Northern taylor this is al jazeera live from london also coming up dangerous but delicate work the rush to rescue survivors after taiwan earthquake buildings teaching towards collapse. One man sentenced to death and thirty others jailed for lynching a student in pakistan we speak to the victims family about their quest for justice. And living under a cloud we meet the people in one bulgarian town who say theyre being poisoned by pollution. Or the death toll has been climbing by the hour in syria since monday asked by president assads forces and his allies russia have killed at least one hundred eighty two people in eastern guta and province any of them were civilians and the majority died in eastern goto on the edge of damascus both areas are supposed to be deescalation zones but syria and russia have ramped up their air attacks since a russian plane was shot down on saturday and i had a report from beirut in neighboring lebanon. Civil defense volunteers look for survivors but instead theyre pulling out the dead from the rubble of what was once homes Children Women dozens of them have been killed in air strikes that are leveling residential buildings. This man just lost his son. God bless you he says clearly still in a state of shock. Its day three of an intensified military campaign. Multiple areas of the rebel held damascus suburb of eastern who are coming under fire people there are saying russian and Syrian Government aircraft have to carry out one strike after another. People here believe russia is taking revenge after his plane was shot down by the rebels and its part it was killed it is intense bombardment at least eight hundred people are wounded some of them very seriously and they cant be treated here. There is a lack of medical supplies and doctors eastern who has been besieged by progovernment forces for years. It is both home and the traffic for some four hundred thousand people doctors have put up makeshift Health Centers but they too are being hit the top of a center is now out of service it was hit by the plowing and it was the only medical sense in this town and fifteen thousand people in the United Nations is calling for the fighting throughout syria to stop for a month to allow aid deliveries and evacuations of the sick and wounded at least five hundred are in. The enclave just outside the capital has been heavily bombarded since mid december but the past few days have been the worst many believe progovernment forces are pushing for a decisive outcome. They want. Not fight them anywhere. Really. The Northwestern Province of idlib which is also under the control of the opposition has been hit by dozens of strikes in recent days there are two residential neighborhoods and hospitals are being targeted pro Syrian Government forces have taken ground in the southern edges of in recent weeks recapturing the whole province. But many of the immediate goals involved in securing the north to south and lifting the siege on to loyalist towns. In the progovernment forces have been struggling to bring under their control for years and now that russia appears to be holding. Syria is once again in the. Especially with no progress on the diplomatic site this will bring more suffering. The question of war crimes in syria. Is the Deputy Director at Human Rights Watch and joins us live from new york thank you being with us you know theres an escalation at the moment in the civilian deaths. Provinces whats your take on whats happening. Its incredibly worrying that were seeing this as a collision in italy where you have over two Million People in need of a province who civilians who are under siege were seeing hospitals being bombed repeatedly not just once or twice but even three times and incredibly troubling that the Syrian Government and their allies feel like they can continue these tactics because theyll never in their minds be held accountable or put in a court of law because of this and that is something that needs to change what do we mention issue of accountability them what about the role of the u. N. Security council in in protecting human rights or investigating that actual war crimes and even the past russia has repeatedly use its veto to to shield the Syrian Government with that power in place how likely is that theres ever going to be accountability in syria. Youre right the use of the veto and i would say actually the misuse of the veto is what has characterized the Security Councils inability to respond one really strong and striking example is that the russian government veto killed a joint investigative mechanism which would have looked into chemical weapons attacks in syria and since that happened at the end of last year weve seen escalating use of those same chemical weapons including just in the past week but really escalating numbers then it shows that there was really a green light sentence to those in the Syrian Government who feel like they can use chlorine against their own people when the russians decided to protect them at the Security Council there have been many attempts to restrain this veto to say that in cases like this cases where there are fundamental human rights norms war crimes at risk you should never use the veto but it seems to be falling on deaf ears here of the russian and increasingly him it seems that theres a difficulty in in any way but he and him make it a happen weve had the u. N. Humanitarian coordinator on tuesday calling for a one month ceasefire and talking about the dramatic deterioration in the humanitarian situation because they blocked access to areas in an opposition areas given all that what do you think needs to change to try to effect some kind of reality on that in the realities on the ground in syria. Well youre right there really is a