A week in the bombardment of syrias eastern. Time we need it desperately but russia blocks those efforts by the Un Security Council to call for thirty days across the country. Plus mixed messages from government about missing schoolgirls after mondays attack. And the new campaign thats underway to make antarctic waters the largest protected area. Has been under siege by Syrian Government forces for five years but the last five days have been the worst so far officer in the rebel held east and near the capital damascus relentless bombardment killed dozens more bringing the number of dead to more than four hundred more than a thousand people have been injured the military has dropped leaflets over the area urging residents to leave and calling on opposition fighters to hand themselves. Meanwhile the Un Security Council is struggling to possible solution on a cease fire. Into the area its facing opposition from russia which claims information from the ground in east to good has been fabricated by the Syrian Opposition brings more on that in just a moment but first. Reports on a. Good look at the thank you thanks. It was the smallest coffins the heaviest and besieged there are dozens every day for parents saying goodbye to little children is not easy but almost every family has lost someone the number of dead is so high that trenches are being dug for quick burials thank you people linger outside for too long they risk becoming victims of the next bombing. Living rooms in offices are no makeshift morgues. For those who survived the attacks medical facilities are not available. Doctors without borders says thirteen hospitals have been hit in three days. Since sunday the Syrian Government and its allies have stepped up their strikes and seems to be converging on the fence. Supposed to be blown off or deescalation zones agreed upon by russia iran and turkey but the Syrian Government says it stopped getting what it called dentists in an area home to four hundred thousand people and russia denies its involved in the relentless one bottle of civilians. The situation really leaves much to be decided well as you know the responsibility for the situation in east rests with those who support the terrorists tunnels like these have been crucial for rebels who have stopped multiple attempts to storm the Eastern Front in the past get off numbered and their supplies have been cut off but the residents say they will not surrender without a fight each month. Or capabilities a week but god willing we will deal with this the regime will lose again we face similar attacks and it didnt fall and now again we will survive this besieged city and say none of the words from people in power have done much to protect them. Messages for help from eastern who have been nonstop street after street there are bodies and parents have been trying to pull their children out of the rubble the United Nation calls it hell on earth for besieged people in Eastern Ghouta who feel abandoned by the outside world they might as well be living on another planet some of the job as they are. The United Nations humanitarian chief has been urging the Security Council to order a desperate is to deliver food and medicine to her but russia has been downplaying the situation automatic as reports from the u. N. As people in eastern continued to die in the Security Council they continue to argue more words of division and no sign of desperately needed action the regime wants to keep bombing and gassing these four hundred thousand people and the assad regime is counting on russia to make sure the Security Council is unable to stop their suffering theres really no good use of your time is right to discuss frankly what is occurring around the mask a suburb the massive psychosis in global Media Outlets in coordination disseminating in recent days the same rumors this in no way do anything to help improve an understanding of the situation he said a false narrative was being presented to taint the reputation of his country this despite the fact hed heard the uns top humanitarian official detail exactly what was being inflicted on Eastern Ghouta. Airstrikes mortars rockets barrel bombs custom emissions chemical weapons. Suicide bombs snipers double tap attacks on civilians and the essential infrastructure lated and invading hospitals and schools outside the un the Campaign Group highlighted the scale of the seven year long conflict and tried to shame the Security Council into action inside the building here in the corridor laws there were frantic negotiations to try and bring a draft resolution calling for a thirty day cease fire to a vote obama is about the only thing for. This game went into a medical building those eleven by the time they gathered in the Security Council chamber it was clear russia wanted amendments and wouldnt let the resolution pass in its current form over the past two years with Russian Military help the Syrian Government represented by ambassador Bashar Jaffrey has turned the tide of the war now using russian diplomatic gade the assad regime wants finally to win it whatever it takes including civilian casualties and outright lies it do you to know that you are killing civilians at least include not only when we are saying that many of these fake in us are staged by you. By your cousins. By you know by the terrorists by the syrian moderate opposition there was a sense of exasperated and despair that we summed up by swedens ambassador i do think that we are tested today not just as representing our countries but as human beings and that is a massive responsibility a test for now they have failed