A partial truce in the rebel held on place. Moscow vetoes a u. N. Resolution that aims to pressure iran over its role in the war in yemen. South africas president recalls key ministers sacked by his predecessor jacob zuma in his first cabinet reshuffle. Of talent x. Generation y. Five networks will change all lives will have the latest from the World Mobile Congress in barcelona. Could soon be a pause in fighting in the rebel held area in syria russias president Vladimir Putin an ally of syrias leader Bashar Al Assad has ordered a five hour ceasefire every day in east and go to the capital damascus is. Following the order of the russian president with the aim of eliminating casualties among the civilian population of eastern guta a daily humanitarian pauses being introduced starting february twenty seventh from nine am to two pm and a humanitarian corridor will be created for the exit of civilians its cordon its have been prepared and will be announced soon ok. The un has welcomed russias plan but has reiterated his call for a thirty day ceasefire across syria which was passed in a resolution on saturday the u. K. Criticized president putins move and accused russia of playing games twenty six people were killed on monday nearly five hundred people have died in intense bombing by syrian and Russian Forces in eastern over the past week some of in job report it is not yet clear what the details of this proposed russian ceasefire between nine am to two in the afternoon are going to be so far what weve seen is that this humanitarian ceasefire will mean that a corridor will be opened and people will be allowed to exit people inside eastern huta do not want to exit from their homes they have been seeing what has been happening to people in aleppo they have been seeing what has been happening to people in the riaa and they do not want to exit their own homes to places they were in they dont know what are the conditions going to be like if it is going to be in the south near the border with jordan are they going to be moving west the words the city of damascus the syrian capital or will they be forced to move into there because continuing to be a front line between government and rebel forces so these are all questions that people in who have been asking theyre angry theyre frustrated they say that this is not they were expecting what they were expecting from the United NationsSecurity Council resolution and saturday evening where there was a unanimous agreement that there will be a thirty day cease fire across syria people have been expecting humanitarian aid deliveries to be brought into them this is an area home to nearly four hundred thousand people and a few hours they think is not going to help them. Latest suspected chlorine gas attack in eastern grocery has killed a child of those left other people struggling to breathe witnesses reported smelling the gas explosion just a warning that you may find some of the images to hold us reports distressing. One of the front lines in eastern opposition fighters say they are rebelling attempts by pro Syrian Government forces to storm the besieged and clave. Rebel saying they killed dozens of soldiers on the ground offensive began on sunday just hours after the u. N. Security Council Agreed to a cease fire throughout. Since then there has been no letup in the war the intensity of the airstrikes and the shelling appears to have dropped when compared to the relentless Bombing Campaign during the first week of the assault but civilians continue to die those who are able to find underground shelter avoid going outside more than five hundred people have already been killed children and women among them. The any god give me patience to face this tragedy my children are scattered here and there my son lost three kids such awful memories i know i am blind i lost my house six days ago i have nothing at all i have been here for six days theres no food and water are living in tal. Chlorine gas has also reportedly been used activists and medics a victim suffered breathing problems i dont know some of the teachers today we have more than thirty dead dozens of mints and launching of chemical weapons they bombard us with chlorine sarin and other gases from iran and we dont know what they are russian in common they dont care about un Council Decisions they still can use chemical weapons against us progovernment forces have been accused of using chemical weapons in the past especially when they want to clear an area. Allow their forces to advance the Syrian Government and russia are using a loophole in the un Security Council cease fire resolution the military campaign they say that does not cover areas which are held by what they call terrorists and eastern there are two main rebel groups. And. They have sent representatives to russian sponsored talks in astronaut but there are also a few hundred. Fighters belonging to a Group Previously known as the. Front the opposition says. Fighters are ready to leave but the progovernment alliance wants all rebel factions to surrender there are thousands of fighters in eastern huta and between three hundred to four hundred thousand civilians says the u. N. God be with us wheres the ceasefire the airstrikes havent stopped weve been going through this for the past week no food no water the kremlin says the people at least to be held hostage but the fighters and their families are also the people of this damascus suburb surrendering would probably mean forcible displacement to another unsafe rebel area and never returning home. U. N. Spokesman. Daily truce is better than nothing we stand ready as soon as the conditions are safe for Truck Drivers humanitarian workers to roll into these areas. For that to be effective. The fighting needs to stop