Cease fire resolution. A controversial law three general indicates at the closing of the Winter Olympics that his country is willing to talk to the u. S. Church leaders protesting against tax plans shop the site where christ was said to have been buried in occupied East Jerusalem. In the form i tell you Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi is back in the like light as his party bids for power in next weekends elections. And im Tatiana Sanchez into how it all the ball i was nervous at the winter olympic closing ceremony but for russias biggest games ended on a golden notes in the mens i fucking final over them more later wrongly in the park. Their warm welcome to the news hour good to have your company at least twenty seven people have now been killed in Syria Russian Air strikes in the east and also on sunday the new air and ground offensive has taken place despite u. N. Security council adopting a resolution demanding a cease fire there are unconfirmed reports of attacks on two villages using chlorine gas missiles carry a warning this report from Osama Bin Laden contains distressing images. This is what the United Nations agrees house to stop. Me. But hours into the u. N. Security council has thirty day cease fire declaration forms kept dropping on eastern ridiculous doesnt that injuries from more than one hundred airstrikes barrel bombs and artillery bombardment all of which was supposed to and continues in the rebel held area four hundred thousand syrians. What experiences from the b. B. s these fires in since you dont give us high expectation its the fish and when this fishing whats what they is what their position say about the ceasefire will start as soon as possible one this possible we dont know we dont we dont know when this will start and and then here this is a big number of population it wont be a solution that feeding them one or two convoys and wont be the solution and thats we evacuated one thousand or two thousand of them to be fitted out of water as feared Government Forces try to enter eastern huta from three sides attempting to seize as much landis possible before the cease fire is implemented reinforcements from the syrian armys fourth and tenth brigades have been circling eastern huda for days special forces and troops from the elite tiger battalion are also on the frontlines. Bulldozers and tanks are deployed to breach rebel defenses iran and syria maintain that the Security Council resolution allows the targeting of what they call terrorists thanks despite facing large approval numbers and heavy rebels in. Their front lines or for killing and capturing some soldiers. We welcome the Security Councils decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted of the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in eastern guta as usual we didnt find any commitment by the Syrian Regime and its russian allies Eastern Ghouta northwest and go to southern wist and almost every front and go to has been stalled by the regime on sunday in order to achieve some advance but they havent succeeded. Many besieged people have been stranded in underground shelters for days and feared worse to come. We cant eat because theres nothing to eat our sons have no work my son has five children and he doesnt know how to feed them we will die hungry without food weve been targeted now homes have been destroyed we have done nothing to be treated and targeted like this but eastern has been intensely targeted for the past week the u. N. Called it hell on earth. The group calls the victims in syria martyrs that have been conversations between the leaders of france germany and russia to drive the Assad Government to stop attacks and allow in humanitarian aid thats when the people continue to face what they see is annihilation. Of the turkey syria border. Well ill just say were correspondent mohamed al just very has the latest now from the frontline. Now on ill be awful to start with but the idea that were now at the age of duma in eastern. Libya Regime Forces have launched many attacks here today this is one of the front lines they were trying to advance towards duma and control the land and farms leading towards the Vehicle Department and harassed. Their goal here is to separate harassed from east and there have also been various attacks from the east and the south the. Regime forces are trying to divide guta into smaller besieged enclaves. Some sources within the opposition say iranian jets have also been taking part in the attacks theres also been artillery shelling as well Syria State News Agency is reporting that twenty nine civilians have been killed u. S. Coalition air strikes on two villages near dare i saw dozens of us a said to have been injured the Syrian Democratic forces backed by the u. S. Of fighting to push eisel from the region. A controversial north korean general who attended the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics inside korea has indicated his country is willing to open talks with the United States at the ceremony he said just missed this from u. S. President toms daughter if its the name reports now from. Some protesters at the border and the stadium too uncomfortable questions asked by reporters all over nothing it was a controversial arrival at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics for the north korean delegation. Some South Koreans are angry about the delegation leader general kimmitt young chore is thought to be behind attacks against the south including the sinking of a warship in twenty ten that killed forty six sailors know. President of korea is almost zero zero zero zero zero that is doing very little