Of north koreas most controversial generals arrives for the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in south korea also coming up. They killed my father killed my mother i feel skeered i dont want to go back to me and my family was killed in the mia mom military crackdown against the ranger six months on aljazeera revisits those who survived last week. One of indias biggest movie stars died suddenly at the age of fifty full. But lets start with the breaking news coming from syria then Syrian Government forces have launched a new ground and an air offensive on the rebel held on klav Eastern Ghouta close to damascus the areas been under heavy bombardment. With at least five hundred People Killed there in the past week Government Troops and now trying to enter the own clave from multiple fronts just hours after the u. N. Security Council Agreed to a thirty day cease fire for syria lets go live now to our correspondent whos monitoring developments in syria. Thats on the turkish side of the border with syria some of bring us up right up to date with the events that have occurred on the ground in syria ever since that u. N. Resolution was approved. When i spoke to the people right after the u. N. Security Council Resolution they would afraid and those fears seem to be proving right since the last few hours weve been hearing reports from various fronts cross eastern that Government Forces have been trying to make good advances trying to reach the level defenses in hottest in tougher but in duma homs damascus highway multiple entrances to eastern and to the attack rebels have been saying that they are putting up with distance but because this is being hit from several fronts its not clear how long will they be able to hold off their number of troops according to state media that are taking part in the operation the tiger forces the fourth brigade the tenth brigade and a number of other militias are also taking part in this offensive to take Eastern Ghouta now the United Nations security Council Resolution talked about giving the forces that are involved on the ground of the free reign to attack. I saw an. Organization with the United Nations classifies as terrorist organizations so this is probably the pretext that the government has already been using to attack eastern with it because it says that it is under the control of. But that is denied by people on the ground analysts who weve been speaking to say that the number of fighters that a listener has is probably somewhere between two to three hundred. Which is home to more than four hundred thousand people and what are you hearing then from the residents the civilians who live in this area that has suffered so much already. Because this bombardment sunday much day eight off this latest offensive by the Syrian Government there have been a number of attacks on residential areas and medical facilities to people have been forced to live underground now weve been hearing that in the. Last the advances by the Ground Forces have been preceded by a number of artillery attacks and air strikes one report from dubai says that theyve counted at least eighteen shells landing in the last hour or so it is a ferocious attack from the air from on the ground batteries artillery batteries as well as strikes so people have been telling us in the last few days how difficult it has been for them to cope and theyre also using the same shelters the same underground tunnels that the rebels use as well so when the Syrian Government targets them theyve already been force already been forced underground and they will be there is fear among aid workers one doctor just told me that theyve afraid that people trapped in these underground shelters will also come under attack now that the government is targeting specifically these underground yes but the rebels have been using their defenses all right now thank you very much as some of our correspondent everything live there from gaza and. Well the u. N. Security councils approval of this resolution came after weeks of intense negotiations heres our United Nations correspondent editor james face. For a third day diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria he got an agreement with the russians now. Today were going to see if russia has a conscience the Russian Ambassador conferred with his syrian counterpart whose government has continued without rest by the bombardment of eastern puter even as the negotiations drag gone diplomats have been working around the clock exhausted frustrated and in some cases angry most of the discussions focusing on the exact wording of one paragraph in the end they agreed to a place an immediate cease fire with one comes into force without delay it meant they could vote. It was unanimous but there didnt seem to be much unity in the chamber every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering Group Getting to a vote became a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not for syria not for iran i have to ask why as they dragged out the negotiation the bombs from assads fighter jets continued to fall in the three days it took us to adopt this resolution how many mothers lost their kids to the bombing and the shelling why we negotiated so long and that is illusion that they wanted to make sure that it is not used as a pretext. Because we had some trouble so what in worrying. Governments on that in the recent days any good in today some of the variability cause these negotiations were extremely hard getting a cease fire across syria will be even harder can we get a stop to the bombardment in eastern guta there is an exemption