Inside the arabia is the kingdom replaces its military chief and other Senior Defense official says. Prosecutors in south korea push for a tough sentence for us of President Park geun hye is accused of corruption. And from russia with love dances are spreading a message of kindness around the world. After ten days of intense bombardment on syrias eastern because of the fighting was supposed to have stopped at least temporarily but russias military is reporting heavy mortar fire and laying the blame on the rebels on monday russia ordered the daily five polls in the rebel held district to than five hundred fifty people been killed in the past in ten days on sunday opposition doctors reported a suspected poison gas attack russia says evacuation colorados will be set up to allow civilians to leave the area more than four hundred thousand people are trapped in eastern goods and its unclear where they will go now the districts been under siege since twenty thirty and so the daily pools could offer some response but it falls short of the u. N. Security Council Resolution passed on saturday it demanded a thirty day cease fire chill. Aid to be delivered and for the critically ill to be evacuated its go she joins us live from beirut we hearing about shelling what happened. Well yes the Russian Center for reconciliation and the Syrian Official News Agency blaming rebels for targeting a route that they specified for humanitarian like a humanitarian corridor door for civilians to leave the government controlled territory but what we understand is we havent got any independent confirmation about this shelling so of course the progovernment alliance is going to blame the rebels for not allowing civilians to leave but we have been talking to civilians in eastern booth as well as activists many people are too afraid to leave because where can they go theyre going to go to government controlled territory and most of them have been telling us is that we dont have any security guarantees that once we arrive there we will not be arrested or we will not be killed because in one way or another we are all wanted by the government so reports that rebels are targeting this humanitarian corridor but over all this truce has been largely holding it took effect nine am local time in syria thats approximately two hours ago of course the people of eastern will welcome any suspicion of hostilities it gives them time to emerge from underground bunkers to bury their dead but what the people of eastern want is a permanent and lasting cease fire as agreed upon by the Un Security Council on saturday but thank you for that. We had one who dean is an activist who lives inside joins us now via skype from there very good to see you what is the situation how is this playing out we are hearing that there has been a little bit of. Fighting. Yes there was a fighting in deadlines. On history and good. We hear that in the buildings this firing we expect to. Maybe some calmer atmosphere in the eastern good time but even that there is mortals in that in. That so far and it matters. To my city all right are you hearing us down i mean after nine i k are you hearing of people who will leave and if they leave where they going to go to and what their expectations are of this five hour period my friend i want to ask the question how i can how we can trust this regime that is shelling us and a bomb being gassed for the for the for the last five years how between a night and a day. The one who is telling me and that night. Truce and. Humanitarian cross for the eastern goods and the morning we are. We. Want the United Nations the sober of the surprise this truth not the regime and the recent position all right and from a food point of view from a medical aid point of view have you seen anything come in do you have expectations that you will be receiving anything and how dire is the situation is there. My friend. The human appearance duration here in houston good is awful just from ten to thirteen now that people are in the basement for ten days they cannot go out to buy its the same goods to their family even the rice is too high but they have to go out maybe. After the agreement in the United Nation about this is fire maybe the people here in a soup with expect to entering the un convoys and opening the cross for the eastern goods and even a break this brutal series on the area all right will certainly be keeping an eye on this well he did thank you very much for talking to us thank you saudi arabias king has replaced top military commanders in a shake up of the kingdoms Defense Ministry the reshuffle includes the armys chief of staff and there is of ground an air Defense Force inside the state media also announced a plan to develop the ministry but didnt elaborate on how that would happen no official reason has been given for the eval but it comes as saudi arabia faces growing criticism over the war in yemen the director of the Gulf Studies Center at cattle university when he says the latest changes are part of a preparation for mohammad been summoned to succeed his father. I think this is a package of changes started when consume and came to power and it includes changing the economy except where around crew is being controlled by hamas and money his team the media sector also controlled by his team and now they move to the ministries the move now is to the military i think this is part of the preparation the platform for him for his you know. Which is expected to come soon actually rather than later i think that confirms the fact that you know mohamed has been sandman is likely to become the king of saudi arabia sometime soon but not as was expected it would be late and the end of the day there are those leaders who are on the ground who are running the whole operation in yemen but those all those people also in the scene and i think the vision they are to blame some time of the mistakes to place and where i think the war in yemen there is a serious failure when it comes to the saudi arabia that is growing because system from International Community and there is a serious pressure that saudi arabia so the stop should stop what they are doing now and change course if its needed and i think saudi arabia is trying now to open up to the International Community by trying to open up airports and ports for support food or medical support so they can reduce the pressure on the so you have a government and the Alliance Russia has vetoed a u. N. Resolution criticizing iran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of heathy wearables in yemen instead the Security Council unanimously adopted a russian proposed resolution which didnt mention iran or diplomatic editor james bays reports from the United Nations 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 when 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. 