kilometer journey from perth without a break took just over seventeen hours but that is not the longest nonstop passenger flight that belongs to qatar airways service from doha to new zealand. sports is seen as a chance to give us a better life in south sudan but there are still a number of hurdles in the way of rising star players morgan reports from the capital juba. david hine he's not part of south sudan's national basketball team but would love to be which is why he's practicing three times a week with dozens of other young players. my dream is to be chosen for

a scholarship outside south sudan so i can be internationally recognized and get well paid for playing that way i can support my family and maybe eventually take them out of south sudan to the fifteen year old is one of more than three hundred teenagers who come for training with the hopes of being chosen for an international scholarship but more than four years of war in south sudan has damaged sports development and many other parts of society there are less than a dozen sports facilities in a country roughly the size of france and nearly all lack of proper equipment making it hard for young people to develop their talents and as challenging as it is for teenage boys it's even harder for the girls. if i know today is training day i have to wake up early and finish all household chores like cooking cleaning going to the market and to school then i come to treatment. but despite the challenges on and off court some continue to play their favorite sports striving for worldwide recognition they may not be many sports facilities here in south sudan but for

those who come to this basketball court it's an opportunity for them to skate the life they're living and because of a program that provides high school scholarship to the best players it's also a chance for them to hope for a better future many children have been separated from their families during the civil war which has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions named after a south sudanese american basketball player in america's n.b.a. the maneuverable program hopes to improve opportunities for young basketball players a lot of these. challenges in terms of having three meals a day. that affects their performance on the court some of them. we believe is going to be the number one sport after the roughly we have about a thousand plus. registered closer than we have so far have send us about over one hundred. david says he knows his training is limited but one day

hopes to be one of those children futilely for a scholarship and be good enough to play for teams elsewhere in the world people morgan al-jazeera juba. all right so let's get a round up now of our top stories on al-jazeera protesters are rallying worldwide in solidarity with demonstrators demanding tougher gun control laws in the u.s. they've been more than eight hundred marches in thirty seven countries including hong kong and the u.k. . syria's government is close to taking control of eastern huta to rebel groups have surrendered in recent days and fighters in duma are in talks with russia to negotiate a deal thousands of people have been marching in australia calling for better treatment of asylum seekers australia resettles almost nineteen thousand refugees a year but the united nations has criticised its hardline policies which are aimed

at deterring people from fleeing their own countries to seek a new life in australia. australia's cricket governing body is investigating ball tampering at a test match against south africa in cape town australia's cameron bancroft was caught on camera placing a small object down his trousers after working on the ball he later admitted it was a piece of tape that he was using to rub dirt on the ball the international cricket council has charged him with ball tampering and he faces suspension. the leadership knew about it. we spoke about it at lunch and. i'm not proud of of what's happened. you know it's not within the spirit of the game integrity the team's integrity the leadership group's integrity has come into question and rightfully so. it's not on. it's certainly not

on and it won't happen again i can promise you that under my leadership at least seven people have been killed in a shootout with police in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro security forces say they were searching for suspects involved in a police killing when their patrol was attacked but families of the victims dispute the police account military took command of the city last month in an attempt to curb rising violence. those are the headlines you're up to date we're back in half an hour right now it's inside story. this is really an attack on itself is a lot of a sudden the standard of what free speech is supposed to be about the context of hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera the u.n. plans a donor conference to help people in the democratic republic of congo congolese

officials are refusing to go accusing the agency go over react.