resolution but it's still unclear whether it'll bring any relief or perceived civilians in eastern cooter a suburb inch of it has been following events from the take the syrian border. rescuers are responding to crisis for help. people. but in eastern go nowhere is safe because of the was. a moment of panic this search for children who disappeared in the debris. the children call for their father. was killed by the civil defense workers says they must hurry to the basement. activists accuse the syrian government and russia for the airstrikes and shelling the suburb of syria's capital damascus has been bombarded specially hard for the last week. the only like these is from the fires which started the bombing. these children prayed in the dark in an underground shelter one of them wants the world to feel their pain her. no food no water every day you sleep on the floor my back hurts we can't bring a pillow from our house if we get out we'll get hit don't you know that imagine your children. to be to say. the well it's the safety. the last you have that the floors are down the air is humid a

the news hour it's been described as the deadliest day in the rebel held syrian region of eastern cooter in over a month at least seventy one people have been killed by a strikes in the damascus suburb which has been besieged by the government for four years syrian government and russian forces have ramped up their attacks there as well as the rebel held areas of italy province there are two of the four apparent deescalation zones agreed by iran russia and turkey last year and a total of one hundred thirty eight people have been killed in those areas in the last forty eight hours activists say many of them were civilians including. children u.n. war crimes experts say the siege of eastern involves crimes of indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population and they're also investigating reports of chlorine gas being used against victims with reports. this is supposed to be a deescalation zone part of the russian lived through stew of the territory held by anti-government forces in syria. but if anything the bombing is escalating here in eastern guta. the un'

well east and cooter is located just outside the syrian capital and has been occupied by various rebel and terror groups for years it's that area in red their violence there has recently escalated to with both sides accusing each other of targeting civilians while to the north is where the humanitarian corridor or was set up by russia is located in the dean district what attempts to give safe passage to those desperate to escape are being coordinated by the syrian red crescent buses and ambulances are on standby to evacuate civilians and leaflets being dropped inside the rebel enclave telling people about the location of the corridor along with text alerts a megaphone announcements first aid points have also been set up near the exit to help those needing medical assistance however despite these efforts it's feared that rebels will prevent civilians from leaving the war zone as murder against the earth explains. civilians dying they're dying from rebel shells from government bombs from bullets shrapnel and crossfire in damascus and in east ghouta the u.n. cease fire is dead on arrival

doctors without borders you're very welcome to the program what is the current situation in eastern cooter. it is your goods or are we really talking about what we see in the hospitals that. we support.

while the some cooter is located just outside the syrian capital has been occupied by various rebel in terror groups for years the violence there recently escalated to both sides accusing each other of targeting civilians the new humanitarian corridor or set up by russia just in the north. is located near the camp where the humanitarian efforts to provide safe passage for those desperate to escape are being coordinated with the syrian red crescent buses and ambulances are on standby to evacuate civilians and people inside the rebel enclave are being notified about the location of the corridor via leaflets text alerts and also loudspeakers first aid points have also been set up near the exit to help those in need of urgent medical assistance however despite these efforts it's feared civilians will be prevented by rebels from leaving the war zone what against the expects. civilians dying they're dying from rebel shells from government bombs from bullets shrapnel and crossfire in damascus and in east ghouta the u.n. cease fire is dead on arrival no one stops shooting so the syrians are tr

and their russian allies thirty four people died in the most recent attack on wednesday in eastern cooter there the capital damascus for other.

doctors without borders you're very welcome to the program what is the current situation in eastern cooter. it is your good sir that we can really talk about what we see and the hospitals that. we support. so we have six supposably supported and. i hope the nations in the last few days. overthrow markets and a number of wounded people has increased dramatically in the last. few days we don't have to report to us today but at the end of yesterday the hospitals at least afford so we don't know what happens in the. reported thirty eight hundred over the. two hundred. seventy people. that's an indicator of course that. there is a lot of very activity in the in the area. hospitals have. been destroyed and out of service. nine of them are still managed to continue some of those. those services are the biggest problem for the moment the ones that still function. supplies. especially surgical supply side and stuff takes. hifi antibiotics and blood back have all but run out in those hospitals. if the archon see but an extremely. stupid difficult situation the. people in eastern goods are judged by

