Little calling peace a w watching all to zero live from doha also coming up the philippines government reaches out to help people displaced by storms on Political Violence in morocco we. Vote counting is underway in liberias president ial election. Russias Largest Party makes its official backing me a petition for another term in the kremlin. The International Committee of the red cross and red crescent has begun medical evacuations from east and besieged rebel held areas in the syrian capital damascus at least four hundred thousand people have been trapped by Government Forces since twenty thirteen the enclave has been the target of hundreds of air strikes and artillery attacks the u. N. Had earlier called for five hundred people in need of Urgent Medical care to be allowed to leave is monitoring developments for us from neighboring lebanon she joins us. The capital beirut how many people children are being moved. Well what we understand is that twenty nine people will be evacuated critically ill patients among them twenty two women and children really it is a race against time for hundreds of people you mentioned four hundred ninety four that is on the United Nations priority list there seems to be a deal between the Syrian Government and the main rebel group and. That is why twenty nine people are being allowed to be evacuated in return. Is going to release twenty nine prisoners government prisoners so really a race against time this is not enough it is a welcome move but what we understand is that there are just no medical supplies and this is a besieged they cannot treat the wounded they cannot treat people who are chronically illnesses they cannot treat people who suffer from cancer they cannot treat people who suffer from kidney failure and a lot of those cases are women and children so four people have now reached hospitals in damascus it is less than an hours drive twenty two people are going to be evacuated in the coming days but still hundreds need treatment is this one of those areas should in theory be a cease fire in place but theres no cease fire. Thats correct peter a deescalation zone not just a cease fire there should be the freedom of movement of aid and goods into eastern but aid has not entered eastern since september and when i entered in september it was only enough for forty thousand people you are talking about you mentioned the four hundred thousand number there are four hundred thousand people trapped in this neighborhood and its not just that they dont have enough food and whatever food is available the prices are so high in recent years the siege really has been in place for four years but in recent months the government tightened those siege they closed the smuggling routes and its not only that there is child malnutrition the u. N. Is worried that this is the worst outbreak of child malnutrition two hundred thirty two acute cases and one thousand five hundred children at risk so its not just those who need medical help that need to be evacuated the people who are trapped inside they need food and especially the children any word yet from the Syrian Government from Bashar Al Assads offices. You know there has been no statement from the Syrian Government office but we have to remember weve seen this before in the seven year conflict here the seven year conflict what they do is they impose a siege on an area its really starve the people tell them this is your only choice you need to surrender or you die now you talk to activists in eastern route and they tell you no were not going to lay down our arms and accept to be evacuated to live and never be able to return to our homes but as the pressure keeps on there are a lot of other people are wondering if theyre going to have another choice because yes the rebels are holding the lines theyre not allowing or preventing the Government Forces from advancing into eastern so far the government has made no advances on the ground but how long can this last and how long can people continue to suffer so this is what the fear is that these tactics the siege and tactics are just going to become harder and more difficult for the people in order for them to surrender it will leave it there are many things in a lot of the reporting from beirut. The philippines government is setting up more than six hundred temporary shelters for people displaced by conflict in the city of mirali the army the area from separatist fighters in october after a five month siege fighting cause more than a billion dollars worth of damage and thousands of people are still homeless and the robbery was hit by Tropical Storm tembin last week making the situation there even worse rob mcbride has more now from morocco. On the edge of your our way this is a hopeful sign in an area that has been plagued by conflict and now the effects of these damaging storms this is a new Housing Development for people whove been displaced by months of fighting between Government Forces and also fighters who are linked to i still be given its importance president rhodri go to turkey and it will be coming here to perform the ceremony it is very important for him in his presidency he is from mindanao he calls himself a son of mindanao and has promised that the people will find eventually long lasting peace and the people here have suffered from the double effect of both the storm and also conflict so its very important around the building exercise for the president to be here in this hole of mindanao faces the classic dilemma of a conflict which holds up development then the lack of money and jobs then feeds into the underlying feeling and rest which then contributes to. The violence all of this is