Is already forced thousands from their homes. And in big changes for african footballs Biggest International tournament the 2021 africa cup of nations in cameroon will start in january. Now russian and syrian warplanes have resumed attacks on province syrias the last remaining rebel held area and thats despite a cease fire that was supposed to come into force on sunday at least 21. 00 people have been killed in recent days the White Helmets rescue group says its recorded more than a dozen violations of that cease fire will have more on the die humanitarian situation in edges but 1st this report from cutting up has what area. The damage caused by one of several airstrikes in the northwest part. Its a bit like survivors trying to salvage whats left i emergency crews combed the rubble to recover the body of a child was there civilians were among the casualties and it lip city i was. Delighted to david to point out that in the afternoon it lapses he was targeted by stroke or 23 jets they hit the Industrial Area and alcohol markets and must of those hurt have serious injuries. In a nearby hospital france console a father grieving his son was a ceasefire which started on sunday was shattered on a one step 6. I was in syrian and russian jets attacked it that city as well as several rebel held town was the ceasefire was brokered by turkey which supports the rebels and russia which backed the Syrian Governments 9 month offensive thank fighters linked to al qaeda are the strongest forces in these areas home to around 3000000 civilians according to the u. N. Close 2400000 syrians have been forced from their homes and it lives in the past 10 weeks the kremlin says its targeted rebels whove attacked civilian government held areas and whats supposed to be a socalled deescalation zone i russia and turkey are reported to have been a go she to be a sampling of a secure zone for the displaced during the winter and russia has announced humanitarian corridors have already been established to allow people in its lips to cross over into government held territory its unclear how many have chosen to go. With a yawn aljazeera. Now the turkish humanitarian organization is based in and it says in the past 2 and a half months nearly 400000 syrians have been forced from their homes in crete including a quarter of a 1000000 children and 100. 00 children are among 311. 00 civilians killed many survivors are in during the winter and makeshift tents with poor hygiene and the Turkish Organization accuses the Syrian Government and its russian allies of bombing markets mosques Schools Health centers and Water Treatment plants. Is this year a researcher at Human Rights Watch and she joins us now on skype from amman in jordan sorry lets start with the situation on the ground at the moment the ceasefire is effectively over so how many people are now left caught up in the fighting that currently in the we have over 4000000 people the larger portion of them civilians who are essentially trapped in the. Northwest syria governors between the turkish looked border and relentless laurent from the Syrian Regime military alliance all of their lives right now our troops sorry i also am curious because weve seen these Huge Population movements since this latest offensive began people moving towards the Turkish Border how are people coping with winter conditions there. I mean the humanitarian situation the really dire since december 1st you have 350000 people whove north as a result of the Syrian National military offensive and although humanitarian organizations are scaling up their operations they simply cant keep up with the demands so you have families that are out in the open in the middle of the freezing freezing weather no tents no shelter no food people are starving to death in this gov and theyre not being bombed theyre dying because theyre hungry so i remember the amount of and access to cross border aid in that meeting with slashed in order to get that resolution through the Security Council so whats been the impact on the ground as a result of that in terms of the good thing is that the 2 Border Crossings where aid is coming into live has been have survived even though theyve only survived for 6 months so we dont know whats going to be happening in 6 months but we do know that the iraqi Border Crossing will be out of here which goes to northeast syria has been slashed resulting in decreased humanitarian aid to up to around 1000000 and a half people who are in northeast syria. The slashing of this resolution essentially is a clear signal to the International Community that could in 6 months the same crisis could be exacerbated in the sar theres already a u. N. Investigation going on into whether war crimes have been committed in it and broadly in syria throughout the war these latest ass strikes that weve been talking about has a market in your opinion are war crimes ongoing there. Inherent touches of sustenance yes its likely that many of these attacks on protected civilian Infrastructure Infrastructure where theres a large civilian presence and norrie military targets are likely to be war crimes well documented these attacks on displacement centers on schools and hospitals and it seems that the pattern has not has not stopped sorry youve been covering this for some time and its been years and years of war now where do we go from here for the people of it. I think this is this is the question that needs to be asked we have form of him people who are relying on us to do something to protect them weve raised the countless times the syrian arsenal military alliance has not the turkey has not opened its border to people sleeping the violence this is it this is the moment of truth unless something changes drastically on the ground its likely that were going