His country is willing to talk to the u. S. Church leaders protesting against tax pound shop the site where christ is said to have been buried in occupied East Jerusalem. And the former italian Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi is back in the limelight as his party bids for power in next weekends elections. Theyre here long welcome to the program at least twenty seven people have been killed in Syria Russian Air strikes and he said hello to on sunday the new a or a grand offensive has taken place despite the u. N. Security council adopting a resolution demanding a cease fire a warning this report from osama bin just a contains some distressing images look. This is what the United Nations the green house to stop. The. Hours into the u. N. Security council has thirty day cease fire declaration forms kept dropping on eastern. Medical dozen of the dead and indeed from more than a hundred years strikes barrel bombs and artillery bombardments all of which was supposed to and continues in the rebel held area home to four hundred thousand syrians what experiences from b. B. s and. Dont give us heights for station its the. Whats. The. Start as soon as possible one of this possible we dont know we dont we dont know. And then here this is a big number of population it wants to be a solution that three bring them one all doable voice and one be the solution that we evacuated one thousand or two thousand of them to be to develop of withdraw as feared Government Forces try to enter eastern huta from three sides attempting to seize as much land as possible before the cease fire is implemented reinforcements from the syrian armys fourth intended brigades have been circling east and the for days special forces and troops from the in the tiger battalion are also on the front lines i. Bulldozers and tanks are deployed to breach several defenses iran and syria maintain that the Security Council resolution allows the targeting of what they call terrorists do with this by creating large a few numbers and heavy firepower levels in a day of how the front lines so far killing and capturing some soldiers thank you not how we welcome the Security Councils decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted them to the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in a single day as usual we didnt find any commitment by the Syrian Regime in its russian allies east and. North west and go to southern wist and almost. We front and go to has been stored 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 fear the worst to come. You know 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 no homes have been destroyed we have done nothing to be treated and targeted like this but eastern good has been intensity targeted for the past week the u. N. Called it hell on earth. The pope calls the victims in syria martyrs that have been conversations between the leaders of france germany and russia to draw and persuade the Assad Government to stop attacks and allow in humanitarian aid thats when the people will continue to face what they see is annihilation. Of the turkey syria border well lets get more now on those attacks in. Our correspondent Mohammed Al Jazeera he has the latest from the front like. Now. Were now at the edge of duma and eastern parts of the 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. A controversial north korean general who attended the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in south korea has indicated his country is welling to open talks with the United States and ceremony he said just me system u. S. President donald trump still say if the dutch a game reports now from cole no. From protesters at the border and the stadium to uncomfortable questions asked by reporters oh no 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 zero zero youre a little korea hero. Your. Role in a protest. No president and the north korean dictator this is. South korean president moon j. In use the games to reboot intercooler ian relations 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 jiang the sister of the north Korean Leader she arrived with an invite for moon to visit pyongyang. Its a two hour test it was a good olympics didnt we were so concerned about it last year but when so well many North Koreans came in i wish this could lead to unification i thought it was interesting it was an honor for us to host it i really enjoyed it and. Even the choice of olympic venues was symbolic gang one province is divided between the north and south. If the tension continues with us 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 a base 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 aljazeera south korea well Dion Estabrook has more from washington on the possibility of talks between north korea and the u. S. Well the United States the white house specifically said the same afternoon that any talks with north korea would have to lead to that country dismantling its Nuclear Program it said its really unclear at this point whether these proposed talks are a step in that direction and the state department essentially said the same thing and washington is seems to be taking a wait and see attitude about this because north korea hasnt yet said if there are any preconditions to these talks whether its putting anything on the table specifically its Nuclear Program the timing of this is also curious as well north korea is proposing this just a couple of days after the u. S. Slapped these additional sanctions on the country making it more difficult for them to trade oil and coal in north korea is calling that an act of war and there are some conservatives here in washington who think that these sanctions might finally be having an impact on north korea and maybe theyre using these proposed talks as a way of getting some Economic Relief from these sanctions certainly the optics are there as far as a thawing of relations we saw Vice President pence at the opening ceremonies at the olympics saying that potentially there could be talks if the North Koreans would talk about potentially dismantling their Nuclear Program we saw the president s daughter at the closing ceremonies in the same general area as representatives from the north and south koreas but again these are two countries north korea and the United States who have had a very very icy very tense relations for a half a century so it remains to be seen whether anything will happen from these talks after the glow of the olympics. Church leaders in occupy these tourists have closed the holiest site in christianity in response to what they call discrimination by the Israeli Government maladjusted of the church of the holy circle curve believed to be the