a grim observance in syria after five years of civil war as factions make demands after another round of peace talks. we go inside raqqah, syria, to see what life is like. and the presidential election as protesters continue to show off at donald trump's rallies. [ bleep ] plus, the u.n. accuses south sudan of brutalizing its own citizens. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm lynda kinkade, and this is "cnn newsroom."

we begin with the syrian conflict as the country approaches its fifth anniversary of civil war. john kerry is set to meet with some of his european counterparts this hour to discuss the con flexibilikoconf. it comes ahead of peace talks between the syrian government and opposition representatives. the u.n. is backing those talks. the opposition wants a new constitution, presidential elections, and a transitional government. >> translator: we consider at that transitional period starts with the fall of bashar al assad or his death. there's no possibility to start this period with the presence of this regime or head of the regime in power. >> syria's foreign minister says syrian president bashar al assad is "a red line," and that his future is nonnegotiable, as well as presidential elections. the brutal violence in syria has kept journalists from entering some parts of the country, making it very difficult to get a glimpse of

what's really happening. most recently, two women wore hidden cameras for the swedish newspaper to show the world what life is like inside the self-proclaimed isis capital of raqqah. and the oppression of the women there. they put themselves as grave risk. we want to warn you that some of the video is graphic. ♪ >> reporter: it is late winter, and the shops are open. the city has an air of fear about it. a woman's uncovered face is punishable, even if it's just on the front of a packet of hair dye.

>> reporter: al raqqah fell in 2014 since the end of summer. the city has been governed since by medieval methods. the worst affect read the women. they're not allowed out on their own. they must be accompanied by another woman or male guardian. they're not allowed to work, go to school, or go to university. they have been stripped of all rights. in the taxi, an anthem is playing on the radio. it praises the highest leader of isis, baghdadi. ♪

>> reporter: this couple lived in raqqah when isis stormed the city. since then they've lived under the oppression of the terrorist group. they've witnessed murder and torture --

>> reporter: they've dreamt of fleeing for a long time but had to stay to save a pregnant friend from certain death. extramarital relations are punishable by stoning. >> five years after the start of the war, more than 11 million have been forced from their homes while the united nations and others have been unable to

broker a peace deal. opposition forces have become increasingly split between dwindling numbers of mainstream islamists, and jihadists fighters with links to isis and al qaeda. the conflict is affecting the stability of neighboring countries including iraq, lebanon, and turkey. all next week, cnn's clarissa ward is taking you on a journey deep into the heart of a country scarred by five years of war and isolated by devastation. you'll get an exclusive look behind rebel lines and meet people who call what's left of the embattled country home. >> reporter: we had to travel under cover to see a war few outsiders have witnessed. >> translator: the russian planes target anything that works in the interests of the people. the goal is that people here live a destroyed life, that people never see any good. >> reporter: there are snipers all around here, but this is the only road now to get into aleppo. aleppo was once syria's largest

city. now, an apocalyptic landscape. any civilian in the structure is a potential target, including hospitals. is it possible that they did not know that this was a hospital? >> translator: everyone knows this is a hospital. >> all part of our special coverage "inside syria: behind rebel lines." it's only on cnn. germany has agreed to receive more astyle siestyle sk -- asylum seekers than any other. now german chancellor angela merkel may be facing backlash for her policies. germans are voting for regional election necessarily there states and the anti-immigration party alternative for germany is gaining support. mrs. merkel is not backing down. she's opened germany's doors to more than one million refugees since last year. [ applause ] >> translator: today, more than

90% of people are say figure someone really is fleeing from war, terror, the i.s., and hardship, must get protection among us. it's all the more important that we succeed in sending back those who are not coming from war and hardship but for economic reasons -- which is understandable, but which has nothing to do with the asylum or geneva refugee convention, that we tell them you have to leave our country again. those who want quick decisions must vote for the christian democrats union, a trademark this sunday. [ applause ] repercussions are packing more venom into the u.s. presidential race. police in chicago have charged four people for clashes friday between trump supporters and protesters. concerns about violence led trump to cancel a rally there. it did not stop these protesters from disrupting a trump event on saturday in missouri. the republican front-runner has

been roundly criticized for exporting his crowds to rough up protesters like these. on saturday, he took a different approach. >> i hope these guys gets thrown into a jail. they'll never do it again. it will destroy their record. they'll have to explain to mom and dad why they have a police record and why they can't get a job. and you know what, i'm going to start pressing charges against all these people. [ cheers ] okay? and then we won't have a problem. and i don't want to do that. i don't want to ruin somebody's life. they're probably good kids, you know. they're probably good kids. i don't want to ruin people's lives. the only way to stop this craziness is if we press charges. later on saturday, trump almost found himself sharing the podium with a protester. have a look at this. >> i know -- >> ho! ho! ho! [ shouts ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> secret service agents blocked

the demonstrators who rushed the stage at an event in ohio. police charged thomas demassimo with disorderly conduct and inciting panic. he later released a statement saying, "we must nonviolently shut down every trump rally. we must stop this violent, foolish man from taking this country and destroying it. we must or we will go down with him because we share the same color of skin. if you don't think you're a proponent of white supremacy, it's time to prove it with action. now, today, tomorrow, and every day until he's back hidden in a mansion where he belongs." a welcome sign in ohio saturday for all those hoping the recent violence does not eco la late -- escalate. martin savidge reports. >> reporter: standing outside the ix center as they call it here, you could see as they

brought out the protesters. and at times through door 27a, the door they were using e ingi escort them out, you would see groups of five, sometimes ten. they were cheering. they were apparently taking it as a badge of honor that they got thrown out of a donald trump rally. they represented all different kinds of causes. they said their treatment inside was pretty good. but they were surrounded by trump supporters who would fight. there was no fighting or ugliness. authorities moved in and said, you have to leave, and showed them the door. outside when the event was over, some friction because there were protesters who were against waiting for the trump supporters. a lot of loud shouting, but nothing beyond that. cleveland has a reason that they want this to go well. because of course coming up in the summer they host the republican national convention. this was in a miniscule way a dry run for them. it seems to have gone fairly

well here. >> meanwhile, there were two republican caucuses on saturday. texas senator ted cruz won the most delegates with wyoming with nine, front-runner donald trump gained one, so did marco rubio. the florida senator did better in washington, d.c., winning the convention there and gained ten delegates. trump is still leading the pack with a total of 462 pledged delegates. cruz has 371. and rubio trails with 165. 1,237 delegates are needed to win the republican nomination. still to come, horrific atrocities are reportedly plaguing a nation including troops killing civilians and the use of rape as an instrument of terror. coming up, we'll hear from an adviser at amnesty international. plus, the gifts that keep on giving. coming up, all the oddball moments of the 2016 presidential race captured in a perpetual loop.