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 to believe 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 but just doesnt like the messages doesnt mean its one doing everything they say so will be urging our colleagues for the good of the United Nations system to vote in favor of areas 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 in the galatea of the resolution so our text books in all parts of what the problem of our text has the support of the council on this momentous 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 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 zero the United Nations south korean prosecutors are demanding a thirty Year Prison Sentence for the deposed President Park geun hye she denies bribery of use of power and coersion she became the first democratically elected south korean president to be impeached last year of a Corruption Scandal involving the business and political elite love of pride as more from seoul. Parkin hay has faced an array of charges from alleged bribery to abuse of power even to things like discriminating against artists who she felt were opposed to her government all this dates back to an unfolding scandal in twenty sixteen and much of it related to a friendship with her longtime confidant choice and still its claimed that together choice forced a number of conglomerates to hand over more than fifty Million Dollars in return for business favors the whole scandal led to massive street protests calls for her resignation she clung on to power and was eventually impeached and which brought about her downfall at the end of twenty sixteen since then choi has been found guilty of her part in all this two weeks ago she was sentenced to twenty years in prison something she is appealing against park here in haiti though has pleaded not guilty and indeed has said that shes been treated unfairly by the judicial system and has been boycotting a number of of her Court Appearances but according to the prosecutors shes guilty not only of these crimes but also of damaging the very constitutional fabric of south korea itself still ahead on aljazeera buried for decades the battle to clear thousands a land mine scattered across afghanistan plus. I really believe id run into even if i didnt have a weapon and i think most of the people in this room would have done that to. Chance says he would have run into the Florida School and join the mass shooting area this month. Welcome back across southeastern parts of asia weve got the usual rush of showers much as you would expect to see but really nothing remarkable rainfall totals are quite high in northern parts of luzon quite surprised to see intention rainfall bangkok has also seen some heavy rain last twenty four hours but again nothing out of the ordinary so look at the forecast for a few showers around certainly as we get down towards the southern portion they pinch the towards java barely but for singapore kuala lumpur weather conditions not too bad bangkok should be dry by june the course of wednesday and a few showers across the philippines as move through towards thursday not a great deal of change but again chalfant barely likely to see some downpours heading into a stray dia here where this dominated by a a series of trough of low pressure given the risk of showers you see the old shower close dotted around otherwise relatively quiet conditions the moment the wind direction the key factor they were looking at melbourne at twenty eight during the course of wednesday but then as more of a southerly picks up temperatures drop to twenty degrees c. Look at twenty five across Western Australia a few showers around but person should be pleasant highs there of twenty seven degrees weather conditions across new zealand looking decidedly more unsettled this frontal system working its way into the western side of both north and South Islands still quite warm with highs of twenty two in christchurch. We are going to announce the biggest step in the monkey. Decades activists in seats of government we didnt want to be part of this institution. We really didnt want technologically challenging politics and implementing democracy but the source code to use the freedom for everyone to look we are innovators we are activists we are rebel geeks. At this time and i just you know. Youre watching out there mind of our top stories this hour russias military is reporting heavy mortar fire in syrias eastern go to and laying the blame on the rebels a russian it pause in fighting with the post have come into effect about two hours ago it says the truce would allow people to leave through evacuation cargoes which critics dismiss as force displacement. Saudi arabias king someone has replaced top military commanders in a shake up of the kingdoms Defense Ministry no official reason was given for the overhaul it comes as the country faces growing criticism over the war in yemen. South korean prosecutors are pushing for a thirty year prison term for former President Park geun hye she was ousted last year over an influence peddling scandal a park is standing trial accused of bribery abuse of power and coercion. Teachers have returned to work nearly two weeks after a mass shooting at a school in florida seventeen people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the school peace of facing more criticism that they didnt do enough to prevent the shootings and gallagher rip. For some pocket. In the day since one of the worst School Shootings in u. S. History the memorial to those that lost their lives has grown as parents and students arrive at the school some carry flowers others simply bowed their heads classes will resume on wednesday but for many emotions still roll my daughter hasnt been back since this happened and she wants to see a friend as she wants to resume a somewhat normal life which we know here is never going to be the same but what are we going to do i mean. She she cant stay in her house and do nothing something has to be done. In Florida State capital of this from Marjorie StonemanDouglas High School continue to campaign for a change in gun laws the students have become the voices for a movement now sweeping the u. S. Downhearted when most importantly i feel angry. That we let this happy angry that we did not solve this problem alone time ago and a grief that children are the one pushing and advocating for change and not i am like you know official and investigations now been launched into the polices handling of the shooting sheriff scott israel has been accused of incompetence after his department received warnings about the alleged shooter Nicholas Cruz and a deputys resigned after it emerged he stayed outside while the shooting took place President Trump has indicated he may raise the minimum age for buying assault rifles says he would have handled it differently i really believe id run into even if i didnt have a weapon and i think most of the people in this room would have done that too because i know most of you. But the way they performed was was really a disgrace some of the u. S. Is biggest corporate sponsors are now cutting ties with the National Rifle association is pressure for change grows the Organization Says its against banning assault rifles all raising age limits politics aside parkland is a community that continues to mourn and heal when classes resume on wednesday it will only be for part of the day the building where seventeen people died may be demolished and turned into a memorial but when Students Walk through these gates it will be a traumatic experience and they gallacher all dizzy or parkland florida. Many students in northeastern nigeria say they are too scared to go back to the school where armed men abducted one hundred ten girls last week nigerias government admitted for the first time on monday that the girls had been kidnapped by suspected boko haram classes have since resumed at the school and she village known to nigeria has deployed its air force to search for the girls so that because new president s are all i am opposed has announced a thirty change Cabinet Reshuffle and reappointed government ministers sacked by former leader jacob zuma they include the former finance minister Pravin Gordhan is the new Public Enterprises mr zuma is exwife was also appointed. Has promised what he calls a new dawn to fight corruption iraq is hoping to lure International Investors to help develop its oil and gas industry with victory declared of i saw a fight as government ministers are meeting executors in berlin to discuss how to exploit its vast reserves dominic kane reports. Iraq has some of the Worlds Largest proven oil an