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have been hobbs' to avoid a veto by russia moscow which backs the syrian government's offensive on edler province had been pushing for every duction in 8. malta's governing party is voting to choose a new leader to replace prime minister joseph muscat he announced his resignation last november over his government's handling of an investigation into the murder of a journalist 17500 maybe party members will decide between 2 candidates including deputy premier chris fear the winner is expected to be sworn in as prime minister on monday. to mali now where protesters have gathered in the capital bamako demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops they want french military and united nations forces to leave the country for failing to stop violence thousands have been killed in the fighting that has spread to neighboring book enough aso and share france's year to host a summit on monday to discuss instability in the west africa region. that mexico's capital has banned the use of plastic bags says the latest in a series of cities around the world trying to cut back on single use plastics algis the

moving on to other news now brusha has announced a cease fire in edler province the last rebel held stronghold in syria where the 1300 civilians have been killed there since the government launched its offensive to retake the area in 2018 the violence have been escalating in recent months nearly 300000 people have been displaced by russian backed government airstrikes since december children and women are the most affected at least 175000 children have been forced to flee the presence of families urgently needs humanitarian assistance and agencies have provided food and money to more than 18000 people let's get more now from jamal he joins us live from i'm correct jim are russia's proposing a cease fire in the turkish position. well i'm quite sure really because they still haven't come out in terms of any officials to comment on that announcements made roughly 2 pm local time in moscow. thursday however we see there have been working very closely with the russians to try and find some sort of a suspicion of hostilities in because turkey is probably leave or the brunt of the humanitarian conseq

timmy's from syria 2 women and 2 children have been killed in a series of government as strikes on edler province the last rebel held area in the country at least 34 separate strikes hit a bridge in west of the city of aleppo these are the scenes at a camp for displaced people close to the town of kufa the region has been hit by air attacks and shelling for the past 5 days forcing tens of thousands to flee. elsewhere at least 15 people have been killed in clashes in yemen's capital between forces of the internationally recognized government and the rebels meanwhile yemen's interior minister has called for the saudi led coalition to investigate a myside attack which killed at least 116 yemeni soldiers on the weekend on saturday the who sees an arched a raid on a military camp in mar a province about 115 kilometers from sun the attack was one of the deadliest assaults in almost 5 years of war. on our soldiers not the 1st one not be the last it killed many of our men our believe the arab coalition is the one literally the skies therefore we need a clear answer from the arab coalition about

well a ceasefire brokered by russia in turkey has come into effect in syria's edler province it comes less than 24 hours after east 20 people were killed in government as strikes in and around and limp dozens more wounded in the attack on the rebel held area which has been on bonded by russian backed forces for weeks now syria's president has vowed to recapture the entire area. let's go live now to jim on the shale he is in the turkish capital ankara so the cease fire has just taken effect is it holding what is the latest you're hearing from the ground. well it is just the 1st few minutes since the cease fire began and we'll be monitoring that quite closely to see exactly how well it will hold but what's more important to look at is the lead up to or to understand the good faith or lack thereof with regards to each side leading up to this cease fire in the past 24 hours alone as you mentioned at least 20 civilians have been killed due to aerial bombardment from the regime of bashar al assad then also some unconfirmed reports even by russian aircraft we are understood in one attack alo

following today syria russian warplanes have launched more air strikes against rebel held territory in edler province and also in neighboring aleppo the latest strikes come a day after government forces captured 2 strategic villages about $350000.00 syrians have been displaced since early december. well now to iraq 5 more anti-government protests have been killed in the country as police moved in on protest camps security forces clashed with protesters as they cleared the main camp and tahrir square in the heart of the capital baghdad which had been occupied since october comes off the populace current total solder said he no longer endorsed the protests heating thousands of his followers to vacate the camps will some avenge of aids in the capital baghdad with more on the reaction from protest as to government efforts to end the assistant. this is when the flashpoint of school of saturday's protest where protesters have been trying to stop the government forces opening up the offer a ridge this is the bridge that leaves 2 to how do you square and we've been reaching people and talking to peo