long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available. tens of thousands of civilians escape pod said in a province as syrian and russian jets continue bombing. has i'm sick and this is live from doha also coming up to reuters journalists are reunited with their families after being released from jail in myanmar. after the death of a journalist last month a new round of talks gets under way in northern ireland. the third highest number of billionaires but how much of that wealth is making its way to the

rest of india. syrian and russian warplanes stepping up their bombing of the last rebel held province in the country activists say at least twenty civilians were killed on tuesday the attack is now in its second week zain a halt to reports from beirut. it's a worsening humanitarian situation in northwest syria there are reports of up to one hundred fifty thousand people on the move heading north towards the border with turkey escaping what has been described as the fiercest bombardment in months in the. death and we only brought what we can we have nothing but syrian and russian planes are continuing to target villages across southern adlib and northern hama it's been more than a week now dozens of civilians have been killed the night. nation's is calling for

an urgent deescalation and a recommitment to the cease fire especially after schools and health facilities were targeted the un is closely monitoring the situation. militarists there are contingency plans in place and beside being revised in terms of supply hunting but at the same time we there are also reports. of the operation due to the ongoing violence in the region syrian government troops have for the first time pushed into rebel territory taking some ground in northwest and it's only the beginning of what is expected to be a difficult and costly battle. against political blackmail under military pressure. by the russians to enter our pure and they were right to land will be met with fire the next box will be fateful hour and it would be surprised what did you see. along with.

groups are the dominant force in this area they have refused to abide by the ceasefire agreed by turkey and russia last september russia and syria say the military campaign is against those so-called radical groups but those fighters are embedded among the civilian population russia has accused turkey of not fulfilling its commitment to clear a demilitarized zone from the so-called radical groups and open highways that link cities held by the government but turkish officials argue a war with. other armed groups would only endanger the lives of civilians and has been trying to push for a negotiated solution. now the syrian army and its allies are trying to forcibly dislodge them at least from the countryside and a few kilometers into an area that was supposed to be a buffer zone the army hasn't announced the scope of its operations but there is no indication it involves recapturing the entire province especially since turkey continues to have a military presence there and still maintain

a strong alliance with russia. a qatar has placed a four hundred eighteen million dollars to support palestinians in gaza and the west bank that follows a cease fire agreed between a gazan factions and israel truce appears to be holding for a second day. has the latest from gaza. you can hear the blaring of car horns in said airstrikes and fire and you can see gazans are here in the markets children are back in school businesses are open life has resumed in gaza on day two of the ceasefire but if you're a relative of one of the twenty five palestinians who were killed or living in one of the one housing units destroyed life is anything but normal in assist people who have lost everything the government is offering households one thousand dollars in emergency funding qatar has pledged four hundred million dollars to gaza

and all of us pay. the be able to see all the time. that they would be able to please all these this election and they will be rebuilding their lives and we will stand by them we are quoting the international community to stand by that be able to because this is one of the apartment buildings destroyed in an israeli airstrike you can see girls pajamas. backpack of bureau pillows sheets strewn throughout the rubble this was the deadliest cycle of violence between hamas and israel since the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen and there's a feeling that this call him as it's referred to is only temporary we spoke to a political analyst here and he feels that israel is biting its time and will

respond with greater force later bear in mind that in twenty fourteen five israelis died during this latest cycle of violence that number was for this week israelis are focusing on celebrating memorial and then their national day next week tel aviv is hosting the euro vision music competition and so for now here in gaza people are focusing on celebrating the beginning of the muslim month of ramadan a very much happy for the temporary pause or however temporary pause this may be in violence ever mindful of the fact that it could be only a matter of time until the seas fire collapses sudan's military rulers are expected to publish their plans on how to govern during a transitional period protesters have been demanding power to be handed over to civilians after the military ousted president on monday bashir last month