korea nero. Wrong to protest. No president and the north korean dictator this is a. South korean president moon jae in use the games to reboot into or korean relationships. The socalled peace olympics included a joint womens hockey team athlete celebrating korean nationalism by marching under a unified flag as well as a visit by kim yo job the sister of the north Korean Leader she arrived with an invite for mood to visit yeah. Its a two hour test it was a good olympics we were so concerned about it last year but it went so well that many North Koreans came in i wish this could lead to unification i thought it was interesting it was in order for us to host it i really enjoyed it. Even the choice of olympic venues was symbolic gay. One province is divided between the north and south. If the tension continues that tourists dont come so peace is very important to our economy north korea participated in the olympics and this has become a basis for establishing peace here and that means a lot to us for the russians the games and did as they began marching without their flag two of their athletes were disqualified after testing positive for banned drugs four years on from the sochi doping scandal russians were only allowed to compete under an olympic flag as all athletes return home the question here is what happens after the olympics. The u. S. Announced its toughest package of sanctions against north korea on friday with the hope it will pressure the country to denuclearize whether that will work when other sanctions have failed remains to be seen and theres no word yet on when president moon might travel to the north if he does hell become the first south korean president to meet kim jong un since he became leader seven years ago natasha going to zero on south korea well for more on this lets bring in Diane Estabrook she joins us from washington hi there diane so so far whats been the u. S. Response to these talks apparently on offer from the north korean. Well the white house is saying on sunday that any talks with north korea would have to lead to that country dismantling its Nuclear Program the state department basically reiterated what the white house said in the white house one a little further and said that its really unclear at this point if any potential talks would be a step in that direction and part of the skepticism and wait and see attitude towards the white house seems to stem from the fact that north korea really hasnt said if there are any preconditions to these talks if anything is on the table like its Nuclear Program and the timing of this is very curious too because it did it has come a couple of days after the u. S. Left these additional sanctions on north korea on these shipping vessels that would make it difficult to trade oil and coal north korea call that an act of war so the timing is very curious and its probably why the u. S. Is taking this wait and see approach to this. Do you think its fair to say that theres been some diplomatic progress if i can put it like that between the two to is and the u. S. During the olympics you know its really hard to say certainly the optics are there we saw Vice President pence at the Opening Ceremony saying that talks could take place if north korea would be willing to dismantle its Nuclear Program we did see a vulcan trump the president s daughter at the closing ceremonies sitting in the same area as delegates from representatives from north and south korea but keep in mind that the United States has had a half a century of contentious relationships with north korea so is this a step in the in the right direction i think its probably very too early to really tell to an estimate there joining me from washington d. C. Dan thank you. Still to come on the aljazeera news hour. Three days of savvy led air strikes leave civilians dead and displaced in the yemeni city of her data. Obesity rates are soaring across mexico could a controversial trade deal to play. Out well hear from the golden girl of the olympics out there her unprecedented ski and snowboard double thats coming up later in sports. And president xi jinping could be reelected as chinas leader in twenty twenty three under a proposal the ruling party has put Forward Communist Party wants to change the constitution to remove term limits for chinese leaders the Vice President would also be allowed to serve for longer than the current two term limit the party elected president xi jinping as its head for another five years last october well difficult pollen is in hong kong with more on what it could mean for the president and the Chinese People. But there was much speculation he would be angling to stay beyond the next five years back in october when he was addressing the Chinese Peoples Congress he laid out a vision of thirty years and a very ambitious vision of chinas development both socially infrastructure advice and financially now this has still has to go through a parliament but its inconceivable that this will be blocked in any way as parliament distractive politicians that are loyal to the ruling establishment ping well now if this goes ahead be chinas most powerful modern day leader as hes also the leader of the military he will become a cult of personality many fear much like mao tsetung was during his thirty tenure thirty year tenure which ended in one thousand nine hundred seventy six now theres also concern that under his rule china will see many of their human rights or many of their rights squeezed even more under his tenure so far we have seen china turn into more of a surveillance state dissent very quickly crushed its also of great concern to the people