i don't think we can call upon the united nations security council anymore because it has proven at least seven times now that it's. syria and syria is not necessarily a local problem anymore it's an international crisis wed only syrian civilians are paying the price germany has seen thousands hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing this what and they continue to feed the world but to the unknown now that is a need for this decision to be taken the united nations assembly and be a respected in a way i don't think we can call up in the united nations security council to do anything anymore because they fell seven times and they would veto it too to issue anything on syria so i think their word has to be here not just the five countries and the united nations security council. dog speaking with us earlier. the turkish president richard pryor better one has met with pope francis at the vatican their talks focused on the controversial u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel both men pogues the move the disgraced former u.s. gymnastics doctor larry nasser has been sentenced t

security council is discussing the use of chemical weapons in syria what do you want the u.n. to do what can they do. i don't think we can call upon the united nations security council anymore because it has proven at least seven times now that it's able to saw all of syria and syria is not necessarily a local problem anymore it's an international crisis wed only syrian civilians are paying the price germany has seen thousands hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing this what and they continue to flee the world but the unknown now that is a need for this decision to be taken the united nations assembly be a respected in a way i don't think we can call up in the united nations security council to do anything anymore because they fell seven times and they would veto it too to issue any thing on syria so i think the word has to be here not just the five countries and the united nations security council the world has to accept an activist i've not had died in istanbul used to host a syrian opposition radio station thank you. all right we're going to have to belgium now where that country is on high alert today the trial has started of the man who is

right so we've been listening in to that vote nation security council for a thirty day truce in syria it has passed unanimously the aim we have heard is purely humanitarian it's to allow for a cessation of hostilities for medical evacuations and for a deliveries and of course this will be applied across the country not just to eastern goods where we have seen an escalation of military activity in the past week at speak to a diplomatic editor james bays he's been following all of this and james the resolution passed unanimously but nikki haley that really couldn't conceal her frustration of what she described as procrastination from russia the division and polarization on syria still very much there. yes you're right they have passed this resolution finally with some changes to the text and they were negotiating in the last hours at a time when the security council meeting was supposed to be taking place very much the pattern we had on thursday russia didn't abstain russia voted for either way the resolution would have gone through but it's interesting that after all its objections dur

and despite all this, the united nations security council in new york has still not been able to passution calling for a ceasefire because of objections from russia. i am extremely frustrated with the fact the security council, that we have not been able to adopt the resolution to alleviate the suffering of the syrian people. yes, i am very frustrated with that. the draft resolution calls for a 30—day ceasefire across the whole country, starting without delay. the extremist organisations al-qaeda and the islamic state group are excluded from this. the aim of the ceasefire is to get urgently needed aid into eastern ghouta, including medical supplies, and to evacuate the injured. whether this bombing campaign continues or can be temporarily halted depends on another attempt at the un security council to hold a vote later today, with russia agreeing not to use its veto. pressure is coming from many quarters. what russia and what iran, and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace. we are there to get rid of isis and go home. we are not there for any other reason. we have l

this is d w news live from berlin wrangling at the united nations security council delays a vote on a temporary ceasefire for syria and the u.n. wants to allow humanitarian aid in for thousands of people trapped there without food water or fuel in eastern gupta but russia has concerns about whether rebel fighters there will respect the cease fire. also coming up how to fill the money hole left by gregson european union leaders begin to plan the blocks long term budgets members may have to dig deep into their pockets to make up for the loss of britain's contribution. sara kelly welcome to the program we begin in syria in the damascus suburb of eastern buthe where residents have been living a nightmare as government forces have unleashed waves of air strikes hundreds of people have been killed since sunday including many children the un security council is scheduled to vote on a temporary ceasefire that would allow much needed humanitarian aid to reach trap civilians but russia has concerns about the resolution and that has led to repeated delays in the vote moscow wants guarantees that

a day it should completely be enforced but it is a good beginning here's what the united nations security council and united nations spokesman told out there we stand ready as soon as the conditions are safe for truck drivers humanitarian workers to roll into these areas. which for that to be effective. the fighting needs to stop we need to ensure that there are no roadblocks whether physical or administrative. whether or not. five hours is enough not enough it's a difficult question to answer five hours is better than no hours but we would like to see any sation of hostages be extended. thirty days as the security council said but we will effort to do whatever we can within the time that we're able to work. just hearing us on a staff under very saying there that five hours as a very restricted window of time what might the priorities be in terms of the type of a that they need to really get into the procedure area in that five hour window. everything we've been hearing from people on the ground that they're running out of food they have very limited supplies of. sanitation and other materials as