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welcome back. now to france where investigators are set to release a final report into the

germanwings plane crash. sunday's report comes two weeks before the first anniversary of the crash. the airbus a320 was flying from barcelona to duffel dover when it crash -- dusseldorf when it crashed killing all 150 on board. the flight data recorder revealed the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. a damning report from the ujs is painting a -- the united nations is painting a horrific picture in south sudan. it says troops have raped and killed girls and beat men and boys. it says it's trying to protect the country's people. we have the story. >> reporter: it's an all-too-common scene in south sudan. villagers destroyed here, bodies littering the streets. thousands have been left homeless trying to flee the violence. now the united nations accuses south sudan's government of

operating what it calls a scorched earth policy against its own people. >> which is killing of civilians, displacement, pillaging, abductions, rape, and general -- generally terrorizing the civilian population. >> reporter: among the more horrendous abuses detailed in the new report, the u.n. says south sudan lets fighters rape women as payment. in another case, amnesty international says scattered human remains in this field are all that's left after government forces let more than 60 men and boys suffocate in a shipping container. according to the report, they were suspected of supporting the opposition. south sudan's government denies those accusations. a spokesman also says the u.n. report is not genuine and that the military's mission is to protect the people, vowing any perpetrators of human rights violations will be brought to justice. the country has been racked by years of violence after gaining

its independence in 2011, civil war erupted twees eed two years splitting the already poverty-stricken country along ethnic lines. while the u.n. says there have been war crimes committed by both sides of the bloody conflict, they add this -- >> the violations in 2015 are predominantly the responsibility of the government. >> reporter: the u.n. says some 50,000 people have died since the fighting broke out. multiple aid workers tell afp they believe the number to be as high as 300,000 killed. whatever the number, the u.n. calls south sudan one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world. cnn, nairobi, kenya. a senior crisis adviser with amnesty international joins me via skype from beirut, lebanon. great to have you with us. i understand that you recently returned from south sudan. explain for us what you

witnessed, what did you learn? >> that's right. i've just conducted a three-week fact-finding mission for amnesty international. primarily in unity state which has been one of the areas that has been hardest hit by conflict. like the findings in the u.n. report, we did, in fact, see that even after the signing of the peace agreement in august of last year that there continued to be systemic attacks against the civilian population. civilians being killed while they were fleeing, women and children -- and girls being subjected to abductions and sexual assault, and attacks on the food supply and other types of civilian property. these attacks have devastated the civilian population. >> and as we saw in the report, sexual violence has been used to torture and terrorize many women and girls. the report documented more than 1,300 cases between papril and september in unity state alone,

and more than 50 cases from september to october. no doubt that's just the tip of what's really going on. >> we do, in fact, believe that there are women and girls that continue to be abducted and are still being subjected to this violence today. the types of denials that we saw from the government are shameful in light of the strong, credible evidence of rights abuse that have and continue to be perpetrated in the country. >> and looking at children, we know that thousands of child soldiers have been recruited to fight in the war. some, as we've seen, in that last piece that was filed, have been brutally killed if they don't join in the fighting. >> that's right. there are child soldiers that continue to serve today in south sudan. some of them against their will. this is why it is critically important that steps are taken to implement the peace agreement that was signed by both parties to the conflict in august. there has been a failure for the parties to move forward in doing

things like demobilizing child soldiers. >> and most of the crimes against humanity and the war crimes listed in the report have been committed by the government. we know the government has rejected this report. what needs to happen? >> we are looking to the afghanis to take a lead in ensuring that some steps are taken in south sudan to allow for peace to take hold in the country. this critically will include the establishment of a high court. the government is failing to admit that crimes have taken place. we need to have an international body that will prosecute worker mills on both sides of the conflict in south sudan. right now, the u.n. human rights council is also meeting and discussing south sudan. we are looking to the council to take steps to also promote accountability including by establishing a special tour. african states will have to take

the lead in ensuring that these types of abuse are not tolerated on the continent. >> so besides the war crimes being held accountable in a court in the united nations or elsewhere, what else needs to be done in terms of like arms embargoes, things like it? what else can be done? >> the u.n. security council should impose an arms embargo on south sudan. that will ensure that weapons too not continue to go parties -- weapons do not continue to go to parties that we know are committing widespread human rights abuse, war crimes perpetrated against the civilian population on a daily basis. in south sudan, people have lost count of the numbers of victims. we don't even know the numbers that have died. but we can intervene to stop these abuse from continuing. >> it's been obviously two years since the outbreak of the civil war. there's been so much international focus on syria and iraq and the war against isis.

does there need to be a bigger international focus on south sudan? >> certainly. given the level of atrocities in south sudan, it really is shocking to see the lack of attention and resources that have been given to the country. and in fact, some of the types of abuse that we're seen perpetratored in south sudan, the -- perpetrated in south sudan, the deprivation of food, intentional targeting of medical facilities, these are the same types of abuse that we've seen, for example, in syria and yemen. there needs to be an international response ensuring that governments around the world are not allowed to deprive the civilian population of this badly needed assistance and care during times of war. >> and it seems as we've discussed no one is safe. whether it be women or children. and no place, when it be hospitals or churches or mosques. what's being done for the people that have been rescued, that

have been left traumatized? what's being done to help them? >> there are protection of civilian sites in south sudan where some of the most vulnerable have fled to. unfortunately, we've seen that there has been an outbreak of violence in some of the sites, as well. in february, there was an attack on the protection of civilians site leaving dozens dead. we are looking to the united nations to kconduct an investigation to ensure the incident is not repeated and to ensure that early warning mechanisms are in place. unfortunately, the people of south sudan continue to suffer from a lack of humanitarian resources. over 2.8 million people are food insecure in the country. it is a country that is desperately reliant on humanitarian assistance. and again, this is all happening in a context when civilians continue to be targeted. >> absolutely.

from amnesty international, we appreciate your time. all the best with your continued work. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. tuesday marks five years since the syrian civil war erupted. we'll explore some of the most critical and unexpected consequences of the conflict coming up. first, wind, rain, and snow are slamming northern california, and there are fears of possible flooding and mudslides. that story just ahead.

