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You know what the news grid live on air streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and aljazeera dot com good to have you with us on this saturday we begin in syria eastern huzzah which isnt good another twenty four hours of almost relentless bombardment medical workers say the attacks. Wont stop long enough for them to count the bodies of those killed. At least five hundred people in the past seven days families are holed up in basements and children terrified as the bombs rained down and on the other side of the world diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting have failed yet again theres widespread frustration after the Security Council delayed a vote on a resolution demanding a ceasefire across syria that vote is now due to happen in new york in about two hours from now a spokesman for one of the armed groups opposing the government has condemned the failure of diplomacy to end the fighting. For the will be here carrot in seventy what is going on now in eastern guta is a humanitarian disaster and a shame on humanity the current differences in bargaining this taking place prove that the Security Council is morally weak and its becoming a repeated problem that i am saying it frankly that the countries which claim they are friends of the Syrian People if they really want to make any action they would never have resorted to an institution that they know for sure is unable to help and is totally paralyzed because of the russians veto. Other pictures emerging from eastern appear to show a deadly mix of weapons being used by Syrian Government forces in one of the bloodiest assaults of this seven year war and schapelle explains. Guta is just outside damascus a rebel held area that includes the Eastern Suburbs of the capital. Making it close enough for rebels to fire mortars into central damascus and for Syrian Forces to deliver a devastating response. Since february eighteenth Government Forces have targeted a series of densely populated towns in the area the u. N. Says there are nearly four hundred thousand people there that includes rebel fighters but most are civilians for days as strikes and months of forced families and children into underground shelters we cant do anything we cant even go outside to get food. Some of the weaponry being used is designed to target underground hiding places this video shot by an activist in the region on wednesday appears to show helicopters dropping vacuum bombs with their signature parachutes al jazeera cant confirm these are vacuum bombs but one weapons expert we spoke to says hes ninety nine percent sure they are this weapon creates a pressurized shockwave and a vacuum rupturing lungs and other internal organs thats if the target doesnt die in the initial fireball. If that wasnt enough the same area was later showered by incendiary cluster bombs. The u. N. Secretary general has described the situation as hell on earth. With weapons like these being used in a densely populated area just a few kilometers away from the syrian capital. And are shell aljazeera all right well lets bring in osama bin give aid who is in the turkish city of gaziantep near the border with syria so a salmon no let up it seems say in the fighting in eastern latest reports saying up to five hundred People Killed. Well i let up would be a Welcome Development because there has been escalation every single day in the last seven days since sunday weve been hearing reports from that from the ground from hungary or from government but not from a to b. In various parts of their people say i spoke to one activist this afternoon who said to me that before sunday we would get a bombing or a shelling every day now it happens every hour we cant even come out of our basements is what he told us that there are people there are children whove been inside those basements for two days theyre scared even getting videos of these children appealing to the world that are asking the world to stop the bombing so they can go out and have something to eat but most of in the last five years has been leveled to the ground i spoke to some activists who told us how this Tunnel Networks were how these telling that works work and they told us that people dont have basements under their houses in the regular construction in syria so they built their buildings shelters now each shelter is holding multiple families bunch of the has up to fifteen families with one bathroom for men and one for women and things are extremely tough especially the children and that we keep hearing about and we keep seeing pictures of they make the for fifty of the five hundred people who have been killed and theyve been telling people about how difficult this ordeal has been on them. 