force as before this implementation phase of the united nations security council resolution but the resolution also. that the fighting against isis and other groups that the united nations recognizes as terrorists will continue one of the groups. that it has been able it is open to. do allow the aid to come in but it will fight off any advances by the government if it tries to enter the. welcome to the security council's decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted to the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in eastern guta as usual we didn't find any commitment by the syrian regime in its russian allies. northwest and go to southern wist and almost every front and go to has been stalled by the regime on sunday in order to achieve some advance but they haven't succeeded. so fighting words there. despite them all coming to ceasefire a cease fire that has yet to be implemented when and how is that going to happen. that is the big question on everybody's mind we've heard a lot of reaction since the united nations sec

pheno to nations security council has voted unanimously to demand a thirty day ceasefire in syria for a truce would allow for a deliveries and medical evacuations hundreds have been killed in recent days in eastern guta this siege suburb of a capital damascus. several american businesses are cutting their ties to the pro-gun lobby group for national rifle association have announced they were no longer offer discounts to n.r.a. man.

this is deja vu news live from berlin wrangling at the united nations security council delays a vote on a temporary ceasefire for syria the u.n. wants to allow humanitarian aid in print thousands of people traps there without food water or fuel and eastern goods but russia has concerns about whether rebel fighters there will respect a cease fire. also coming up memorials to a horrific past germany's far right party provokes a fee to debate in parliament over how the.

you know the united nations security council has postponed until saturday a decision on whether to call for a cease fire in syria hundreds of people have been killed in recent days in the damascus suburb of eastern ghouta including many children russia had earlier blocked a resolution on a thirty day humanitarian cease fire now russia says it will agree but with conditions. u.s. president donald trump says the armed officer assigned to protect the school hit by last week's mass shooting in florida.

the united nations say they're ready to provide aid they just need to know and figure out how asama thank you very much for that solid and java joining us live from. well the u.n. security council vote followed days of tough negotiations to get russia on board from the united nations on diplomatic editor james bass reports. for a third day diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria he got an agreement with the russians now. today we're going to see if russia has a conscience the russian ambassador conferred with his syrian counterpart who's government has continued without rest by the bombardment of eastern even as the negotiations drag gone diplomats have been working around the clock exhausted frustrated and in some cases angry most of the discussions focusing on the exact wording of one paragraph in the end they agreed to a place an immediate cease fire with one that comes into force without delay it meant they could vote. it was unanimous but they didn't seem to be much unity in the chamber. every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering group getting to a vote became a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not f

following all of the negotiations james a mess oppose the security council many people have accused the security council and the united nations of being a bit ineffectual so the the words of always been there the sentiment has always been that to try to help the civilians caught up in the war in this syria but often the security council being effectively i'm able to to act. absolutely remember that if we see a russian veto not clear what they're going to do at this stage it will be the twelfth in this war and the only way the security council can act is if it has the veto wielding members on the side you see the horseshoe table there are fifteen members of the security council ten of them only serve for two years you get each year you get another new five members but the other five the third five all the special members of the united nations who have more power than all the other members because they are permanently on the security council you see two of them their ambassador nikki haley conferring with her chinese colleague the the permanent five are always on the security council they are the u.k. the u.s. france china and

it's because this has gone through a formal declassification process at the national security council. this has been partially declassified. this is an e-mail sent by susan rice, who was president obama's national security adviser. the subject line is, note to file. here's what it says. quote, on january 5th, following a briefing by the intelligence community leadership on russian hacking during the 2016 presidential election, president obama had a brief follow conversation with fbi director jim comey and sally yates in the oval office. vice president biden and i were also present. okay, so, it's obama, comey, sally yates, biden and susan rice. in the oval office. they've just had their briefing from the intelligence chiefs. quote. president obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities by the book. the president stressed that he is not asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. he reiterated that our law enforcement t

back to the united nations security council and here is a representative from. organization you can be pursued. this is clear we because it has failed to implement the principles of the charter and international law since its inception. and the palestinian question is a case in point you need. action when you when there is also another failure by the united nations in iraq libya yes it was love you grenada for those who were forgotten grenada nicaragua you know africa and the list goes on like you i don't often don't and a half of my life and one of them are from one of them but i hope we can preserve the united nations as an organization since it has lost the charitable part of its mandate. i wouldn't wish it in the pot. i would like to make the following points. i wouldn't do a good. one you know the syrian government is committed fully to the principles of international law international humanitarian law as well as syrian laws and the syrian constitution which all stipulate the responsibility for and with the syrian government to ensure the safety and securit