of hong kong as unders easing things rule weve seen the biggest blows to hong kongs Democracy Movement people here are now concerned about how he will or whether he will continue to treat hong kong as a special in ministry to a region separate from the rest of china well for more on this lets speak now as isaac still is a senior fellow at the Asia Society Center and us china relations in new york their eyes and a very warm welcome to the pool when i look is this likely to be passed. So almost certainly be passed the congress that is going to pass it is never known for going against what the prevailing winds in the leadership is so its almost certainly just going to be a formality and how do you think this measure will be received by the public obviously were talking about a Huge Population here exactly Huge Population and this is maybe the most sensitive question in china right now how much support does she ging paying have among the Chinese People so i think on the one hand were probably not going to see any public outcry against this because of the way that china is set up but we have seen some snarky comments on weight on chinese social media sites that show that at least some people in the coastal elite and elsewhere throughout the country are upset about what this means for their ability to act liberally in china for their ability to express themselves to organize to pray to the god that they want so i think a lot of people in china and out probably see this is quite a worrying sign is that whats it for the posse what advantage did they have by removing these term limits as they might see it i dont know if the party itself is advantaged by this it certainly advantages she because it makes it its a clear path for him to stay on for a really long time but parties work better when there is allowed to be dissent within the party the party will be a more effective governing tool if people can challenge she and if they cant if its just she at the top its going to be a less effective and probably a shorter lasting rule for the communist party and so i think when we talk about the possibility of this man this president becoming a kind of like personality cult are we getting ahead of ourselves here. I think the big difference between where it was and where she was is the wealth and the role of china in the world and china in the fiftys sixtys seventys was a shambolic nation that faced mass starvation and huge up he of all china today is so much more stable than it was under mao so she himself could be a more powerful figure than but less powerful domestically just more powerful because china itself is so much more powerful so she will almost certainly never have the same control over china that mao did but he might be more powerful because the tool china that he has to wield is far more effective powerful rich than it was earlier when mao was running it so i said just quickly what does this say to to china in a in a kind of Global Leader ship rule does it kind of infuse that wall or perhaps the track from it i think it detracts from it because it makes the chinese model a less attractive model to people around the world it might make she more effective in his meeting with foreign leaders because theyre going to have to realize ok he might be around for a very long time let me make sure i have a Good Relationship with him but i think in terms of chinas more recent push to win hearts and minds around the world i dont think this is something that is going to make the chinese model more of something that people want to emulate isaacson fish there joining me from new york i said thank you thank you a Church Leaders in occupied East Jerusalem of close the holiest site in christianity it responds to what they call discrimination by the Israeli Government manages of the church of the holy set poker but leave to be the crucifixion and resurrection site of jesus christ. Proposed tax plans have a full set as the story. The chance to experience sunday mass at the place where they believe christ rose from the dead draws pilgrims from around the world to the church of the holy sepulcher but this sunday the Greek Orthodox armenian and Catholic Churches which jointly run the site announced its abrupt closure protesting against measures which they say would constrain their rights over Church Property this that in mind. Offer loans office in that range which were not. In europe. This is the about the and unprecedented attack against christians in their holy land. Levi only most basic. And serve the right the Church Leaders say they face a twin attack first in the shape of a demand by jerusalem City Government what it says is more than one hundred eighty Million Dollars in back taxes and secondly from proposed legislation which would seize retroactively for the state church land sold to private companies or sundays in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher always thronged with tourists and christian pilgrims many of whom are travelled a long way to see this most important holy site its always an atmosphere of emotion today the chief atmosphere though is one of disappointment the belief that jesus christ died and if you was buried here we would have liked just to go there and have the east point is you you know that would we be able to understand it better you know i dont know if the sides of the parties involved but you know it certainly is going to get the public attention to do this and hopefully it drives a quicker conclusion the christian patriarchates over large areas of often prime real estate in and around jerusalem much of it at least to the state palestinians have criticized the