Security council awaits a vote on a cease fire plan. President rallies the conservative faithful saying a school with no guns is a dangerous place. The u. S. Confirms it will open its new embassy in jerusalem in may this year palestinian leaders call it an obstacle to peace. And Nigerian Government officials apologized to parents falsely told that missing daughters had been rescued we have an exclusive report. Top story in sport a second the olympic athlete from russia failed a drug. All the details coming up for you later in the program. We begin the news hour in syria where the governments relentless Bombing Campaign on a rebel held enclave near the Capital Shows no signs of abating rockets have been fired into eastern for a sixth straight day pushing the death toll to four hundred thirty two people in the past week alone the United Nations last minute wrangling is delaying a Security Council vote on imposing a thirty day ceasefire to end the hostilities. Reports from gaza on the turkey syria border. Theres. The. Floor but in the dense dust and debris its hard to see who left the upper floor. The doctor tells ali to open his eyes so he can wash out medical workers in eastern guta are calling for urgent assistance because of the continuous heavy bombardment but the Syrian Government calls this robin propaganda. As it was it is not only we do know we are saying that many of these faking it was staged. By the. By your cousins. By by the terrorists by the syrian moderate opposition. Incendiary bombs are now appearing in the night skies weapons intended to start large fires when they hit the ground. People in bodies are pulled out from crevices between buildings the nearly four hundred thousand people in the besieged enclave are dying in their hundreds graphic videos weve chosen not to show you contain body parts scattered in the aftermath of the latest onslaught by the Assad Government and its allies how to be whats taken place in eastern is a genocide and a crime against humanity in violation of international and humanitarian law and the perpetrators should be held liable accountable and cannot escape punishment under any circumstances russia is to blame for directly being involved in the military campaign and even apartment we are shocked by what we see happening now in eastern and we fear that the situation will will worsen the opposition holds russia and iran responsible. When the dust settles the destruction is clear people have been forced to live in underground shelters. Along with the message to the Security Council is for a cease fire or truce for days airstrikes and bombardments of forced families and children into underground shelters we cant do anything we cant even go outside to get food but when the outside looks like this there arent many places people can go to the ferocity of the bombardment and the arrival of troops on the outskirts of without battling with fighters is reminiscent of what happened to other rebel held parts in places like homs and aleppo entire populations were evacuated to new places in syria and people inside besieged with there have been cheering order of evacuation zones convinced that this is what is going to happen to them as well as. Does young. Al jazeera arabic correspondent Mohammed Al Jazeera is inside eastern go terrine sent us out today. Now. The aerial bombardment on guta has been without interruption as the russian and the regime jet fighters are still pounding the city around the clock the shelling is targeting critical installations like hospitals and residential areas any moving object within the residential areas is a target to them the picture behind me speaks volumes this is living proof the residential buildings are destroyed theres no movement on the streets residents have fled their fear shelling by russians jet fighters the regimes artillery and rocket launchers we are standing in the most dangerous spot that the recon planes in the jet fighters are hovering which was of russian and syrian helicopters hovering above our heads any sign of life in ghouta has been targeted nothing has been spared above all critical installations of residential buildings were targeted alike bakeries hospitals schools you name it theyre either destroyed or now out of function the situation in eastern kuta is nothing but catastrophic we cannot continue covering the situation life as it is very dangerous here and the jet fighters and helicopters are coming our way diplomatic editor james bays joins us from the United Nations headquarters in new york whats the latest news on the resolution and the reasons for the delay. Well the vote was supposed to take place two hours ago it has been delayed the current time for the meeting is an hour and a half from now and the reason for that is all going negotiations negotiations with the russians who want to change some of the language in this resolution but its certainly not. Apologies for that well try to reestablish a connection there with james bays and were just waiting for a vote to take place so we know its been delayed the u. N. Security Council Resolution on a thirty day cease fire across syria that vote was supposed have taken place at sixteen hundred g. M. T. That we understand has been delayed for a few hours as diplomats work furiously behind the scenes to try and reach some sort of agreement so that this time the resolution is actually adopted james base is back for us now and james you are saying a lot of work going on behind the scenes there to break the impasse and make sure that russia backs this resolution everywhere you look around the Security Council chamber in the immediate area around it youll find diplomats in huddles youll find diplomats on the phone negotiations underway