On what it says is a shocking scale. Never shall carry this is out of their life also coming up. There is no treatment available for me i have nothing no medicine no money. On the medical evacuations underway or torn syria are too little too late. Woman or results expected on thursday and that liberias president ial election runoff between soccer legend george clay and Vice President joseph book. And hundreds of Prisoners Exchange in ukraine one of the biggest swaps agreed between moscow and kiev. And a report released in the past few hours the u. N. Is warning that children in conflict zones across the world are under attack and what it calls a shocking scale in a sex report says children have become front line target choose just human shields killed maimed and recruited to fight rape forced marriage adduction and enslavement have become standard tactics and many conflicts reports highlight childrens deaths linked to conflicts during two thousand and seventeen seven hundred killed in afghanistan one hundred thirty five child suicide bombers linked to west africa and five thousand killed or injured in the war and yemen in agency is calling on all parties to conflict to abide by International Law and stop targeting children schools and hospitals and reports. When during the old moderate refugee camp in Lebanons Bekaa valley. Last year for several months shelters which are made out of bits of wood and plastic sheeting were blown. It did in snow warm clothes are often in short supply and fuel can be expensive or hard to find. Really to help vulnerable refugees prepare for the cold temperatures the u. S. Refugee Agency Offers cash and other assistance to those who most need it so far around six hundred fifty thousand refugees have received some form of help but many others are still doing without they need more c one in winter to keep warm they need blankets they need more food they need medicine because of the diseases that spread more easily in the winter season. According to the u. N. H. C. R. More than three point eight million refugees and internally displaced people in syria lebanon iraq turkey jordan and egypt need winter assistance a Cold Weather Program which began last month is aimed at helping the most vulnerable families they receive a mixture of cash assistance Building Materials to repair and weatherproof shelters and winter items including thermal blankets gas heaters and warm clothes but of the two hundred twenty eight Million Dollars needed to finance this years Winter Program so far only one hundred forty three Million Dollars has been received a shortfall of nearly forty percent today we are facing funding shortfalls which forces you and other aid agencies to target the assistance that we are able to deliver to the families who are most in need the poorest of the poor unfortunately we know that many other families who are also in need do not have access to this assistance today and while Syrian Refugees and internally displaced children face another winter away from their homes according to unicef children have been used as human shields trapped under siege targeted by snipers and lived through intense bombardment and violence unicef is demanding all parties involved in the fighting abide by International Laws so that children like bees dont have to suffer in aljazeera. Doesnt foresight as the deputy executive director of unicef says children are increasingly being drawn into conflict. What weve seen in recent years and even more so in twenty seven is children being deliberately targeted i mean weve heard stories from our staff on the ground in bangladesh but also in mean maurice south about wrecking the children who stood by us soldiers of right on their mothers have shot their father even brutalized those children themselves and theyre saying to those two and theyre deliberately doing this we have stories from within syria and from a school that we worked in with snipers deliberately targeting the children in the playground i was in Northern Nigeria recently and i met children who would who had to talk to me about being forced to be human bombs for baccarat her arms and this deliberately targeting of children to make them part of the conflict to brutalize an army is a is a is a new development yes its always happened in part but it seems to be growing and growing is normal now that you can target a hospital a group of doctors in syria told me recently when i was in northern turkey how the armed groups wouldnt even come near the hospital because the hospital was more of a target than the armed groups so hospitals and schools are being deliberately attacked children are being brutalized and it feels like all the rules in war as you say that used to at least protect civilians and children in particular in these terrible wars have all disappeared and that feels like there are no rules to protect the most Vulnerable Children in these conflicts and our appeal is unicef is to all the warring parties where their governments or rebel groups is it surely we can all agree that we need to protect the children. Aid workers have began evacuating critically ill patients from eastern go to the rubble whole area under siege in syrias capital damascus but for some children treatment has come too late to her has this report which includes pictures some viewers may find disturbing its a start but its not enough only a handful of east bhuttos critically ill are being allowed to leave to hospitals in damascus which is less than an hours drive away twenty nine patients the majority of them women and children a six month old baby was on that list but when the aid workers reached those house they found out she died weeks ago the Syrian Government is allowing them to be treated outside