opposition leader is awaiting for spawn's to presenting the military withdraw documents proposing a way forward on thursday if the morgan is in hock to me for so what more do we know about what's in these documents. well hasn't there are two documents that have been presented to the military council one of them is from the opposition coalition which is a vision for how the transitional period should look like it includes four years transitional period a judiciary system an independent judiciary system a presidential council which should be run by civilians with military representation and a prime ministerial post and executive cabinet now they're saying that their vision is what the people on the streets want for more than a month now people have been protesting in front of the army headquarters demanding that the military hand over power to civilian rule but the military council has also been presented by another proposal by mediation team a team that is trying to bring together and bridge the differences between the

military council and the opposition coalition now that proposal by the mediation includes a two year transitional period a transitional council led by the military but with a civilian majority and a defense and security council now they want that security and defense council to have a three billion representation with the military with military majority but that's something that the opposition coalition is rejecting so we're going to hear from the military council later on what its vision for the transitional period would be like and which of the two proposals it will accept all right here thanks for him morgan live for us in hard to. the u.n. secretary general is calling for an end to foreign interference in libya and security council committee has established that the u.a.e. has provided military support for us forces for years in violation of an arms embargo and schapelle has more. on. a series of drone strikes near the libyan capital last month is being investigated by a u.n. panel of experts at least six nighttime raids were carried out striking military

camps of forces loyal to the internationally recognized government photos of fragments from those strikes analyzed by weapons experts point to a chinese weapon system known to be operated by the united arab emirates a key backer of warlord tarr who is currently leading the offensive on tripoli. united nations monitors have repeatedly accused the gulf state of violating the weapons ban in support of have to his forces last week the u.a.e. minister of state for foreign affairs on more guard got said that abu dhabi's priority in libya is to counter extremism and terrorism and support stability he also claim that extremist militias continue to control the capital and are derailing a search for a political solution well libya's foreign minister has responded saying that such remarks are a tool of war and undermine the efforts of building a democratic civilian state indicating the glaring contradiction of the u.a.e. minister's remarks in which on one side he confirms his country's support for

stability in libya while at the same time he supports the war on tripoli and ignores that what have is doing in tripoli is outright terrorism. the un security council has assessed that have air forces are too old to bomb at night so to carry out nighttime raids someone would have had to violate a longstanding arms embargo. security council experts believe the u.a.e. is flying the chinese made drones out of air base in eastern libya. or you want to see report from twenty seventeen also details the ways the u.a.e. has violated the embargo for years the u.n. asking the iraqis to explain why they transferred attack helicopters and other aircraft capable of dropping laser guided bombs to air bases under have to control along with armored vehicles and hundreds of non armored vehicles that can easily be mounted with machine guns and other heavy weapons we have to fight and. that was

what i will be this is a neutral committee that works under the u.n. report clearly shows that the u.a.e. and in particular not anyone else in the u.a.e. has violated the embargo and supplied hafter with weapons that were delivered on saudi ships we have evidence this is not just talk we seized weapons that were manufactured in twenty. as reports are published and the u.n. writes letters of concern fears are only growing that libya is heading towards a full blown civil war and help al jazeera. to reuters journalist who spent sixteen months in a me and my prison for reporting on the military crackdown on the rangar have been freed while alone and were serving a seven year sentence for violating the official secrets act both men were reunited with their families one of them meeting his daughter for the first time when he reports on a case that strong international reaction. after almost a year and a half in prison while lone and walked to freedom they left insane prison and yang

gone moments after finding out their names were on a list of thousands of inmates to be freed in a presidential amnesty their immediate thoughts were for those closest to them and their profession. in the prison and also their own people wishing to really says i want to see thank you very much i am really happy and excited to see my family and my colleagues yeah and i can wait a minute right over the top and soon after they were emotional family reunions for the. analysts who were arrested in december two thousand and seventeen working for the reuters news agency they were investigating a massacre of ring you muslims in me and miles west when they were found to be in position of sensitive documents the lawyers for the journalists said they were framed despite little evidence presented by the prosecution while loan and who were convicted of violating the official secrets act and sentenced to seven years in prison and they appealed twice unsuccessfully. the case led to an international

