There live from doha. Also coming out. Of International Pressure mounts on syria to end the bombing of Eastern Ghouta. In nigeria boca her romm strikes again abducting dozens of school girls will have the latest. Thats how Free Movement across countries in west africa is laying the Foundation First strong economy. But first on the C International says twenty seventeen was one of the darkest years for human rights in recent history the groups new wide ranging report highlights atrocities like mia miles military crackdown on the ranger as well as a rise in hate speech in the United States as it culhane has more from washington. A bleak assessment on the state of human rights in twenty seventeen they will not look back and draw any lessons from this they will look back and they will see that they were. All of the drafting of some of the dockers chapters in modern history the forward of the four hundred page report takes aim at specific countries first and foremost me and mar accusing the government of committing crimes against humanity which forced almost seven hundred thousand Rohingya Muslims to flee it singles out saudi arabias blockade for creating a humanitarian catastrophe in yemen all of the countries fighting i saw in iraq and syria for not protecting civilians and south sudan for crimes which forced thousands of people to flee from their donald j. Trump is calling it comes out the United States calling president Donald Trumps plan to ban entry from citizens of several muslim majority countries a transparently hateful move and it blames european leaders for creating the conditions for what he calls shocking abuses of refugees in libya it names countries it says are consistently violating human rights such as turkey china russia than israel and egypt and iran it also pointed the finger at six african countries for stifling public protests this is the very first time that Amnesty International has chosen to unveil their annual report here in the United States and they chose the Capitol Building they say in large part because they believe what they call his nationalistic and sometimes even hateful rhetoric and policies of President Donald Trump are spreading across the globe anything that the u. S. Does has a massive in a Multiplier Effect across the world but they want em bored and by the fact that you know trampling on human rights abandon me human values is something which is acceptable today we asked the white house for a response but didnt hear back as for Amnesty International it says its not all bad out there it sees the rise of hate being met with the rise of a resistance from the u. S. Right now. To poland. Then this way or to iran. Which embassy says gives it some hope that just maybe twenty eighteen wont be quite as bleak in so many places probably calling aljazeera washington and the philippine president rodriguez eternitys one of the leaders he specifically criticized in the report his Anti Drugs Campaign has resulted in thousands of killings by Police Offices it says the authorities that report to president deterred say having courage to summary executions meanwhile relatives of victims live in fear of reprisals if they speak out at the same time attacks against human rights defenders have increased since president detecting courage police to shoot anyone who was quote obstructing Justice Stephen root is a fellow in residence at the social weather stations thats a social Research Institute in the philippines and he says president deter paul this is a controversial but he remains popular. Certainly the scope of the killings in the drug war has been accurately reflected in a number of International Reports the Philippine Administration would on the other hand retort that their anticrime. Tactics are working and thats why they are serving the filipino people in that manner the data that social weather stations produces coralies shows that in fact president to charities extremely popular people are very satisfied with the way he is running the government they might have some quibbles for instance most people in the philippines would prefer that drug suspects not be so merrily executed but rather face trial but in the end the fact that crime is down is the sort of thing that leads to approval for the president there are some voices that are bringing out the church for instance the Catholic Church is providing refuge to the families who as you say are worried about reprisals there are lawyers movements trying to produce more protection for the victims and so on so there are people pushing back but the fact of the matter is in a president ial country like the philippines the president has the perp on durance of power. The german chancellor Angela Merkel says shell push russia to help end the violence in the syrian rebel held on klav of. More than three hundred people have been killed in government strikes this week alone mrs merkel cools a massacre the u. N. Security council is expected to vote on a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire at appomattox at this attains phase her opponents. The Security Council met to discuss the uns charter the governing document of the World Organization in the charter drawn up over seventy years ago gives the council the key role of maintaining peace and security a job its miserably failed to do over the last seven years and syria as it met once again divided and impotent some of the worst violence of the war as Eastern Ghouta was once again home body. Four and a thousand people that believe. In hell on earth and so my appeal to all those involved. Is for any immediate suspension of all war a t. V. Tease in eastern guta there were in fact for one day two secretaries general