the besieged opposition stronghold after the armed group. Agreed to release some government prisoners its not clear if new deals will be reached it has been four years since east hutto was besieged by the syrian army the siege has tightened in recent months there are according to the United Nations almost five hundred Urgent Medical cases. Man has brain cancer she says her condition is only deteriorating the u. N. Says more than a dozen people have already died while waiting to be evacuated for treatment i know there is no treatment available from here i have nothing no medicine no money im just waiting for gods mercy its not just the lack of medical supplies there is a lack of food the United Nations says the area is experiencing the worst case of child malnutrition since the start of the conflict. The lack of medical equipment of vaccines have affected children also they are malnourished and this has that to a number of diseases unfortunately that children are facing in dire conditions. There have been three reported deaths because of malnutrition in the past two months. Not even two months old when they died the u. N. Says more than one thousand five hundred children are at risk among them two hundred thirty two who are acutely malnourished more than four hundred thousand people. Are believed to be children. Despite the russian guaranteed deescalation that was supposed to have. The area for the first time in months but it was only for forty thousand people there is suffering in this region and the fear is that the worse. The government is using the siege and starvation tactic as a military strategy and as the situation worsens the likelihood of a surrender becomes more real. By various Election Commission is expected to announce official results on the president ial runoff on thursday. For victory but his opponent president. Says is to close to call. In the capital monrovia. Many place what they call a peaceful. Vote counting is underway. There were. Very small number of incidents to report where the incident occurred and i should mention they have been dealt with on his part in most of these cases if not all the contest pits fifty one year old former football star george where against seventy three year old Joseph Walker i who has been the countrys Vice President for the last twelve years but falling coincided with christmas and many chose to stay home observers say the tunnel close much lower than the fuss round held in october then after a Commission Says it will announce the results in four days its what happens often and whether the losing side will accept defeat that cause most liberians concerned. Liberia is one win thats willing to destroy the women and that will mean for us to go back to war for a new body to be president of this country he will not do it we are going to have peace the children of this country need peace and they also want peace and were going to call for whom ever we decide is president of Liberia International observers to a calling for calm so one person was with that person. So the issue is now when you know. If you when you celebrate it is celebrated in the should be because you have to be president of everybody if you lose you also accept for the first time in more than seventy years this was founded by freed american slaves will see one democratically elected government hunt power to another whoever wins will inherit tonic or me but by forming prices of liberias exports of rabat and i dont want to force depreciating currency in the past twelve years Ellen Johnson sirleaf has guided this country through the process of recovery from civil war on the horrors of a bull outbreak but you too has been criticized for not doing much to talk all poverty and corruption in hog government behind it all does it or monrovia liberia still had on aljazeera ill tell you why more and more people in argentina are relying on food donations to survive last. Time when 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. Hello the story of lake effect snow has been pretty widely broadcast and its because its really cold has been coming across with us to open water lakes at the moment so if you are just on the edge of the lake for example pennsylvania pennsylvania new york state you get a lot of snow from you know the potential still exists for a while but were cutting off the flow really deep the cold air as you can see the wind isnt really flowing in from the west as it was before so if anything it will be less in the way of lake effect snow with those to be some and coming into the Pacific Northwest yet another winter storm all the way from British Columbia dancer probably too odd to have beyond that a lot of snow still to come here once also when to certainly tucked in high temperatures even sunshine in dallas down to about eight degrees and out to twenty six miami is hanging on to the sunshine if you like but usually does of course south of this start all nice and quiet at least for the islands even the big ones but the onshore breeze the prevailing breeze means the showers been concentrating on the coast of costa rica nicaragua your honduras and belize and the chances are theyll carry on doing that in the next day or so if anything theyll concentration it could briefly be rather unpleasant at least on that northern coast of panama and costa rica. After years documenting streetcar to see john this book. Was inspired to transform perceptions that we are the reason to change the subject to capture the vibrancy of the emerging black Youth Culture now is one of the people that their camp said i will be giving a speech to all of us this is where things like the new african photography not so much of this time on aljazeera. Theyre watching aljazeera lets recap the top