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So medics have been telling us that its not just medical aid that they cant provide they cant even move between places ambulances have been taken out at least twelve medical facilities are out of service more than twenty four have been targeted in the last seven days they said they were already running out of medical supplies the Assad Government was blocking all the humanitarian aid that was coming in by the United Nations into good and consumables were not being allowed in they dont even have bags to can do hold blood through blood bags even ran out so but its have been painting a very desperate picture theyve been saying that more than two thousand people have been wounded in this latest onslaught for months theyve been trying to rally around this cause of trying to evacuate more than five hundred people but that number has gone up to more than two thousand and it continues to rise as the bombings dont stop we heard yesterday from a number of people inside who who pleaded to the United Nations and the outside world saying acknowledge that you know that we are here acknowledge that you know that we are dying acknowledge that we are being hurt and we have been wounded and stop these bombs dropping on us. Some of the injured live for us there in gaziantep near the border Turkish Border with syria thanks for santa lets bring in james dennis lowry in london hes a syria researcher and also head of the conflict and humanitarian policy at save the children good to speak with you again james selim let me ask you first of all why does eastern hooter matter right now in the syrian conflict why is the Syrian Regime targeting this area so heavily. Well i think what weve seen over the last year or so is since the fall of aleppo the restoration of Syrian Government control over certain areas that have been besieged for some time and i think what weve really witnessed in the last week is the move from a slow death which is besiegement and denial of food and aid into this fast death five hundred deaths in the space of a week one hundred twenty one children at least so i think when youve got nothing to sort of push back against that in terms of peace processes or diplomatic efforts we havent seen. A star of vienna origin never geneva deliver at this point though the world watches on with horror and i think at the moment were seeing well i think its safely said to be so the epicenter of human suffering on this planet is currently in eastern guta and the United Nations attempts to find some form of ceasefire are in deadlock while people keep dying yeah as you say the world watching in horror diplomats at the u. N. Are still trying to come to some kind of agreement on or on another cease fire resolution but why i mean there is a school of thought that says that the russians are essentially playing for time. At the u. N. And that they they are deliberately trying to delay this resolution while while the fighting continues and while the Syrian Government makes gains in eastern huta is there any any truth to that you think. Im not sure entirely agree with on the basis that the russians have vetoed ten Security Council resolutions already on syria so theyve shown a willingness to reject a larger consensus at the un around matters syrian there of a cia a key political and military actor on the ground there i think its very interesting to look at the language that theyve suggested for this debated text thats gone through over the last few days theyre very keen knowledge the fact that rockets and artillery shells and mortars been fired from two surrounding sites in damascus in the kill civilians they also want to bring an equivalency i think to what happened in rocca where the american Led Coalition liberated the city last year with degrees of destruction maybe not the same level of sort of media output from inside the city at the time and the russians are quite keen to say theyre doing exactly what the americans did in iraq and they are sort of looking to to take out as they call them terrorists and any other sort of Collateral Damage in terms of civilians is. A mistake and its on its not in design but thats just what happens so its interesting to see that text go through but i keep saying the un resolutions weve had numerous ones on humanitarian access into areas of syria weve had the istana process that the russians leave themselves agree to humanitarian access in syria but theres actually since that was agreed weve seen less weve seen less humanitarian access last year than the year before forty percent less and were seeing even less this year so it seems like the politicization of people being able to get food and water and to get injured children out has reached a senate and syria and this is International Norms that are hemorrhaging as we speak and if so what is the fall of eastern huta what would that mean for the Syrian Government if that were to happen. Well i think you would oversee mean more control of territory directly in their own capitals which is a strategic choice for them i think whats particularly interesting for us humanitarians is that in previous area pretty previous conflicts within syria whether its homes or aleppo youve seen large numbers of civilians evacuated to largely the northwest to. The end of the battle theres very little places for syrian civilians who are in non government old areas to go to now i mean it lives being squeezed and theres maybe as many as four hundred thousand people in eastern guta if Ground Forces are sent into these areas where weve seen increasingly dense populated people huddling in basements under heavy artillery then the death toll would likely spike even further and where are they going to go is there going to be any form of accusation could that even happen it seems very unlikely and so while we hope that a u. N. Resolution can give us some immediate ceasefire some immediate aid to alleviate the situation in the short term we should be not just under any illusion that there is not any form of Long Term Strategy to help syrian civilians the world simply has run out of ideas and that is the price that is being paid by by men women women and children in ghouta today indeed good to speak of your lot as always james dentist for stay in london. Now the Syrian Governments and russia say their own theyre only targeting