we begin with desperate calls for a cease fire and eastern good as the united nations security council deliberated on thursday for the past five days bombs have been raining down on the rebel held suburb on the outskirts of damascus indiscriminately killing more than four hundred people the red cross says it is shocked by the violence and doctors without borders sais that thirteen of its facilities in the area have been destroyed leaving the remaining staff with very little to save the hundreds of wounded brought to them every day in just a moment we will speak with one of the few doctors who worked through similar bombardments of eastern aleppo but first this report from eastern and a warning that the images are disturbing. hell on earth and there's no escape this hospital now a graveyard. government work planes have been pounding eastern cuba for the fifth consecutive day children are under siege in one of the most brutal bombardments this war has ever seen and some of the mobile. most were doing we were unable to evacuate our patients or treat them. we had to do one of the operation

the national security council explored various alternatives.ertain, as the president and the secretary state agreed, the capture of the ship must be handled with restraint. in the balance were the lives of 83 navy men. by january 25, after extensive consultation with senior advisers, president johnson instructed the ambassador to request an urgent meeting of the united nations security council. in the situation room of the white house, the president continued to use every way available for a solution. at the same time, he clearly saw the need for certain precautionary measures. military forces must be prepared for any contingency that might arise. a nuclear carrier enterprise headed northward to the waters off south korea. for the first time since 1962, 28 units of the airborne reserves were called back to active duty. it was clear that the plan was to divert american and south korean resources. by strengthening america's ready white house, the president them this objective. air arm, the president denied on january 25, the white house commissio

we have seen stronger diplomatic action, for example, the last three united nation security council resolutions unanimous and how often do you see france and russia, prc and china and the united states and great britain and other countries voting unanimously. it makes clear that this is in the diplomat i can lane and we back up rex tillerson policy efforts and viable military options. but thank you very much ladies

the united nations security council passed a resolution demanding a 30 day total cease-fire. by all sides. that resolution is being ignored by the pro-government forces and the rebels. for the last week we have seen some of the most intense fighting since the start of the syrian civil war seven years ago. as syrian and russian jets pounded civilian sites like hospitals and apartment buildings. in the damascus server we are about 400,000 people live. opposition rebels fired mortars on the capital. and could very well escalate further. as there are new signs that the forces are preparing to move into the eastern area in the coming days. this follows a similar strategy that the asad regime has had in the past. where bombings are followed by a ground invasion. the lease from russia, germany and france spoke today via the phone to talk about implementation of the cease-fire. as we've seen all too often, very little action actually follows these phone calls. eric? >> thank you connor. horrible overwhelming contrast -- catastrophe supported by russia and asad. advocates for gun cont

. ♪ narrator: the national security council explored various alternatives open to the administration.hing was certain -- as the president and the secretary of state agreed, the capture of the ship uss pueblo, as important as it was, must be handled with restraint. in the balance were the lives of 83 navy men, as well as the conflict in asia. after --th of january, 25th of january, after extensive consultation with senior advisers, president johnson instructed officer goldberg to request an urgent meeting of the united nations security council. in the situation room of the white house, the president continued to use every means available to find a prompt and peaceful solution to the problem. ♪ narrator: but at the same time, he made use of informatics channels -- diplomatic channels. he clearly saw the need for certain precautionary measures. military forces must be prepared for any contingency that might arise. the nuclear carrier enterprise headed northward to the waters off south korea. for the first time since 1962, 28 units of the airborne reserves were called back to active duty.

chef sober whole khaled and how much a president of the security council excellent see mr antonio what there is secretary general of the united nations excellent is excellent he is members of the security council may the peace mercy and blessings of god be upon you seventy years have passed since palestine's knockabout took place since then six million palestinian refugees continue to suffer from the cruelty of exile and loss of human security they continue to wander the world and after the loss of their peaceful and stable lives in their homeland of. want wherever they are bored of the thirteen million palestinians whose country has yet to be recognized as a full member state of the united nations. by the numerous resolutions reaffirming their right to self-determination. and this by resolutions reaffirming their right to statehood as well on their national lead. excellences. we are the descendants of the cannon idea that lived in the land of the palestine five thousand years ago and continuously remained there to this day one of our grade to be pulled remains rooted in its land. for the palestinian people to build their own cities

