Received area east of damascus also coming out. A Large Exchange of prisoners between pro russian separatists and the Ukrainian Government is underway in the east of the country why is it happening now. And a very unusual Congress Gets underway in the leipzig germanys digital activists hold their annual get together in a clandestine setting. Welcome to the program my name sarah harman thanks for joining us aid workers in syria have begun evacuating twenty nine critically ill people from of the siege rebel town in eastern guta evacuations were part of an agreement between the Syrian Government and rebels the u. N. Has drawn up a list of some five hundred people to be evacuated from the damascus suburb it faces severe shortages of food fuel and medicine as winter approaches. For this little girl its not just the end of a its a chance to stay alive. She was one of the first of almost thirty critically ill people evacuated from eastern cooter. For weeks International Aid organizations have
And im rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a large scale prisoner swap between Ukrainian Government and pro russian rebels is now complete plus i knows nothing has no treatment available and i have nothing no medicine no many emergency medical evacuations under way in war torn syria but for some its too little and too late also. The women and that willing for us to go back to war for anybody to be president of this country and not to wait for the vote counting is finally complete in liberias president ial runoff Officials Say dont expect riots in the streets. And its off to the socalled salt suck capital of the world colombias on your Christmas Parade is all about the dons. Ukrainian government and pro russian rebels have swapped prisoners in war torn east ukraine this latest exchange is reported to be the largest since the start of the conflict that happened in the city of hard leave its mainly controlled by pro russia separatists
Ys digital activists hold their annual gettogether in a clandestine setting. Sarah welcome to the program. My name is sarah harman. Thank you for joining us. Aid workers in syria have begun evacuating 29 critically ill people from a besieged rebel town in Eastern Ghouta. The evacuations were part of an agreement between the Syrian Government and rebels. The u. N. Has drawn up a list of some 500 people to be evacuated from the damascus suburb. It faces severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine as winter approaches. Reporter for this little girl, its not just the end of a nightmare, its a chance to stay alive. She was one of the first of almost 30 critically ill people evacuated from Eastern Ghouta. For weeks, International Aid organizations have been calling on syrian president Bashar Alassad to allow hundreds of people in desperate need of medical attention to leave the besieged suburb. Tuesday night saw the first of them get into ambulances and leave. Where they are in ghouta there
This is al jazeera. And this is the aljazeera news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes suicide bombings. The suicide bombings in karbala at least forty People Killed in the Afghan Capital and dozens more injured. Says global humanitarian law fails to protect children at times of war. Also nigerias fuel crisis intensifies leaving drivers queuing up for ten hours to fill up plus. Im going hey reporting from thailand where the military government says democracy will return at the end of two thousand and eighteen but well tell you why many believe it wont happen. Because the news hour at least forty people have been killed and another thirty injured after multiple explosions in a compound in afghanistans capital kabul now the attack happened in the shia district in the west of the city one of the blasts hit the office of the News Agency Afghan voice now theres been no immediate claim of responsibility but the taliban says it was not involved in t
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