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i'm lynda kinkade. these are the headlines we're following -- german chancellor angela merkel says she's crossing her fingers as voters hits the polls. people in three states will elect their regional parliaments. the vote is seen as a test for merkel's open migration spomps she's been losing support -- policies. she's been losing support to an anti-immigration party. u.s. presidential hopeful donald trump is planning what he calls professionals, bold protests disrupting his rallies. on sudden, secret service agents blocked a man who jumped a barricade and tried to rush the republican front-runner. israeli air strikes in gaza saturday killed a 6-year-old palestinian girl and her 10-year-old brother. palestinian news says shrapnel from the attack critically wounded another brother. the israeli military says air strikes were in response to rockets launched from gaza. six people were killed in a third deadly avalanche to hit the alps this year.

over a dozen skiers were buried by snow and ice near the austrian border in italy. 100 personnel were part of the rescue efforts that saved eight of those people. u.s. secretary of state john kerry's meeting with his european counterparts in paris this hour to discuss ways to end the syrian conflict. the meeting comes ahead of monday's peace talks in geneva between the syrian government and opposition representatives. the u.n. is backing those talks which kerry says should go on as planned. the devastating war in syria is approaching the five-year mark. ahead of the anniversary, cnn's nick paton walsh explores five unexpected effects of years of syria's conflict. >> reporter: for anniversaries, west has fought to stay out of another middle east quagmire. and so on five occasions, the things have never imagined could happen did. it took thousands to die from

bombing before the first white house red line was even crossed. that was the use of chemical weapons,er weapons,er serin, in suburbs. unimaginable to many but really happening in 2013. the terror was something you could feel on youtube. syria gave up its chemical weapons. so, too, did many on obama's red line. mere month later, radicals pour into syria. here at the airport, we watched dozens of foreigners from libya, mauritan mauritania, egypt insist they were charity workers. turkey let many like them cross into syria. and isis took root right on europe and nato's doorstep. it is in the nature of wars to spread chaos, and just across the border in iraq, another

never again. the azeedies were brutalized. women used as sex slaves. children for soldiers, men murdered. it is unclear how many died. u.s. officials think it may be genocide. it took four years of desperation to spark the largest refugee crisis since world war ii. even the rise or fall of the soviet union did this. unable to see an end to the war or a future in the middle east, they left. to germany -- [ chants ] greece or anywhere in between or beyond. risking life, bringing out the worst and best of those welcomed. [ gunfire ]

one small fact also exposes how the war has hamstrung our humanity. we don't know how many people have died in it. not since january, 2014, when the u.n. last counted 100,000. they've since been unable to verify enough information. even in this, the most filmed and social media-posted war yet, the utter chaos stops one base of dignity. some say 470,000 have died. five years in, still impossible to know what the number will stop at. nick paton walsh, cnn, beirut. and all this week, cnn's clarissa ward will take you on a harrowing journey deep into the heart of the country scarred by war and isolated by devastation. you'll get a look inside syria behind rebel lines and meet the people who call what's left of the embattled country home.

all part of our exclusive special coverage, "inside syria: behind rebel lines," only on cnn. violence at trump rallies is sparking some verbal sparring between two candidates who haven't done any real head-to-head campaigning. the latest on trump versus sanders next. plus, el nino hitting northern california. people are preparing for round two of some serious wind, rain, and snow. that story just ahead. need to hire fast?

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welcome back. not only is trump not backing down from his comments after the incidents in chicago, he's taken them a step further. he insists that he's not responsible for the violence and is now pointing the finger in another direction entirely. at democratic candidate bernie

sanders. trump accused him of instigating protests, and sanders was quick to respond. >> the people that came, that were invited there, thousands and thousands, they caused no problem. they were taunted. they were harassed by these other people. some represented bernie, our communist friend. with bernie, he should really get up and say to his people, stop. stop. not me. stop. they said, mr. trump should get up and this morning tell his people to be nice. my people are nice, folks. >> i don't think our supporters are inciting. our supporters are responding to a candidate who have in many ways encouraged violence when he talks about things like he

wishes things were like in the old days when he could punch someone in the head. the other day a person was sucker punched and other incidents. the issue now is that donald trump has got to be loud and clear and tell his supporters that violence at rallies is not what america is it and to end it. >> the group moveon.org is saying in a statement, let's be clear it one thing, the protest friday night was a direct result of the violence that has occurred at trump rallies. and that has been repeatedly encouraged by trump himself from the stage. trump has pushed back against his critics' claims that he's responsible for that sort of outburst we're seeing. cnn compiled a timeline showing things leading up to the boiling

point in chicago. i was nice. take your time. the second group, i was pretty nice. the third group, i'll be a little more violent. and the fourth group, i'll say, get the hell out of here! [ cheers ] roughed up? maybe he should have been roughed up. it was disgusting what he was doing. if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him, would you seriously, okay? knock the hell -- i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees, i promise. do you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? they'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. guards are gentle with him. he's walking out -- big high fives, smiling, laughing. like to punch him in the face, i'll tell you. in the good old days, they'd rip him out of that seat so fast.

gets him out. try not to hurt him. if you do, i'll defend you in court. don't worry about it. he lies! >> do you believe you've done anything to create a tone in which this violence is encouraged? >> i hope not. i hope not. we have to be politically correct -- oh, please don't hurt him. they're allowed to get up and interrupt us horribly, and we have to be very gentle. very gentle. they can swing, they can hit people. but it we hit back, it's a terrible, terrible thing, right? >> do you regret saying any of those things, especially things that you have said about punching protesters, sending them out on stretchers? >> no, i don't regret it at all. some of these protesters were violent. yeah, i'm not -- i'm not happy about that, and i would always express my feelings about that. >> and democratic front-runner

hillary clinton had harsh words about the violence at trump's rally calling his rhetoric political arson. clinton made the comments during a stop in missouri. she went on to cleveland, ohio, to rally votes days before the primary. the event was held at a church where she answered questions and discussed issues that affected african-americans. >> any view of black america that focuses exclusively on poverty and crime is missing most of the picture. [ applause ] >> let us celebrate the success stories, the rise of so many people. the vibrancy of the church, the contributions in all walks of life, business, law, politics, science, the arts, sports, the professions. we need to lift up all that has been done so we can shine and either -- an even brighter light what we must do together. victory for democratic candidate bernie sanders.