in the resolution allowing continued military action against al qaida. And i saw and some diplomats fear that the Syrian Government will assert that those fighting in eastern guta have links with those groups james pays out his era at the United Nations by listening to Rodger Shanahan now his Research Fellow at the Lowry Institute for International Policy in Sydney Australia thank you for joining us its a supreme irony isnt it that the moment that theres a glimmer of hope of respite for the people of Eastern Ghouta they actually start to face even more suffering because the bombardment from the syrian army is increasing. Well certainly that was always going to be the issue really trying to get a cease fire resolution through the United Nations russia found a politically convenient not to block that resolution but made sure the resolution had enough wriggle room in it so that both the syrians and russians could still prosecute built a campaign against peace and good while saying there was a thirty day ceasefire in place now there isnt i mean the this the resolution has been passed but the cease fire is certainly certainly far from being implemented one of the mechanics of getting a cease fire agreed in new york actually implemented in syria. Well school question and this is where lots of ceasefires come unstuck because. You can have the policy all the policy that you want in terms of resolutions but practically implementing it on the ground is not the responsibility of the United Nations but it may speak thought through about how exactly you do it i think this is probably going to be one of those occasions where we have a resolution that sounds good on paper in terms of a ceasefire but how do you practically implemented on the ground with no independent observers to make sure that its maintained no penalties if you dont maintain it and also the kind of. Issues involved with it where you can still write the cease fire so long as youre tying certain segments of the armed opposition groups its a very difficult issue and i dont think the ceasefire is what my state would assume it today and so conceivably then the the suffering civilians of of syria will continue to suffer because its going to take some time before these intense negotiations this next round of intense again stations actually yield yield something positive in terms of getting that laying the weapons making them silent and giving them some peace and access to all sorts of medical and humanitarian aid. Yeah listen if if if were going to go to try and understand the way that Syrian Regime is going to play their position in a sense it is going to be quite similar one way to show you had what weve seen before in homs and also in a certain aleppo that is the regime tries to encircle an area thats awesome fighter from other elements of the armed opposition groups. Because there are a range of activities weekend areas that are trying to incite prescribe terrorist groups with the broader elements inside there and then that make it the military made if it and prosecute the military campaign to such a point where they try and come up with a negotiated solution at the end of it in return for. Them and sliding down the weapons and being escorted out of that area then humanitarian aid is the lead in and i think thats why this kind of play out a nascent those but its actually a much larger area than we sayn before says going to take much more if it on the part of the Syrian Regime to do that and so its going to take a lot longer i think are i vow to have shanahan thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts on pleasure. The north korean general accused of ordering an attack on a south korean naval ship in twenty ten in which dozens died has just arrived in south korea Kim Yong Charlie is the thing the delegation for the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics they have been protests against his visit the test again aim has the latest from gun nung. Hundreds of protesters tried to block a border bridge as this high level north korean delegation crossed into the south to attend the closing ceremony on saturday an estimated three thousand protesters in seoul burned the north korean flag and photos of leader kim jong un and the general leading this delegation so who is this general his name is kim young short hes a hardliner general believed to be responsible for attacks on South Koreans most notably the sinking of a warship in twenty ten that killed forty six sailors as he arrived in seoul on sunday reporters asked him about that more shit he didnt answer now the south korean government is asking people to look to the future to look at the Bigger Picture noting that the general right now is in charge of affairs with south korea that he does have a say in north Koreas Nuclear program and he is precisely the right person at the right time to be here moon is also saying that he believes this will only enhance the spirit of socalled reconciliation between the two koreas this is not the first time that the general has been to south korea he visited in twenty fourteen to attend military talks with the International Olympic committee is upheld this ban on russian athletes implemented because of widespread taping of the twenty fourteen games to failed doping results during this years Winter Olympics the russian the things wont be able to monch on to their flag of the closing ceremony the one hundred sixty eight athletes have been forced to compete as neutral athletes at these games. Well for the coming year doubt is there including nigerias president calls the plight of missing schoolgirls