. >> the corridor alonging damascus to government strongholds passes through homs. >> both the regime and opposition, they can't control the whole country. they are it's part of their plan to partition the country. >> once the rebels would withdraw, homs city would no longer be divided. they will use the heart of the revolution but the war is still not over. al jazeera, istanbul. >> still ahead on al jazeera, campaign countdown in south africa. the ruling anc plans to hold its final rally ahead of polls next week. >>> and floyd "money" mayweather shows his class once more in las vegas. >> welcome back to al jazeera. our top stories. search teams have given up hope of finding any more survivors of a landslide that swept through the northeast. more than 2,000 people are reported missing and 4,000 others have been displaced. a cease-fire in the city of homs is holding while groups agreed to stop fighting and leaving strongholds by sunday. at least three people have been killed, a grenade was thrown at a passenger bus while a second blast was near a resort. south africa's elections just a

the corridor linking damascus along the coast passes through homs. >> the regime and the opposition know they cannot control the whole country. the regime is concentrating on retaking strategic territory. it is part of a plan. >> once the rebels withdrew from neighbourhood, they would no longer be divided by front lines. the rebels may lose the heart of the revolution. the war is not over. >>> a commission on child abuse is being held. protocols are being drafted when a priest is accused. victims' groups pressed the churn to hold priests accountable. a key member is marie collins, a victim of abuse by a priest in ireland. >> i know there's many survivors around the world who are hoping and have great expectations of this mission and what i can say so far is you can't make concrete promises. as a survivor myself, i am hopeful that we are going to achieve what is hoped for. >> once again pope francis established the commission in december. >>> sky high property prices in new york city are creating new business opportunities for churches. many places of worship in immigrant communities find

regime, it's a major city that the regime was anxious to get control of so its access along the trunk from damascus north and to the coast was upobstructed. >> with the rebels giving up homes, is that a sign of vagueness from the rebel side? >> that group resistance in the old city, they had been subject of not only the targetting of the artillery and the bombs, barrel bombs, that have cut off supplies, water. so they agreed to a ceasefire to get out. now, they didn't turn themselves in, as i understand it. so many of them are already planning to find a new way, new place to fight. >> as we look at the images in homs, it looks like destruction, similar to what we saw this world war ii, across western and eastern europe. is this a victory for asaad and his group in terms of territory. it's not as if there's a lot of value in the city, the way it stands now. >> it's a tragedy for all the syrian people, to think of - trying to imagine what it will cost to rebuild in lives, property, that have been so gleevously damaged in the past three years. it's not a victory to be proud of. it's a reminder there i

the corridor linkingly damascus to the government strongholds along the coast passes throughs hommes. >> the regime and the opposition know they cannot control the whole country. so the regime is concentrating on retaking strategic territory. it's part of their plan to partition the country. >> once the rebels withdraw from neighborhoods in the historic center, hommes city will no longer be divided by front lines. the rebels will lose what they call the heart of the revolution. the war is not over. al jazeera. istanbul. a rally is being held in belfast in northern ireland in support of shen certain fein jerry adams being questioned in the murder in one of the most know tore russ her body was marked in an unmarked grave. adams denies any involvement in her murder. >> uruguay set out how marijuana will be produced. people will be able to buy up to 10 grams of marijuana a week. the price will be set at less than a dollar a gram. the president said the rules will work better than in the united states where a number of states have made the drug legal. >> what we have been doing in terms of