an ohio judge issued an order friday that will allow 17-year-olds to vote in tuesday's critical primary. it was determined that ohio's secretary of state was wrong to order that residents who are currently 17 but will be 18 on election day not be allowed to vote. that could give a leg up to sanders who is popular with younger voters. join us later for the cnn tv-1 democratic presidential town hall ahead of tuesday's critical primaries. ohio voters will put questions to both bernie sanders and hillary clinton. that's monday at 8:00 a.m. hong kong, midnight for you night owls in london, right here on cnn. el nino is not letting up in northern california. wind, rain, and snow have caused major traffic accidents. there are fears of possible flooding and mudslides. we have more from kovr. >> reporter: a terrible multi-accident off i-80 east and

the yuba gap exit. two cars overturned on the side of the highway after spinning out of control, slowing traffic as help was brought in. thankfully for others making the trip up the mountain, conditions cooperated. >> there was rain on and off. some beautiful sunshine and rainbows along the way, as well. we were very fortunate in that we didn't hit the heaviest of the deluge. >> there was a little rain, but it wasn't as bad as we expected. we knew we had to put chains on. >> reporter: the wet and slushy roads put chain control in full effect with chains being required south of blue canyon to donner summit. >> i do this every day in the snow so i'm used to putting chains on. >> reporter: one by one, people pulling over to chain up. those that didn't, well, were slipping and sliding on the mountain like this car. judge. >> slippery. it was hard to see through the windshield because the rain was so hard. >> reporter: the thirst for

fresh powder wasn't stopping this group of boxers coming to train in the higher elevation. >> we're going to train like rocky did. remember when he went to russia and trained in the snow? keep it simple. try to run in the snow and, you know, get the legs working. >> reporter: or these kids -- >> the snow of great. but it was low visibility. so yeah, it was really fun, though, skiing with him. he's my friend. and it was his first time. >> reporter: all in all, a smart move for drivers trying to beat the heavy rain and snowfall set for this weekend. >> that was our affiliate kovr. with us is our meteorologist, derek van dam. and you were saying before that the storms this weekend are going to give a bit of a one-two punch. >> it is. the professionalial one-two punch -- proverbial one-two punch. one now and another set to move in in about 12 hours' time. i'll explain with a satellite loop. it's easier to see what i'm talking about. check this out -- we have very

active weather over the western u.s. that's bringing that heavy rainfall to the lower elevations and the higher elevations seeing that impressive snowfall, measuring in feet, not inches. here's the first storm moving in. here's california to give a geographical perspective. the purple, green, and yellow is the colder cloud tops. the first wave of energy. you look across the pacific, there's a smaller wave of energy, as well. that's that's the second impulse that will bring the one-two punch of rain and snow to california, great news for the drought-stricken state. they needed precipitation to carry into the summer months. of course, we rely that sierra-nevada snow pack for the fresh drinking water as we head into the summer months. look at this close call, one of the transportation vehicles on the highway near the coast nearly flipped off the road thanks to a mudslide. you see the dangers that all of

this moisture streaming into the western half of the u.s. means for that part of the world. this is the pineapple express. we've talked about it before. tapping into our moisture from the tropics all the way from hawaii, believe it or not. and pulling in that pacific moisture means we get lots of rainfall over california and the pacific northwest. this is our radar lighting up like a christmas tree, focusing in to northern california where our video and package was shot a moment ago. this interstate 80, that was where you saw the footage. that's where we're having some of the travel difficulties as the snow piles up near the donner pass. we have the potential for upwards of two, even three feet of snow for the higher elevations with several inches of rainfall from san francisco to the north and to the humboldt county area. we've had rain into the deep south. look at louisiana. they have been contending with epic proportions of rainfall, over 500 millimeters or 20 inches of rain.

the national weather service has issued heavy rain warnings for the region, flood emergencies in place. the good news is, though, that the bulk of the heavy precipitation starting to move on. and we'll see that rainfall move further and further north. i'm going to end on this -- if you've ever been to chicago around the st. patrick's day time, you know what you're looking at right now. that is the annual dyeing of the chicago river. lynd athey actually dye -- lynda, they actually dye it green in celebration of st. patrick's day. a tradition since 1962 as 400,000 spectators lined the sides of the chicago river. i was wondering if this was, you know, potentially polluting the river. but i looked into it. it's actually a vegetable-based dye and does not last that long, only five hours. it's not bad for the river. >> fine for the fish and anything in the river? >> it is. it's supposed to look cool. >> i like it. happy st. patrick's day.

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welcome back. the u.s. presidential campaign keeps on entertaining. a candidate makes a dramatic gesture and a gif is born deflategate. whacky moments boiled down -- born. whacky moment boiled down to memorable moments in cyberspace forever. jeanne moos with the most memorable. >> reporter: it's happened again. >> not gonna happen. not gonna happen. >> reporter: oh, yes it did. another campaign moment turned into an endless loop. like when the eagle pecked donald trump or bernie sanders -- ♪ >> reporter: danced his way on to "ellen." "the new york times" declared the political gifs are the new sound bites. gif, graphics interchanged format. the animated looping images

seconds long. now there's a never-ending argument over how to pronounce the word. the inventor says it's jif like the peanut butter. i was turned into jif in a matter of moment. >> voila. >> reporter: no one is more jif-able that this guy with six-second vines. donald trump did every emoji face on your phone in seven seconds. >> wouldn't want such a "hot head" with his finger on the nuclear codes. >> reporter: giffy with a hard "g" says candidates are getting more savvy. >> shrugging or brushing shoulders off like hillary clinton did -- >> reporter: tweeting a dismissive gesture at benghazi hearings as a response to what was said a a republican debate. reacting at another republican debate, she rubbed her temples. marco rubio became a jif when he grabbed for water. then donald trump's imitation of rubio likewise became a jif.

don't expect any context. >> not gonna happen. >> reporter: the cruz moose ear moment came when he reacted to his daughter reacting to a comment that it would be a disaster if cruz wins texas -- >> sticks both fingers in her ears and goes, "not gonna happen. not gonna happen." >> reporter: you can expect these to happen and happen and happen and live on in cyberspace until the end of time. >> please clap. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn -- >> not gonna happen -- >> reporter: new york. >> not gonna happen. >> entertaining things. thank you very much for joining us for this edition of newsroom. i'm lynda kinkade. i'll be back after the break with another hour of news from across the world. i think we should've taken a tarzan know where tarzan go! tarzan does not know where tarzan go.