meanwhile the people of eastern cooter plead for help are to get another day of airstrikes and casualties. lots of the robin you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up a former election aide to donald trump agrees to help the inquiry into alleged russian meddling in u.s. politics while another faces yet more charges. also the u.s. confirms the said bussy will move from tel aviv to jerusalem by day passed earlier than expected. and russia boxes that team really off the red army find out how the military has been rebuilt to become one of the strongest in the world. welcome to the program of the syrian military is bombardment of eastern ghouta looks set to continue after a u.n. vote on a humanitarian ceasefire was postponed until saturday more than four hundred forty civilians have died in six days of attacks. clave in a few moments we'll hear from our diplomatic editor james basically but first of its reports on the situation in eastern guta. there's no. evidence yet the call out for those left on another floor but in the dense dust and debris it's hard to s

ok well in other news today humanitarian pause in syria neeson cooter has been broken by terrorists for a second day called into the syrian reconciliation center that is our safety curry doors established by russia came under heavy shelling from militants preventing civilians from leaving the besieged districts a correspondent from r.t. arabic is it the sink. jenny economics the second day of the truce we haven't seen any civilians walking through the corridor it is known that there are many civilians who want to leave their own place to leave it for the one and only korea they were open for civilians from glitter however militants prevent civilians from exiting and don't allow them to leave the only evacuation route to reach the road to damascus the militant positions are just three or four hundred meters from the corridor or near the campus are offered in the syrian government has distributed leaflets amounts to billions of the militant controlled and place with detailed information and a map on how to get into the area under government control you can see that everything is ready her

arms the whole drama these are all top news stories the syrian military has been bartman to eastern cooter looks set to continue with a u.n. vote on a humanitarian ceasefire for spode until saturday more than four hundred forty civilians have died in six days of heavy attacks on the rebel held on clave the u.s. has confirmed it will open its new embassy in jerusalem in may much earlier than expected palestinians have condemned the announcement as a provocation. also at least twenty seven people are being killed in twin car bombings in the somali capital mogadishu the first blast was near the presidential palace and the second in front of a popular hotel the armed group al-shabaab says it was responsible president trump has repeated his calls to teachers in schools and forward as governor is proposing raising the age limit to buy firearms from eighteen to twenty one it comes after seventeen people were shot dead in a florida high school last week also the broward county school superintendent says he would rather more money spent on trained law enforcement professionals. ask our teachers to

training also the head of the un has called for an immediate halt to a time solves serious eastern cooter saying civilians the a living in hell on earth cereal and russian air raids have killed more than three hundred people since sunday. and dozens of schoolgirls offered missing following a baka rom attack on the school in northeastern nigeria now there are conflicting reports of some girls have been found and rescued after escaping the assault in hugo bay state. more on the relentless bombing over eastern ghouta in syria stories of individual tragedies or merging with the full. length of his dead son who was killed in an airstrike in the village of beit sahour he's saying his final goodbyes. the moral of the news that activists living in eastern guti told us that the world has turned its back on syria for the vast seventy two hours the shelling and bombing air raids are not stopping. this moment. there's a lot of dead people here there's a lot of injuries medical wants out of service we feel like it betrayed really from the international community. that was there was bart of the escalat

a draft resolution which would demand a thirty day ceasefire in the rebel held on clay of the sin cooter at least four hundred sixteen people have now been killed in government strikes there this week alone and now activists say forces loyal to president assad have started firing rockets which cause fires or some avenge of aid has the latest on turkey's border with syria. it is still not clear whether the recommendations provided by the russian government to the united nations have been taken into account as the un security council goes into your vote on friday to try and find a solution to halt the violence in the eastern suburbs for at least a period of thirty days according to nikki haley the u.s. envoy in the united nations she said that it is preposterous for russia to say that killing civilians has to do anything with countering terrorism the situation on the ground has been continuing to get worse we've been hearing reports from activists in the armory or district of recent saying that for the first time they have seen incendiary bombs being used these are bombs which cause fire l

hospitals schools you name it they're either destroyed or now out of function the situation in eastern cooter is nothing but catastrophic we cannot continue covering the situation life as it is very dangerous here and the jet fighters and helicopters are coming our way let's get more on what's happening now with our diplomatic editor james bay u.n. headquarters we were expecting a vote on the u.n. security council resolution calling for a cease fire across syria but while there's no sign of that happening. you know if we can show you the live pictures from the security council chamber where an hour ago a vote was scheduled that was pushed back for an hour for further negotiations and as you see now the security council is virtually empty in fact moments ago they went round the horseshoe table and took up all the agendas that were on the desks of each of the ambassadors and put the war again because we're told there is a nother delay i've heard a short time ago from to the ambassadors who left the security council others are still in the area of the security council and discussions the equitor

