limited to the district we want to tell staffan de mistura to reject it and reject his initiative. >porter: students protest in myanmar against a new law that is stifling academic freedoms. >> reporter: with the sport as a new report uses cycling governing body of allowing the doping culture to flourish is all talk and little action. ♪ welcome to the program, it started as one country's fight against an armed group but now chad and niger have joined the battle against boko haram and 200 military vehicles seen crossing the border to nigeria joining the boko haram fighters in the northeast of the country and includes attacks from both the ground and air and it's the first major push into nigerian territory and we have more from the nigerian capitol abuja. >> the neighbors and fight against boko haram has taken a new urgency, operation of troops by chad and niger against the group is underway, objective is to push them in a corner ahead of the final onslaught this month, so far 30 towns and villages liberated from the fighters since chad and niger joined efforts from niger and cameroon

. >> at first mistura wanted to free the fighting in the province and now it's a justless city and nowlimited to the district, we want to tell mistura that we reject the initiative. >> reporter: syria's war is entering its fifth year and in the absence of a meaningful political process the u.n. was hoping the aleppo initiative could be the start of one but the u.n. can only do so much without the backing of the many regional and international players which support the warring sines, al jazeera, beirut. >> reporter: saudi arabia will talk about houthi fighters in yemen killed at least 15 fighters in the province 7 were killed and two more houthis killed when the car was hit as they were patrolling the city. further killings in two other cities after offensive launched by local tribesmen. i ran and u.n. nuclear watchdog will hold talks on tehran on monday ahead of march deadline for agreement on the country nuclear program between iran and six world powers but in the u.s. president obama efforts to clinch the deal is under minded by members of the u.s. congress from washington dc kimberl

de-mistura's plan and currently the president of the security council says he is skeptical of chancesand again there is talk about a top down rather than his bottom up approach one very senior u.n. official told me this time it needs to be different though all regional players including iran need to be invited to the table, james base al jazeera, u.n. >>> fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levante have destroyed one over iraq's most important argue -- site and it was used during the assault and the destruction of iraq heritage follows release of i.s.i.l. video last week showing artifacts in mosul museum being smashed by fighters. in south africa there are fears that power cuts could threaten the economy. the state electricity company has been struggling to provide a steady supply and has erica wood reports from joe -- johannesburg are concerned about business. >> reporter: it's old and cannot cope with demand and new ones are being built but it will be sometime before they are online, the state owned energy company has warned people and industry they will have to endure r

envoy staffan de mistura recently won a pledge from the regime of bashar al-assad to stop attacks on aleppo for up to six weeks. but aleppo's revolutionary council says it won't meet with de mistura unless he proposes a conference solution based on assad's removal from power. this month marks the fourth anniversary of syria's civil war. the self-proclaimed islamic state has reportedly freed 21 assyrian christians kidnapped in syria. but more than 200 assyrians are said to remain in isis captivity following its raids on more than a dozen villages last week. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has arrived in washington for a trip aimed at stopping a nuclear deal with iran. netanyahu is set to address the pro-israeli lobby group aipac today followed by a controversial speech before congress on tuesday. his visit comes just as iran and six world powers including the u.s., are set to resume talks in a bid to meet a march 31 deadline. we will have more on the iran nuclear talks and netanyahu rcs visit after the headlines. hundreds of people have rallied in the west bank to mark a pai

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the opposition really has expressed a lot of reservations since mistura presented the proposal last object. they said they don't trust the government, have been asking for mechanisms on the ground to monitor the ceasefire. the opposition is asking why the initiative changed in october when the proposal was represented. it involved hostilities in aleppo now the cessation of heavy bombardment. the proposal is that he's facing a challenge. these are warring sides. each one of them sees the other as illegitimate. he was trying to reduce violence to ease the suffering of the people and allow humanitarian aid in. the envoy hopes that if the deal was put in place, a political process can begin from the bottom up. now that the opposition rejected the initiative his proposal is dead. there is no other political process under way in syria. syrians - the war is going - is going to enter the fifth year and statistics released by the observatory for human rights says in the month of february more than 4,000 were killed among them 800 civilians. at the end of the day the initiative did not involve solvi