we need to ensure that there are no roadblocks whether physical or administrative. Whether or not. Five hours is enough not enough its a difficult question to answer five hours is better than no hours but we would like to see any sation forces be extended. Thirty days as the Security Council said but we will effort to do whatever we can within the time that were able to work the u. K. Stephanie ambassador to the u. N. There was criticizing russias announcement of the humanitarian corridor in syria weve got a clear resolution thats been passed by everybody every member state of the Security Council is obliged to do everything it can to implement and to see implemented Security Council resolutions and of course includes russia ive just seen the announcement you referred to and what i would say to that is that is not compliance that is not implementation of the resolution passed on saturday. But it does show that it can be implemented so russia can implement it if it chooses to if its able to do a fine example it is able to do a twenty four hour pause so its up to russia whether it wants to implement fully the resolution that it signed up to and voted for where it wants to play cynical games. And fellow and the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute where he focuses on syria he joins us now live from washington d. C. Andrew what you make of this russian announcement of this daily five polls in fighting russia showing this still very much in control. Russia showing it has influence its good to have this kind of pas and humanitarian corridors in theory but its not going to stop the assad regimes assault on these besieged areas its not going to meet the thirty day cease fire. Which was demanded by the u. N. Security council instead going to give us something way short of that and with it were going to have some relief but continued suffering of those who were surrounded in the school and where does this leave that Un Resolution i mean it is russia playing as the u. K. s deputy ambassador said cynical games. Well i think russia is playing a game in which it tries to do the bare minimum to in order to pacify or to basically. Gain the acceptance of a lot of. The International Community that is doing all that it can i think there is a lot of skeptics that say that they can do a lot more and the problem of course that the russians have is inside the conflict is that bashar assad triangulates between them and the iranians and so when they dont listen to the russians they often go to the iranians and the iranians oftentimes have a harder line on these things but so basically this cease fire is not going to be implemented until all the parties are operating on the ground. Except the rebels of course. Agree that in a position theyre happy militarily the opposing fighting is needed and thats right there have to be a decision by. The assad regime in the various factions that fighting was not their best interest right now and that its better to go to the negotiating table the problem is that while the negotiating table is there so to speak. The opportunity to make progress at the talks is very limited i dont expect thats going to change absent increase in the fighting the worsening situation right so if this five daily poor in fighting which which could begin later today is introduced. I will make a difference to the civilians trapped in eastern. Well it could give them food it could allow them to civilians to escape. But it depends on how many people want to leave. The track record of those who do leave the areas they oftentimes make it out but not necessarily better conditions. And then of course there is the specter of the assad regime turning up. The use of other weapons on these areas in the future so its going to its going to be interesting to see if this actually takes hold and youre good to talk to many thanks indeed for being with us my pleasure russia has vetoed a u. N. Resolution which would have criticized iran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of you who think rebels in yemen instead the Security Council unanimously adopted a russian proposed resolution which did not mention iran diplomatic as james bays reports from the u. N. In new york for the middle east this was an important moment russia for the first time casting its veto in the Security Council to protect iran it came in a moment of high drama in the Council Chamber to rival resolutions on yemen put to back to back votes the one vetoed by russia was a u. K. Draft back strongly by the u. S. Which contained criticism of iran it received eleven votes in favor because of russias position it failed they moved on to russias own draft without any mention of iran Security Council members aware that sanctions in yemen would collapse if there was no new resolution back to unanimously it led to angry exchanges the u. K. s resolution was a simple common sense it called out iran for giving the who are these the tools to threaten yemens neighbors and to threaten freedom of navigation through the red sea. But this common sense attempt to hold iran accountable has failed its going to become a political move i will be frank the wording in the british draft is liable to have dangerous destabilizing ramifications and this is not only a political to the situation in yemen but also to the region overall this will never truly escalate regional tensions and lead to conflicts among key regional players the vote had been postponed for several hours as the u. K. Tried but failed to reach a compromise with russia the acting British Ambassador had earlier told me he wanted his resolution to reflect the findings of an independent panel on yemen but that report was not only critical of iran russia doesnt like the outcome of certain expert panel