Eastern syria and Government Forces a pounding the rebel held area with airstrikes nearly three hundred people have been killed since sunday. A warning from the u. N. The democratic republic of congo faces a crisis of extraordinary proportions of Ethnic Violence in the east. South africa unveils its budget which the finance minister calls tough but hopeful. And i have all the latest winter games in chiang. Lindsey vonn takes bronze in the womens downhill in what she says will likely. So we begin in syria and the two most important battles being fought in this latest chapter of the countrys new seven year long war rebels holed up in. The capital damascus are refusing to bend to more heavy bombardment activists are accusing russian and Syrian Forces but the kremlin denies any involvement thousands of civilians are traps nearly three hundred have been killed since sunday. At least forty on wednesday Eastern Ghouta was designated a deescalation zone to make civilians safer it is not the only just a few kilometers away from syrias capital its also close to Damascus International airport and military sites now at the same time theres the threat of more violence in the Northern Region of a free and Turkish Forces that have pushed back pro syrian Government Forces after they attempted to enter the district on tuesday well get more from african shortly but first zain a hot i reports on the onslaught in just a warning you may find some of the images in this report disturbing i. There is no front line in eastern. Residential neighborhoods have become battlegrounds the Syrian Government and its allies are bombing the besieged rebel enclave into submission i look at the suburb of damascus is under attack. I. Heard a plane overhead the myside landed people were torn into pieces i was with my nephew and we were both injured what i heard was the sound of an ambulance and i found myself here hundreds killed hundreds more injured the United Nations says makeshift hospitals are being hit some are now out of service there is a humanitarian crisis and there is nowhere to hide. There is no safe place i tried to convince my parents the same the first floor of our building thinking it would be safer but they told me theres no difference because buildings are being flattened in the strikes. The government said military reinforcements to the frontlines around the besieged enclave the progovernment newspaper says the Bombing Campaign comes ahead of what it said will be a vast operation which may start on the ground at any time. The thousands of rebels there are promising to repel any advance a ground offensive will not be easy the government and its allies have repeatedly tried to storm eastern in the past the rebels have strong defenses and an underground Tunnel Network that they use to their advantage. For the Syrian Government and its allies. To the capital the rebels are able to fire mortars into damascus at times causing casualties russia is now justifying the Bombing Campaign even though. It is pointing to the presence of fighters belonging to a Group Previously known as accusing them of using civilians as human shields and of what it calls armed provocations. Many including the un are warning the battle from eastern could turn into a repeat of the battle for aleppo. The battle for aleppo lasted for months there was so much suffering among the civilian population before a ceasefire deal was reached that involved a Mass Evacuation of the people of eastern fear they could face the same fate into beirut in the north of syria and turkey is warning of serious consequences if Syrian Government militia try to enter the region again Turkish Backed rebels say that theyre now close to inserting the own place which is mainly on the kurdish control ankara regards the kurdish y p g as terrorists president want to capture the area quote within days from aljazeera as a solid and. Free syrian Army Fighters backed by the turkish government to. Effectively separated the city of offer from the Turkish Border and from the front they say they are in control of about ninety sites around the city of pushing them closer to the. City this comes off the back of the latest developments in the last twenty four hours the Syrian Government has made it inside the city of for the first time after the kurdish fighters held a number of these fighters try to enter the city of after heavy shelling by the turkish government. They turned back but some of these lied to have made it inside the city this would be this would make it defers to force winds that has arrived in the city of often enough with the asked for help they are saying that they have been facing heavy bombardment and chanting by the texas government and called on the Syrian Government to provide help the Syrian Government said that it will not send its regular forces but what we are forces are militias loyal to president Bashar Al Assad will be entering the city and some of these fighters have finally made it the turkish president says that they are also moving ahead in trying to capture the city of operation and they are pushing closer and closer to the words the city center and in his words it is only a matter of days now to the rest of the days news the uns Refugee Agency is warning of a humanitarian crisis of extraordinary proportions in the