Deepens with protesters calling for elections and a stop of corruption. We begin in syria where at least 63 people have been killed in strikes apparently carried out by russian planes. A bus station was hit. At least 100 people have been killed across the province in the past two days. Gerald tan has the latest. Reporter they gather to search for bodies to cyst through their belongings and what is left of their homes sift. They say air strikes on saturday killed relatives and friends, just ordinary citizens. This man could only muster a prayer, calling on god to help his people. They say russian jets were responsible for the strikes and that this isnt the first time. Dozens of civilians are reported to have died in days of fighting. Russia launched its military operation in syria last september at the request of syrias president Bashar Alassad. Since then russian planes have flown an estimated 570 missions. Rights civilians say many have lost their lives in that time. It has rejected claims that aircraft has sit civilians saying that it uses planes to drop humanitarian aid to those living in besieged areas. Translation i think that today there is not a single army in the world that would talk about its military operations so thoroughly as syria. Its an operation against International Terrorism in this region. Reporter i. S. I. L. Controls most of the province here. It has kept the remaining pockets of governmentheld areas there under siege for the past year. This week it has been on a push to capture those areas. The russians say they intensified bombardment to counter that push by i. S. I. L. Fighters, but the people say here its all been at their expense. Gerald tan syrian state media is also reporting that progovernment forces have recaptured more territory in latakia province. The offensive there is being backed again by russian air strikes. Two groups in the syrian conflicts say more than a thousand civilians have been killed in russian air strikes. The air raids began in september. The london based agency for resume rights have 238 of the civilians killed were children. It also reports that 1141 fighters have been killed, including those from i. S. I. L. Moscow has denied reports that it has killed civilians. The Russian Ministry says the planes have dropped humanitarian aid. The director of the Levan Institute for Strategic Affairs who joins us now. A huge number of civilians once again reportedly killed by russian air strikes. Why does this keep happening . Because the Main Objective of russia intervention and all Foreign Countries in syria is not to fend off this humanitarian crisis. Here we are in a situation where we are i mean, the slogan is to wage a war on terror while each of the parties engaged has their own agenda, priority. The number one priority of russia is to safeguard its syria as a strategic asset. So since its intervention it is not targeting i. S. I. S. Position, but opposition position in a way to try to change the militarily. So it is hoping to change the balance of power through military means, this is number one objective, and not to try to stop this flood of Syrian Refugees to neighboring countries like turkey, lebanon, jordan or even in Europe Russia says it is targeting i. S. I. L. And, indeed, that its planes are only hovering over civilians when it drops humanitarian aid. One must remember that the area is largely controlled by i. S. I. L. Yes. Theyre trying to drop humanitarian aid in the area in some part of the country, but not all of the country. Dropping this kind of aid is not enough to find a solution of the humanitarian crisis in syria. The only solution to this problem is a political solution and up to now russia is not taking any Series Initiative in order to foot the political proceed put the political process on track. We have seen the geneva and vienna track, which is in paralysis and russia is not putting enough pressure on the regime in order to speed up this political process. It boils down to one question when it comes to find a political solution in syria, how to get the syrian sunnis on board and up to now there is no serious initiative taken in order to satisfy the minimum of the sunni requirement. This is why Bashar Alassad departure is the least price you can give the sunnis to make them join this political process thank you very much for taking the time to join us from beirut. Efforts for a political solution are ongoing. Indirect talks between the Syrian Regime and the opposition are planned for monday. The secretary of state john kerry is confident the talks will happen despite divisions. He has been meeting the king of saudi arabia in riyadh. Theyre trying to create a list of opposition groups that will join the negotiations. Our correspondent reports from london. Reporter these talks were always due to start on monday. I think its pretty certain thats not going to happen. The best we can get, i think, on monday is a News Conference with the u. N. Envoy, and the fact that he could there confirm that he has finally sent out the invitations. The controversial thing behind the scenes is who will make up the opposition. John kerry has been in riyadh meeting his saudi counterparts. Saudi arabia was drawing up a list of opposition, but moscow had problems with that list. We understand mr kerry has been speaking to lavrov. It will be up to the opposition whether to attend on the basis of the list that has been agreed by the the International Community. They will come under a great deal of pressure because they will be told if the Syrian Government is there and youre not there, it looks like the opposition is the one that doesnt want peace. So i think it is more likely than not that some sort of talks will take place later in the week. Im told initially those will be socalled proximity talks. The opposition in one room and the Syrian Government in the other with the u. N. Envoy shuffling between the two. Im told initially they will be