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[ shouting ] [ bleep ] more protests at donald trump rallies. the details on this attempt to get the republican presidential front-runner in ohio. plus, why bernie sanders says his supporters are not to blame. also ahead, a rare look at life inside the self-proclaimed capital of isis, raka, syria. two women risk death to uncover the harrowing reality of the militant rule. and almost a year after the germanywings flight 9525 crashed into this mountainside, report on how the disaster was allowed to happen is due in the coming hours. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and across the world, i'm lynda kinkade, and this is "cnn newsroom."

red, angry faces and blue, rude language. the race for the white house is getting even more colorful. police in chicago say they've charged four people from the clashes friday between donald trump and supporters and protesters. concerns about violence led to the republican front-runner to cancel the rally there. this was the scene outside a trump rally kansas city, missouri, on saturday. police used pepper spray on the protesters. inside demonstrators unfurled flags while trump supporters screamed and jeered, and the candidate demanded their arrests. >> i hope they arrest these people because they're really violating all of us. i'm going to ask that you arrest them. i'll file whatever charges you want. who the hell knows?

>> earlier secret service agents stopped a man from rushing donald trump while he spoke in ohio. >> i would do it myself -- >> ho, ho, ho! [ shouts ] >> the 22-year-old protester later called on people to nonviolently shut down every trump event. from ohio to chicago, the anger surrounding trump appears to be growing. as jeff zeleny reports, it's reverberating across the political spectrum. >> reporter: protest here in chicago are front and center on the democratic side of the campaign trail today, as well. bernie sanders was campaigning here in chicago and later in champaign, illinois. hillary clinton was in missouri. she took a forceful tone against what happened in chicago against donald trump's rhetoric. >> if you play with matches, you can start a fire you can't control. that is not leadership, it is political arson.

>> reporter: a preview of what's to come for the general election if donald trump should become the republican nominee and if she becomes the democratic nominee. this could be the framework of their argument going forward. donald trump accused bernie sanders supporters of instigating the protest in chicago. i was at the rally outside and saw several people holding "bernie sanders" signs. he issued a statement late today saying his campaign in no way organized this. he said some of his supporters were simply standing up to the divisive rhetoric from the trump campaign that they didn't like. bernie sanders says he is not responsible for organizing the counterprotests. certainly another day of donald trump dominating the conversation on both sides of the aisle. the democratic candidate speaking harshly against him. >> so who is responsible for the violence and protests at trump rallies? many pundits, republican and democrat, are blaming trump himself. poppy harlow spoke with conservative radio host ben ferguson and former reagan

staffer jeffrey lord about the angry tone of trump's twain. >> -- trump's campaign. >> he loves talking about people punching each other in the face in hate. "if you hit him, i'll pay for your legal defense team." he said that from the podium one day. these protests, and a lot are coming out and acting, you know, in a thuggish way. i think that's clear from what we saw last night. they are there to get into a fight. let's be clear, there are also donald trump supporters, including that older man who suckerpunched the individual, that are showing up and excited to be in this but want to be involved in a fight. donald trump has ratcheted the rhetoric up to a point where it's boiling over. as a leader, when you're the president of the united states or trying to become the president, you can't be a part of this and be taken seriously. this is where i look at donald

trump and say, what are we doing? why is this individual this close to the white house when he's been advocating for violence and now somehow claims that he's not responsible for this? >> when we talk about the subject, we have got to hold the people who do these acts responsible. and as i said earlier in the day -- >> totally agree. >> this is what goes on with the american life. hubert humphrey, for heaven's sakes, was pushing the politics of joy. they did exactly the same to him. exactly the same thing. went to his rallies like this, caused all kinds of havoc. got tossed out by the secret service. i mean, if there was anyone least deserving of that kind of treatment, it would have been hubert humphrey, a wonderfully genial man. >> that was former reagan staffer jeffrey lord and conservative radio host ben ferguson speaking with our poppy harlow. and be sure to keep it here. coming up later in the hour, we'll have an overview of trump's most controversial comments on the campaign trail and his history of kicking protesters out of his events.

the democratic race is hitting the midwest in full force. bernie sanders was in illinois on saturday underlining the importance of voter turnout if he want to pull off the revolution that he's advocating for. >> what we have found throughout this campaign is we win and we win big when there are large voter turnouts. [ cheers ] >> and that means on tuesday, let's see here in illinois the largest voter turnout in the state's history. >> meanwhile, hillary clinton was in ohio speaking on the issues facing african-americans and why she's the right candidate to move those issues forward. >> any view of black america that focuses exclusively on poverty and crimea missing most

of the picture. let us celebrate the success stories, the rise of so many people, the vibrancy of the church, the contributions in all walks of life, business, law, politics, science, the arts, sports, the professions. we need to lift up all that has been done so we can shine an even brighter light on what we must do together. join us later for the cnn-tv1 presidential town hall ahead of tuesday's primaries. ohio will put questions -- ohio voters will put questions to bernie sanders and hillary clinton. that's monday at 8:00 a.m. in hong kong, midnight for you night owls in london here on cnn. we're taking a look at saturday's republican vote. ted cruz won the most delegates in wyoming with nine. front-runner donald trump gained one. so did marco rubio.

the florida senator did better in washington, d.c. he won the convention there and gained ten delegates. trump is still leading the pack with a total of 462 pledged delegates. cruz has 371, and rubio trails with 165. most americans say they're fed up with washington and want democrats and republicans to start getting along and getting things done. at the same time, the level of vitriol seems to keep rising in politics. our jonathan mann looked into the reasons for the growing chasm between the parties. >> we're going to make our party great again. >> we don't need to make america great again. america has never stopped being great. >> great, not great, agree to disagree, but america is definitely divided as the race for the white house has revealed candidates and voters are split on almost every issue. the partisan gap wider than any

other time in the modern era. america is becoming both younger and more diverse, and as pew research data shows, the u.s. is on its way to becoming a majority nonwhite nation. the shift has led to a huge generation gap at the polls. in elections since 2000, that age gap has grown wider. the ideological divide also growing. here's a chart from pew research showing a range of ideology from liberal on the left to conservative on the right. democrats in blue, of course, tend to be the liberals. republicans in red tend to be the conservatives. in the middle, a big mound of moderates from each party. two decades ago, median democrats and republicans were not so far apart. there could be a meeting of the mind. watch what happens when you fast forward 20 years. the moderate middle collapses and almost disappears. the extremes have mushroomed. can a divided america find common ground despite the fact that partnership is thriving? a majority of americans say

they'd like to see washington rediscover the lost art of political compromise. jonathan mann, cnn, atlanta. now to france where investigators are set to release a final report into the germanwings plane crash. the report comes two weeks before the first anniversary of the crash. the airbus a320 was flying from barcelona to dusseldorf when it t crashed killing all 150 on board. the flight data recorder revealed the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. more more details, fred pleitgen joins us live from london. given what we know about the co-pilot, that he had been suffering from depression and had seen dozens of doctors before the crash, what else are we expected to learn about him and his actions?