reports it just doesnt like the messages doesnt mean it undermine everything they say so well be urging our colleagues for the good of the United Nations system to vote in favor of areas in which your text doesnt reflect everything in the panel of experts reports as a mention of us torture camps is not the same mention of the bombardment by the saudis and the illegality of that in the resolution so our text focusing on part of what the problems of the us or our text has the support of the council and thats on this thank you very much in the end he did receive the support of the majority but the key takeaway is the fact that russia was prepared to cast its veto the trumpet ministration constantly says that terror on is the stabilizing the middle east region and that its prepared to take action weve now had confirmed what we expected that russia will block the un route to any such action james outages era of the United Nations beta cells reza Senior Consulting researcher at Chatham House he joins us now via skype from new york peter good to have you with us where you make of all of this. Well its not a major surprise russia has an interest in protecting iran overall in all of this and certainly there is a case to be made a number of accusations that the made in the panel of experts report the panel of experts perhaps not quite as conclusive in in their findings as has been suggested what theyre saying is there is clear evidence that iranian made. Components found their way to yemen probably since the war began but not that iran can be proven to have supplied the these components and again as your reporter was asking someone just a month ago i believe the british represents that at the u. N. A number of other accusations saying that all parties to the conflict violated International Humanitarian law and allegations the socalled camps and in some parts of the country somewhat selective and also with a new u. N. Envoy in place one could one could argue that the Security Council voted in favor of this resolution would really have made his job much easier if he came in and try to mediate and end the conflict so whos got the moral high ground here russia of all the sponsors of this resolution. No one has the moral high ground in any and in anything to do with the Security Council right now. The use of the. Across the board in the Security Council right now is something that is political were seeing resolution trying to lay blame firmly on one side and punish one side or the other using to. Prevent that from happening so this is really sadly just politics as usual in many ways for the un Security Council and very little to do with sort of any form of moral high ground on the part of any any group all right what should the un Security Council be doing constructively to bring relief to the people suffering in yemen. Well first and foremost there is a slightly problematic Security Council resolution from twenty fifteen u. N. Security Council Resolution two two one six which arguably ties the hands of the u. N. Envoy tied to the previous u. N. Envoy to yemen a new envoy now about to come into the role at the end of this month. And what they could do is put in a resolution that gives him more leeway to talk to who he likes and to mediate between whichever party sees fit because that resolution has. In effect put the conflict into into two camps which in the longer really relevant given the chain of events on the ground peter really good to talk to you many thanks indeed because on screen you. From out sirrah still to come on the Program Teachers and students return to the size of the Florida School mass shooting as police come under more criticism plus. The right to be. An emotional appeal to save their head just by own sense to cheese fellow nobel peace laureates. And later in sport german football supporters make their feelings clear about the matches being moved to mondays. South africas new president has reappointed a number of ministers sacked by former leader jacob zuma still run oppose announced thirty changes to ministerial positions now and then was reappointed finance minister well problem gordon was named Public Enterprises minister. Demi zuma who narrowly lost to round poser in the n. C. Leadership election was also given a position of weapons the latest from johannesburg. Its not the overhaul that many ram opposed the supporters or many South Africans who were hoping for a clear change of direction and an Anti Corruption drive would have hoped for many ministers from the previous cabinet who appointed by former president jacob zuma and implicated in many of the corruption scandals that afflicted his government have been reappointed but in different positions the most controversial of those reappointment is musi a good guy but a foreigner from former finance minister hes been reinstated in another powerful position the ministry of home affairs one position that will point and that will reassure people who are hoping for a change of direction is the appointment of Pravin Gordhan the former finance minister hes been appointed in the ministry of enterprise he has a reputation for cleaning up any ministry that hes been in charge of so that will reassure people who were hoping for some change poses stuck within a rock and a hard place on the one hand trying to please the supporters and those who wanted a complete change of house and a new direction on the other hand he still has to pick a date yanceys National Executive committee that put him in position as the leader of the a. N. C. And can recall him at any time to keep his job he has to keep different factions within the a. N. C. Placated as well as trying to push through what he says is his agenda of cleaning out corruption and fixing the economy many st