a message that's taking right to the top women rally outside australia as parliament calling for an end to sexual violence. at american singer beyonce makes music history at this year's grammys by winning the most awards on record. serious marking 10 years since the start of a award that. that spiraled into a civil war rather more than a half a 1000000 people have been killed in the facing millions more have been forced to flee their homes as refugees now after all the suffering and sacrifice and with the forces of president bashar al assad firmly in control of most of the country many are asking if it was all worth it saying the horror looks back at a decade of conflict. this is the birthplace of syria's uprising in 2011 but opposition members call this moment the end of the dream of a democratic country it's 2018 and the government has just recaptured the southern province after 7 years of resistance. i almost had a breakdown after all the sacrifices when they raised the flag we felt stabbed the town had a lot of symbolism for the revolution. it was here where the wall of fear was broken we watched syrians turn against the police state we watched them bury their dead demonstrators who were killed by security forces was. going to have. protests spread to other areas in homs tanks were sent to suppress the uprising. the city which became known as the capital of the revolution became a battleground and. the regime forced us to take up arms and turned the uprising into a war it was no longer possible to face guns without screens. there was a siege on the rebel stronghold after months of heavy fighting months later the opposition agreed to leave the area. was among them he says they had little choice they were trapped without basic supplies running low on ammunition and abandoned by the world. 2 years later and after a 4 year stalemate the opposition was forced to abandon aleppo which weakened them politically. and i felt broken when i got on the bus i still think about it but the siege was unbearable people were dying in the by bombs or hunger. is among the millions of internally displaced syrians who live in the opposition controlled north unable and unwilling to live under syrian president bashar assad's rule but he says he fears a ceasefire agreed last year will not hold. already hundreds of thousands have been killed millions have been displaced inside and outside the country and there has been no accountability serious conflict is entering its 2nd decade with the majority of its citizens poor and with little hope. we have been forced to give up on our dreams the international community has failed the syrian people there is no reconciliation there is no peace 10 years of war has divided a country and its people. we have 2 correspondents with us this hour said of course you'll notice in istanbul but 1st let's join. there's not a refugee camp near the syrian border in lebanon's bekaa valley center what's the future for people in that camp and for those remaining inside syria. well the tragedy is not over the conflict because the world's worst placement crisis according to the united nations 13000000 people uprooted from their homes some of them internally displaced in their own country others living in refugee camps in the neighboring countries here in lebanon on nearly 900000 are registered with the united nations you can see for yourself the miserable living conditions 13000000 people that's half the pre-war population according to the u.n. as well out of syrian refugee families and loved on are poor and they rely on the united nations for for support in order to survive and these people will tell you we want to go home we do not want to live like this but they have little choice there are those who are afraid to go back because there is just no security guarantees in place in fact the united nations the european union they both believe that mass returns are not conducive for the time being because of the syrian government needs to put in place safety guarantees that human rights groups have documented the arrests of people who have returned maybe some of these people didn't were not involved in any opposition activity but the fact that they left the country is for the regime they call them you know traitors but it's not just that the economy and syria has collapsed the currency house collapse the price of food is on the rise so is unemployment because of the currency collapse salaries are now really worthless so people are hungry and that is they in the regime controlled areas so many ask what victory is bashar al assad the syrian president talking about he may have clawed back territory from the opposition but he rules over a failed state and with no international legitimacy he's planning for a. elections in the next few weeks but the international community has made it very very clear they don't consider those elections free fair or transparent so for people here more on certainty their guns may have fallen fire to the battlefield relatively quiet over the past year but economic conditions you know are keeping these people away from returning home to lack of infrastructure as well and the lack of jobs. how does there isn't a hole there reporting live there from a refugee camp in lebanon's bekaa valley let's go to where istanbul and in neighboring turkey some of course you know is there for us to keep course hosting more syrian refugees than anywhere else said and many people want to return to syria what's preventing them. well our dream turkey holds 4500000 syrian refugees and according to the turkish though after spending 5 years in turkey those people become eligible to apply for turkey citizenship when you look at the big cities like a stone wall and godsent of where the most of the where the majority of the syrian refugees from inside most of them have already established their lives they have they have built businesses their schools have learned their children are going to school they learn turkish as someone some of those people who have really established and built their lies here they don't want to go back because they believe there is no place to go back but some others even though they have a live in turkey with their