eastern democratic republic of congo it says poor security in tanganyika province is hindering efforts to help thousands of people in need of pallas reports. The eastern border of the democratic republic of congo isnt to morrow reports of violence to reach one thousand kemah maces north to south. Clashes between a ugandan rebel group and seize military in the north east has pushed civilians to make the dangerous crossing into and some are attempting to roll across lake albert one of africas great lakes and a tale of pedals and you know some died of hunger some drowned and the like theres no one to help you theres nothing to eat we surviving in the bush like animals. Now the south east is reaching a Tipping Point where humanitarian disaster extraordinary proportions is about to hit the southeastern part of the democratic republic of the congress the province of plunges further into violence triggering spiralling displacement and human rights abuses the southeast has been plagued by Ethnic Violence but new armed groups are popping up in congo leads in the area traps fighters dont know who is on whose side so civilians are targeted murders abductions and rape a common good i know but they be heated people they cant open this stomachs removed the guts and lift them to die thats how they killing people. In twenty seven tane in eastern mated one hundred twenty thousand people fled into neighboring countries this latest violence has displaced five times that in just two months that the u. N. Thinks the number of refugees is probably much higher but they are in areas two or more years and dangerous to reach those that make it to tame precampaign tell stories of their escape while among women who are not ones that i had to take all my clothes off and jump into the river i was completely soaked but i didnt have a choice i was running for my life. The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council says aid agencies are overwhelmed and underfunded the situation is worse now because more armed groups are doing more attacks than ever before. Just outside of town here in binny where several massacres in recent days and therefore more people have fled town violence began to increase and. President Joseph Kabila refused to step down at the end of his mandate and twenty sixteen now its reached a new level ballasts al jazeera here with the news hour from aljazeera still to come on the program determined to get their point across about gun control the students taking action after the Florida Shooting. And why Justin Trudeau is emphasizing canadas stand on one united india. Later in sport tiger woods said to be part of this years ryder cup but perhaps not in the way that he wants. One of his really Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is closest confidences testifying against him over allegations of corruption the former director of the Communications Ministry shlomo felber is expected to get a lighter sentence in return for his testimony Israeli Police say that there is sufficient evidence to indict netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in two separate cases netanyahu denies all the allegations lets get more on this from aljazeera as Bernard Smith in west jerusalem bernard could this latest twist in the corruption saga facing netanyahu threaten his position. Well adrian so far netanyahu in a circle has been tight to water tight around it if its true that Shlomo Filbert has agreed to give evidence against netanyahu then this is the first fissure or crack in the tight circle shlomo field is the head of the Communications Ministry he was appointed by netanyahu and hes been arrested along with officials from telecom its the Largest Telecommunications company in israel and the Police Suspect that bezerk telecom got regulatory benefits and in return netanyahu got favorable coverage of one on one of israels most popular news websites that was controlled by the former chairman of beza so if its true that Shlomo Filbert is going to say this in evidence against netanyahu then he is in real trouble netanyahu denies all of these corruption allegations against him and so far the police have not officially said if shlomo phill beer is going to give evidence against Netanyahu Adrian so how much support does not know who still have within the country. Well on the back of this todays news there were also suggestions that because of this netanyahu might be tempted to call a snap election and before todays news the latest polling suggested that Netanyahu Joe and his likud party and his right Wing Coalition just might be reelected just about have a majority in the knesset even though majority of israeli voters believe this is a believe the Police Allegations against netanyahu are to further corruption allegations against him that the Police Believe he should be prosecuted prosecuted for a vote is now with the attorney general and the attorney general will make the ultimate decision on whether to bring netanyahu to court a dream or a bone of many things did bernard spent their lives in west jerusalem student survivors of the shooting in the u. S. State of florida taking action to push for tougher gun control theyre set to hold talks with legislators in the state capital tallahassee seeking a ban on assault style rifle so after floridas house of