sacrifice a to cut to reduce is treated with that country's and one chante indorse united nations security council to dropped economic sanctions against north korea china would be the first all set country to for the victims of such a kind of sanctions are submission late assignments a little later early as a china was and esteem is a leading trait parmer got country economic sanction hurt north korea but also for china but chana waiting to make such a success sekret fires will continue to go says the circle when you see that chinese and south korea of these walking under the same white and blue flag you would assume that in an ideal wealth north and south can come together and there's all the problems from the station now it looks like we need more weeds in a powerless to step in do you think that if the chinese the russians the americans can come together that could be conducive to any. permanent solution this is the reality that many south koreans recognize this is this may have become a very prosperous country but it is a country that does not this is really have the political power on the glo

i served as director for the national security council.years in the white house would have me crossing multiple administrations, so i am a long—time civil servant. the point about russia and the strikes that we currently see is, in essence, that you have multiple conflicts still ongoing inside syria. those strikes against hospitals are really the regime going after what it terms "terrorists", in areas that are essentially in de—escalation zones agreed upon by the russians, turks, and iranians, with russian help. and what it does is it increases the territory under and what it does is it increases the territory under assad's control. this has been going on since the early days of the de—escalation agreements. the assad regime is expanding the amount of territory that it holds with russia's help. eventually it will hit the borders of where you have coalition supported kurdish forces... this would not have been possible without the backing of putin? it wouldn't have been possible. it would not have been possible without iranian help. it would

one of which has to do with apparently a national security council, someone has maybe recommended that for national security reasons, the next beingtion 5g network built with private risk capital in the u.s. should be nationalized, owned and operated by the federal government. i don't know if you want to think about that a little longer. [laughter] or if you want to just make some news. everyonen: thank you who worked on that, getting everyone interested in the internet ecosystem. and robert, thank you for your service on the fcc, it was always at what have you on the committee, when i chair the subcommittee on telecommunications and the internet, you did a great service and we appreciate your leadership and brainpower. 5g. we have done a lot of work in the last two years to clear spectrum, get it in the public domains we can expand out and be the center for innovation and really increase conductivity across the land. when i learned about this issue, i think it was yesterday that it broke. i didn't know. [laughter] obviously we all care about the security of our networks and all those

camp for policy of fighters the syrian government requested a special meeting of the united nations security council took and down the attacks . let's now bring in our guests joining us from to have on mohammad marandi professor of north american studies at the university of the han from tel aviv is nary a junk fellow at the washington institute for near east policy and from a man is memo a retired jordanian force general welcome to your own like to start off by asking. this the downing of the f. sixteen jet is it an isolated incident or do you see it as a new phase in the syrian conflict we're going to be with you we don't quite know if it's going to be an isolated incident it is though the first time i would see in about thirty years that an israeli fighter jet has been taken down due to hostile fire so that in of itself is significant whether the syrian regime and its military has the continued capability to do this so it's an open question but it is very concerning issue in president that took place this morning mr monday so the quality of the israeli accounts these rallies have intercepted an i

the united nations security council is due to vote this evening on a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in syria. it was due to be held yesterday, but was delayed by disagreements over the wording. the syrian government is continuing its bombardment of the rebel—held area of eastern ghouta, near the capital, damascus. activists say around 500 civilians have been killed in the last week, as richard galpin reports. the relentless bombing which began a week ago has shattered whole neighbourhoods in eastern ghouta. and shattered the lives of hundreds of people. many of them children. besides those who have been injured, at least 120 children have been killed since last sunday, according to human rights activists. the number of casualties overwhelming hospitals, some of which themselves have been targeted in the air raids. and despite all this, the united nations security council in new york is still not been able to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire because of objections from russia. resolution calling for a ceasefire because of objections from russialj because of objectio

long term peace deal like peaceable rather peace or cease fire like we saw pass the united nations security council on saturday aaron thanks very much for that from moscow. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making the news at this hour saudi arabia's king solomon has fired some of the country's top military officers in a major shake up they include the military chief of staff general dual rahman alben yon and other top defense officials no formal reasons yet been provided for the move which was announced early tuesday. prosecutors in south korea are demanding a thirty year jail sentence for the former president park on hay and a landmark corruption case the ex-president was impeached for corruption in march of last year and is facing more than a dozen promote charges parker's been in custody for about a year. freezing weather is gripping much of central and eastern europe with temperatures plunging to minus twenty degrees celsius in a number of locations several deaths have been reported across the continent as a result of the weather cold spell is expected to last through the week

