All come on peter w. Watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up the white house responds to north koreas offer for talks saying certain conditions must be met. How an israeli tanks plan has led to the closure of one of christianitys holiest sites plus. It could be the revival of tamil films made in sri lanka we show you the first one made there in over forty years. The Health Authorities in rebel held east and are reporting symptoms of gas poisoning among casualties of Syrian Government to strikes me at least twenty seven people have died in the latest wave of attacks the continuing bombardment comes despite a u. N. Security Council Resolution demanding a cease fire Health Workers say a strike on the village of chef and he left several people suffering symptoms consistent with exposure to chlorine gas one child died in the attack more now from Osama Bin Laden with a warning his report does contain some distressing images. I this is what the United Nations agrees has to stop thanks. But hours into the u. N. Security council has thirty day cease fire declaration forms kept dropping on eastern. Medics aboard a dozen of the dead and injured from more than one hundred years strikes barrel bombs and artillery bombardments all of which was supposed to and continues in the rebel held area home to four hundred thousand syrians what experiences from the b. B. S. And dont give us high expectation its the fish and. Whats. The. Possible we dont know we dont we dont know. And and then here this is a big number of population wants to be a solution three bring them one or two homeboys and one be the solution and we evacuated one thousand or two thousand of them to be sort of out of little as feared Government Forces try to enter eastern huta from three sides attempting to seize as much land as possible before the cease fire is implemented reinforcements from the syrian armys fourth intended brigades have been circling eastern huda for days special forces and troops from the in the tiger battalion are also on the front lines. Bulldozers and tanks are deployed to breach several defenses iran and syria maintain that the security Council Resolution allows the targeting of what they call terrorists to win this fight facing large approved numbers and heavy fire power levels and they have held their frontline so far killing and capturing some soldiers should think about how we welcome the Security Councils decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted of the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in eastern. As usual we didnt find any commitment by the Syrian Regime and its russian allies Eastern Ghouta northwestern go to southern with almost every front and go to has been stalled by the regime on sunday in order to achieve some advance but they havent succeeded. Many besieged people have been stranded in underground shelters for days and fear the worst to come. We cant eat because theres nothing to eat our sons have no work my son has five children and he doesnt know how to feed them we will die hungry without food weve been targeted in our homes have been destroyed we have done nothing to be treated and targeted like this but eastern good has been intensity targeted for the past week the un called it hell on earth. The calls the victims in syria martyrs that have been conversations between the leaders of france germany and russia to drive persuade the Assad Government to stop attacks and allow in humanitarian aid thats when the people will continue to face what they see is annihilation. Of the turkey syria border. Well staying with that story al jazeera correspondent mohammed. Is in eastern with this update. Now on the how the. Russian and Syrian Government warplanes have been stopped targeting the residential areas of eastern greta we can hear theyre flying over us to talk at the different districts and towns people stuck here are very scared the Syrian Regime forces have attacked eastern due to from several different fronts with the aim of advancing its control of parts of the area the opposition says fighting is ongoing in more than twenty Syrian Regime forces have been killed while another group of them has been captured and the fighting is happening even after the u. N. Security councils decision to demand a cease fire that would have led by and assistance to reach the people of eastern guta. A north korean general attending the closing of the Winter Olympics in south korea has suggested his country is willing to hold talks with the United States at the ceremony hes just meters from the u. S. President Donald Trumps daughter Ivanka Natascha going to him has more from calling on. Some protestors at the border and the stadium too uncomfortable questions asked by reporters. It was a controversial arrival at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics for the north korean delegation. Some South Koreans are angry about the delegation leader general kimmitt is thought to be behind attacks against the south including the sinking of a warship in twenty ten that killed forty six sailors. Prisoner of korea is almost zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero korea to hear oh. No. This is. South korean president mungy. A in use the games to reboot intercalary and relationships. The socalled peace olympics included a joint womens hockey team athlete celebrating korean nationalism by marching under a unified flag as well as a visit by kim yo job the sister of the north Korean Leader she arrived with an invite for mood to visit yeah. Its a two hour test it was a good olympics as it were so concerned about it last year but it went so well many North Koreans came and i wish this could lead to unification. It was interesting he