>> reporter: 41 dmx the years leading up to the crash. the big problem is these doctors, because of their confidentiality agreements with their patient, were not allowed to tell the authorities about the state of of andreas lubitz's mind, nor were they allowed to tell the airline, as well. it is two different camps in all of this. when this comes out. on one hand, the airline industry is going to look at the report to see how can something like this be prevented in the future. then you have the families of the victims. and some of them got a preview of what this report will hold yesterday both in germany and in spain. of course, most of the victims are from germany and from spain, and for the victims, the big question remains, how could something like this happen? how could it be that when andreas lubitz went to flight school in the united states that he -- at that time he took time off for serious depression and was able to come back and complete his flight training. also during his time with lufthanza and germanwings, why

did no one notice he had a serious depression, or did they notice and information was not passed on. there are open questions that especially the victims' families want answers. of course, there are also wider implications for the airline industry. >> the victims' families have been waiting almost a year for answers. now we know that lubitz locked the pilot out of the cockpit. what w that in mind, what changes will be made by the french investigators? >> reporter: yeah, it's going to focus on that. it's going to focus on the cockpit itself, entry, access to the cockpit. it's also going to focus as well on the psychologicals and pressure put on pilots, as well. what we're expecting is on the one hand for recommendations to be made about who has access to the cockpit, who should be in the cockpit, and what situation should it be possible to get back into the cockpits in an emergency situation. we have to keep in mind that the security mechanisms in airliners

at this point were reformed after 9/11, after the 9/11 hijackers were able to get into the cockpit and steer them into buildings. that's why cockpits are locked. the question, how is that going to be reformed? and we can expect recommendation business keeping track of the mental and physical health of the people who are piloting aircraft and also making it easier for them to tell their employers that they have issues to get treatment, possibly going into other departments in airlines, but also still not completely derailing their careers. really is a very touchy, a sensitive topic, both of them, but especially the mental health of pilots is something that the airlines really have a big stake obviously in coming to terms with, but on the one hand, they want to make it apparent that they have a mental issue but want to make sure they take action when someone has a mental condition when going to the

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u.s. secretary of state john kerry is meeting with some of his european counterparts in paris this hour to discuss the syrian conflict. the meeting comes ahead of monday's peace talks in geneva between the syrian government and opposition representatives. the u.n. is backing those talks which kerry says should go on as planned despite complaints of cease-fire violations. the opposition wants presidential elections and a transitional government which the government has rejected. >> translator: we consider that the transitional period starts with the fall of bashar al assad or his death. there's no possibility to start this period with the presence of this regime or the head of this regime in power. the devastating war in syria is approaching the five-year mark. ahead of the grim anniversary, nick paton walsh explores the unexpected results of syria's conflict.

>> reporter: for anniversaries, west has fought to stay out of another middle east quagmire. and so on five occasions, the things have never imagined could happen did. it took thousands to die from bombing before the first white house red line was even crossed. that was the use of chemical weapons, serin, in suburbs. [ siren ] unimaginable to many but really happening in 2013. the terror was something you could feel on youtube. syria gave up its chemical weapons. so, too, did many on obama's red line. mere smooth months later, radicals pour into syria. here at the airport, we watched dozens of foreigners from libya, mauritania, egypt insist they were charity workers. turkey let many like them cross

into syria. and isis took root right on europe and nato's doorstep. it is in the nature of wars to spread chaos, and just across the border in iraq, another never again. the zyazidis, a sekt, were brutalized. women used as sex slaves. children for soldiers, men murdered. it is unclear how many died. u.s. officials think it may be genocide. it took four years of desperation to spark the largest refugee crisis since world war ii. even the rise or fall of the soviet union did this. unable to see an end to the war or a future in the middle east, they left. to germany -- [ chants ] greece or anywhere in between or beyond.

risking life, bringing out the worst and best of those welcomed. [ gunfire ] one small fact also exposes how the war has hamstrung our humanity. we don't know how many people %-p the u.n. last counted 100,000. they've since been unable to verify enough information. even in this, the most filmed and social media-posted war yet, the utter chaos stops one base of dignity. some say 470,000 have died. five years in, still impossible to know what the number will stop at. nick paton walsh, cnn, beirut. the brutal violence in syria

has kept journalist from entering parts of the country making it difficult to get a glimpse of what's happening. recently two women wore hidden cameras for the swedish newspaper "expresson," to show the world what life is like inside the self-proclaimed isis capital of raqqah and the oppression of women there. they put themselves at grave risk. and we need to warn you that some of the video is graphic. ♪ >> reporter: it is late winter, and the shops are open. the city has an air of fear about it. a woman's uncovered face is punishable, even if it's just on the front of a packet of hair dye. >> reporter: al raqqah fell in 2014 since the end of summer.