of course not helped by have been batted by the storms now the United States has imposed sanctions on to north korean scientists linked to the countrys Missile Program the u. S. And south Koreas Kim Jong see right. Our senior figures in north Korean Leader kim jong uns Ballistic MissileDevelopment Team it is the latest move by the u. S. To pressure fueling yang into abandoning its weapons program. Vote counting continues in liberias president ial runoff between the former football star george weah and the current Vice President joseph despite a low turnout International Observers have praised the process that is expected to produce the first democratic transition of power in more than seven decades my little reports now from the capital city of monrovia. Thousands lined up to vote in more than five thousand polling stations across liberia arriving long before the stations opened the tunnels however nowhere near the heart of the foster home held in october that had been delayed twice of the being contested in court amid claims of the declared it is in the foster round Officials Say the reduction of candidates from twenty two just to may have cost a pretty among voters a kindle four for the socalled. New processor score smoke this morning and i hope everything will go well this morning the contests is between a former International Football star george ware and Vice President just whack i the wino would replace africas first female head of state Ellen Johnson sirleaf who came to power after the countrys lost civil war toll of years ago but im not associated there were losing them to do this theres virtually no they said to me that im going to wind up work hard to know we know georgia seventy two year old Joseph Walker has served as les beauteous Vice President since two thousand and six he too wanted in the capital and red bearded coaches in terms of democracy we went in one there were twenty i work in i would use a tool. We have today were going through a difficult process isnt working to the processes that were true were willing to live with both where promising peace in liberia and also want an end to corruption in one of the worlds poorest countries if the results hold. It will be the first time in generations the pledge billions will witness the transfer of power from one elected leader to another International Observers also praising what they call a Violence Free pool sis finally in liberia the bottle books replaced ballots but this is a big election for everyone who is calling democracy west africa the trend has certainly been you know more towards the democratic shift and really rooting that more firmly and i think that is what we will see here in liberia today the liberian people are determined to do it theyre ready to do it. And im very confident they will then a commission has two weeks within which to declare that its all its official so how about confident that well have them ready in four days. So why was the turnout so low this time around do you think. Why is because of a minute thinks one of them is because this is a ronnell few surely the fost on the second do not have the same level of timeout and also because in the first round that there was more than twenty candidates and just two in this one all those people who had come out because they had holes in them least cuddly bate. Vying for the presidency many of them do not have any and some of them have shown up with you and this is one of the reasons why they has been a little time out also because then there was. A parliamentary elections also going on and of some of the candidates for the different parliamentary seats in this country ha transported people from major towns to the rule areas now people either dont have the means or do not feel encouraged enough to go and vote where they hundred just and so these are some of the reasons why we had more time out in this town mr weir is sounding very very confident with some of his comments just in the past twelve hours or so might that confidence be misplaced. While from the results declared so far from polling stations vote counting is still going on. Shows thought well has go into a huge lead over hes all pointed to joseph block this was totally unexpected hes a man very popular with the country see you hes a man whos could be ted with. Not only. Being from a humble background but also succeeding against all the orbs in the field of soca and also coming back giving back to the Society Funding the National Team organizing football teams of course. Country among the youth so he sees a man whos popular with sixty plus cent off the population of this confused young people and this is one of the reasons why he attained thirty eight percent in the foster round many people believe that he is headed for victory but as a demonstration of democracy in action i guess you know one elected leader handing over to another elected leader thats a big good step in the right direction. Yes indeed it isa something liberia something that witnessed for generations for seventy three years theres been no handle both power from one civilian elected leader to another now the biggest seems to be on the verge of witnessing that is if the results of this election hold they already feel is that whichever losing party whichever of the thirtys that loses may not accept the result and that is what people here are fearing a slight back to violence and conflict that is what they want they have enjoyed toll of years of uninterrupted peace and Ellen Johnson sirleaf the long as their hard since one nine hundred eighty nine and they do not want to see this country sliding back to conflict again we will wait and watch mohammed many