james pays zero the United Nations. That has him is the director of the center for middle east studies joins us live from denver via skype good to have you with us why is russia downplaying the situation. Or because its committing war crimes and its backing it has committed war crimes it has military aims that it is seeking to east and still its trying to do everything and to prevent International Action to stop it realizing this war has been very effective in doing circles its going to veto the u. N. Security council the swedish ambassador would not be pushing for a vote on this latest resolution to allow humanitarian access to be pushing for that vote to take place on friday but do you think it will go ahead. I suspect it probably will and if russia doesnt get its way it will veto the resolution just as it has in the past its important to point out to your viewers that russia has vetoed eleven Un Security Council resolutions almost half of those resolutions dealt with an investigation into assads use of sarin gas so the fact that russia does not seek and is not willing to tolerate an investigation into use of chemical weapons gives you a sense of you know whats going on in moscow and what the you know what the world view of the of the putin regime really is really stand for and if but that has made them is going for a cease fire is calling for humanitarian access is not trying to take you to point the finger at this time so what is it that russias unhappy about well i think russia does not want to see any sort of humanitarian aid go into east who wants to conquer that enclave. And so russia wants to continue its Bombing Campaign it is hoping to you know conquer the enclave just that just as they played a Critical Role in conquering you know aleppo roughly a year ago but i want to point out its important that sort of you know precedent here four years ago russia voted for a u. N. Security Council Resolution twenty one thirty nine that affected to be called for what were talking about right now humanitarian access respecting medical facilities allowing you know civilians to flee and so why hasnt russia you know lived up to its resolution that signed on to four years ago i think this is largely political theater and until and unless the International Community gets a very serious with russia i dont think theyre going to stop their their war crimes and its a bit serious how i mean this it will come back to this question time and time again what else can be done. Well let me give you an example i think what would send a clear message to run through. Would be if. Major countries around the world particularly in the west were to say that as of tomorrow no aeroflot airlock and in any western city as long as russia is bombing hospitals and civilians in east air Flight Airline is fifty one percent state owned something along those lines would send a clear message to florida youre simply passing u. N. Resolutions that russia will either veto or no more has been tried in the past and so they think that will make any difference tomorrow in the coming days is really Wishful Thinking that i seem eager to get your thoughts thanks for joining us there from the. Get. The iranian Deputy Foreign minister has told out of there that terror on could withdraw from the landmark twenty fifty nuclear deal if there is no economic benefit from it something that could happen if the u. S. Pulls out i think our position is very clear really meaning that the as long as we can benefit from it. If the u. S. Walk away can be a still benefit from the deal its a big question for the time being we are not convinced that the deal can survive and you dont can benefit from that the its very much depends on the other participants to the c. P. O. Way and. As i said. For the time being i dont think. That they can deliver the deal without the u. S. This is important u. S. President donald trump is not backing away from his controversial proposal to arm some teachers and suggested they should be paid a bonus is under intense public pressure to pass tougher gun laws following last weeks mass shooting at a Florida High SchoolWhite House Correspondent kelly halkett has more. Arming teachers in the classroom is a controversy ally dhea being promoted by President Donald Trump prevent School Shootings if you harden the sites youre not going to have this problem because these guys who lack courage will never go into those schools he says he wants to encourage educators to become comfortable with the gun even offering bonuses for those with firearms skills i want my schools protected just like my banks are protected trump made the comments on thursday at another white house listening session following the shootings in parkland florida that left seventeen people dead most of them teenagers. Since the School Shooting fellow students have made their voices heard and brought pressure to bear on trump and other right of center politicians to tighten gun restrictions Arming Teachers is not what they have in mind thats their plan anyway mark barden lost his son in two thousand and twelve when the sandy hook School ShootingSchool Teachers have more than enough responsibilities right now then to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life on twitter trump attempted to clarify his position and floated other proposals such as background checks for those buying a gun raising the legal purchasing age to twenty one and again suggesting the end of the sale of socalled bump stocks that increase a weapons fire power not zero but some of those ideas are at odds with the biggest Gun Rights Group in the United