campaign to have them freed by their employer we are enormously pleased that mean war has released our courageous reporters while on and toss so since their arrest five hundred eleven days ago they have become symbols of the importance of press freedom around the world we welcome their return much of the international pressure was focused on me and. she and her party the national league for democracy before forming the government they campaigned for human rights and freedom of speech but throughout the case they refused to speak out in support of the journalists or to amend laws like the official secrets act that critics say are open to abuse we can talk about the l.t. you know having very much power over the military they do have power over the law was the have a parliamentary majority if they wanted to they could abolish them and then not the ordeal for a while lone and who has come to an end but it's one that should never have

happened to journalists who say they were simply trying to uncover the truth when hey al jazeera bangkok all right still ahead when we come back whoever wins this weekend's election in south africa tough issues need to be addressed as millions of voters head to the polls. people in angola are struggling to find enough food as a major ground grips the country. and of the skies are not completely clear but temperatures are rising now headed for what's going to be a hot couple of months or so and as you can see a killer cloud here across the levant and showers in iran suggest it's not stable with the so bring in the potential for fifty dust and occasional showers mostly it's ahead of all that which is turkey at the moment so the sunshine comes out by

guards at thirty three beirut only about twenty you'll notice until around twenty eight slowly rising afterwards this grain is really cried more than anything else an occasional seana near the caspian is possible and occasional share of the high ground in northern saudi is a possibility and not that unusual. that's the sounds of that we won't see much more in the way thunderstorms i don't think for those in parts of society or bahrain or qatar but the clouds always a hint that it just might happen i think is a pretty low charge so she made high says even low forty's seems fairly typical at the moment that's true in oman as well and the breeze is said to get to be a southwesterly which you might think is the first hit in the monsoon well it's certainly showing rain going north for tanzania has been very wet recently everywhere we rely now on the fronts coming in from the southern the one to come that's certain the case the cape town and later central parts of south africa.

but again you're watching i just see a reminder of our top stories this hour syrian and russian warplanes stepping up

their bombing of the last rebel held province in the country government forces have advanced into opposition territory activists say at least twenty civilians were killed on choose. the prime minister of libya's u.n. recognized government is in europe to gather support. against ward honey for half the libyan government is accusing the united arab emirates of directly supporting have to. do what is journalist jailed in myanmar have been released after a presidential pardon and serving a seven year prison sentence over their investigation into a massacre of rango. a new round of talks and restoring northern ireland's power sharing government has started in belfast they're being held after the new ira admitted killing journalist lira mckee in london very last month the dean barber has more from belfast. the funeral in belfast of lira mckeon's a young journalist shot dead last month and an urgent question from the priest why

in god's name does it take the path of a twenty nine year old woman with her whole life and front of her eye that reaction was a wake up call for foster leader of the democratic unionist party and a very liberal donald to head republican party should play a key was shot dead by dissident republicans during the rioting in london derry now people's clear frustration with two and a half years of political and past in northern ireland has led to new talks involving all the major parties there aimed at getting the devolved administration based at stormont house back up and running here in the catholic all doing area of belfast al-jazeera but the director of an organization providing support and training to vulnerable young people under twenty five chainwheel hand says the collapse of stormont means he can't get approval for future projects we want to see youth centered communities but we can't do that in the absence of effective

executive at stormont so. we don't want people to go back and storm it in the way that it was before where there's a whole raft of supremacist lang's to cross in order for us to have some sort of government that needs to change but we do need government do you need some sort of a legislative body that can actually bring us from where we are to a better place alfie mccrory's a youth worker in one of belfast's loyalist areas he says the political uncertainty is directly affecting local services yesterday i spent five hours with a lady and her son her son was tanna tickets on life and we took him to the hospital and he was sent home there was no provisions but then the hospital to help or no money money comes from a budget budget comes from politicians politicians come from government show instead of it happening from the top during we're having to complain from the bottom up. and looking in the background wherever you go the fear that the political vacuum is allowing those who advocate violence to influence the