thanks talk to you later. The russian president Vladimir Putin has been nominated for reelection hes running as an independent candidate but he is backed by the program and United Russia Party is expected to win a fourth term comfortably come election in march so far refrained from campaigning but he has praised his governments management of the economy the russian economy has rebounded from its worst recession in twenty years. Can you see them. More do. Of course these have been difficult years for both the country and for those who had to ensure Stable Development and overcome the difficulties that stemmed from the World Economy i can say that the russian government not only did everything that it could but in my opinion even more than that you have essentially solved all the economic tasks at hand. Well the Electoral Commission has allowed a t. V. Personality because then youre subject to one against mr putin in the elections next march is nominated by the group Civil Initiative shes the daughter of mr putins former mentor Anatoly Sobchak the first elected mayor of St Petersburg however critics say her decision to run plays into the hands of the kremlin by creating an artificial contest. Still to come here on aljazeera extends its detention of two reuters journalists by another two weeks. I will tell you the remote road linking oman and yemen has become a path to refugees coming out aid. Hello there were seeing plenty of heavy showers across the southeast and parts of asia for the philippines a plenty of showers all gradually drifting their way towards the west and were also seeing some rather lively showers towards the west impossible as well in fact because the movie so sixty two millimeters of rain there so if youre there on holiday youll notice it was certainly very very wet more showers still to come as well i think as we head through the next few days so all the dark colored hair giving us some rather hefty showers over the next few days for the south that will also be some showers here but generally a little bit more broken more sunshine in between them for some of us in eastern parts of java we can expect some heavy showers here and here its been very wet over the past few weeks and weve seen quite a bit of flooding over towards australia and this huge area of cloud here is a low pressure that may or may dont develop into a so i clone what it certainly will do is bring more rain for the northwestern parts of say for the northern parts of Western Australia more rain still to come on thursday and that area of unsettled weather then pushes down through other parts of australia as well say for some of us we can expect to see more rain that were used to over the next day or say that system then pushes further inland through Western Australia on friday but still a chance of the shower too of course parts of alice springs. When diplomacy fields and fear sweep then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists weve proven the barriers are built to impose division and its ill to sixtys instead of being an ox to could tell wastes it became another obstacle to peace in a four part series aljazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al jazeera. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera live from doha your headlines aid workers have started evacuating emergency medical cases from the besieged area of eastern guta in the syrian capital damascus many have been waiting for months during the time when u. N. Says at least sixteen people died the areas been surrounded by Government Forces since twenty thirteen. The government in the philippines says its setting up more than six hundred temporary shelters for people displaced by the conflict in the city of morale we the army we took the area from separatist fighters in october after a five month seen each other all it was also battered by Tropical Storm tembin last week. Vote counting is underway in the liberian president ial runoff between the former footballer george weah and the current Vice President ial support despite a low turnout the process is expected to produce the first democratic transition of power in more than seven decades. Since the war in yemen began one escape route from the fighting has been by road across the border into oman but some of manis a driving in the other direction theyre taking truckloads of Much Required aid into yemen matheson reports from musket. For over forty days mohammed has been waiting he has on call his brothers and their seventy year old father have traveled over two and a half thousand kilometers to moscow from their home in the yemeni port city of aden. Services in aden are very bad theres no electricity water or food we have to buy it from the black market and it costs too much life is very difficult one hundred father has spent those six weeks inside the muscat apartment they all share he has cancer he has a visa for treatment in germany mohammed is his fathers official companion but his visa hasnt come through him and the Health System in yemen has almost collapsed they can only do simple first aid and basic operations but for serious illnesses there is no treatment and people cant afford it much of yemen has been ripped apart by fighting between who the rebels and saudi led forces backing the internationally recognized government documents or friday and many hospitals have been destroyed the government of a man doesnt issue official statistics to show all of the number of yemenis there are in the country people whove been injured in the fighting or people whove escaped here i need medical treatment have been treated by the hospitals here but a man is very concerned that the fighting i