to be seeing this tragedy unfold before our very eyes and we will be other sponsible for the deaths of millions of civilians sorry sara such as Human Rights Watch thank you for joining us on aljazeera us our. Local reports say that 12 Afghan Police officers have been killed in a Taliban Attack in the Northern Province of condos and reportedly happened in the khanabad area thats about 25 kilometers east of the provincial capital the last day of the taliban and launched a major attack in condos city killing and wounding dozens of people before Afghan Security forces cleared the fighters from the city. Now despite International Pressure to abide by its 2015 newquay deal commitments iran says it will continue to enrich uranium in a televised speech president Hassan Rouhani said tehran has now surpassed the limits set to that agreement his statement comes just days after 3 e. U. Nations you launched a dispute mechanism that might bring u. N. Sanctions on iran well our correspondent us and beg is live for us in tehran this appears to have been a very deliberate calculation by rouhani whats his message now to the International Community. Its a message of defiance and rouhani and president rouhani has been speaking this morning it was a very defiant speech but its not something that were not aware of already according to the 2015 Nuclear Deal Iran is allowed to and richard rain during it up to 3. 6 percent we know that now its at these 4. 5 percent theyre also not allowed to have a stockpile of uranium more than 300 kilograms and we know theyve got over that and iran has admitted that theyve been scaling back their commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal since last year in 5 phases the last phase was this january early this january where iran said that they are no longer restricted by those restrictions placed out in the 2015 nuclear deal but yes it is a message of defiance theyre saying despite the sanctions despite the e. U. Not sticking to their commitments from the iranian perspective despite everything that the United States has been doing and saying that irans economy is still strong that iran is still defiant enriching uranium the stockpiling uranium but you also said that we accepted the risks of reducing our commitments to d. J. C. P. O. A that 2015 nuclear deal he said that yes we have struggled our oil experts have exports have been reduced but our economy is in a good position but also the foreign minister of sweden has been speaking to british media this morning and she said that the 3 the european 3 countries are trying to put pressure on both the United States and iran to sit down and talk and she and return to the j. C. P. O. Agreement and she rejected the idea by u. K. Prime minister baraks johnson that iran should sit down and really go shake a new donald trump she rejected that idea but yes president rouhani is just outlining what iran has been doing reducing the commitments to that 2015 deal enriching uranium jar higher percentage and stockpiling more than was agreed in the 2015 nuclear deal and said he also seemed to have quite a bit to say to his domestic audience seemingly defending his governments record how much pressure are they under at the moment. Well the government and the political establishment here on are under immense pressure because president rouhani came in with a message of hope when he was elected he was going to open up the country he was going to negotiate and he staked his political career and his reputation on this nuclear deal and now since the United States unilaterally pulled out and impose sanctions on iran that has been a very difficult time for the economy and people have been very upset just back in november there were widespread and to government protests because of a fuel price increase theres been a nation of general kassam so the money which was put out lots of people out onto the streets and the president rouhani mentioned this in his speech because he sees this as support for his government term political establishment but now we are seeing people very upset at the downing of the ukrainian airliner they have been protests but also hes looking forward to the parliamentary elections are taking place next month and that would be indicative of who gains power in this country in terms of political factions so its trying to reassure people and trying to build support for his political faction and hes government in terms of a message of hope and trying to get people to get behind the government and have faith that something will eventually come through in terms of the nuclear deal an easing of sanctions as said bag there for us in terror on thank you. Well plenty more ahead for you this news hour including the u. S. And china sign an initial deal to try to end that 18 month long trade war but the stock markets arent too impressed well have the view from beijing. And another dire warning new climate days or so as the past decade is the hottest on record. And in sport the video assistant referee cup celebrations shortened the english f. A. Cup andys here with that story. Now u. S. President donald trump is set to stand trial before the senate on impeachment charges later on thursday the presiding judge will be sworn in trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress he is only the 3rd president in u. S. History to face such proceedings his or castro has moved from capitol hill inside the jamba locus are the articles of impeachment documents accusing President Donald Trump of abusing his power in obstructing congress the 7 newly ordained impeachment prosecutors follow democratic members of the house who will argue that trump should be removed from office the president is not above the law he will be held accountable he has been held accountable he