generation born after the so-called troubles these days you can find a new kind of role model murals around here likely sporting figures but many people will tell you the longer the political arm past continues the more young people will be tempted down a dark a path many people here hope lire bikies message of dialogue will now be heard by their politicians if it's not the implications for all communities here a deeply worrying. al-jazeera belfast. democrats in the u.s. congress will vote on wednesday on whether to hold the attorney general in contempt for not providing the full special counsel report william by refusing requests by congress to turn over an uncensored version of the report that looked into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election kimberly how kids with more now from washington. the planned vote on wednesday marks

a dramatic escalation in tensions between the trunks justice department and the congressional democrats specifically the house judiciary committee that will be voting to decide whether or not to hold william barr the attorney general in contempt of congress now that vote would only to be out of committee it would still have to be voted on in the broader house of representatives but certainly this is something that the trucker's justice department is pushing back on arguing that they are disappointed urging the committee to look at the read the active version of the report something that the committee is so far refusing to do saying they need to complete an unblocked out version now in the midst of all of this looming over all of this is robert mueller himself and whether or not he will testify as is requested by the house judiciary committee the date looking possible for mid may but the president tweeting on sunday that he believes that the special counsel does not need to testify before congress he also does not support former white house

counsel don mcgann testifying the view of the trump administration is that this is over that this is a case closed and this is an example these ongoing investigations of the democrats continuing to refuse the outcome of the twenty sixteen u.s. election. more than twenty six million south africans will vote for a new president on wednesday while the ruling african national congress will most likely win it is expected to lose votes compared to past elections the party's been accused of corruption and doing a poor job delivering services to millions of people. for media miller has more now from cape town. on prime real estate along cape town's waterfront is a building that was once a medical residence it became fake and when the city moved its nurses out in twenty fifteen two years later people who had nowhere else to live moved in one of them is sixty nine year old sicilian mother bella went to sit in class you can leave it

wherever you would like to be. there's no rich or poor people we are all the same and it allowed to stay in the city. in a group here the conditions are not great sanitation is poor and space is a cramped despite the government building millions of free homes south africa still has a shortage of two point three million as of africans prepared to vote they are a number of issues that may influence who they vote for land ownership and the redistribution of wealth rising unemployment and a poorly performing economy or just some of the concerns that people want the government to address the governing african national congress has been plagued by one corruption scandal after another it led to the resignation of president jacob zuma. as the party works to renew its image under the leadership of so roma

pour some it's also fighting a declining support it's back not only its traditional opposition to the democratic alliance but also a rise in populist voices like that of julius malema of the economic freedom fighters the one six percent of the vote in its first election and polls suggest that support could double a greater number of small parties are emerging good is led by patricia dillo who form the party after splitting from the democratic alliance a n c one of the old parties they have perfect accord option the d a they only need the all party to probe take that really they don't care about the poor and what we need you need an alternative in this country that stand up for the poor in their fight for social justice the a.n.c. spent much of the campaign like managing its mistakes and asking its supporters for

forgiveness commentators expect the party the hang on to power but it's not clear how comfortable a majority it will have. al-jazeera caped on. india is home to the third highest number of billionaires in the world including asia's richest person but while the economy expands many people are asking it's only if it's only the wealthy who are benefiting reports from new delhi. this sprawling upmarket estate tucked away in new delhi is home for rival coastline this family a startup investor who's also runs his own digital consulting and marketing firm he says the government's policies in the past few years have been good for business just in terms of how we deal with the government with the governance it brings to simplicity information's lot easier for us to. understand our clients and other

businesses have grown they have they've needed more services from us so with our services are growing our business is growing and that's been a. positive effect. is not the only one who seems business thrive official figures show exports are up eleven percent hitting a new high and you construction projects are underway and all the major cities this is one of new delhi's pasha's neighborhoods with houses here as expensive as in new york or paris many here are benefiting from growing g.d.p. that world bank figures estimate will grow at seven point two percent that's twenty eight hundred twenty nine hundred year but the benefits of that growth may not be reaching everyone even amongst the wealthy. many construction company owners say while they are still operating orders are actually down for recent years and while the stock market is up it's not stable market is innovation and there are a lot of investors of getting scared to enter into the market because it has