was an honor for us to host it i really enjoyed it. Even the choice of olympic venues was symbolic gang one province is divided between the north and south. If the tension continues tourists dont come so peace is very important to our economy north korea participated in the olympics and this has become a basis for establishing a base here and that means a lot to us. For the russians the games and did as they began marching without their flag two of their athletes were disqualified after testing positive for banned drugs four years on from the sochi doping scandal russians were only allowed to compete under an olympic flag as all athletes return home the question here is what happens after the olympics. The u. S. Announced its toughest package of sanctions against north korea on friday with the hope it will pressure the country to denuclearize whether that will work when other sanctions have failed remains to be seen and theres no word yet on when president moon might travel to the north if he does hell become the first south korean president to meet kim jong un since he became leader seven years ago natasha going to aljazeera south korea. Live now to seoul and our correspondent rob mcbride so rob what are the chances now of meaningful talks between the north and the south. Well thats right kim young child is still here in south korea with his north korean delegation expected to be here for the next two days there a lot of speculation about just what might be achieved over that time building on this apparent goodwill thats been built up during these olympics where there indeed hell have another meeting with jay in the south korean president hes almost. Definitely going to meet with the south Koreas Unification Ministry talking about future dialogue and intriguingly about the possibility of mungy in visits to the north korea that will be a very important step forward in into korean relations certainly moon janes office has made very optimistic signals about the progress thats been made so far saying that dialogue is the only way forward in trying to ease tensions achieving peace and ultimately trying to achieve the denuclearization of north korea now for their part the North Koreans have given no indication theyre willing to make any concessions when it comes to its nuclear and missile programs indeed its its bristled at the very idea of those things in talks around in these olympics and the subject seems to have been skirted very conveniently so far but obviously it will have to be addressed if meaningful dialogue goes ahead and of course in the background peter is a very concerned United States are worried about the North Koreans beguiling the South Koreans with this socalled Charm Offensive and very determined that south korea stays on board as part of this united front against a country which it says despite all the smiles has not changed it is still north korea potentially a very dangerous adversary peter and i guess robbers well that would be the United States attitude towards north discussions plus the u. S. Attitude towards what she already touched on what they really think north korea is going to do next. Thats right and that also then shades that view about the possibility of direct talks between north korea and the United States there was we know it the start of these games the possibility of kim jong un system meeting with Vice President mike pence that meeting didnt take place there is still a lot of speculation here in south korea that with the american delegation still in town today monday in south korea there might be some kind of meeting with the North Koreans and thats not expected to involve ivanka trump but there are lower level officials in both delegations who could possibly meet but the United States has said again that if there are any talks are to take place it must have the ultimate goal of leading to denuclearization and of course the North Koreans have said that talks should have no preconditions set upon them so it doesnt bode well for the possibility of any talks at any kind of level and of course it does come against this latest spat between the United States and north korea over the latest sanctions imposed by the United States north korea calling these an act of war predictably as it has done in the past and it does seem to give it the opportunity of walking away from any talk about talks and also plays into conveniently into its narrative of the two koreas working towards peace while its the americans as far as north korea is concerned who are trying to ruin the party or the true villains of the piece rob thanks very much all chinese president xi jinping could stay in power indefinitely on the plans by the communist party to abolish term limits the ruling party wants to change the constitution to remove the current restrictions under which leaders can only serve two terms Vice President s would also be able to serve without term limits the communist party elected president xi as its head for another five years last october. Unassigned gun is a political analyst and advises the Chinese Government on Economic Development as he has he says many among the general population like what she ching ping has done for the country but some in the countrys elite may have concerns over the plans to abolish those term limits she thinking is pretty much pretty well known right now no one is guessing about what his next is this is not like donald trump where every day a new tweet its a very slow and steady progress so i think its ok but the real question comes down the line once you a sample this kind of power structure how do you you know pass it on to the next generation and how much power do you want them to have i mean i think towards the end of