rebel fighters but people on the ground say the strikes have taken a devastating toll on hospitals aid workers and residents there say syrian Army Helicopters have been dropping barrel bombs these are all drums packed with explosives and shrapnel on marketplaces been dropping them on marketplaces as well as medical centers the World Health Organization is reporting that twenty four of these medical facilities have been hit thats about half and half of them rather have had to close our hospitals and clinics were already stretched after years of a government siege the sport shortages of lifesaving medicine and equipment or dr ahmed iraqi is the president of the Syrian American medical society joins us now from boston thanks very much for being with us dr so as weve been saying this bombardment of eastern huta is taking an unimaginable toll on the people there talk to us a little bit about that because i understand there you have been speaking to the head of the medical office in a hoot about that well what did he tell you. That has been cleared over the last week at least that there has been direct targeting of the hospitals in a goal to collapse a Civil Society in sirte guta the frequent and deliberate targeting of those hospitals the similar to what happened in a report in the past and explains way more than twenty four hospitals and clinics were told to regularly and all medical capacity is good the capacity of the medical Services Services have dropped to forty percent from where it was a week ago. And we mentioned there the World Health Organization documenting how many medical facilities of been hit i understand as well that you the youre going to zation wrote a letter to the w. H. O. A few months ago asking for help and support and you havent got a response from them still on fortunately the w. H. O. Has not be very front about what is going on at this time it is expected from them to take a strong position of protecting medical personnel and facilities and also to be up front about the lack of medical Services Many of those facilities in the Eastern Ghouta were visited by w. H. Or teves and u. N. Teams in the past there are will established medical facilities so that this qualified the narrative from russia and the Syrian Government that we dont know what those facilities are so we know that those facilities are hospitals and theyre serving people at this time weve been pushing really hard with every Single Member of the u. N. Security council to include lots of narratives to protect hospitals. And to deliver aid to and get to the people and said good unfortunately those political games that were seeing being played right now by russia the u. S. For the council unfortunately theyre causing lots of death direct death on the people in goutam prolonging that scenario until ceasefire is achieved its very simple you should stop all the fire all across that starve the civilians should stop all the fire have one hundred people who are good and evacuated the medical cases that the to be evacuated very simple and straightforward unfortunately theyre trying to achieve some political points and theyre trying to score some points and thats whats stopping the resolution right now from being adopted yet is a terrible situation are all around for people that we appreciate you talking to us about it dr ahmed tacky in boston thank you. Now the seven year war in syria has taken a huge toll on peoples lives all over the country not just in eastern hooters weve been reporting is displaced hundreds of thousands and you can have a look at our special interactive web page life on hold which features stories from the lives of Syrian Refugees that life on hold dot aljazeera dot com. Now the parents of more than one hundred girls missing in nigeria are joining a demonstration by bring back our bring back our Girls Campaign that was launched after the armed group kidnapped more than two hundred seventy schoolgirls from the town of chibok back in two thousand and fourteen but its expected to gain more traction now after the latest abductions from a school in by boko haram fighters rally is due to get under way in the capital a budget president mohamed to behati has called mondays kidnappings a National Disaster he sending extra shouldest extra soldiers rather to look for the girls how many priests is in a butcher with the latest for us so i had a lot of public anger. About the governments handling of all this and the report a response has been to send more troops but whats that going to do in the short term. Well basically the anger and the disappointment continued and there was a brief moment. In the town of she when we were there on tuesday and wednesday when news got out that some of the girls had been saved are now with the military and then it was later discovered that it was a hoax it wasnt true a lot of people were disappointed a lot of people were angered and there were angry people who were trying to demonstrate in the town of dust until the Security Forces to control of this equation however in the long term or in the long run. People will be watching out watching to see how far the government and its security agencies will did with this situation for example we spoke about the bring back our girls that been at the complaint to push the Nigerian Government to save the chipper goes more than a third of them are still not accounted for more than one hundred have been home but there are still lots of them out there and then this disaster happens and of course some of the people weve spoken to some of the activists is