Remaining rebel stronghold damascus. To this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. Thousands more protesters take to the streets in pakistan the government in the military agree not to use force to disperse them. On during his head to the polls to vote for a new president but a change at the top looks unlikely. And displaced by alshabaab and living in fear i mean the kenyan villages who say theyre too scared to return to their homes. First to syria where at least fifty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian asked rice twenty three people were killed in a syrian air strike in the damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta the area has been on a government siege for a full he is and three hundred fifty thousand people on desperate need of age. Thirty seven people were killed in russian asterix on a gathering of displaced people indoors or province or displaced activists say fifteen children were among the victims. Osama bin job aid has just returned from syria together just across the border in turkey. This right a ceasefire agreement between iran turkey and russia the violence in syria does not seem to be coming to an end the airstrikes in the hooter district of damascus targeted three different residential areas according to activists on the ground the number of casualties is on the rise theyre saying that they are not able to provide help to all of the victims because they have very limited supplies inside. And a number of hospitals have also been targeted in the last few months they say that because of this siege and the Assad Government has not been allowing any medical aid or medical supplies to come in and theyre not able to treat patients as they would in a normal situation this is not the only place where strikes have taken place there also russian strikes which door in between the resort and this is an area where isis fighters have fled to but its not just isis fighters who have fled into these areas its also civilians according to activists on the ground most of the People Killed here there would have been civilians so its another day of violence that weve seen in syria activists and in color telling us from the ground that in the last ten days or so more than one hundred people have been killed in just the Eastern District which is besieged by Syrian Forces and they say they dont see the violence coming to an end any time soon. Prime minister and the military have agreed not to use force to Disperse Protesters in the capital islamabad the demonstrations are angry about the wording of a parliamentary bill on saturday six people were killed as police tried to break up the crowds thousands of people have blocked roads in other cities in a show of solidarity there and a hunter force. Their dances are called to shut down pakistani issued by clerics and political power. The leader who stands in opposition to the government for three weeks protesters have choked the streets of islamabad when there was violence on saturday as police tried to disperse them they spread along highways to other major cities including the whore and karachi. This movement is not political it is the duty of every muslim to protect the owner of islam the protesters maintain this is not political but this is an issue that could undermine pakistans government. It began when pakistans norman is desired handmade introduced a bill before parliament that made no reference to the Prophet Muhammad protest is linked it to the highly contentious issue of blasphemy and while the amendment was withdrawn blamed on a clerical error and hamad apologized the little known group behind the protests argued it remained an affront tells them they want the minister gone. And after the violence on saturday they want the entire cabinet to resign to move wherever. People arent coming out of their houses because theyre scared its a strange situation in the backyard of the narcanon this is the fault of the clerics their extremist attitudes they simply dont care about people and the business has been destroyed by the clerics doing this in the name of islam theyre absolutely wrong and people are in pain and protest organizers have still managed to spread the call for demonstrators did begin encouraged by the Police Failure to get them off the streets kadhim Hussain Rizvi the cleric who leads the teddy caleb ike Pakistan Party has called on his followers to bring the entire country to a halt the government has responded by calling in the army many a bracing for what that might mean the hond and zero. Our correspondent carol hyder is in. A highway between the whole and as im about. For the day the highway fifty don have gone through a grinding halt because the protesters are now broking intersections all along their route which travels from north to south and south. Of people are stuck on the highway these are some of the fortunate people who may have some fertility on the road but there are family. Elderly that take stock in the long queue the protected will not allow them to move any further because of the anger that theyre expressing after the budget on a government grant after those protected and. Instead of their flogging them they have now turned out in large numbers and theyre saying that they will continue to rotate for many more days to come out of court really mean huge problems for people like the who are already suffering they say they need help and they need some guidance as to what to do a ship carrying more than five thousand tons of flour has docked in the yemeni fortified data the first since the Saudi Led Coalition started to see and abdelkader unicef says its for his first delivery of aid into yemen since then sending one point nine million doses of vaccines into the country says a child dies every ten minutes in yemen from preventable diseases a Coalition Fighting yemens who see rebels tighten the blockade after a missile fire on the saudi capital in early november. In child Agency Regional director get capillaries says yemen is teetering on the edge of famine today it is fair to say that yemen. Is one of the worst places on earth to be a child more than eleven million. Yemeni children are to be in acute need of humanitarian assistance thats almost every single yemeni boy and girl on your own server to be in a president ial election thats widely expected to return incumbent to power while in orlando and landers who heads the center right