whenever he intends to serve because i think he believes he has to make sure that the reforms and they are big are actually seeded and start to grow before you know if there was some change and somebody wanted to do to reverse what hes doing invention runs some headwinds because as you have a more middle Class Society is going to be different not necessarily the ones that you face in the west but certainly something that is going to be different still to come here on aljazeera at all its the standoff between kosovo and serbia over a prominent mining company. Hello there the rain is finally beginning to move over parts of north america being with us for a good while now stuck in place across this belts here giving very heavy rain but its not only been the rain thats causing us the problem that rain is falling on snow and the snow is melting so a combined problem of heavy rain and also snow melt has given us quite a bit of flooding that system those funny cleary moving down towards the southeast still with us on monday and then eventually as we head into tuesday it will continue its journey southeast woods and break up as it does so so most of us that will get away with a dry picture towards the west its a little bit different to areas of cloud here and these could both be giving us some fairly heavy outbreaks of snow before the tour to south of them most of us across the caribbean is fine and dry but over jamaica they could be one or two showers during the day on monday also for nicaragua and costa rica a few showers here and theres a still going to be with us as we had three chews day some of them again very heavy with the old rumble of thunder for south america theres also been a lot of wet weather here recently particularly in the northern parts of bolivia more weather still to come here could give us more problems with flooding and that system also extends all the way down towards rio basically to the north of that line youve got a good chance of seeing a fair few showers but for the south its looking drawing just a handful of showers here. From Satellite Technology to three d. Printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change Building Communities creating employment and solving problems theyre challenging systems and shaping new ones its about creative thinkers shaping their continents future innovate africa at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back youre with aljazeera live from recapping our top stories for you the Health Authorities and rebel held beeston groups are reporting symptoms of gas poisoning among casualties of Syrian Government airstrikes in which at least twenty seven people have died we continue involve bartman comes despite a u. N. Security Council Resolution demanding a cease fire in syria. A north korean general attending the closing of the Winter Olympics in south korea has suggested his country is willing to hold talks with the United States at the ceremony he sat just meters from us president Donald Trumps daughter ivanka but washington says sanctions against north korea will continue. And the chinese president xi jinping could be able to stay in power indefinitely under plans by the communist party to abolish term limits the ruling party wants to change the constitution to remove the current restrictions under which leaders can only serve for two terms. The un Security Council is due to vote on monday on a resolution that would condemn iran for providing weapons to rebels in yemen the country has been engulfed by a civil war since twenty fifteen with saudi backed Government Forces fighting to see rebels allied with tehran many have reportedly been killed in recent days in saudi led strikes on the port of her died imtiaz tire has the story. One of the saudi led air strikes spared little here who data is the strategically important port city in western yemen saudi warplanes have repeatedly targeted surrounding neighborhood since thursday reportedly killing dozens of who the fighters and civilians before the start of the civil war nearly three years ago today the port handled around seventy percent of yemens imports including critically needed food and humanitarian supplies since then its become one of the most complex front lines controlled by who the rebels it is either being bombed or blockaded by the Saudi Coalition but it recent months the u. S. Government which backs the saudi Led Bombing Campaign against the iranian backed who these has sent cranes to the data to replace those destroyed in airstrikes all part of efforts to increase the amount of aid into yemen but help is only trickling in while yemenis suffer what the United Nations described as the worlds worst humanitarian crisis at this camp for the internally displaced on the outskirts of who data few have received any kind of help. And i have four kids and i dont know what to do to feed them i have nothing and can do nothing we dont have furniture we dont have beds would not have blankets we have nothing the u. N. Says nearly all of yemens twenty five Million People need some form of humanitarian assistance with close to half of the population in acute need of support. The numbers of displaced people are increasing day by day here and who dated there are more than twenty one thousand displaced we urge the government and politicians and aid organizations to do more to help displaced people who are living in misery their numbers are increasing and the aid doesnt reach them quickly enough there is a severe shortage of food and the prices of goods here are very high since the war began more than ten thousand people have been killed and yemens economy crippled with the fighting showing little sign of slowing. Humanitarian crisis is only getting worse