families they want to go back to their homes of course the areas under control of the syrian opposition the syrian national army backed by the turkish military those who are designated to be safe have been safe sones for for the syrians so that so that they could repair trade and of course you have on the opposition control and turkey iran and russia have come together through a son and such a peace process is to hold peace and at that it was violated from time to time it was an on and off situation but for those areas under control of the syrian national army its former name f.s.a. the free syrian army those places. were to be were to be improved by the by the local law enforcement backed by the turkish military however now we see that recently those areas under for safe control are being targets of those who are like last night in the syrian government forces have fired ballastic missiles to northern aleppo especially to a risk close to jobless an elbow bend the infrastructure was them and so now people question is it's only that we discuss whether the cease fire is going to hold or is it all. so those safe zones that that were the design for the syrians to be to repair to it so turkey's presence aired on of wrote an article for bloomberg to it was published today in a he's making a call to the west that they they should help turkey they should stand with turkey in order to provide a permanent stability and see and safe life inside syria and he ses and it took to reject. anything that that any plan that would not meet the basic needs most of most basic needs of the syrian people and peaceful permanent solution is not possible on this serious territorial integrity and political united are respected and he is making a call to the west and he says the west has 3 options either they continue to watch from the sidelines as more people more innocent people die in syria while these cease fire violations happen after. 10 years of the civil war or the west can take a military and economic action for syria or disserved one is that to stand by turkey in order to provide this safety and security and improvement in sight so you have basically he is making a call also for the united united states new administration biden administration to keep its promise to provide a secure life in syria. sort of course here reporting live from istanbul thanks to them. a hearing for me on mars are listed civil civilian leader aung san suu kyi has been pushed more than a week back country reels off to further bloodshed she's been detained since the jungle took power on february 1st. at least 39 people were killed on sunday that's the highest number of deaths in a single day in the crackdown on anti cooper testers the military has imposed martial law in several regions of young go on and mandalay al-jazeera scott heide is monitoring developments from bangkok in neighboring thailand. in yang gone the largest city in 6 districts around the city have been put under martial law to wear on sunday that's why we saw a lot of that violent crackdown in the area it's a kind of an industrial zone on the outskirts of yangon and now we're also hearing 5 areas of mandalay the 2nd largest city has also been put under martial law despite that some protesters have come out today on monday after this after the announcement that those areas are under martial law and now they are still coming out of what happened on sunday the protesters focused on again in just a district this is where a lot of migrant workers michael workers from within me and mar live and work at these factories in the area a lot of those factories are finite financed by entities in china china viewed by the protesters is a very large and very important partner with me in mars military so there have been repeated calls by the protesters for china to do something to soften the stance of the military that clearly hasn't happened so they decided to take it out on these chinese entities they set fire to multiple factories in this area so obviously the protests is targeting a very important ally of the military and thus we're seeing the response and that is from them me in our military putting those areas under martial law in a sense you what that does is the military will control those areas they will call the shots the police might be involved but the military in those areas those areas of martial law now have complete authority. the weather next here on al-jazeera than one here on new york mourns for thousands of lives lost a covert 19 in america's biggest city. remaining defiant thousands of supporters of brazil's president are joined protests demanding an end to coronavirus restrictions . however got plenty of showers as per usual across much of southeast asia see some lively showers there coming into the philippines we will see some rather wet weather into were born in millimeters of rain there in brunei more the same as we go on through choose to spread of showers through the philippines northern parts of borneo much of malaysia will see the shot was of course and notice some heavier rain for a time into parts of java as we go on into the middle part of the way hifi a little dry here but the shot was never really too far away not too many showers there into vietnam into cambodia and thailand well to try and find whether he was in pleasant sunshine now as mitzeee presence in the southeast of australia recently and fights on monday morning we had a coldest start to the day here so we're going to see temperatures struggling a little bit as we go through the next couple of days but we will gradually start to see temperatures picking up as you move on into the middle part of the way into the low twenty's there from melbourne getting up to $25.00 in adelaide still a few showers into that eastern side of new south wales plenty of showers maymont into southern areas of queensland they will be heavy at times and that could lead to some localized flooding more the same as we go on into wednesday there is some fine and dry weather around perth with a high of 31. very much a culture. has been very harmful to the economy and the lives of many people on challenging traditional attitudes how narrowing the gender gap is helping women