eight people including a child have been killed in syria's eastern huta despite a suppose and cease fire there have been reports of heavy fighting shelling and the air raids in the area overnight on friday russia said it would put pressure on them asked us to enforce a truce but the cease fire hasn't been publicly confirmed eastern huta is the last remaining rebel stronghold near the capital. meanwhile turkey says it's taken control of a key mountain in northern syria as it steps up its offensive against kurdish fighters in the a free new region turkey is accuse the kurdish group the y.p. geo of using the mounted the fire shells across the border into the turkish town of keys from keeley's here stephanie becker with more. the battle for intensified. the constant roar of jets and artillery targeting this important high point along the turkish border. explosions echoed over the border town of killis drawing a crowd. a strange fascination watching the war unfold but for some it's a little too close to home. even though we are hearing killis we've become used to the school has happened befor

meanwhile elsewhere in syria eight people including a child have been killed in the damascus suburb of eastern huta that's the spider suppose at ceasefire there are reports of heavy fighting shelling and the air raids in the area overnight. russian opposition leader has been arrested along with dozens of people at anti-government rallies across the country that rally was the tane while attending a demonstration in moscow a protest was in response to being barred from standing in the presidential election in march. well those are the headlines coming up it's part two of our special series on the history and modern politics of the river nile struggle over the nile is next. the nihil. the world's longest river. a seven thousand kilometers a lifeline for almost four hundred million people. flowing north the nile runs through ten countries from the highlands in the heart of africa the shores of the mediterranean sea. a source of sustenance but also one of tension even potential conflict. these tensions between countries along the river nile have their roots in the nineteenth century. colonial decisions

cease fire there are reports of heavy fighting shelling and the air raids in the area overnight eastern huta is the last remaining rebel stronghold near the capital. russian opposition leader has been arrested along with dozens of people at anti-government rallies across the country the rally was detained while attending a demonstration that he had organized in moscow the protest was in response to being barred from standing in the presidential election in line. one of hong kong's leading pro-democracy activists has been barred from standing for election the government says agnes chao can't be a candidate because her party supports self-determination for hong kong. corruption is the main focus of the thirtieth annual african union summit which is underway in addis ababa it's the first summit since emerson what took over in zimbabwe from the else that leader robert mugabe the leaders are also expected to issue a response to donald trump the rocketry comments about african countries well those are the headlines are going to have more news for you in half an hour coming up next it's talk to al-

estimates around four hundred thousand people are trapped inside the area of eastern huta there is a severe lack of food and medicine and the u.n. also says that the issue of malnutrition is one of the worst in the syrian conflict so aid access into eastern for those people will be key and will be something that then could really change and improve the situation for people on the ground and we know within this conflict aid has always been a very difficult thing to negotiate cross lines all sides need to agree so that will be also one of the huge challenges ahead purchase of mob the swearing in ceremony of the president of honduras demonstrators say there were irregularities in the vote count and that's all one a london under his win a second term he narrowly beat opposition leader salvador nasr in november's election on a short is the director of short international consulting that specializes in u.s. latin american relations she says the hernandez administration is similar to many others in the region. his but he really this there when the ban on how much aid will he get from the u.s

controlled south including parts of dera and canadian provinces and in some of the reports live and eastern huta are the only places where syrians are suffering. more bombs are being dropped by syrian government and russian warplanes on the besieged rebel held district near the capital damascus is home to four hundred thousand people activists aboard dozens of air strikes on the air being and across the areas in the last twenty four hours they. are supposed to be part of a deescalation zone but at least three hundred people have died in in an artillery strike since november. many of the wounded including children are dying because of the lack of medical supplies and. with get we hide inside the room all the toys. our message we are children who have nothing to do with this war the regime bombards us every day children everywhere else can study and drink here we have nothing and they're happy. feet i'm always very scared of the siege of began in two thousand and thirteen and the relentless when bodman has destroyed most of the city. as a matter of fact the bombardment and the russian weapons bein

capital damascus three children and eleven women are believed to be among the dead in the suburb of eastern huta several infants were injured the attacks follow the deaths of at least seven civilians including five children on tuesday by airstrikes in the northwestern province. well turkey has accused the u.s. of unprecedented interference in its domestic affairs after a u.s. court convicted a turkish banker of helping iran evade sanctions met read. along with eight others was accused of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through american banks this guys this food and gold sales senior turkish officials including president that the han have been implicated in the case. this is a scandal is the city of a scandalous case it was clear from the beginning that this case was. interfering in turkey affairs and it's tearing up turkish domestic politics legally sane to listen area has been put into practice and now we want to how long the u.s. administration we don't allow it to look we'll its network. system in their favor through that they have established. a course in canada is to decid

point the opposition also met the russian delegation and they they reach as ceasefire agreement in eastern huta that ceasefire should be taking place as of big night tonight followed by an exchange of prisoners now with that be enough of an incentive for the opposition to go to sochi we still don't know that but bear in mind the opposition they are some within that group who do not agree are against attending the meeting and in social and also there are many supporters of the opposition who have been all along against sort of actually even meeting with the russians we were speaking to some of the members of the legation yesterday and they were telling us that not so how did he had come under attack by his supporters for example for going to moscow before coming here to vienna and meeting there with sergei lavrov so certainly it will be very important in the coming hours to figure out whether yes or no both the u.n. and the opposition will go to sochi or not thank you very much and i'm the honeyed indiana. the u.n. says at least thirty refugees and migrants drowned when their boat capsized off t

eastern huta is a deescalation zone so it seems to be very very relative as just another outgoing artillery from what we can hear it's very relative as to what the petitions say i want to happens on the ground yes in general the violence subsided once that deal was made between russia turkey and iran sami but the fighting continues and now you see things changing it lead deescalation zone but the syrians and the russians are adamant to try and push us out of that some will tell you that why did russia allow turkey to do this operation for in return for turkey then turning itself and helping push. it live it's very complicated when it comes to syria it's a bargaining game it's a negotiation game all the players say i'll do this if you'll do that horrible game no doubt for the civilians caught in the middle of all this for now stephanie. more now on our top story saturday's car bomb attack in afghanistan and it's the mafia attack is just the latest part of a wave of violence that plagued the country december the twenty eighth you remember when i saw suicide bomber targeted a shared cultural c