a National Disaster he sends more soldiers to search for them. The nice pink skies by the time half. Hour is the sun sets in the city of angels. Its been snowing incessantly this time not so much in the alps as the apple nines and across the path in the balkans but a bit further east as well this is a picture from italy and its not here the depth of snow is not the only place in the world has had record snow depth and the snow is still falling less so on the italian side a bit further east across the adriatic the watches cloud is actually of a turkey different system altogether but this is the area i think well see more snow for the next twenty four to forty eight hours because the cold air is pony pushing in and then its coming against the wind is bringing all the most from the effectively warmer waters of the train in the adriatic so northern italy bosnia croatia this sort of area and ounce of albania or northern breeze there will be a lot more snow but look at the temps just the north mana seventy was almost two in berlin these are maximum temperatures and not get any are they getting lower so also snow piles up here across the balkans the real cold start to set in this coming week will be frigidly arctic all the way from Eastern Europe right to the west attempts by day as a maximum are going to drop nine times could be really cold this is a late bit of really quite severe winter for europe. The weather sponsored by qatar and greece. Facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the socalled secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to aljazeera at this time. Was. Hard to take a look at the top stories here it out easier Syrian Government troops have launched a new ground and air offensive on the rebel held on klaver. Which has been under heavy bombardment for the past week troops tried to enter the area just hours after the u. N. Security Council Agreed a thirty day cease fire for syria. A controversial high ranking general is leading north koreas delegation for the closing ceremony of the china lympics kim. Has been accused of ordering an attack on a south korean ship which killed dozens of sailors in twenty ten have been protests against his visit in the capital seoul. Im going back to the top story al jazeera correspondent Mohammed Al Jazeera he reports now from inside. The house. Points from the Syrian Regime in russia still flying in the skies targeting some locations in eastern the warplanes have already targeted ship. In a village and the area the Syrian Regime has targeted these areas many times after the cease fire and the decision to open safe corridors to allow aid and assistance into east. One of the main military factions in eastern grew to have stressed their full and serious commitment to the cease fire agreement to pave the way for the urgent need to end the area it seems that the russians and the Syrian Regime showing a commitment to the Security Council decision to apply a cease fire and to allow the urgent assistance to reach the needy people of east and greater or to take those with Critical Illness as injuries to hospitals outside the area people here are still in the shelters they are still scared of the warplanes targeting the residential areas no one knows whether the aerial rights will target other cities or villages during the coming hours or not the opposition says that there are two russian warplanes and a third belonging to the Syrian Regime flying in the skies of Eastern Europe. The range of refugees in bangladesh living day to day six months on since the start of a crackdown by the me a tree the u. N. Has condemned the atrocities calling them a textbook case of ethnic cleansing nearly seven hundred thousand have crossed the border into bangladesh since all this weve tracked down some of those we met in the exodus began. As usual big omas one of six hundred eighty eight thousand revenge or if you g. s who have streamed across the me n. Mar Bangladesh Border fleeing what they call a targeted campaign to wipe the males we first met her in december the nine year old had been shot three times in the leg arm in arm pit by a soldier at close range. Six months shes still in pain and has decided she wont go back there my dad if they kill my father killed my mother i feel scared i dont want to go back to me and they were bombing houses sitting them on fire pulling people out from their homes and shooting them torturing me and im scared to see all their all at the moment and i still feel like dying a fire remember those days. When they raped our women and you can see what they did to this child. There are thousands of asias here recovering from different weapons of war these two sisters say myanmar soldiers tied them to trees and raped them their mother father and three siblings were locked inside their home which was the incision lines not much has changed since we first met the teenage girls in january they care and crucible long camp got them you know cabs although bright and colorful the girls say they remain cloaked in darkness. Of the day is an image and we cant go back to burma if we are asked to we dont have parents brothers and sisters no house to live there where should we live the bangladesh in myanmar governments made a deal to repatriate the revenger but six months on they refused to return in November Abdul fi showed us his house right across the border he says ranger want a guarantee of safety compensation for the destroyed villages and citizenship something they have been denied for thirty five years rubble this idea of money we want to tell the world of we want to live like human beings we wa