representatives rejected a proposal to make them illegal seventeen students and staff were killed in the attack in parkland last week lets go live now to tallahassee officers and gallagher is there he whats the mood among the students what are they hoping to achieve. Well the students are fairly buoyant fairly determined theyve obviously been praised for their eloquent speeches but today marks a week adrian since that horrible shooting in part one florida so over the past week the students have been attending funerals going through the grieving process but when they get here to tallahassee when they walk into the State Capitol building behind me at the very least they want to start a conversation and some of their demands are overwhelmingly backed by the American Public things like increased background checks raising the age to buy an Assault Rifle at the moment in florida its easier to buy an Assault Rifle than it is to buy a pistol those are all achievable goals but as you said here yesterday the state legislative voted down within three minutes a bill that would have banned Assault Rifles which just goes to show you the kind of things they are up against remember these are children trying to achieve what no r. L. In this country ever has its worth noting also that after the sandy hook shooting five years ago in which six year old children were gunned down by the very same rifle used by Nicholas CruzNothing Happened but what they want to do here is keep that momentum going the focus is on them right now voices are being heard not just across this country but across the entire world but convincing politicians not just in florida but across the entire nation to do things like ban Assault Rifles will be a very very difficult thing is it perhaps then and the unrealistic that they can to think that they could achieve their goals. I mean it depends what they want to achieve if they achieve things like raising the age limit to twenty one for instance to the to buying and buying an Assault Rifle remember because cruz was nineteen years old and had ten weapons that is a huge goal and something no one else has been able to achieve if they are able to achieve increase background checks increase funding for things Like Mental Health again these are all big goals because going for the ultimate goal of banning Assault Rifle. Is simply unattainable at this point in time its something that democrats would like to see it something that the students would obviously like to see but if they can incrementally creep towards that goal any progress in this country when it comes to gun control even the smallest achievement will go down as something very large in history and something that these students could be very proud of but as i said the reality check here is that politicians in this states in particular which is very gun friendly are highly unlikely to budge in any direction and many thanks and i was there as Andy Gallagher there in tallahassee where the u. S. President has agreed more needs to be done to protect children in the wake of last weeks shooting in florida donald trump has called for a ban on socalled bump stocks as the devices that allow a semiautomatic rifle to fire at the speed of a machine gun hes expected to speak to survivors of several Mass Shootings in the coming hours Heidi Joe Castro reports from washington. The bomb scotts deadly threat was witnessed in october when a gunman used them to rain down bullets on a crowd in las vegas killing fifty eight people the call to bamba stocks was swift. But it took until now four months later for President Donald Trump to take action. After the deadly shooting in las vegas i directed attorney general to clarify whether certain bob stock devices like the one used in las vegas are illegal under current law that process began in december and just a few moments ago i signed a memorandum directing the attorney general. To propose regulations to ban all devices that turn illegal weapons into machine guns announcement came six days after yet another mass shooting dominated the headlines seventeen people mostly students were killed in a Florida High School theres no indication the shooter also used a bomb stalk in the attack but trams move to ban the devices now appears to be the president bending to growing pressure polling shows the majority of americans think trump in congress havent done enough to stop Mass Shootings while gun Safety Advocates say banning bomb stops is good they say theres still much more that needs to be done and the motion. To say. It is. Very much. The young survivors of the Florida Shooting are expected to meet with trump on wednesday for what the white house calls a listening session expected to join them are survivors of past School Shootings sandy hook elementary Columbine High School and many others. Heidi joe castro aljazeera washington were going to return now to a story we told you about a few months ago the fighting in the democratic republic of the congo the unrest is mainly along the countrys eastern border with uganda rwanda and burundi Ethnic Violence between the bantu and twat groups has intensified since mid twentys sixteen the recent conflict in tangney a province is thought to be mainly between the twa luba and other ethnic groups unrest in the east forced almost two Million People to f