has been in future the senates reception of the articles marks the beginning of the trial phase of trumps impeachment the 100 u. S. Senators will soon be sworn in as jurors with arguments to Begin Next Week republicans hold the majority in the senate and their leader Mitch Mcconnell has boice strong opposition to the impeachment if the shutter blesses this unprecedented and diverse house process by agreeing to complete case at a subjective basis or enough to impeach a president. We will almost guarantee the impeachment of every future president of either party or the house like that bird trump is only the 3rd president in u. S. History to be impeached he denies the allegations that he withheld u. S. Security aid to ukraine in order to pressure ukraines president Volodymyr Zelinsky to announce an investigation into joe biden new evidence continues to emerge in the case on tuesday impeachment investigators released Text Messages and notes from an associate of trumps private attorney Rudy Giuliani get the linsky to announce that the biden case will be investigated wrote the associate who had been dispatched to ukraine and in a letter addressed to the president of ukraine giuliani says he is acting with trumps knowledge and consent witnesses may tell the truth and witnesses may not tell the truth documents joe generally like whether the new documents or potential new witnesses will play a role in trumps trial is an open question the president s defenders say no the polling shows the majority of americans think senators should hear new evidence in order to have a fair trial the senate is on trial as well as the president does the senate conduct the trial according to the constitution to vindicate the republic or does the senate participate in the president s crimes by covering them up at least 4 republican senators would need to agree to open the trial to new witnesses thats possible but the odds for conviction and remove all are much steeper support from 20 Senate Republicans will be required to make that happen but a historic trial of a president is now guaranteed heidi joe castro aljazeera washington. Well the u. S. Senate will effectively become a court that will stage president on trumps trial that will only happen next week but theres a formal process that needs to happen before that now in the coming hours the chief justice of the Supremes Court john roberts will be sworn in as the presiding judge hell then deliver an oath to all 100. 00 senators swearing them in as jurors for the trial after that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell will introduce the rules which will govern the trial the senate to then issues a summons to President Trump informing him of the charges hes facing and requesting a response finally on tuesday next week the impeachment trial will officially begin but robert grucci is an associate professor at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and he joins us now on skype from there robert i want to focus on the political calculations that both sides are making its a given that republicans have the majority in the senate presumably President Trump is going to be acquitted but the democrats have decided to go through with this anyway and push to call witnesses so is this now about trying to get potentially damaging information out in the senate. Yeah i mean i think thats the best that the democrats can hope to learn from from this trial to be quite honest and you know republicans are going to fall in line and theyre going to follow mcconnell theyre going to follow the other leaders in how they vote these are not autonomy. Senators as it were there are there are larger political block youre going to follow the guidance of the leaders of the best of democrats can probably hope for some sort of smoking gun. Though it does look like if they had a small begun it would have come out when the house was was debating this robot you save that its a political block but i also recall mr mcconnell has said hes essentially going to coordinate with the white house and that has made some moderate republicans pretty nervous i say theyll now be a discussion about witnesses and documentary evidence which mcconnell was previously completely opposed to so it doesnt mean that some moderate republicans could flip. Well certainly and if they do slip it would be with the approval of the leaders that they would just make that decision in their own offices that would be something that would be coordinated among the republicans as as a whole so if doubt if that were approved the leaders would be pretty confident that that evidence and those witnesses wouldnt be too too damaging to do to donald trump who certainly is going to be using this trial in the actions of the democrats against them in this 2020 election i say that one of those witnesses could potentially now be john bolton a very big name there and initially we had that there was going to be no one potentially testifying from the white house so now do you think that nancy pelosi is decision to delay sending these articles of impeachment to the senate has essentially paid off. Well the john bolton part is really interesting that you know bolton and trump werent necessarily big fans of of each other and so is john bolton who could be a key witness if he does come forward certainly watching the delay of the papers heading over to the senate also corresponded with u. S. Strikes and with iran and that tension that we saw in those those those military bases in iraq so there was some question about whether the delay had to do with military action had to do with this sort of back backdoor sort of negotiation over whats going on in terms of witnesses and evidence but whats going to be happening starting next week is going to be an unprecedented poli