stories for you right now and the report by unicef warns that shelter and conflict zones across the world are under attack on a shopping scale that report highlights the death of children over the past year in afghanistan child suicide bombers link to boko rom at least five thousand killed or injured in the war in yemen. Aid workers have started evacuating critically ill patients from eastern guta thats a rabbit hole on crave of syrias capital damascus last month the un called for five hundred people in need of Urgent Medical care to be allowed to leave you only twenty nine cases have been given approval at least eighteen people have died awaiting. Woman a result in liberias president ial runoff are expected on thursday former football star george wayas says he is on track to be this excess are to the outgoing president Ellen Johnson sirleaf Vice President joseph camp says its still too close to call. The cranium government. Have completed a swap of hundreds of prisoners in war torn Eastern Ukraine. The exchange took place near the city. Which is mainly controlled by separatists. Its going to take a since the conflict began in two thousand and fourteen to me crying and prisoners had been speaking about their relief. Im very happy that im going back to ukraine and i thank everyone for the work thats been done to be able to help me see my loved ones again. Spent a year and a half in a cell one by one and a half meters without anything no deliveries nothing they treated us as if we were dogs. Well both sides are now confirms that this prisoner swap has concluded with people being handed in both directions across the front lines in Eastern Ukraine the numbers that actually did scruffs the lines a bit different from the earlier advertize figures of three hundred six people going from kiev territory back to the east and seventy four people going from the eastern regions back into kiev territory the reasons why the numbers are different is because some people were transferred earlier and some people on both sides it seems didnt actually get want to go back to where they come from this is an events that has been quite a long time in in the making the final impetus though came as a recent meeting in moscow there was attended by the heads of the two separatist regions in Eastern Ukraine by the head of the Russian Orthodox church Patrick Carroll and by representatives from kiev but the the real political will it seems as come from both kiev and also from moscow with Vladimir Putin saying that he was going to use his influence with the with the separatist regions to make it happen its a breakthrough undeniably a step in the right direction and the sides now are talking about keeping this going theyre doing more prisoner swaps but while people are still dying while moscow is still supplying the rebel regions with weapons and hardware etc and while there doesnt seem to be a final drive for peace this is just a step in that direction we havent got to the destination that we want to get to yet which is a final political solution. A bomb exploded at a supermarket in the russian city of St Petersburg injuring at least ten people it was caused by how made device packed with shards of metal police say was hidden inside a locker for shoppers to store their belongings no one has claimed responsibility for that. Russian Opposition Leader alexina vali says hell organize a nationwide rally in january to support his call for a boycott of president ial elections of all the has been barred from running in the march election over a fraud conviction that he says is politically motivated russian president Vladimir Putin has officially filed his documents to run for reelection if he wins people will remain in the kremlin until two thousand and twenty four moves in what is our choice. We will start a big campeon on one hand to persuade everyone to participate in the boycott and not to take part in the election and on the other hand to kind time many people really come to the polling stations im not to let putin fabricate the numbers and of course we need an all russian street action. French fries that men will not grown has ordered saudi arabias king solomon to lift the blockade of yemen since october imported fuels food and medicine have been limited by the Saudi Led Coalition which is fighting with the rebels around says he is concerned about the humanitarian crisis with millions of people on the brink of famine parts of yemen are also in the grip of a cholera outbreak a political prisoner in yemen has spoken to al jazeera about his brutal experiences behind bars human Rights Groups say thousands of the minis have been arbitrarily detained and tortured in the countrys two and a half year war. Reports. Yousif knew the opposition newspaper he edited made him a target of the armed rebel who thiis it was time to take precautions but it was too late last year he says he was kidnapped outside his home in sanaa. I was repeatedly tortured and interrogated due to my job as a journalist before my detention i openly declared that i was suspending my work because of the harsh conditions facing journalists opposed to the who hes in sanaa and so began more than a year held in several prisons in yemens capital. To have the. I was threatened with physical abuse and rape so was my family i was put in solitary confinement for twenty six days my health deteriorated. Human Rights Groups say thousands of people including children have been arbitrarily detained and tortured by both sides in the war Yemeni Forces and who the fighters are accused of beating using electric shocks and forcing prisoners to strip others taken captive have simply disappeared this human rights Attorney Says families have reported the deaths of almost on