the russians there trying to persuade certainly talking about some of the details in the language of this draft resolution with the new time for a vote set an hour and a half from now its interesting that in the driving seat of this of the ten elected members of the Security Council who are the ones that are putting this resolution forward it was actually two of them kuwait and sweden that drafted it and a short time ago the president as the Security Council this month its kuwait came out flanked by the other elected members of the Security Council. As you can see the whole. Member of the we are here just to show that we are all united and we want the draft resolution to be adopted today two thirty were still working on. The language on some of the but i grasp what we are almost there and we would like you know as a pen holder as a president of the council to thank actually the eternal for their support to our efforts and hopefully we are so close to adopt this is solution today and so the delay perhaps bodes well possibly james for this resolution being passed if and when it does come to a vote but even after that happens how difficult will it be for all parties to enforce it. Weve had so many attempts in syria to get ceasefires say sions pauses use the arabic word theyve tried so many Different Things it has been very very difficult and very patchy to try and get everyone to put down their weapons difficult to get the fighting groups to put down their weapons yes some of the western nations of the arab nations have sway difficult to get the Syrian Government to stop their bombardment in eastern guta i spoke a short time ago to the Syrian Governments ambassador here Bashar Jeffrey if there is a resolution passed will you comply he says we will get back to his comment in the last few minutes of course its not just about Eastern Ghouta there are military operations taking place in other parts of syria the russians are in the air the americans also have air power and one place to watch because this resolution will be a thirty day cease fire call for all of syria is a free man where theres that ongoing Turkish Operation is turkey going to stop its operation because of a Security Council decision a big question of course not tied to ask it yet we still dont know if this resolution is going to pass you know it will thank you james bay is where the latest from the United Nations. The republican governor of florida has announced a raft of state measures in response to last weeks attack on a high school which left seventeen people dead rick scott is proposing raising the minimum age for buying a gun in florida from eighteen to twenty one years old is also calling for a mandatory Law Enforcement officer in every school in active Shooter Training for all students and staff and us President Donald Trump has been talking about guns as well among other things hes been addressing the conservative Political ActionCommittee Conference in oxon hill maryland alan fischer watched that speech and joins us now were just speaking about gun control in florida and where the latest School Shooting took place we definitely heard. Plenty of ideas from the president trying what did he have to say at this summit today. Well he talked about the families of those who die in florida and also some of the survivors as well who are deeply affected he had been by those and you could genuinely see in this piece clearly he was remembering some of those conversations he held a number of listening events and he came up with ideas joining those listening events that he has floated as some he would mention here and some he wouldnt mention here because this is a very poor growing very poor in ari and you know there are political talking points call your own on both sides both republican and democrats on the same issues keep being raised the same phrases keep being repeated and certainly thats what we got from donald trump in the last hour or so when he talked about how schools shouldnt be less safe than many other important american institutions. Why do we protect our airports and our banks our government buildings but not our schools. Its time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers we dont want i mean our schools. When we declare our schools to be gun free zones it just puts our students in far more danger. So what is donald trump talking about while ideas that these days that floated over the last couple of days he would like to see more teachers being armed with concealed carry permits he talked about crowd choosing veterans and former members of the coast guards to protect schools as well but ideas that hes floated that he wouldnt raise here such as raising the age where you can start to legally buy guns that probably wouldnt condone terribly well here another idea that is also talked about is improving background checks thats something that the n. R. A. Has talked about they see states need to play a bigger role in making sure that those background checks everything is fed into the system so that it can be carried out properly and that may be something that moves on but certainly people know watching donald trump because he has said that his administration is going to do something about this issue and people will be watching to make sure that he delivers rye and what about Foreign Policy issues alan because we know that there have been these overtures between north and south korea jaring the Winter Olympics but at the same time the trouble ministration looking to put more pressure on the regime in pyongyang. That thats right we run through a number of issues that dont thomas talked about repeatedly since twenty sixteen around deal is bad we know that he wants to see renegotiated part