in whom the card was escape poverty. we're trying to break these barriers of machismo by giving women access to resources meet the women leading the way. women make change on al-jazeera. orun to. form. hello again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour it's been 10 years since the start of the arab spring uprising in syria that spiraled into a civil war for half a 1000000 people killed in fighting millions more have been forced from their homes . security forces killed at least $39.00 people on sunday the worst violence of the month for the hard fought crackdown on the anti coup movement state television says that one police officer was also killed. the law has been declared in 6 young on the townships as well as 5 areas of mandalay the military issued the orders out of beijing complained about chinese factories being set on fire. yemen's huth the rebels say they've launched more attacks against targets inside saudi arabia a spokesman says that 3 armed drones targeted the kingdom's airports and king khalid base in congress bush aides there's been no confirmation from saudi arabia who thiis have ramped up their attacks against the kingdom in recent weeks with strikes on major energy installations. tens of thousands of people have rallied in marches across the straightly a protest against the sexual abuse and harassment of women it's been triggered by allegations of rape and assault centered around australia's parliament nicola gage reports now from canberra. thank you protestors outside astrologers parliament demanding action of violence against women in recent weeks allegations of right have rocked a struggle in politics prompting a growing number of people to speak about sexual assault and harassment i don't want to go up the world where women are listened to and i think that we should make a change it was sparked by shocking allegations that former political star for britney he was right by a colleague in the defense minister's office. we're here i'm function of ringback what we used to having to fight this same stale tired of. the struggle as top floor officer attorney general christian porter is also accused of an historic right dating back 3 decades which he categorically denies police have closed the case but the government is facing growing calls for an independent inquiry we just don't think that it's appropriate that a man who holds the highest floor office in the country can have an untested and also apparently on a ridge right allegation sitting out there it makes women feel very unsafe and unsupported allegations of miso jenny and sexism in australia's parliament and nothing new the nation's 1st female prime minister julia gillard called it out in 2012 having but stories of a toxic culture continue it's still very much a bloke's world here a man's world and even if you work in the building as a woman you know are very clearly that you're not in charge the government says violence against women is a priority and has set up an investigation into workplace culture but many don't believe that goes far enough this isn't just about women in politics many others here have their own story about being harassed or sexually assaulted they're calling for recruitment crying from the top down like the women are treated equally . some are calling this latest movement a struggle is 2nd me to wave stories all too familiar right across the globe. gauge al-jazeera cambra u.s. secretary of state under the blink and defense secretary lloyd austin of making their 1st overseas trip to east asia washington's concerns about china likely to dominate the talk as well as lynn jordan reports now from the u.s. state department. yours in his 1st congressional testimony since becoming u.s. secretary of state antony blinken made it clear to legislators his upcoming meeting with top chinese officials in alaska won't be a social call we intend to raise and we will raise the host of issues some of which have already been touched on today that concern us we'll also explore whether there are avenues for cooperation and we'll talk about the competition that we have in china with china to make sure that the united states has a level playing field and that our companies and workers benefit from that blinken and white house national security advisor jake sullivan are meeting senior chinese foreign policy officials yagis shia and one year at a time when the biden administration has declared beijing the u.s. is main global rival state department officials say the problems washington has with beijing are many hong kong shinji on tibet pressure on taiwan broader human rights abuses the south china sea the meat kong. economic pressure arbitrate as tensions on the origins of $1000.00 other issues the china u.s. ministerial meeting will come at the end of the 1st in person overseas trip for blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin while observing pandemic related protocols austin and blinken will hold strategic talks with their japanese and south korean counterparts on tuesday and wednesday austin will also travel to new delhi for meetings with indian military leaders. china's military ambitions including its efforts to control international waterways and to develop nuclear weapons will be discussed the u.s. will also be raising north korea's nuclear program. and the crisis in me and mark. former u.s. assistant secretary of state danny russell says in person meetings with washington's allies will repair the damage done during the trumpet ministration but he expects blinken meeting with chinese officials will be the start of a long process of engagement i think it's clear that joe biden isn't going to russia and china. and he's not going to rush to try to solve every problem as i said he understands that he needs to deal with the chinese from a position of great a relative strength if he's going to. be able to. move chinese decision making and policies in directions that they may not necessarily want to go u.s. officials say the meeting and anchorage in alaska is about engaging with the key global challenger initiatives and strategies can come later that is if the u.s. thinks it can trust the people across the table rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department iran's foreign minister says that after 4 years of what he calls u.s. economic terrorism washington needs to build good faith with terror on before any nuclear talks can begin to have a jobs or if made the comments a virtual conversation with the european policy center. sanctions on anybody remotely good i'm not just punishing. punishing russia china punishing the neighbors so. the united states did not pass that test in fact the united states miserable the past the best. way to quote i john kerry would say under i better. so let's. let's get some help of the united states some good some. and then come back and talk about it and then it will be the next administration you know and my suits. thousands of supporters of brazil's president triable sonora have joined protests demanding an end to corona virus restrictions many cities and states been typing lockdowns of hospitals a stretch to capacity the president has repeatedly opposed lock down say that they are necessary or hurting the economy daniel schorr and the reports with more than 11000000 people infected and 277000 deaths hospitals in brazil are struggling to cope 12000 people died in the past week alone in the united states has been hit harder doesn't know anything we saw a family being destroyed not long ago father mother grandfather grandmother everyone suffered in the family so it's a very sad. the state government to sell power with a population of $44000000.00 has imposed new emergency measures including a nighttime curfew a ban on sporting events and the closure of all non-essential businesses at a last a minimum of 15 days. the protesters many of them supporters of president jabal sonando took to the streets to oppose the natures. protesting against the dictatorial attitude of the governor his lockdown will put an end to our jobs our health into the people of south. be more the operation to vaccinate brazil's 211000000 people has been slow to get going one who has is a 75 year old former president popularly known as lula. of us you know do i hope this vaccine gives the result that i dream of that the brazilian people dream of because all they want is to be vaccinated against this monster called coronavirus the president needs to stop being so ignorant while some fight the pandemic of this brazenly defy it the only certainty it was ills coronavirus casualties continue to rise that al-jazeera when osiris polling in a general election in the netherlands has opened early for people in high risk coronavirus categories the vote is the 1st major electoral test of a european governments pandemic policy the country has seen some of its worst riots in decades and that anger over the strict. in the netherlands of joins a number of countries in suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine of a blood clot concerns the drug says that it's reviewed data and says there's no increased risk thailand says that it will resume its astra zeneca rollout after a brief break over safety fears. new york has been mourning those lost a year on from the 1st death from covert 19 in america's biggest city by population more than 13000 residents died photographs of some of the victims were displayed at the memorial new york is the worst hit city in the worst hit country it's now grappling with a new surge in cases reporting more than 6000 a week. to number we can barely imagine. more new yorkers lost then in world war 2. vietnam. hurricane sandy and 911 put to gather. every family touched in some way and 1st so many families a pain a pain that is wrong. china's capital beijing is putting golf by its worst dust storm in a decade it blew in from the gobi desert pushing air pollution to the top of the scale much of northern china as a fact is in some flights have been grounded dust storms are fairly common at this time of here in the government's reforesting areas around the capital to try to limit the impact. it's been a storage by for women of the grammy music awards balance a has become the most decorated artist in the awards history and it was also a big night for taylor swift. reports. an awards ceremony to honor the best of the music industry the grammy awards made history this year marked by women taking home the top awards the bradley goes to there was set. the star of the night was beyond see who won for grammys with her 23 when she became the most awarded woman in the grammys history of wanted to uplift encourage celebrate all of the beautiful black queens and kings that continue to inspire me and inspire the whole world. was taylor swift also made history with her album full floor she became the 1st female artist to win album of the year 3 times and that puts her in the ranks of so-called 3 peat performers like frank sinatra stevie wonder and paul simon mostly we just want to thank the fans you guys met us in this imaginary world that we created and we can't tell you how honored we are. british singer do a leaper won best pop vocal album for her dance the future nostalgia and spoke of the value of music during hard times and record of the year when to billie eilish for everything i wanted yeah thanks for doing this i love you thank you the song of the year went to our n.p.r. dissed her for the black lives matter anthem i can't breathe addressing issues like police brutality social justice and rates we are the change that we wish to see and you know that that that fight that we had enough of the summer of 2020 keep that same energy thank you the pandemic has devastated much of the music industry with canceled festivals like concerts and twitterers the grammys reflected that reality with artists at the. monye socially distance and wearing masks and also with many prerecorded performances it's. a groundbreaking ceremony and a reminder of the power of music especially during challenging times katia llopis other young al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us holloway dreams that are going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera syria is marking 10 years since the start of an uprising that spiraled into a civil war it's become one of the world's worst humanitarian crises with more than a half a 1000000 people killed.