indios tired aljazeera. Church leaders in occupied East Jerusalem have closed the holiest sites in christianity over what they say is discrimination by the Israeli Government the dispute centers on the church of the holy sepulture believed to be the site of the crucifixion and the resurrection of jesus christ are a force that explains the chance to experience sunday mass at the place where they believe christ rose from the dead draws pilgrims from around the world to the church of the holy sepulcher but this sunday the Greek Orthodox armenian and catholic churches which jointly run the site announced its abrupt closure protesting against measures which they say would constrain their rights over Church Property is that in mind. Offer a simulator which were in now. In europe. This is them out the. Back against christians in their holy land. Levi only. And some of the right the Church Leaders say they face a twin attack first in the shape of a demand by jerusalem City Government what it says is more than one hundred eighty Million Dollars in back taxes and secondly from proposed legislation which would seize retroactively for the state church land sold to private companies or sundays in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher always thronged with tourists and christian pilgrims many of whom are travelled a long way to see this most important holy site its always an atmosphere of emotion today the chief atmosphere though is one of disappointment the belief that jesus christ died and if you was buried here would have liked just to go there and have the east point is you you know that would we be able to understand it better you know i i dont know if the sides of the parties involved but you know it certainly is going to get the public attention to do this and hopefully it drives a quicker conclusion the christian patriarchates only large areas of often prime real estate in and around jerusalem much of it at least to the state palestinians have criticised the Greek Orthodox patriarch the selling property inside the old city the jewish settler groups and others tourists limbs municipal leaders say only properties being used for religious activities should be tax exempt not those rented commercially theyve already frozen about nine Million Dollars in assets of the Greek Orthodox church were talking about other places that the church own fact has hotel and they have been exempt wrongly from paying city taxes for years and years and years and the mare at the moment is trying to correct a wrong that was done that affects us from evidence every single day and ministerial discussion on the bill to allow seizure of already sold church land has been postponed to next week the author of the proposed law says its designed to protect the rights of those living on the land from often anonymous offshore entities Church Leaders say their long established rights are being trampled in what they call an attempt to weaken the christian presence in jerusalem ari force at aljazeera occupied East Jerusalem. Now an Egyptian Court has frozen the assets of a prominent opposition figure accused of having contact with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood former president ial candidate abdel moneim aboul fotouh was arrested on february fourteenth after calling for a boycott of next months president ial election he has his own Political Party and has distanced himself from the Muslim Brotherhood for years. Appeared on aljazeera earlier this month where he was critical that the president of how to l. C. C. Kosovos Prime Minister is promising to revive one of the regions Biggest Companies to help fight youth unemployment but the plan is far from straightforward as neighboring serbia says it owns the mining for casa who wants to develop and resentments reports from the. Used to be one of the former yugoslavia is Biggest Companies mining plentiful minerals with good profits and thousands of jobs because of those war changed that you dont have to look far to see damaged buildings and the conflict two decades ago decimated this business now the few miners who remain a part of a dysfunctional company thats cut into these a kosovar albanian miles and weve recently been celebrating their countrys tenth anniversary of independence not far away is the other half of trips run by the minority cause of all serbs theyre more likely to listen to serbias government than their Senior Management at the firms headquarters on the south side of mitchell pizza leaves a process that at two years. According to the law should be governed by one single executive management and should be unified as we stand now neither us nor they can be developed it shouldnt be divided more than twenty two thousand people work for this company two decades ago before the war now fewer than two and a half thousand are on the payroll the management say that if the political problems with serbia could be worked out they could make this company the biggest employer in kosovo once again. But the issue is the need for a major investment the technology for lead and zinc processing needs bringing into the twenty First Century and thats only one area that needs attention elsewhere whole factories need replacing it was in twenty sixteen that cause of ars government nationalized to save it from bankruptcy now the Prime Minister says investment is on its way economy and investors find their way always to ward off the fact that this will not happen given assurances yes yes its already been a process will not take months matter of weeks to be ready for a partner but the companys management is skeptical the serbian government accused kosovo of theft when trip she was nationalized half of the workforce is cause of all serb