of the core bad for American Business thats why he pulled out of it with he also talked about moving the the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem that got the biggest cheer of his speech and he talked about north korea and interestingly enough the white house had flied that there was going to be a big announcement on north korea they said that the details would be in the speech and it ended up essentially being no more than an afterthought at the end of the speech when he said were going to impose more sanctions on north korea no were expecting more details on that first of all when donald trump talks with markham tumble the australian Prime Minister and then gives a News Conference at the white house so expecting something on that someone will ask a question on that and were also expecting more information from the Justice Department and also the Treasury Department but we know that this is the whole idea of donald trump targeting north korea because he thinks theyve managed to get round sanctions before particularly using shipping lanes so these sanctions are going to target twenty seven shipping companies twenty vessels and one named individual in the fall the idea is to put more pressure on north korea to get them back to the negotiating table to talk about first of all the Nuclear Program and also the Ballistic Program that was just a couple of days to the end of the the Winter Olympics we know that mike pence was at the Opening Ceremony it was his intention to meet a north korean delegation when he was there but given the rhetoric coming out of america as the North Koreans called it they decided to cancel that meeting we know that ivanka trump is there for the closing ceremony but we are told there are no plans for her to meet anyone from north korea was shes there at the closing ceremony all right well thanks very much alan fischer of all the latest from oxford in maryland a speech by president trunk lawrence rozental is the executor and a right wing. University of california he joins me now from but k. And i know that you have been watching that speech very closely how would you describe president trumps reception at the summit this year compared to the way he was regarded by these right wing politicians of an activist in two thousand and sixteen he began his speech by saying i guess ive now proved im a conservative and that was very well received in effect what he was saying is people who doubted me people who doubted my conservative bona feed days should now be convinced given the actions of my administration that i am a genuine conservative. Conservative and i was just not just going to ask you why it has trump standing within the movement changed to has he shaped the movement somewhat or as he adapted to become a part of it. I believe both are true. That is the say that both the left lets call it the republican establishment and trump have mutually adapted to one another in effect there is only the kind of hybrid and rather radical conservatism that thats that. Kind of in place in the. Republican party that is the say you have. Traditional although quite extreme free market conservatism and the free market conservatives wound up being getting something in the tax cut that was recently passed that they have aimed for for many many years that tax cut is full of strategies. That go relatively far into the future to undermine things like the american welfare state. And at the same time much of trumps speech as was true in the state of the union. He emphasized. The image and he became quite acute in this the image of the violence of the criminal violence of immigrants this was not part of. Free market conservatism this was not something that. The republican candidates in the primaries who opposed trump talked about and now it is it is clearly part of. The. What increasingly seems to be a kind of hybrid right wing rather extreme. Ensemble and so the reality is what what what does what does all this tell us what about the balance if you can call it that between the influence of the conservatives against traditional republican pragmatists and its an ongoing question. The pragmatists seem to have made up their mind that opposing trump they there was one after another after another people who swore never trump most recently mitt romney has bowed in the direction of trump well and certainly the. House and Senate Leadership have have moved from never trump to embracing him and plainly they embrace him at least at first and maybe this is changing over time but they embraced him as a vehicle they embraced him as a vehicle to get legislatively and otherwise. Their longstanding agenda. And that longstanding agenda has at its core things like. Undoing regulations and doing. Things like obama care and above all tax cuts and when you very much lawrence rise and tell executive director of the center for right wing studies at california. You know with the news live from london much more still to tell you about a major funding boost for African Security the e. U. Doubles its Financial Aid for military alliance to combat armed groups across the south the region. For metron Campaign Aide rick gates will appear in court soon on charges of conspiracy against the United States. And in sport the olympic athletes from russia taste gold for the first time in chiang will have the details. The United States has confirmed it will open its new embassy to israel in jerusalem in may the opening will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of israels founding in december the u. S. Announcement of the plan move sparked angry protests in palestine and solidarity rallies across the world then joins me now from washington any karf occasion on why this date has be