looking at possible ceasefires in syria and trying to alleviate the humanitarian situation in particularly those areas of syria under siege at least 20 policemen have been killed by two i. S. I. L. Car bombs in a village west of the iraqi city of ramadi. It hit the headquarters of the federal police. Earlier i. S. I. L. Killed 72 soldiers in three separate suicide attacks in ramadi. Imran kahn has this report reporter iraqi soldiers on the road to what they hold is the last i. S. I. L. Stronghold in the country. I. S. I. L. Fighters have managed to slow the iraqi forces assault and the last 72 hours they have been battling to hold the area. They have used suicide car bombs to detrimental effect to the iraqi forces. Most have escaped to places outside of city. Children mimic what they have seen while others just wait. Translation we asked the Security Forces to quickly remove iuds from central ramadi. We want to get rid of i. S. I. L. Signs in the city and we want to return to our homes reporter some say the conditions here are so dire they just want to leave. Others are fed up, but getting back home will be a long and difficult process. The police say they need to mount patrols and reopen police stations before people come back, but what will they be coming back to . Bombed out buildings and devastated infrastructure and this is before anybody has talked about reconstruction afghanistans taliban says it will resume talks with the Afghan Government only if it is removed from a u. N. Black list. The u. S. , china and pakistan has urged the armed group to return to the negotiating table last week, burr a senior taliban member says he wants the u. N. To cancel a resolution fleezing its assets and limiting access for senior figures travel. Supplies of taiz are dwin eling. Reporter the u. N. Says 200,000 civilians here are living in a virtual state of siege. Houthi rebels are blocking aid deliversy in the city deliveries into the city. Translation i was hit by a shell and ive been in hospital for three months. I need medical attention abroad. I lost my legs and there is no treatment for me here in taiz. Reporter the citys hospitals are struggling to cope with demand. More than 90 have closed and those still open are short of staff, medicine and electricity. Around 5,000 people need specialist treatments that they cant provide. They warn that patients will end up with lifelong disabilities unless they are treated. Translation people havent been able to travel and medicine has not been able to be delivered into the city. Reporter almost 6,000 people have died in yemen since the conflict began. The u. N. Says almost half of those are civilians. With cities under siege and restrictions on food and medical supplies, the government is calling on sides to continue peace talks. A lot of the people need diesel, they need the basic necessities to live but on top of that schools have been interrupted. Children havent been able to go back to school and a lot of them are being recruited into militias to join the war. Reporter in the capital, this bakery is using wood instead of fuel to make its bread. Translation there is a severe shortage of diesel and it is expensive on the black market. The city is under siege, so to spare residents additional costs we have returned to using wood. Reporter after ten months of fighting, yemeniss want the war to end and say until it does, their situation will continue to deteriorate 27 Houthi Rebels have been reportedly killed in the latest fighting in taiz. Forces have been targeting houthis fighters. Control have gas and oil fields after launching an attack on rebels in the area. Germany journalists have been prote protesting demanding the release of a journalist. Al jazeera is demanding their Immediate Release too. Pretty more still to come here on al jazeera. Iran rolling out the red carpet. Novak djokovic reaching an unwanted century at the championships. That story coming up in sport more than 80 Million People have been affected by a blizzard sweeping through the u. S. East coast bringing cities to a stands still. At least 19 people have died in stormrelated events across several states. New yorks dpov nor has declared a state of emergency but a travel ban has been lifted. Thousands of flights have been cancelled and now a cleanup operation is underway ahead of monday mornings commute. Crossing over to our washington dc correspondent. Its looking bright there this morning, the cleanup well underway. How is it looking . Reporter the storm has cleared the new england and Eastern Canadian coast and is out to sea, but things are pack to normal here because what were seeing here is a massive clean up that should take a couple of days, but all in all people are taking the conditions in their stride. Reporter the sun was out again on sunday and so were lots of people looking for help to dig their cars out of mountains of snow. Some people have patience and others dont, but when you go through a neighborhood you can see people trying to get your attention. Reporter it was new yorks second largest bliz around in the past century and and a half. Baltimore broke its record of 75 centimeters all it takes is one car to get stuck and that road is now not passable and the ploughs cant plough that road and the situation quickly descends into chaos reporter the snow fall forced more than 11,000 flights across the u. S. To be cancelled since. While new yorks airport struggles to commence flights, some were struggling to open the public transport system. Six people died from exposure to the cold or heart attacks from shovelling snow. Along the new jersey shore the blizzard whipped up tides that flooded many neighborhoods. Some home owners find themselves having to rebuild again. Despite the inveinous, some people were still able to make the most of the blizzard of 2016. Reporter one particular positive note that we might point to is that Power Outages appear to have been at a minimum. At one point there were about 100,000 people without electricity, particularly in north and south carolina, the crews, thousands of crews, are quickly trying to make repairs and they hope that by the latter part of this week power will be restored to all those affected areas many thanks for the update there in washington. Just before we cross over to gabe, theres a question of the white house looking beautiful in the morning snow in all its spl splendor. Its pretty cold there, isnt it. Theres still a massive disruptions to travel and the noise. Reporter yes. There is a lot of noise. Theres a lot of activity here in new york city. That is fire trucks responding to a call. It is 10am here local time in new york city and this is a city and region that is digging out of this has toric snow fall that hit. Let me give you the numbers. 