where government jets struck schools and mosque in the stated state of iraq and killed in ra raka, duma some may find the images in this report disturbing. >> reporter: she is afraid of needles as her mother tries to reassure her. another syrian child caught up in a war fought by grown ups. >> translator: this is the aftermath of a strike in duma that hit a school and uploaded the videos on the internet and appear to show staff at a makeshift hospital struggling to cope with wounded children. many pieces of shrapnel out of the boy and showed signs of life before being resuscitated and more children from the bombing waited to be seen by medics. their school was not the only one hit on tuesday, reports say children died there as well. aid agencies issued warnings about the rising number of child casualties in the war well into the fourth year, more than 11,000 children killed across syria, and 3 and a half thousand schools damaged or destroyed and many occupied for military purposes and 2.8 million children are out of school and activists accuse the regime of targeting schools and entire

dozens have been killed in the city of duma and aleppo where i.s.i.l. fighters have a strong presence. charles stratford reports. >> reporter: the syrian air force targeted this commercial area to the north of the country. it's been almost four years since the violence began. what started as a protest movement descended into a war. civilians, including children, giant fighting across the country every day. >> vets have been bombing the shopping center. they need to try to rescue the wounded. united nations estimates 2,000 people have been killed. by barrel bombs in aleppo. it says that there is evidence of civilian gathering. there are thousands of people who have simply disappeared. this woman rocks after her brothers on her family's form in southern syria. >> it's good to care for my brothers. my mother was captured two years ago. my father was killed in the first year. >> activists say more than 170 people have been killed while in government prisons in deraa since june. what the gangs of so-called arab springs rising in 2011, spiralled into a sectar

dozens have been killed in duma, in aleppo, where i.s.i.l.ighters have a strong presence. >>> al-shabab fighters attacked the african union headquarters in mogadishu. nine people were killed, including five fighters and three african union soldiers. >>> in iraq a kurdish offensive that opened a corridor for thousands of minority yazidi to escape from mt sinjar is gaining momentum. i.s.i.l. captured large villages. the group appears to be pulling back. we have this exclusive report from a village retaken by kurdish forces. >> reporter: kurdish peshmerga fighters raise the flag in a village recaptured from i.s.i.l., they want to make clear who is leading here. this is the man leading them. the general says the offensive has been a success. >> we have strategic data back from i.s.i.l. we have seized roads along the border. whoever controlled the areas has the upper hand. >> towns and villages they have recovered from i.s.i.l. are deserted. most of the residents live in camps or have crossed the nesh syrian border. this newly retaken town has tak

. >> the aftermath of a strike in duma that hit a school and put the videos on the internet that showff at a make-shift hospital struggling to cope with wounded children. many pieces of shrapnel distracted from the boy and showed signs of life before he had to be resus -- resuscitated and they waits to be seen by medics. their school wasn't the only one hit on tuesday. reports say children died there as well, aid agencies issued warnings about the number of child casualties in the war in the fourth year. more than 11,000 children have been killed across syria. nearly 3 1/2 thousand schools destroyed or damage, many of the schools have been occupied for military purposes. more than 2.8 million children are out of school. some activists accuse the regime of targeting schools. entire neighborhoods in rebel-held areas like duma have been levelled and report from roka controlled by i.s.i.l. say government jets conducted several attacks that killed more than a dozen people. many of them children in schools. human rights groups and the u.n. have asked both the rebels and the syrian governmen

duma is home to a large number of opposition fighters. in other developments sir, syrian airstrikes have killed less than in raqqa. dozens more were injured. raqqa is the capitol of isil's self-proclaimed caliphate. countries that border syria are under pressure to take in more refugees but resettlement is a lengthy and difficult process. many refugees think they will have a better chance by leaving the region and going to europe. this from the lebanese capitol, beirut. >> reporter: preparing to start a new life, a refugee from syria moved to lebanon with her family two years ago. her husband has a heart problem and cannot work. >> puts the family in the most vulnerable category of refugees. according to the united nations, eligible for resettlement in europe. living in lebanon hasn't been easy. it is a country overwhelmed by the burden of refugees and the country caught up in the conflict next door. >> there are no jobs. and in lebanon, we are paying the price because the physical differences the we are targeted when there are tensions b

the bag. >> his cousin creative director pierre-'electric see dumas. >> it's a treat. >> the company everything from clothing to furniture. but hermes is probably best known for bags sported over the years by the likes of grace kelly, who has a purse named after her. to kim kardashian, who doesn't. then there are the famous silk scarfs often graced with images of horses and riding gear. that's where it all started, founder thierry hermes was a harness maker. >> very early he was recognized as great achiever, highest quality of harnesses, his son took over his business and extended it to horse riding equipment. >> company still sells handcrafted saddles making them on the top floor of the flagship hermes store on one of the most fashionable streets in paris. >> for me it is a great inspiration but only for me, but for designers to remember our roots. >> leather goods ha that many women covet are those bags. like the birkin named for british actress and singer jane birkin. she was once seated on a plane next to pierre alexi's father robert and complained that she'd never found the perf