States with National Rifle association or n. R. A. Pushing back against any effort to limit gun ownership the elites dont care not one whit about Americas School system for them its not a safety issue its a political issue. They care more about control and more of gun owners agree they were right to protect ourselves protect our children so if theyre properly trained why not be able to use that i think that it would send a message across the nation that we are taking this into our own hands were fighting back and we will be the first line of defense and while there is support for at least some of Donald Trumps proposals even the most basic limits on gun ownership will require congressional approval and accomplishment that in the past has proved difficult can really help get aljazeera washington. Brazils military has raided reduced narrow personnel to the senate side of the creek putting the army in charge of the citys security riot broke out of the prison on sunday with presents complaining of overcrowding and says and takeover rheas policing as part of a security intervention to restore law and order of brazils federal government hopes the move will curb violence driven by drug gangs which they say have taken over the city i can live now to give us on the hes in Rio De Janeiro for us what signs all of the military is now in charge. Well over the last couple days since this decree has gone into effect weve seen the military out on the streets in some areas as you mentioned they were sent to a prison to help quell a prison riot we also see him on some highways doing some patrols and they also did a couple operations into foot bellows or shanty towns here as well but beyond that on a normal night like tonight here in the neighborhood of copacabana a neighborhood for example were at all signs are pretty normal we havent seen any military really anywhere in this city. On this day at all really and its really an indication of what role will the military play when will they be out on the streets when will they not be out on the streets what are they going to be doing those are the questions that a lot of people have here but make no mistake about it this is a city that is militarized weve seen the military here in rio before during the olympics and the world cup they were held here but they were had just a supporting role to the police now its different now the military is in control and the police while theyre still patrolling they are subordinate to the military and the top security official in this state is now an army general this is the first time that the military has taken control over a city like this since the military dictatorship era in brazil india and that was one thousand nine hundred eighty eight so its very significant times here in the city and state indeed and all people happy about this. Will tell you we talked to several people here just regular people in the streets and we asked them that very question everybody agrees on one thing here and thats that crime has gotten way out of control from drug gangs and also militias as well everyone agrees on that and they say the police have not been able to contain it were people disagree is when you asked him is the mill. Terry going to help resolve the crime issue some people say theyre so fed up with crime here that its gotten so bad that theyre willing to give the military a chance other people are saying the military is not suited to do police work and that their military cant deal with the underlying issues of inequality. Or this city is is hampered with and so the military is going to do nothing to help in that way and maybe even hurt things because theyre not trained to do policing that theyre having to do now so theyre very much a mixed bag on how people feel about the military on the street but again everyone does agree that something has to be done ok. Reporting from a just mary but people still ahead here on the news hour including south africas food coming under scrutiny after the number of deaths from this styria more than doubles plus were getting a lot of. Refugees stage a Hunger Strike in an israeli Detention Center to protest the deportation order. And to support a two decade wait for them pick gold finally ends for the u. S. Womens hockey team. More charges have been filed against former aides to the trump president ial campaign gates by special counsel Robert Muller that has to count indictment includes tax on Bank Fraud Charges in october manifolds and gates were charged with conspiracy to lauda money both have pleaded not guilty well it is investigating possible collusion between the campaign and russia during the two thousand and sixteen election you can update now from castrations life for some washington d. C. So he can explain these new charges for us. Hey laura yes so it is a little bit complicated legally these are thirty two charges that. Are in addition to the twelve that initially were filed in october and it is important to mention that out of all of these charges against both paul mann afford and rick gave none of them directly implicate trump or his campaign the charges filed today mainly centered around filing false income tax returns and Money Laundering in fact laundering thirty Million Dollars of income that came from foreign sources including a russian linked Political Party in ukraine now the fact that trump was not mentioned at all in todays filing certainly is a point that the president will likely into size when he responds to the questions that will surely come out of this indictment but what this truly is significant is that the special counsel appointed