to National Party has been praised for bringing down the sky high murder rates and raising Economic Growth but critics say hes trying to tighten his grip on power eight years after he himself supported a coup against the previous president in a sanchez as more from the capital to. All the candidates are basically offering the same things because congress has and is very intense problems with poverty more than sixty percent of hundreds live in poverty so theres the issue of the economy leave third unemployment are rampant and around the country and of course the issue of insecurity a lot of continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of homicides rates in the world outside the war zone area and so many people have this concerns when they vote and the candidates will be very. Have been offering a lot of solutions to Security Problems but it will be very difficult to match what the president won or lamberton understand he says able to bring down the homicide rate and during his tenure the government says to fifty percent however the service area violence says that. Homicide rate has gone down by thirty percent this is a very reliable source having said theres just more than three hundred and thirty hondurans resign every month here numbered up by violent deaths so this is a very important issue that honduras will keep in mind when they go to the polls today and vote as about where newspaper is reporting that Robert Mugabe was drunk in full immunity and the payment of ten Million Dollars to convince him to step down as president the Zimbabwe Independent also says hes been promised he can keep all his properties and to be paid his salary for the rest of his life but the ruling party disputes we got a got a special deal i would talk to has more from harare. Officials in zanu p. F. Say that Robert Mugabe got the usual standard normal retirement package given to any former head of state were told that he wants to stay in zimbabwe he plans to do that but he is able to leave the country and go to singapore for his usual regular medical check ups hes indicated he wants to do some farming in the country and weve heard his wife grace mugabe is still planning to build the Robert Mugabe university all eyes are now on the new president emerson when they got well and the cabinet he is going to form some indications say that it could be as early as monday when the cabinet is announced people are wondering will he be inclusive will you work with Opposition Party leaders will you also work with other Political Parties which could indicate that he is maybe genuine about being a unifying leader but some zimbabweans fear that if we see more of the old guard in cabinet it could indicate nothing really has changed on the ground and they fear is that if that is the case in things one transform quickly in terms of the economy the main thing now for most of us who are struggling economically and financially is the economy who is the finance minister going to be they hope that individual is someone who can work with the International Community bring investment into the country create jobs and lisa tate the struggling economy reviving zimbabwes crippled economy will be a key issue for the new president anderson unemployment is as high as ninety percent Business Owners are hoping for better times but many are still pessimistic and reports from harare. Sunday and the time for contemplation up to zimbabwes momentous events the church of christ has twenty eight congregations in harare and theyre all here under one tented roof in the front row a University Chaplain by his side a law student his studies had been broken up because his family became destitute. Behind them a couple who may be wearing their sunday best but theyre reliant on a Small Business that barely balances its books theyre only just getting by. Its the sort of service that always has religious intensity but after the dramatic events of the last two weeks this one has an added dimension out would relief in would anxiety there all of one faith but theres a broad crosssection of people here all of them sharing the hardships of so many years most of them all unemployed some selfemployed. Tries to run the Business Exchange rates in the hyperinflation make family life painful at times im a businessman but i cant afford to feed my family. Because. The situation is as it is and where people in the civil case maybe even the Business Community just want to see that change is not new that was. Here it was not. The only thing ive been using like he was the Vice President and he still is in place and hes on time so we guess after three hundred civilians. Who is pessimistic about his future its the age of twenty five i should have been doing Something Better with my life but like now im still stuck it to school after school i have no hope i dont know we saw just something that i can celebrate. And so what different mood than the elation of last week lloyd and emily are representative of many people they have hope but not trust Andrew Simmons aljazeera harare. Still to come. Across the separation wall we meet a palestinian couple forced to live in limbo because of is ready bureaucracy. And continues on a slow path to democracy with millions turning out for provincial polls. Whether remains in the forecast for parts of the middle east over the next couple of days you still got a fair amount of cloud around the black sea the caspian sea and at times that cloud has been taken out to produce the live was armenia ninety nine millimeters of rain in twenty four hours the worst weather will sink a little further southward so heading towards the q white maybe into western parts of iraq kuwait city with a top temperature twenty one degrees celsius cold enough in baghdad just eighteen degrees but prices skies for the time being across that eastern side of the mediterranean cloud will start to spill in from the southeastern corner of here pushing across towards the levant as we go on through cheese day so middle of the week do expect to see a little more damp weather coming through here. Weather to into the Arabian Peninsula more especially around northeastern sections of saudi arabia you can see this line of cloud down towards the Far Southwest of the razor southern end of the red sea but a bit of that weather possibility here in doha temperatures getting up to around twenty eight degrees celsius starting to feel a little wintry