>> reporter: al raqqah fell in 2014 since the end of summer. the city has been governed since by medieval methods. the worst affect read the women. they're not allowed out on their own. they must be accompanied by another woman or male guardian. they're not allowed to work, go to school, or go to university. they have been stripped of all rights. in the taxi, an anthem is playing on the radio. it praises the highest leader of isis, baghdadi. ♪

>> reporter: this couple lived in raqqah when isis stormed the city. since then they've lived under the oppression of the terrorist group. they've witnessed murder and torture --

>> reporter: they've dreamt of fleeing for a long time but had to stay to save a pregnant friend from certain death. extramarital relations are punishable by stoning. >> clarissa ward has also been inside syria. in the week ahead, she'll take

down the only rebel road leading into aleppo surrounded by snipers. a lifeline to the people who still call the embattled city home. >> reporter: we found pockets of life among the devastation. >> translator: should we leave our country and go to another? no. this is our country. we will remain in it until we die. >> part of our exclusive coverage "inside syria: behind rebel lines." it's only on cnn. rape and civilian murder traumatizing south sudan. details on the united nations investigation into the young nation and what amnesty international is saying. also, more on the growing hostility between trump

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm lynda kinkade. these are the headlines we're following this hour. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in paris discussing the syrian conflict with some of his european counterparts. the meeting comes ahead of monday's peace talks in geneva between the syrian government and opposition representatives. kerry says those talks should go on as poland despite complaints -- as planned despite cease-fire violations.

over a dozen skiers buried by a torrent of snow and ice near the austrian border in italy. about 100 personnel were part of the rescue efforts that managed to save eight people. german chancellor angela merkel says she is crossing her fingers as voters hit the polls. people in three states will elect their regional parliaments. the vote is seen as a test for merkel's open migration policies. she has been losing support to the anti-immigration party. u.s. secret service agents stopped a protester from rushing the stage while presidential hopeful donald trump was speaking on saturday. it happened in ohio. it's the latest in a string of increasingly bold protests against the republican front-runner. the bad blood between trump and his detractors goes both ways as cnn's gary tuchman reports. trump supporters have been lashing out at protesters with increasing force. >> reporter: this is what happened to a man at a donald

trump rally who let it be known he doesn't want donald trump as his president. a sucker punch to the head by a 78-year-old trump supporter. the man who was punched ushered out of the arena in fayetteville, north carolina. the man who threw the punch staying in his seat for the rally and saying this -- >> the next time we see him, we might have to kill him. >> reporter: the next day, john mcgraw was charged with assault. the fact this happened at a trump rally isn't shocking. it certainly could happen again. many believe donald trump himself helps light the fuse. >> i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of him. they're bringing drugs, crime, they're rapists. >> reporter: there's no indication that trump has any desire to stop talking like this saying this today -- >> we've had visit people as protesters. -- violent people as protesters. they're not just saying oh, these are people that punch, these people that are violent people. >> reporter: there have been no confirmed reports of anti-trump demonstrators throwing punches

at his rallies. in january, someone did hurl tomatoes at trump in iowa. narrowly missing him. this is what trump said about that -- >> so if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? seriously. okay? just knock the hell -- i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. i promise. i promise. >> reporter: no indication as of yet that trump will be helping john mcgraw with his legal fees. trump rallies like most presidential candidate campaign events are officially private. at this rally concord, north carolina, as the crowd eagerly await trump's arrival, a man stood in the back of the room wearing this t-shirt. >> this man doesn't deserve to have the launch code for nuclear weapons. he can't even control his twitter account. >> reporter: it would have been likely this man would get booted out during the rally, but it didn't happen because he got booted out before the rally. [ cheers ] [ applause ] >> reporter: call it a

preemptive strike against one of the increasing number of trump demonstrators. >> get that guy out of here, police. thank you. get him out. come on. get him out! get him out of here! out! bye. go home to mommy! go home to mommy! out! out, out, out, out. >> reporter: what do you think of that, that he want to get people out of sneer. >> i loved his comment. back in the old days when you could fight and punch in the nose and carry out on a stretcher. that's fine with me. >> bye-bye. good job, fella. like to punch him in the face, i'll tell you. >> reporter: other presidential candidates have people ushered out of their rallies, too. but the trump campaign takes it to a whole new level. the real estate mogul who says he will be a unifier as president seems to revel at egging on supporters. >> go home and get a job. go home, get a job. get a job! >> a leader, he can do what he wants. >> reporter: there are many who find it unlikely that donald trump will ever be a unifier.

in a sense, he has already proven he is. at this rally and many others, he has unified the majority of people who love him against the minority of people who most avidly don't. at this rally, we saw at least nine groups of people kicked out during trump's 40-minute speech. an average of one every 4.5 minutes. >> if you're going to vote, demonstrate against him, yeah, you need to go. >> reporter: you think it's okay for donald trump to encourage people -- >> yeah, he can do what he wants to. he's our future president. >> reporter: people at trump rallies will undoubtedly continue to get kicked out. it remains to be seen if any more get punched out. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. the donald trump campaign has "timtime and time again dismissed low points at trump's career. his public image is based on a name brand association with success. it has been instrumental in

helping him reach front-runner status in the republican race. there's one trump venture that seems particularly dubious. christine romans of cnn "money" takes a closer look. >> reporter: on the stump, donald trump spins away every business failure, when it's using bankruptcy laws for his four troubled casinos -- >> i have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business. >> reporter: to trump university -- >> trump university, we're going to start it up as soon as i win the lawsuit. >> reporter: to trump airlines -- >> i sold the airline and actually made a great deal. >> reporter: the one you don't hear much about -- trump mortgage. it launched in the spring of 2006. the peak of the housing bubble when there were already warning signs the housing market was headed for collapse. months earlier, fed chief alan greenspan hinted at a bubble. >> signs of fraud soin local markets are where home prices

seem to have risen to unsustainable levels. >> reporter: greenspan didn't see the size and scope of the coming meltto -- meltdown. neither did donald trump. here's what he said in 2006 -- >> i think it's a great time to start a mortgage company. >> reporter: trump mortgage connected lenders with borrowers looking for loans. didn't actually lend money outright to home buyers. promised to be, "the strongest and safest residential and commercial mortgage company in the industry." a year later, the bottom fell out of the housing market. >> the biggest housing bust in history -- >> this is your biggest asset. >> housing prices falling in most parts of the country. >> the economy could turn south. we would go into recession. >> reporter: trump mortgage failed to hit its financial targets less than two years after it opened. the company was history. these days trump's campaign downplays the failed business. in an e-mail to cnn "money," it said, "this was a tiny deal that mr. trump looked at but never moved forward with because mr. trump decided he didn't want to

be in this business for seeing the market crash." is that just more spin on a failed business venture? that's for the voters to decide. christine romans, cnn money. derek van dam has a whole other world for us of weather. >> that's right. >> tell us what's going to be happening, especially california. >> one-two punch taking place over the western half of the united states. into the boxing ring and unfortunately, california is on the wrong end of this fight because they are getting storm after storm after storm. it's not all good news even though we're in a drought in that particular state at the moment. let me explain. look at my satellite loop. we get a perspective of really the weather that's taking place. a broader perspective, say. we have two pulses of energy that are going to come through and bring us that one-two punch. valley rain and heavy mountain snow. here's the first initial batch of energy. you see that darker shading of purple. that's the higher cloud tops associated with the first batch of moisture.