in new york mr good terrorists his previous sesa bang kimoon had also been invited to speak he also expressed concern at the continued bloodshed in the syrian situation youd really have must come to an end its going to be a seventh year in for a come march tenth even the seventh year of doing daughter seven years a sore many civilian population have been killed there is now a new peace effort the ambassador of sweden hopes to bring a new draft resolution to a vote in the council in the coming days were asking for a cessation of hostilities for thirty days throughout syria throughout syria forty or forty eight hours after that access for weekly u. N. Humanitarian and convoys aid aid convoys to. Areas in need particularly urgent busy areas russia had blocked previous efforts to get a resolution on a cease fire in eastern guta facing mounting criticism and bassa vasoline the benzine has now himself called for a Security Council meeting on the situation on thursday the charter which the un has actually been discussing is in effect the constitution of the world body it begins we the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war now compare those words to the pictures from eastern guta history is bound to judge but in recent days and over the past seven years the u. N. Has failed the people of syria james plays aljazeera at the United Nations. The rougher Border Crossing. Between egypt and gaza has closed just a day after it was reopened people who were on waiting lists to leave gaza were allowed to pass on wednesday many who left are seeking medical care thats not available in the palestinian territory thats been under israeli blockade since two thousand and seven it was expected to be open for four days but it was closed again on thursday. Police in nigeria say dozens of schoolgirls are feared missing after an attack by bach or her arm on a village in your bay state there are conflicting reports about the situation and about the number of people who remain unaccounted for but everyone remembers of course twenty fourteen of her arm abducted more than two hundred seventy schoolgirls from chibok lets go live to our correspondent armitages whos in my degree first of all. We dont know how many girls are missing but we are agreed that some if not many have been abducted by boko haram in the attack that took place on monday evening. Yes martin basically on monday evening when book one fighters came they went straight to after after fighting ships shots into a dusty town they went to the schools where it was reported that they headed for the food store and they carted away food items there and initially we were told by officials that nobody was taken by boko haram they couldnt confirm or deny that but what i am to any of the students what we heard was that many of the students killed the School Friends and run into the bushes but one student later told local reporters that in fact she saw some of the goes being taken into at least one of the trucks parked close to the School However later we heard on g. s day there was a head count a ninety four girls were announced to be missing from the rest of the School Community and then later the your b. State government after forty eight hours issued a statement saying that more than fifty goes have been taken still unaccounted for but they couldnt deny or confirm whether these have been these girls have been taken by the fighters who raided that school and a few hours later there was another piece of information from the obvious State Government the state where the incident happened saying that the Nigerian Military have rescued many of these girls the government did not come straight ahead to say how many have been rescued and neither did the military confirm how many have been rescued but what we hear from that particular area is that more than seventy people more than seventy of these girls have been rescued and that is actually from the community and not from the government or the military that conducted the rescue exercise youll agree as well that this is markedly different from what happened in two thousand and fourteen when there was a long delay before the government took action to try to rescue the girls kidnapped from iraq and are made to give us a sense of the. Because youre in my degree which is capital of bull in a state which is the the theater is that to vittie preferred by. Is does this attack in your they say represent a significant shift in terms of their operations. Well basically what im has been attacking your visit even before this one remember they also orc you buy some territory in your big state before they were chased out by the Nigerian Military and recently they have been increased military activity increased operations by the nigerian after the navy as well as the Ground Forces that sort of kicked out of the seventy supporter a space occupied after they were kicked out in december two thousand and sixteen so your mistake this is not new in your history in terms of book or im attacking a community there have been attacking conducting attacks there for a very long time however it has been a very long time since the last. Set of any device or attacked any community brazenly like this in your base state so your history has been in the theater of operations of boko haram and the Nigerian Military so also is at a most state especially the northern part about the masjid and in borno state why things are calming down a bit except for the suicide bombings the militarys increasing its strength strengthening its stranglehold on areas suspected to be hideouts of boko haram and very briefly ahmed this of this the undermines completely the government claim is over a year ago that