crucifixion and resurrection site of jesus christ are angry at proposed tax plan sorry for said her 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 the rights of the Church Property is the demand. Of laws of a similar way to which were in that. Hearing. In europe. This is the back the and britain then did that back against christians in their holy land. Levi on a 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 would have liked just to go there and have the instrument point is you you know that would we be able to understand it better you know i dont know of 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 criticised the Greek Orthodox patriarch the selling property inside the old city the jewish settler groups and others jerusalems municipal leaders say only properties being used for religious activities should be tax exempt not those rented commercially theyve already frozen about nine Million Dollars in assets of the Greek Orthodox church were talking about other places that the church own fact has hotel and they have been exempt wrongly from paying city taxes for years and years and years and the mare at the moment is trying to correct a wrong that was done that affects us from residents every single day and ministerial discussion on the bill to allow seizure of already sold church land has been postponed to next week the author of the propose. Law says its designed to protect the rights of those living on the land from off an anonymous offshore entities Church Leaders say their long established rights are being trampled in what they call an attempt to weaken the christian presence in jerusalem are a force that aljazeera occupied East Jerusalem. Still to come on aljazeera oh my god the only heard one person is killed and others are injured in Anti Government protests in the democratic republic of congo. Battered by Hurricane Maria and facing an economic decline sizes of young brits are we to head to the u. S. Mainland in search of opportunity to. God. Hello there are some of us in australia its been pretty stormy recently in canberra were seeing some pretty violent storms and also over perth as well those in perth of ripped the roof from homes and have also brought down some trees as well now the storms here are easing just the outside chance of the old showers as we head through monday and a maximum there of twenty two degrees there is going to be some more wet weather further east than most of that around the coast of New South Wales and just nudging its way into queensland this rain is fairly useful we havent seen a great deal during february and thats now going to be nudging its way northward as we head into tuesday so for New South Wales tuesday does look drier ira to wards new zealand and here were seeing some persistent rain across the south island thats gradually just nudging its way a little bit further towards the north and so well see more in the way of wet weather here but as that system eases weve got another one thats galloping its way towards us as it works its way towards us it looks like late on tuesday were going to see some pretty strong winds and some or all the heavy rain as well further towards the north and for many of us here its draw and find the snow has fortunately eased is just in the east theres going to be more cloud maybe a few showers that clears away there as we head into tuesday and it looks like tokyo will get to eleven degrees. I am doing this on the benefit of saddam people. So bad they see the importance of the our guys. Who witness documentaries that open your eyes. At this time on aljazeera. In light of the top stories here on aljazeera syrian Government Forces have launched a new grandin era fence of against rebel held. Despite the u. N. Security council calling for a cease fire. As the Winter Olympics and then come china envoy for north korea has said this country is ready to hold talks with the u. S. About its Nuclear Program. Christian leaders in East Jerusalem avoided the closure of the church of the holy separate start where christians believe jesus was crucified and buried they say its a protest and israeli attacks and policies which theyre calling an unprecedented attack christians from the holy. Security forces in the democratic republic of congo have shot dead in antigovernment protests and injured several all this in the latest in the series of church fred marches calling on president Joseph Kabila to step down peter shop reports. The Catholic Church has been at the forefront of demonstrations calling on the Congress PresidentJoseph Kabila to stand down. Enough to Morning Service on sunday protesters took to the streets again. Since december more than a dozen people have been killed by Security Forces and protests like these and today there was an all too familiar response by police. To gas quickly followed by gunfire the birth certificate for the local candy was shot dead before the march started. His body taken to a nearby hospital that. Two others were seriously injured one of them a student a church move. They washed each enjoy im not protesting by accident or anybody and not because i dont know why and protesting so but protesting today i was just claiming my rights and this is what happened to me she said. Organizers said the protesters. No longer believed in the political will of current leaders to ensure a peaceful transition of power the campaign is forced to stand down let me just get there is killing and here is kabila condemning them and hes not treat them in the toilet and we will not enter this protest and we maintain our fight and we will go up to the end of it with this fight. As with previous protest marches Internet Data and messaging services were cut across the congo offering for you whatever you want. To give me but the opposition message is getting out. And the shooting by the Security Forces is for the stoking up anger peter shop al jazeera president xi jinping could be reelected as chinas leader in twenty twenty three on their proposal the ruling party is putting forward the communist party wants to change the constitution to remove term limits for chinese leaders and the Vice President would also be allowed to serve for longer than the current two term limit when the party elected president xi jinping as its head for another five years last october. That was the philippines marks thirty two years since the overthrow of the dictator for it and then marcos there have been protests against the current president if we go to targeting those demonstrating say his policies are endangering the democracy that was one back in one nine hundred eighty six and just shapiro reports. Thirty two years filipinos have come together to celebrate a watershed mo