so even if the investment arrives the politics could destroy any hope of profits and jobs Andrew Simmons aljazeera mich of its cause of large crowds of fans have gathered outside the home of the bollywood actress for davey as they await the return of her body from dubai the fifty four year old who starred in more than one hundred films died suddenly of a heart attack at a family wedding on saturday police had to put up barricades around neighboring roads as crowded schools so much throughout the day tributes are flowed in from indias Prime Minister to actors who worked alongside. Some happy news from the movie world there are hopes that the first feature length tamil film to be made in sri lanka in the early forty years will mark the cinematic revival time also normally watch movies made in india because decades of war crippled their industry but the smell fernandez reports the film comedy kings could become an inspiration to others. With an original script a team comprising amateurs then professionals and a dream to take on a multimillion dollar industry. Called molly kings is the first full length tamil film to be made locally in more than four decades i had made a conscious decision not to you know not to get any indian technicians or anyone in this movie just to prove a point. I only went for sound mixing in and apart from that Everything Else has been done here and thats not been done before either in the film ratnam plays a cash strapped london expectorate who travels here to attend a wedding to save money the family stays with relatives who have problems of their own the ensuing attempts to solve those problems produce hilarious results. The firm which the director describes as a dark comedy is refreshing lee candid about some aspects of sri lankas Tamil Community got inspired by mr. Court where he says life is a tragedy in close up but a comedy in long shot and i thought that was apt for me personally and also the lives of my community so i thought. The film premiere was a hive of excitement as the community celebrated the achievement initial reaction as many streamed out of the screening was positive i enjoyed really much. The breakthrough emmylou is usually like that this is our more we buy our people for us. Because of the lack of industry professionals the director had to use more than eighty percent of crew from well established and prolific single movie makers in sri lanka for years tamil film goers in sri lanka have watched south indian firms adored its actors sung its songs and adopted its fashions breaking into an industry dominated for so long by south indian cinema is no easy task but the team behind kamali kings seem determined to take on that challenge. One of the main challenges is to create a unique style official and going to the cinema oh yeah you really establish oh and i did you meet in terms of we have met in cinema we havent actually did so long gang to get to class to call miley kings will be Different Things to different people but the director says its a first step to finding an identity for sri lankan tamils cinema one that he hopes inspires others to contribute to its survival. As aljazeera colomba. This is aljazeera these are your headlines so far today the Health Authorities in rebel held eastern are reporting symptoms of gas poisoning among casualties of Syrian Government airstrikes in which at least twenty seven people have died the continuing bombardment comes despite a u. N. Security Council Resolution demanding a cease fire in syria al jazeera correspondent Mohammed Al Jazeera is in eastern with this update. Now on the how the. Russian and Syrian Government warplanes have been stopped targeting the residential areas of eastern greeter we can hear theyre flying over us to target the different districts and towns people stuck here are very scared the Syrian Regime forces have attacked eastern due to from several different fronts with the aim of advancing its control of parts of the area the opposition says fighting is ongoing in more than twenty Syrian Regime forces have been killed while another group of them has been captured and the fighting is happening even after the u. N. Security councils decision to demand a cease fire that would have led aid and assistance to reach the people of east of the north korean general attending the closing of the Winter Olympics in south korea has suggested his country is willing to hold talks with the United States but the white house says dialogue with the north must end with its denuclearization. The chinese president xi jinping could be able to stay on in power indefinitely under plans by the communist party to abolish term limits for chinese leaders the ruling party wants to change the constitution to remove the current restrictions under which leaders can only serve two terms Church Leaders in occupied East Jerusalem have closed the holiest sites in christianity in response to what they call discrimination by the Israeli Government theyre angry at proposed taxes affecting the church of the holy sepulture believed to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ big crowds of fans have gathered outside the home of the bollywood stars sridevi as they await the return of her body from dubai the fifty four year old who starred in more than one hundred films died suddenly of a heart attack at a family wedding on saturday police were forced to put up barricades around a neighboring roads because the crowds are growing so much throughout the course of the day youre right up to date with all our top stories more news of course on the website is there for you all the time aljazeera dot com im back after innovate africa all season but. 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