activists say air strikes targeted the cities of raqqa, duma and idlib. a warning - some viewers may find the images in the report did you agree. >> reporter: this injured girl is afraid of needles as her mother tries to reassure her. another syrian child caught up in a war fought by grown-ups. this is the aftermath of a syrian government strike in duma that hit a school. activists uploaded these videos, showing staff at a makeshift hospital, instructing to cope with wounded children. many pieces of shrapnel were extracted from this boy. this boy showed signs of life before he had to be resuss tated. in the corridors, more children waited to be seen. their school was not the only one hit. reports from idlib say children decide there. there has been warnings about the rise of child casualties. more than 11,000 have been killed. more than 2.8 million are out of school. some activists accuse the regime of targetting schools. entire areas have been levelled. >> raqqa, controlled by i.s.i.l., say that government jets targeted more that a dozen people, many of

the nation addresses to the duma any minute now. we will bring you pictures of that and the headlines of the speech if and when it comes. the speech comes as relations between the u.s. and russia remain strained. the u.s. president barack obama has laid the blame firmly at the door of the kremlin. >> i'm less optimistic about russia. i have a very direct and blunt business-like relationship with putin. we had a very productive relationship when medicine very was approximat medev was president. partly because he was been integrating himself into a nationalist backward-looking approach to russian politics. it's scaring the heck out of his neighbors and badly damaging his economy. sanctions are having a big bite on their economy. >> chris is joining us now. great to have you here this morning. >> thank you. >> let's talk about what putin is likely to say. does the fact that the ruble has weakened significantly, that the russian economy is going to be declining next year, does that strengthen the west's bargaining power against him or d

. >> this is the aftermath of a syrian gas strike in duma. activists uploaded these on to the internet. showing staff at a makeshift hospital. many pieces are extracted. this child shows lines of life before they are suffocated. more children from the bombing waited to be seen by the medics. their school was not the on one hit. reports say children guy there. they have issued warnings. in the war. more than 11,000 children have been killed across syria, nearly 3,500 schools have been destroyed or damaged. many of the schools have been occupied for military purposes. many children are out of school. some activists accuse the regime of targetting schools. neighbourhoods in rebel haired areas have been levelled. rebels say government jets conducted several attacks that killed more than a dozen people. many children in schools. human rights groups and the united nations asked the rebels and the syrian government to avoid targeted densely populated areas, and institutions like schools and hospitals. they have not worked. and with each school hit c

are air assault killed at least five people near the town of duma. southern province have been hit. five people were hit when bombs hit a town near ibita. still to come on the program more on our top story we'll have the latest on that airasia plane that lost contact from a flight from indonesia to singapore. >> i'm joie chen i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> you can now see the controversial movie "the interview" online. sony is allowing people to rent or buy the film on a variety of >> good to have you with us, i'm elizabeth peranham in doha. our developing story this hour. airasia flight qz8501 is an airbus 320 with 162 people on board. this is live pictures from the airport in synch por an indonesian spokesperson said the plane was at sea. search and rescue operationss are underway. submitted flight plan route and was requesting de

families had been friends, working and living side by side in two small houses outside the little town of dumase found two abandoned homes, at the edge of a cotton field. so, could this be it? >> could be. i mean i don't if this is the exact cotton field or the place where my parents lived. >> reporter: what they did know was what happened one night in 1957. >> we had all gone to bed, and all of a sudden there was just so much noise and everything outside. it must have been maybe 15 men and they were on horses, and they had the white sheets on and they were riding around and around our house. and they were carrying lighted torches. >> reporter: the ku klux klan was still a powerful local force here in the '50s. but would it have threatened a white family for being too close to a black family? >> i had crosses burn in my yard. >> reporter: we asked the mayor of the next town over, and she said "absolutely." does that story surprise you? >> not at all. >> reporter: not at all? >> no, it doesn't. >> it probably only lasted about ten minutes at the most, and then they just rode off. >> reporter: bu

this is the aftermath of the syrian government's strike in dumas that hit a school. activists have loaded these videos on the internet that show the makeshift staff struggling to cope. many pieces of shrapnel have been taken from the boy, and he showed signs of life before he had to be resustated. children waiting to be seen by the medics. their school was not the only one hit on tuesday. others died as well. the rising number of child casualties in the war that's well into its fourth year. more than 11,000 chirp have been killed across syria, and thousands of schools have been destroyed or damage. many of them are being occupied for military purposes. some cues the regime of starting schools. and entire areas have been leveled. reports from the city of raqqah, which has been taken by isil, said that they have killed more than a dozen people. many of them children in the schools. human rights groups in the united nations have asked both the rebels and the syrian government. children end up paying for a war they cannot avoid. >> mike lyons is a retired army major and

duma is a rebel stronghold but, also, has hundreds of thousands of civilians. >> that's according to u.n. estimates. syrian regime airstrikes also targeted rebel-held town in the darra countryside. it is reported five died in the town of ipsa after government jets bomb a residential area in the morning. let's get more now about this potential peace talks about to occur in motiving 0. in the director of the carnegie middle east center in beirut joins us live from london. thank you for making time to talk to us. explain to us: why do you think syria would agree to peace talks in moscow now? >> reporter: syria is not actually agreeing to peace talks. this is not a serious endeavor on the part of russia. the national syrian coalition has declared russia, in fact, does not have a plan for peace talks. this is just, i think, an attempt by russia to show that the syrian government is interested in peace talks knowing very well that no one credible within the syrian opposition would agree to this. therefore, it will use this as a pretext to put the blame on the syrian opposition as opposed t