dire humanitarian situation facing the civilians and unfortunately i think i hear at the Security Council a degree of complacency a sense that anything we try the russians will block and i think third at this point in time we need stronger diplomatic initiatives to respond to this escalation and to make it clear that even though it looks distance now and one day in the future all of this evidence will be used to hold those responsible for these abuses accountable and that could come through the i. C. C. The International Criminal court in the hague or it could come through universal jurisdiction because actually every country under its own National Laws can do things to prosecute those responsible for crimes like these and increasingly in syria i think our for justice for syrian victims thats whats going to be needed. Thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you. A five point seven magnitude aftershock has rocked the taiwanese city of her lean almost twenty four hours after tuesdays earthquake at least seven people and are known to have died after the original six point four magnitude quake firefighters say several people are trapped in buildings which are on the brink of collapse and rescue workers are still putting survivors from the rubble from there rob mcbride reports the port city of quality and is now the scene of an intensive search and rescue operation after the magnitude six earthquake. Rescue teams trained in dealing with earthquakes have been brought in from across taiwan. A resort area some of the hotels were first to feel the effects of the shock waves. The lower floors of the Marshall Hotel caved in leaving the entire building slanting on its side. Rescuers moved in with ropes and cranes to get those trapped in what was left of the hotel back to safety. But at the moment there are still people trapped inside but theres no way for us to confirm their position or number because the People Living there are long term residents. Taiwans fire Agency Reports three more buildings were damaged as well as several roads leading to the city this earthquake followed another one over the weekend off the coast of folly and in water is an area of high seismic activity today and the sequence for the last few days has been right in one of the hot spots on the northeast coast of taiwan so its not a surprise oh its in an area where half the sharks are inevitable you know the question is how many big aftershocks will there be in our usual one in ten or one in twenty chance of a bigger earthquake so they need to be prepared at least for a few days for more action. The rescue effort is now concentrated on this residential and commercial building partly collapsed on its side and held up by metal props its here that most of the fifty plus people who are unaccounted for are believed to be this part of folly and has now become the center of this rescue operation as teams work through a second night contending not only with the weather but also with the ever present danger of more on the shops as they do so this building becomes ever more precarious as is the fate of those feared to be still inside rob mcbride aljazeera quali and taiwan. A court in pakistan has sent us one man to death and thirty others to prison for the lynching of a student theyve been falsely accused of blasphemy and april hundreds of students trying. Out of his University Dorm in the Northern City of london he was beaten before being shot dead and his body mutilated come on high has more from islamabad. And and it catered them called heading the high profile marshalls on lynching case has sentenced the shooter to a dead while five others were sentenced to twenty five years in prison another twenty five to forty years in prison each and twenty six were acquitted redoubt punishment this was indeed a high profile case and rates were shot of han was wrongfully accused of committing blasphemy the people who perpetrated the attack against him on the University Campus included political workers to danger and even employees of that university across pakistan are sent shock waves and there of course would be a sigh of relief when people find out that this was indeed a strong word take unnecessary because in the parts the country blasphemy laws have come into controversy some people are saying that they have been abused and therefore the Court Setting a precedent and sending a strong signal when this ravi met the family of the man in student and found out more about the struggle for justice. His family has kept his room the same as it was the day he left home for the last time a reminder of the kind of man he was. Marshal khan was studying journalism and Abdul Ali Khan university in march done in april last year he was lynched by two hundred fellow students the mob was spurred by rumors that khan had somehow insulted islam. But earlier this year a Police Investigation found that there was no evidence he ever violated any blasphemy laws. Police did find that University Officials from her own had publicly criticised for corruption and incompetence conspired to make false allegations against him and rallied the mob that killed him he was just going to sizing the system and you and me and him so i intend to go my toe or diminish when ish these last because if women are these rules and these last promised. And women not will make these so i think there are more and more michels will be killed in this war more and more michelle as many as this in a good because this is a very easy blame on someone. For his mother losing one child has been so traumatic that she wont let her other children go back to school too afraid of what might happen to them she says when her sons body was brought home he had been so badly beaten she only recognised him