it had technically defeat it. Well basically since that announcement people worse some people were of the opinion that the government was hasty in making that announcement but to be to be to be to be frank the to some extent boko haram has been degraded if you look at the territory they were holding its no longer there the brazen attacks or the very daring attacks that have been launching on communities have reduced significantly and although we also saw increased attacks in terms of targeting places of worship schools in isolated communities in the northeast of nigeria yes the government it was agreed by many that the government was hasty in making that declaration but again a recent operations of also to a large extent even those who have been monitoring the situation from within the Security Services acknowledge that the fight against boko haram is gaining momentum after they were kicked out from the areas they re occupied in other parts of northeastern nigeria are right now maybe just thanking. Says come here. Thousands rally against the government in argentina but the protest organizer is accused of having alterian motives and i dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. The survivors of the latest mass shooting in the u. S. Going to face to face meeting the president trying. As i was still writing in java but the shows are crept up through some you see a bit more blooming in fact all there far north as talent in the forecast but its java and then sumatra still seeing the bulk of it and thats a significant amount hundred Seventy Eight millimeters in a days worth of recording half way under sea martyrs more to come here as i say a suggestion of a few more showers in bangkok is a foggy start in this part of thailand but you dont expect to see very much rain at all in february and yet there it is in a line that also extends down through sumatra and down still tools java and still away see the heaviest rain in australia just the other side. Of the equator is in the top end of course these blooming showers really have been throwing the rain dime and they still going to be this will kill a cloud down here produce a lot of rain in South Australia now still a week a feature its about to drop the temperature in adelaide youve got about four days of thirty degrees one more to come on friday thirty two that temps will tend to drop significantly as the wind swings around and the whole system goes further south on saturday still though in the tropical warmth around townsville and beyond big thunderstorms quater weather pleasant weather has. Struggling with the effects of Climate Change sierra leones dry season is on forgiving but compounded by corruption and its wet season months lives that are claiming most lives i dont remember every india wall when i think in one thousand won the war died in two minutes people in power investigates the effects of deforestation and illegal building and asks what the future holds if those in authority fail to act the mountain will fall at this time on aljazeera. Lets have a look at the top stories here at aljazeera Amnesty International report on Global Human Rights says twenty seventeen is one of the darkest years in recent history there are faults details conditions in one hundred fifty Nine Countries it says the authorities emir maher have created the worst human rights crisis in decades in southeast asia. The un Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution in the coming days demanding a cease fire in the rebel held syria long. On the three hundred people have been killed in government has strikes this week alone russia denies involvement. Police in nigeria say dozens of schoolgirls are feared missing after a bar harrar attack on a village in your state there are conflicting reports exactly regarding the situation and the number of people who remain unaccounted for in twenty fourteen block around the ducted more than two hundred seventy girls from the town of chip uk. Now a philippine delegation is on its way to kuwait to talk about the condition of its workers in this gulf country the body of joana fair lists who worked as a maid was found inside a freezer in kuwait city last month hundreds of Filipino Workers are now being repatriated under the order of the presence of president. Will the three hundred workers arrived in manila on wednesday and more than two thousand thought to have returned this month lets speak now to alan moore all blessed is a columnist and editor of a political website holtzman then hes joining us live from there thank you very much indeed for talking to us what is the message then that this filipino delegation will be taking to kuwait city. Well there are going there who sort of things up with kuwait but at the same time they are looking for more protection for for the you know workers in kuwait because. The thing that has emerged here is that there are thousands of feet deep you know workers in kuwait and they are being treated in abuse by their employers and there are certain practices of their code we know yours that apparently very abusive for instance their employers remove the cell phones and passports of their workers and then these workers are in effect passed around from one employer to another by a system of recommendations and this leaves them open to abuse now there are two hundred sixty thousand for the peano workers in kuwait one hundred seventy thousand of them are domestic helpers and these are the ones who are suffering these problems and when president roh deal with that theyre heard about the death of this woman he said that the thing to do is just to pull out all the filipino domestic helpers from kuwait and then find another place fo