26. 8 inches of snow fell in new york central park. Thats the second biggest snow fall since are you ready for this 1869. So it was a historic snow storm. I will tell you this. A lot of transportation problems. The city is getting back. The buses are running again and the bridges and tunnels are reopening. The city had a transportation ban which has been lifted. You see opening up subways, getting trains, getting buses back on the roads. You can see taxis are back again as well, but really the airports are going to be the big problem. They remain closed, the three key airports are closed. Its unclear if theyre going to open today but most likely they wont. The mayor of new york said it is highly likely that there will be massive Airline Delays or cancellationations as well. There has already been over 10,000, so this is a city still trying to dig out it is. Its pretty resilient. Do you think we will be seeing most people back to work on monday morning . Reporter yes. It is a resilient city. New yorkers have a history of bouncing back after things like this. Neighboring new jersey hit very hard tens of thousands of people every day come in from new jersey and neighboring states into manhattan every day. I can tell you that the bus system, the train system in new jersey is still shut down completely but it will be opening in the next couple of hours. Its not just new york city, its the surrounding towns and really states like new jersey, conneticut that needs to get their transportation back going again so they can get people in so the city can open for business again on monday. This storm caught new york by surprise. Everyone was talking about it on friday, but they were talking about 10 to 15 inches. We saw almost double that. So on friday night when people were leaving new york city, they knew they were going get hit, but friday night into saturday morning, it almost doubled what they were talking about. So it caught a little bit of new york by surprise, but the good news is, as you can tell, no snow now and none expected for this coming week, so it will give people a lot of time to dry off and let some of this snow melt to get this city back up and runging again im sure they will be talking about this for a long time to come. Thank you for the update. The hash Winter Weather is hitting asia with reports of at least 36 people dead. The government has issued a cold weather warning for zeoul for the first time in five years. It has fallen to minus 8 degrees. Thousands of people have been protesting in the moldovan capital. It is over a claim of the president taking orders from tycoons. Reporter the cold weather hasnt stopped many thousands of people coming out into the city center here, angry, furious with their government who they accuse of rampant corruption on an incredible scale. Theyre also furious about the way in which this government has been handling the countrys economic sector. Reporter things have gone from bad to worse, joblessness, a weakening currency and food and fuel prices on the rise translation come to the village and see how much we pay for pasta and sugar. Reporter nobody has anything positive to say about their politicians translation i pray to god for help. I dont trust anyone more. Ive lost all faith reporter on wednesday angry crowds stormed parliament incensed by the appointment of a new Prime Minister. He, standing on the right, is a close ally of the man doing the talking, the most powerful businessman turned politician. The opposition, a loose grouping of parties, want immediate elections. They queues the businessman of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the countrys banks. Translation since independence we have suffered and suffered and suffered and now were in the verge of having in the country a criminal dictatorship. We have to be ready to oppose that at any cost. Reporter the countrys new government has the backing of brussels and washington and says there will be no new elections. Translation we believe that early elections are not the solution for the country right now. Were in a difficult financial situation and we have to find urgent solutions. Reporter camped in the city center for months now are a hard core of protesters from across the political spectrum. Theyre hoping tens of thousands of ordinary people are ready to join them regardless of their geopolitical persuasion. Those numbers have materialized and those parties on the stage are talking to the crowd right now and calling for unity, unity between the different Political Parties because there are different political persuasions and those you political persuasions should not be discounted. On the one hand weve got socialists, prorussian Political Parties and on the other proeuropean forces, but they are not registered politically. If there were going to be elections, there is a good chance that the prorussian element will do very well and that could have serious implications to the flit kal direction Going Forward in the future still to come here on this news hour, the home that grows on you. 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