from the tips of his fingers and when she kissed him on his toes. In the Aftermath Police were accused of not responding quickly enough to stop the attack and in some cases even facilitating. Police say theyre reassessing their approach to blasphemy cases come i think thats for me or not is a separate issue the main thing is were going to be even in all people to take law in their head again and the person were coming things any kind of a crisis so my answer is no even not know any one particular on their hands and can anyone for committing certain acts of crime. Even in death mashal son is not safe a police unit guards his grave because of threats from religious hardliners of digging up and burning his body the final resting place of this young man has become a kind of symbol in this Community People with a little more liberal a point of view come here to pay their respects to someone who was beaten to death for thinking a little bit differently. Despite the fact that shawn was innocent of allegations against him in pakistan facts are often ignored in the court of public opinion. Many people here still believe that what happened to him on the day he died was the right thing. Same bus ravi aljazeera murdoch. Still to come we look at the devastating effect the war in yemen is having on the countrys children. And after more than four months or wrangling jameys conservatives and social democrats finally struck a deal to form a new coalition. Hello wednesday is a very windy day in the western med is that bowl of cloud the originated as a snow bearing bore of kind of a spade now brings rain rain to italy to sardinia and corsica us running away so eastwards and i think those are the high ground libertys snow the dinar accounts for all street eventually end up in ukraine to the sas and yes its been feeding is actually quite warm you got seventy degrees from greece up through turkey not much less in book arrest hours which is well above where it should be but what is left behind is clear skies this is of course thursday date on for italy and france and spain apart from the occasional snowshoe and other we more snow coming in that northern france look snowy once again and possibly probably including paris during friday at the same time the wants as well as been knocked back a bit for twelve degrees we still snow falling sporadically in ukraine and probably better roofs given what was happening in spain we still got cold feet of air bringing rain once again to morocco and algeria but maybe developing more obviously is what happens in tunisia and libya Stormy Weather for friday. Fight for what is right on the shores of paradise progress for some can create a living hell for others challenging his government and big business one man risks his life to see the community he cherishes. To be someone. The opposition a witness documentary at this time on aljazeera. Armando top stories here on our zero intense Syrian Government and russian astronauts have killed at least one hundred eighty two people in eastern guta and live since the beginning of monday. A five point seven magnitude aftershock has rocked the taiwanese city hall yeah and the biggest since tuesdays earthquake which is known to have killed at least seven people. And of course in pakistan her sentence one man to death and thirty others to prison for the lynching of a student youve been falsely accused of blasphemy. The uns Health Agency says its releasing more than nine Million Dollars in emergency funds to provide Urgent Medical aid to yemen the World Health Organization says it will help six hundred thirty thousand people in santa and her data the u. N. Says more than sixteen Million People struggle to access Proper Health care in yemen more than half of whom are an acute need three years of civil war have devastated Health Services in the country only hauffe its medical facilities a fully operational cholera and defame reactivates a broken out killing foundations the red cross says thousands more risk dying of kid. And so the most prominent casualties are children the u. N. Says around four hundred thousand children under five or suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year as the culprit rages on. The intensity of the fighting on the ground in yemen is showing no signs of letting up the Saudi Led Coalition targets who the rebels in fighting between yemens political factions has turned city streets into from ons. After more than three years of war the United Nations says the humanitarian crisis here is the worst in the world and its children who are suffering the most at this hospital in Western Province babies and their mothers are brought here for treatment most suffer from severe malnutrition but with little money and even fewer Resources HealthOfficials Say there isnt much they can do and. Most of our patients are suffering from malnourishment especially babies who place feed from their mothers the number of children that are dying is higher than that of mothers as we are able to cases we also are unable to provide proper nutrition to pregnant women the United NationsChildrens Charity says at least five thousand children have been killed or injured since the start of the war that means on average five children lose their lives or are maimed every day the u. N. Says more than eleven million children nearly every child in yemen need some form of humanitarian assistance to survive. War has led to despair of war related epidemics such as cholera which broke out in yemen last year this exacerbated the malnutrition crisis and caused the number of cases to double however well never know how bad the situation is because many people cannot make it to hospitals or medical centers. Saudi arabia says it has sense nearly a billion dollars wo