and there's a second one. still over the pacific. that's about to impact us later today, being sunday on the west coast. that thing is going to bring another wave of energy and more scenes like this. of course, this mountainous terrain is prone to mudslides and rock slides. and unfortunately, this truck was on the wrong side of this particular fight. they almost rolled off the side of that particular mountain. scary moments. fortunately nobody was injured. look what's setting up here. this has been the case over the past week and a half with our torrent of rain over the western parts of the u.s. we are tapping in to our tropical moisture known as the pineapple express. that's feeding our moisture into the region. the interstate 80, that particular region from san francisco into reno, that area has been rather treacherous lately as you get higher in elevation. we get the heavy, thick, wet snow. and that's set to continue over the next 24 hours. we'll be measuring snowfall in feet in the me to a-- sierra-ne.

to the deep south, another part of the united states hammered by rough weather. we've highlighted the higher rainfall totals in the last week. louisiana certainly taking the cake on this. munroe, over 20 inches of rain, roughly 500 millimeters of precipitation in a three-day period leading to catastrophic parishes. all 64 parishes throughout louisiana have been declared a state of emergency. we still have flood warnings in effect for the area. the good news is the heavy batch of rainfall moving away from this particular region, but that doesn't mean the flood threat is over. remember, the flood -- water seeks its own level. it is going to take several days for that water to actually recede and the big cleanup is going to get underway as we start to see sunshine over the next several days. forecasted accumulation shows the raninfall moving north. that is at least good news for

the area that's been hit hard this week. i'm going bring you to chicago. i love this time of year. happy st. patrick's day to anyone celebrating this holiday in north america. do you know what they do in chicago? they dye the river green. look at the aerial visuals and see exactly what i'm talking about. lynda, if you get the opportunity, head to chicago. this is an annual event unlike anything you've seen before. 400,000 spectators line the banks of the chicago river. what do they do? they put dye in it to celebrate st. patrick's day which is associated with that coloring of green. a tradition since 1962. it's going on over half a century. they say that they won't give out the secret formula for that dye. but if t -- but it doesn't pollute the river. >> all the animals -- >> if they were going to give up the secret formula, it would be equivalent to telling people where the leprechaun hides his gold. >> i love it.

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welcome back. a damn report from the united nations is painting a horrific picture in south sudan. it says the nation's troops have raped women and girls and have burned and suffocated men and

boy boys. reporter say that's not genuine and is trying to protect the story. more now. >> reporter: an all-too common scene, bodies littering the streets. thousands left homeless trying to flee the violence. now the united nations accused the south sudan government of operating what it calls a scorched earth policy against its own people. >> which is killing of civilians, displacement, pillaging, abductions, rape, and generally terrorizing the civilian population. >> reporter: among the more horrendous abuses detailed in the new report, the u.n. says south sudan lets fighters rape women as payment. in another case, amnesty international says scattered human remains in this field are all that's left after government forces let more than 60 men and boys suffocate in a shipping container. according to the report, they

were suspected of supporting the opposition. south sudan's government denies those accusations. a spokesman also says the u.n. report is not genuine and that the military's mission is to protect the people, vowing any perpetrators of human rights violations will be brought to justice. the country has been racked by years of violence after gaining its independence in 2011, civil war erupted two years later splitting the already poverty-stricken country along ethnic lines. while the u.n. says there have been war crimes committed by both sides of the bloody conflict, they add this -- >> the violations in 2015 are predominantly the responsibility of the government. >> reporter: the u.n. says some 50,000 people have died since the fighting broke out. multiple aid workers tell afp they believe the number to be as high as 300,000 killed. whatever the number, the u.n. calls south sudan one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world. cnn, nairobi, kenya.

now a senior crisis adviser with amnesty international recently returned from south sudan's unity state. this is what she had to say about the united nations report. >> like the findings in the u.n. report, we did in fact see that even after the signing of the peace agreement in august of last year that there continued to be systemic attacks against the civilian population. civilians being killed while they were fleeing, women and children -- and girls being subjected to abductions and sexual assault, and attacks on the food supply and other types of civilian property. these attacks have devastated the civilian population. >> and as we saw in the report, sexual violence has been used to torture and terrorize many women and girls. the report documented more than 1,300 cases between april and september in unity state alone,

and more than 50 cases from september to october. no doubt that's just the tip of what's really going on. >> we do, in fact, believe that there are women and girls that continue to be abducted and are still being subjected to this violence today. the types of denials that we saw from the government are shameful in light of the strong, credible evidence of rights abuse that have and continue to be perpetrated in the country. >> and looking at children, we know that thousands of child soldiers have been recruited to fight in the war. some, as we've seen, in that last piece that was filed, have been brutally killed if they don't join in the fighting. >> that's right. there are child soldiers that continue to serve today in south sudan. some of them against their will. this is why it is critically important that steps are taken to implement the peace agreement

that was signed by both parties to the conflict in august. there has been a failure for the parties to move forward in doing things like demobilizing child soldiers. >> and most of the crimes against humanity and the war crimes listed in the report have been committed by the government. we know the government has rejected this report. what needs to happen? >> we are looking to the afghanis to take a lead in ensuring that some steps are taken in south sudan to allow for peace to take hold in the country. this critically will include the establishment of a high court. the government is failing to admit that crimes have taken place. we need to have an international body that will prosecute worker mills on both sides of the conflict in south sudan. right now, the u.n. human rights council is also meeting and discussing south sudan. we are looking to the council to take steps to also promote accountability including by establishing a special tour. african states will have to take

the lead in ensuring that these types of abuse are not tolerated on the continent. >> so besides the war crimes being held accountable in a court in the united nations or elsewhere, what else needs to be done in terms of like arms embargoes, things like it? what else can be done? >> the u.n. security council should impose an arms embargo on south sudan. in a different story, a chinese artist is trying to take a sad song and make it better sending a piano to the greece-macedonia border. ♪ >> this is video of the syrian concert pianist at the camp playing piano. he's been at the camp for several days documenting conditions there. the united nations estimates that nearly 20,000 people are living at the border camp. ♪ we'll be right back after a short break. hey, you forgot the milk!

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