here with our jazeera live continuing coverage from the united nations security council in new york a special session being held on the issue of the israeli palestinian peace process and it has been an eventful morning started with president abbas the palestinian president using the line that israel was acting as a state above the law and calling in saying that to solve the palestinian question they needed to be a multilateral these are his words multilateral international mechanism in line with international law reference and he wants an international group to be able to bring the two sides together there was a lot of applause for president abbas as he finished his speech but then this happened as well as soon as he finished the speech president abbas waved to the crowd got up and left now as i understand members or anyone attending this are allowed to leave and come and go as they wish as it is in the general assembly but with the israeli ambassador speaking immediately afterwards it does look like something of a walk out. for the israelis spate let's try to clear it all up and get

doing as not in the spirit of the security council resolution in fact in breach of the security council resolution he said it was cynical games. and james the united nations security council will also soon full on yemen just tell us a little but those discussions. well those are being affected to an extent i think by syria certainly there isn't much goodwill going around after those marathon negotiations on syria marathon negotiations with russia some as i just said believe russia has not actually complied with what they eventually agreed on in the security council on saturday there's also another element to the conflict in syria which of course the role of iran you heard ambassador halley mention that when they finally passed the security council resolution on saturday all that is also present with regard to the discussions on yemen with regard to yemen the sanctions on yemen is supposed to expire at midnight tonight the security council needs to renew them it needs to come up with a new resolution the u.k. supported by the u.s. have come up with a renewal resolution but it includes language about iran attacking iran russia is not happy about that we und

a good thing for the members of the security council to listen to the president himself it will be beneficial for everyone this really ambassador to the united nations danny down on has issued a statement saying that president abbas is completely misreading the situation and harming the prospects for his own people it's not clear at this stage who will attend the security council meeting for israel all the united states james out jazeera of the united nations nine hundred fifty gold miners in south africa are seeing the sun again after being stuck underground electricity supplies are restored after a thirty hour power cut at the big tricks mine near the city of welcome. the u.s. defense department is due to release its nuclear weapons review president donald trump has repeatedly said he wants to overhaul the country's aging nuclear arsenal despite the car home explains that's easier said than done. on friday the u.s. will release its nuclear posture review like most modern presidents donald trump ordered the review when he first took office he tweeted in august that his first order was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal saying it's far st

meanwhile the united nations security council will vote on friday on a draft resolution demanding a thirty day truce in syria to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations it's facing opposition from russia which is accusing the media of a massive disinter mation campaign. and the us president donald trump has told america's largest gun lobby the national rifle association that the us needs to toughen up some rules on gun control he's also said the legal age to buy guns needs to be raised eighteen to twenty one last week seventeen people were killed in a shooting at a high school in florida the debate over gun control has intensified since seventeen people were shot the sheriff who was on duty at the marjory stoneman douglas high school apparently waited outside the building for four minutes without going inside he's resigned and an investigation is underway what i saw was a deputy arrived at the west side of building twelve take up a position any never went in when the. yes he was he went in address the killer killed the killer more charges have been filed against former truck president

and in the last hour members of the united nations security council met in new york to discuss the suspected chlorine gas attack in italy province u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley criticize russia for blocking a statement condemning the use of chemical weapons in syria she urged moscow to adopt the security council stance let's go over to our diplomatic editor james space who's been listening into that debate and james nikki haley this thing to spend most of her time criticizing russia rather than actually president assad in syria. yes very much a war of words in the u.n. security council that meeting is continuing as we speak and in fact the russian ambassador salena benzine is speaking to the security council now this was a meeting that you were not supposed to see a regular meeting on chemical weapons in syria that happens at the security council supposed to be what they call here in consultations behind closed doors but the u.s. said no we want this meeting to be public because of these latest allegations of new chemical weapons use the russian ambassador in the last few minutes v

members of the united nations security council in new york have been discussing a series of reports of chlorine gas attacks carried out by the syrian government the us ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley criticize russia for blocking a statement condemning the use of chemical weapons in syria so far russia has delayed the adoption of the statement a simple condemnation of syrian children being suffocated by chlorine gas i hope russia takes the appropriate step to adopt this text showing the council is unified in condemning chemical weapons attacks. bill slam the only surviving suspect from the paris attacks in twenty fifteen is on trial in belgium he's charged with attempted murder for trying to kill police during a shootout in brussels nearly two years ago refused to stand for the cotton refused to answer questions about his actions accuse the court of being biased against muslims and said he would defend himself by staying silent in a surprise court ruling the heir to samsung has been released from jail in south korea was convicted last year on a number of corruption charges and sente