hospitals schools you name it they're either destroyed or now after function the situation in eastern cooter is nothing but catastrophic we cannot continue covering the situation life as it is very dangerous here and the jet fighters and helicopters are coming our way are diplomatic editor james bays joins us now from the u.n. headquarters and james the vote on this latest draft resolution was supposed to be happening now it seems to have been delayed what's the reason for that. yes we have scheduled now an hour delay for the security council meeting and vote lead to show you the live pictures from outside the security council chamber it's there a short time ago that we were told about the delay you can see journalists there waiting and ambassadors now coming out of the security council entrance they were inside talking about this resolution we had a meeting of the ten elected members of the security council not the five permanent members they've been doing a lot of the negotiation for this leading this resolution which was drafted by two of them by coate and sweden the reason for the day ap

resolution but it's still unclear whether it'll bring any relief or besieged civilians in eastern cooter some of binge of it is following events from turkey's border with syria. i've spoken to a number of sources since the united nations security council came to this agreement a united nations source said that we've always been ready to provide aid inside eastern huta and it's been frustrating for us to know that people can see our warehouses from inside they're only a few kilometers away but we haven't been able to reach them in the last five years but aid workers are saying that it is going to be tough for these aid groups to come in and provide this help because not just the syrian foreign ministry but the syrian intelligence also controls these checkpoints and in the past have stopped aid convoys and taken out medical supply the essential items that they do not want to ascend into people have cautious optimism about what has happened but they're also afraid of what is going to come in the coming hours because eastern huta has been bombarded relentlessly more than five hundred people

to the program has been described as the deadliest day in the rebel held syrian region of eastern cooter in over a month at least seventy one people have been killed by an strikes in the damascus suburb which has been besieged by the government for four years syrian government and russian forces of wrapped up their attacks there as well as the rebel held areas of italy a province there too for apparent deescalation zones agreed by iran and russia last year a total of one hundred thirty eight people have been killed in the. areas in the last forty eight hours activists say many of the worst civilians including children u.n. war crimes experts say the siege of eastern involves crimes of indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population there are also investigating reports of chlorine gas being used against civilians but that smith has ball around this is supposed to be a deescalation zone part of the russian lived through stewart territory held by anti-government forces and syria. but if anything the bombing is escalating here in eastern guta. the un's head of

the three main opposition fighting groups in eastern cooter of written a letter to the president of the security council they pledged to kick out the group the council still refers to parts formal name. they also say they will give the un resolution their full support the syrian government's representative ambassador bashar jeffrey was in the council chamber he gave a typically rambling nineteen minutes speech but he made no such commitment james days out of the united nations alan developments a leaked u.n. report suggests that north korea has been supplying the syrian government with the means to create chemical weapons and ballistic missiles according to the u.n. report pyongyang made more than forty shipments to syria between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and seventeen the syrian government has repeatedly been accused of using chemical weapons in rebel held areas most recently on sunday when civilians in east showed symptoms consistent with exposure to coin gas the government has repeatedly denied using such weapons. the afghan president has offered to recognize the talib

i'm still rather a binder of our top stories the syrian military has dropped leaflets over eastern cooter calling on residents to leave for their own safety and opposition hard just to hang themselves over more than four hundred people have died in the rebel held in clay during five days of bombardment meanwhile though still no agreement at the u.n. on ordering a cease fire to allow a did its face the opposition from russia which is accusing the media of a massive disinfo mission campaign. also more charges have been filed against the former aides to the trump campaign pol pot of fourteen brigades face tax and bank fraud charges in october they were charged with conspiracy to board a bunny both have pleaded not guilty. australia's embattled deputy prime minister barnaby joyce has resigned after revelations of an affair with a former staff member joyce will step down from the cabinet but will remain in parliament safeguarding the government's one seat majority joyce who had campaigned on family values and left his marriage of twenty four years and is expecting a child with his former media

month long truce in syria that follows a week of government led strikes on the rebel held east and cooter which killed more than five hundred people most of them civilians there have been protests north korean delegation arrives in the south for the closing ceremony of the winter olympics is being led by a controversial high ranking general kim yong children many in the south but he orchestrated an attack on a south korean naval vessel which killed dozens of sailors in two thousand and ten . and the international olympic committee has unanimously upheld its ban of russia a decision that will prevent a russian athletes from marching and their flag at the closing ceremony i.o.c. president thomas bassus two failed drug tests by russian athletes were hugely disappointing and prevented any consideration of lifting the ban six months since a military crackdown in myanmar forced hundreds of thousands of russian get of lead into bungler there the un has condemned the atrocities calling them a textbook case of ethnic cleansing and estimated seven hundred thousand have crossed the border into bangl