. >>> there has been shelling in the damascus countryside in duma. several people were killed.ozens injured. douma is home to a large number of opposition fighters. syrian airstrikes have killed 11 people in raqqa. dozens were injured in the aerial attack in the city. it is the capitol of isil's self-proclaimed caliphate. countriesr that border syria are presented to take in more refugees. many think they will have a better chance at a new life by leaving the region and going to europe. zeina hodr reports. >> reporter: handush is preparing to start a new life. she is a refugee who moved to lebanon with her family two years ago. her husband has a heart problem and cannot work. >> puts the family in the most vulnerable category of refugees and, according to the united nations, eligible for resettlement in europe. living in lebanon hasn't been easy. it is a country over womened by the burden of refugees caught up in the conflict next door. >> there were no jobs and in lebanon, we are paying the price because the political differences. we are targeted whether there are tensions bet

government forces have also bombarded the rebel-held town of duma north of damascus.he array salts killed at least five people. al jazeera's kimberly halkett has this update from washington, d.c. on possible reactions to those talks from the united states. >> reporter: so far, there has been no official reaction from the obama administration regarding the announcement by the russian foreign ministry that it would be hosting peace talks between the syrian government and its opposition, but i can tell you that this will be looked at with some skepticism in washington considering it is counter to u.s. policy. the president obama has long maintained that president bash arrest al acidad must go. he must step aside for the sake of the syrian people. >> that's his exact statement. and yet, now, we see this discussion of peace talks. so there is this concern and there is this view in washington that as long as bashar al-assad remains in power that syria remains divided. there are also concerns about the objectivity of russia to host these talks. there has been a very strong h

what's going to be fun is hearing from vladimir putin tomorrow when he hears his address from the dumaobviously, he's going to do everything possible to help with the problems in ukraine. what we know is that john kerry, he's in brussels for the next couple of days. within at home in the senate, when rt be republican and democrat watching closely, what they all take away from this is that sthes sanctions are working. there is a different with what we're trying to do with iran and we want tougher sanctions in the united states. eu countries are not on board with that. but the fact that they're trying to come together and have a united front on this is significant. >> will we see kerry said, look, the u.s. is willing to help, we get export more of our reis serves going forward? >> this plays in with the oil story. and it looks like from the commenced that we heard from saudi arabia, although he's not closely tied into those negotiations, the man is definitely, you know, with in the spotlight in terms of what people are saying at home. they don't look like they're going to be making any m

intersection they may be in the right hand lane and outbound market street as you head out toward the dumacentral freeway here that is backed up from interstate 80 all layouts of the end of the freeway because it was about 15 minutes that they have that intersects a lot and no traffic could get off the central freeway also there is an accident on highway 13 and highway 24. the a la carte ended up on the side and a this or normal commute a death of affected the ride all the way back to castle valley. >>george: 3 but did not this morning because traffic and area is likely. looking at the bridgeses' an easy ride here at the bay bridge the liberal allies have been off all morning and they are staying that way the san mateo retire when 92 have been enjoying reckon this is all morning long the fog advisory was issued earlier to the dumbarton bridge is no longer in effect. the golden gate bridge ride looks great if no delays law or south lot easier to rent a getting to iran as problem free here at the toll plaza with the richmond bridge you have an easy time from the hoffman's play on 580 westbou

the situation is getting to the point where there's one member of the duma trying to get a law passed where if you're an exporter and you bring in foreign exchanges, you must sell 50% of it back right away. >> and now it's zero, presumably. >> did you say yesterday or i read somewhere that if it gets through 50, it's just -- >> i've had people -- >> $60 or are you talking about oil or -- >> the ruble. >> yeah. i've been people telling me it's going over a hundred. >> i thought that was the key -- it hasn't been there recently. >> you probably had a currency trader on who said that. i didn't say that. it was a technical level. >> michelle, there are would places where they could essentially matter? the extraordinary debt to gdp, it looks manageable? >> absolutely. >> like 1998. >> '98, right. >> if the dead is in rubles, it's -- >> it's not something -- >> that's the way it supposed to work. >> when i was there, the ruble was a sign of power and it was a real sense of diminished power that the ruble had gone down quite as much. this number here at 70 is, like, double the biggest one yo