rapidly gone up in very short time media people had made enough money in this market. the gap between rich and poor it's easy to see. india's home to some of the world's wealthiest people. a billionaire many times over is asia's richest person economists say it's people like him in india that are benefiting most from the country's current economic climate one percent used to own fifty six percent of the event in the country did two and a half years ago now they own seventy six percent of japan so it's a huge concentration off of all of the benefits of growth in one. section of people. knows he's also prospering from india's economic growth but says not enough people are he wants to see the situation improve for others so a better standard of living is

a joy like more people in india as jamil al jazeera you dealt. a millions of people in angola struggling to find enough food as a major drought grips the country and with no sign of rain supplies of drinking water are running dangerously low i'm with june reports. for maria and her family this is a daily task here in angola southern coonan province they're taking what they need for cleaning cooking and drinking if they can find water finally they come across some rainwater collected in a hole dug by road builders despite it being unclean they are overtaken by thirst. them with sad one. if we drink this water say to gates cows ducks and pay nice along with all the animals we'll say can see this water even though animals deficit in urine and head to the united nations agency for children unicef says recent

rainfall in angola has been erratic and below what's expected. and that's worsening an already severe drought two point three million people are now struggling to get enough food in the southern province of could in which borders namibia unicef says the approximate number of people in need has tripled from two hundred fifty thousand in january to eight hundred fifty thousand in march maria and her family are among them but. as of today they've even found enough water to wash their clothes. angola's president declared a state of emergency in january and acknowledges people need help. this year we are concerned with the upcoming months especially the next four to five months until october which is the time the rains begin we believe that until then the situation we saw in namibia and k'naan will get worse therefore the emergency program should be expanded so that we no longer lose cattle and human lives in this region and. the oil producing country has suffered an economic crisis

since oil prices fell five years ago. and unicef says the government led response isn't getting the funds it needs leaving maria and her family and many others facing a struggle that's only getting worse. and. this is get out of now top story syrian and russian warplanes are stepping up the bombing of the last rebel held province their government forces have advanced into opposition territory for the first time since the offensive began last week activists say at least twenty civilians were killed on tuesday dana holder has more from beirut syrian and russian planes carrying out dozens of air strikes on a daily basis and those strikes are targeting civilian neighborhoods residential neighborhoods schools health facilities it's really

a tactic that we have seen in previous operations they make life unbearable for the people by targeting civilian infrastructure so that they will leave and depopulate the area which makes it much easier for ground forces to advance the prime minister of libya's u.n. recognized government is in europe to gather support against war old khalifa haftar is accusing the united arab emirates of directly supporting hostile phases met with the italian prime minister. sudan's military is expected to publish its plans on how to govern during a transitional period protesters are demanding the military hand power to civilians after it ousted president bashir last month opposition leaders are waiting for a sponsor after presenting the military draft documents proposing a way forward. qatar has pledged four hundred eighty million dollars to support palestinians in gaza and the west bank that's after

a cease fire agreed between gaza and factions and israel the truce appears to be holding for a second day to reuters journalists jailed in myanmar have been released after a presidential pardon they have been serving a seven year prison sentence over their investigation into a massacre of the u.k. and u.s. governments have welcomed a decision. democrats in the us congress will vote on wednesday on whether to hold the attorney general in contempt for not providing the full special counsel report william barr has refused a request by the u.s. congress to turn over an uncensored version of the report that looked into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election those are the headlines inside stories next .

humans are putting nature a risk a major report warns one million species face the threat of extinction from deforestation to overfishing and development the consequences will be diet but can this trend be reversed or at least this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm wrong on life on earth is in decline with more species threatened with extinction than at any other time in history and we blame that's part of the findings of a un agency responsible for assessing the state of all planets.