reports now from cooter. colombia's new border controls are making it more difficult for bin it's where lance to flee misery in their country in trying to make a living here pretty difficult for him right here the controls are stricter now it's not easy to pass things through to sell and if you make it through policeman stop you in town and take everything. almost six hundred thousand venezuelans are currently in colombia were doing double their number six months ago many were left living on the streets doing four or more jobs so colombia announced they would stop issuing the border crossing cards let them come in both relieve through this porous border former chef from his was there has been selling juice on the streets you know my you know just so confused by the new rules he discovered this border a card was valued for another year he takes the new measures around the end of all this is how do you put it i think it's necessary because we need to be sincere not everyone that crosses doing honest work in col

the un secretary general has called for eastern cooter —— the un secretary general has called easternn earth. terrible scenes in syria. sridevi kapoor, one of bollywood's greatest leading ladies, has died at the age of 54. she was at a family wedding in dubai where she's thought to have suffered a heart attack. joining us now from our london newsroom is asian network's entertainment reporter, haroon rashid. good morning. thank you for your time. a huge figure in bollywood? absolutely. sridevi kapoor, one of the greatest indian actresses of all time, she starred in over 150 films ina career time, she starred in over 150 films in a career spanning more than 50 yea rs. in a career spanning more than 50 years. many memorable performances. people love and celebrate her. she was only four years old when she began acting and in 1978, she made her bollywood debut. films like sadma, chaalbaaz, mr india, one of the favourite actresses of her generation but of all time, a comic timing, great dance performances, just some of the areas where she really excelled. her smile, those big eyes, her char

or a deliberate exploitation of human tragedy the three main opposition fighting groups in eastern cooter of written a letter to the president of the security council they pledged to kick out the group the council still refers to bart's formal name. they also say they will give the un resolution their full support the syrian government's representative ambassador bashar jeffrey was in the council chamber he gave a typically rambling nineteen minutes speech but he made no such commitment james days out of the united nations. well in a related story elite u.n. report suggests that north korea has been supplying the syrian government with the means to create chemical weapons and ballistic missiles according to this u.n. report made more than forty shipments to syria between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen the syrian government has repeatedly been accused of using chemical weapons in rebel held areas recently on sunday when civilians in east and go to showed symptoms consistent with exposure to cloying gas that out government has repeatedly denied using those weapons under russian broken d

and their russian allies thirty four people died in the most recent attack on wednesday in eastern cooter their capital damascus four others died in italy province an amnesty international report says the ethnic cleansing campaign against the really good continues unabated to be about refugees who arrive in but that there should be some months i describe exist about a campaign of force starvation. kidnappings and sexual violence. and israeli media is reporting the police will recommend the prime minister benjamin netanyahu be indicted on corruption charges that if yahoo and his wife are suspected of receiving illicit gifts from billionaire benefactors. the u.s. led coalition in syria says it's carried out airstrikes against what it calls pro regime forces it says the bombing was in response to an unprovoked attack on its ally the s.d.f. the main the kurdish estie of controls an area in north eastern syria which borders was held by forces loyal to syrian president bashar al assad a so-called de confliction line is supposed to divide the two well experts in russia are working to identify th

the three main opposition fighting groups in eastern cooter of written a letter to the president of the security council in it they pledged to kick out the group the council still refers to by its former name. they also say they will give the un resolution their full support the syrian government's representative ambassador bashar al jeffrey was in the council chamber he gave a typically rambling nineteen minutes speech but he made no such commitment james days out of the united nations u.s. president donald trump a meeting party leaders to discuss options for gun law reform he told politicians to seriously consider raising the age limit for purchasing assault style rifles like they are fifteen used in the florida school shooting two weeks ago from syracuse senators of being afraid to take on the national rifle association lobby and says it's time to end the non-sense. we have to keep the guns out of the hands of those that posed a threat and this really includes background checks and i know senator that you're working on things joe i know you're working and. i mean i look at a number o

ghouta this is being going on for years the evidence indicates that non-state armed groups in eastern cooterand in particular josh islam are also responsible for inflating the price of food and other basic necessities they're arbitrarily restricting the movement of civilians wishing to leave and abducting and arbitrarily detaining people. you'd think this is important right all those pundits and activists screaming about gouda and not once have they asked the pertinent question how can i think we welcome the security council's decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime an ace in my abdomen the alarm. when the regime is not abiding by the un resolution i cannot stand still and watch and defend myself and our families in ghouta why are they still there despite their access to the spokes person of the army of islam the jihad this group that holds east ghouta they have not asked him why his group is blocking woman and kids from leaving a war zone it's good press for him to