the national security council under h.r.aster should be taking those inputs and making policy recommendations to the president at which point the president weighs in on those options and makes the decision. we have reporting there hasn't been a cabinet level meeting on russia yet. that's really dangerous. >> and really quickly, we have 30 seconds, but i know there's legal constraints that concern you here. >> yes, these agencies can, as sam said, collect intelligence, engage in counterintelligence, but in order to implement policy, that has to come from the top. by law, the president is the one who has to authorize any kind of proactive measures to counter russia's election interference efforts. >> all right. asha and sam, thank you so much to both of you. any minute now, president trump will be talking to reporters after a meeting with members of congress. will he address the rob porter scandal? stay with us. and lasts for up to 12 hours, with zicam extreme congestion relief and zicam intense sinus relief. for colds and all

no yet another day of failed diplomacy at the united nations the ambassadors of the security council basically around the security council chamber for nearly all the day huddled in discussions on their phones to their capitals and at various points in a room with the president of the security council trying to hammer out an agreement the problem is clear there are clearly russia which doesn't like the language in the draft resolution this is the existing draft resolution amazingly i can tell you that it's the paragraph number one here that they have a problem with no one can actually agree the language on the first substantial paragraph of this resolution they've gone back and forth on it for a long time after final meeting in the last hour they've decided to perspire on everything and come back on saturday just before they postponed it the u.s. ambassador nikki haley who's not actually here at the u.n. she's got a deputy working for her here but she said it's unbelievable that russia is stalling a vote how many people will now how many more people will now have to die as a result of

is a question of syria or more importantly and more globally the question of the united nations security council the responsibility for the deterioration of an escalation of situation like that in syria or human rights in general around the world i think were very important very central and in so many ways i think what that hussein did was answer. to the general good terrorists i mean the fact that he juxtaposition the human rights and speaking of human rights in geneva visit the the so-called reality in new york and the so-called realists in new york i think that was really a very high moment in this warning what will we hear from geneva so let me say something that sounds contradictory but i think that's exactly what illustrates the functions of the united nations. i think what. mr hussein as well as secretary general said was very important value of all indispensable at the same time talk is cheap. so they can talk all they want but as you said as you just as we just reported sixteen dives in go after the u.n. the u.n. council reserve you should so so many ways countries that the forty seven

the united nations security council is due to vote on renewing targeted sanctions but britain has also drafted a resolution condemning iran for violating an arms embargo by providing weapons to hooty weapons russia is proposing an alternative which just focuses on sanctions well james is joins us live from the u.n. in new york hi there james so what are they going to be discussing. well the vote was supposed to take place more than an hour ago an hour and fifteen minutes ago in the u.n. security council they perspire ended a moved on to the next item of the agenda they're currently discussing burundi because they can't reach agreement we have disputes in the security council yet again we have two different rival resolutions on the table potentially we were going to have a double veto which is why i think they perspire on the vote and they're going to have more negotiations that should be quite simple which is a resolution to renew the u.n. zapper raters with regard to yemen it's panel of experts that provide the information to the security council and the sanctions those that are sanct

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i've spoken to a number of sources since the united nations security council came to this agreement a united nations source said that we've always been ready to provide aid inside eastern hooter and it's been frustrating for us to know that people can see our warehouses from inside we're told they're only a few kilometers away but we haven't been able to reach them in the last five years but aid workers are saying that it is going to be tough for these aid groups to come in and provide this help because not just the syrian foreign ministry but the syrian intelligence also controls these checkpoints and in the past have stopped aid convoys and taken out medical supplies in essential items that they do not want to ascend into to people have cautious optimism about what has happened but they're also afraid of what is going to come in the coming hours because eastern hooter has been bombarded relentlessly more than five hundred people have been killed at least twelve hospitals have been destroyed and more than two thousand people have been injured medics have been saying that the situatio

well we heard from the united nations security council that a cease fire for thirty days was unanimously approved but it hasn't been it coming into force in eastern we've heard that multiple fronts have become a little since this morning just hours into that declaration of a cease fire where the syrian government tried to end to this. from various sides rebel forces on the ground have been telling us that they've been able to hold back that offensive but because they're stretched and this offensive has launched has been launched from multiple fronts so it has been tough to hold hold back from various sides what has been described to us on the ground by the civilians is that there was at least some sort of respite for a few i was after this declaration at the united nations security council but in the morning the syrian government came with full force residential areas defensive positions and everything else has come under attack we've heard from multiple doctors describing to us the desperate situation on the ground it's been raining all day people are stuck there stranded inside their b