meanwhile weve got some wet weather once again just around the northeastern parts of south africa pushing up towards nice and big maybe a few showers there it isnt bobby over the next few days harare with a high of twenty two. Armado top stories on aljazeera russian and government as strikes have killed at least fifty people across syria it tax targets in the areas of eastern guta and. His government and military have agreed not to use force to Disperse Protesters whove blockaded roads near the capitalism about. And the ship carrying more than five thousand tons of flour has docked in the yemeni port of the data the first since a saudi died coalition started to ease a sea and abdelkader Un Childrens Agency also says it sent one point nine million doses of vaccines. Saudi arabias crown prince has warned a forty one Nation Alliance of muslim nations but it cannot allow terrorists to tarnish the name of islam. Was speaking at the first meeting of the Islamic Military Counterterrorism Alliance in riyadh. Or humor when. There is no doubt todays meeting is of great significance simply for the reason that over the past years terrorism has been wreaking havoc in our respective countries in the absence of concerted coordination between our countries this is become history with the establishment of this coalition more than forty islamic countries have dubbed held efforts in combating terrorism with it militarily financially or in terms of political and intelligence cooperation. Well crown prince also offered his condolences to egypt where three hundred five people were killed on friday after fighters targeted a mosque in northern sinai mass graves have been made her some of the victims which included twenty seven children egypts president and their fattah elsisi has promised a use of brutal force against those responsible solidarity vigil has also taken place in palestine for the victims of the attack welcome webb has more from gaza city. Hundreds of people have gathered here. Killed in the attack in the agency friday of the gunman opened fire at a mosque in the town of and all recent killing more than two hundred had already said about one hundred kilometers from here many palestinians live in that part of egypt so some people here knew some of those who were killed this morning events organized by some of gazas political factions but it has some political significance. This is a message of sort of going to the muslims would be born after the mosquitoes which had been. Meeting with it was a board or. The but its a buddhist and. Its you know. On page eight is brokering reconciliation sold to this night is a main Political Parties sponsor and i might as well call it harvesting them factions this is meant to lead to hand over of power here on friday from hamas to the Palestinian Authority of ministration of gaza and its opponents of these developments for jets and Security Officials its due to arrive in gaza tomorrow night these are reasons why i promise not to belittle facts and i want to show solidarity with egypt at the moment but many people in gaza are now doing that right after being several repeated that failed attempts at reconciliation before they wait to see what will happen in the coming days and if this reconciliation will actually produce something kind of your home israels continued occupation of the west bank has come to freedom of movement for many palestinians and spit families in some areas and hes Twelve Thousand people are affected by israels bat family reunification some in occupied East Jerusalem and a smith support for a cub west thousands a crime and into what effectively a no mans land. Location location location rarely is the property hunting maxim more important than in the carved up territory of the occupied west bank mara obaid lives in occupied East Jerusalem she has the right to live in israel her fiance where some cellar main lives in ramallah an hour fifteen year old temporary israeli emergency order means where some cannot get israeli residency to join his wife to be so they have to live here. Falls inside the municipality of jerusalem so its governed by israel but its on the palestinian side of the separation wall but they are bent like any other engaged girl you plan you have to dream i would have chosen for a car i was thinking of a house with a small garden its more like a dream though faced by the reality i had no choice but to live in for a cup so i can keep my Identity Card and my life partner kathak ups unusual situation i mean seventy thousand people a packed into a limited piece of land now the population of course has grown by as many as ten thousand people a year every year for the last twelve years but this town could never expand outwards because of a separation wall and that suits the israelis because its another way that they can control the number of palestinians living on the other side of the wall the main purpose in our point of view all from our long experience in this field is to push palestinians outside of the voters to to divide the families they know what it means you know the family and the personal social network and they are targeting the feminists this is they are targeting children they are targeting the homeless they are targeting you know their presence in jordan more than Twelve Thousand palestinians are stuck in this bureaucratic limbo and theres no chance of relief in sight. But its a myth aljazeera in the occupied west bank. Local elections have begun in cuba as part of a cycle that will end with the selection of a new president in february version of the next few months will see cubans transition from sixty years of castro rule you see in human has more from the capital have. The municipal elections are the only instance in which ordinary citizens can directly participate in the choosing and voting for their officials after this it is the provincial organization and then the National Assembly they each choose each other and then eventually that National Assembly or congress if you like chooses the president that one who will succeed president raul castro the last of the castros after nearly six decades to govern this country but at this level with the people will be choosing for some Twelve Thousand five hundred municipal delegates among more than twenty seven thousand candidates it sounds like a lot but not a single one of them belongs to the opposition this year for the first time an unprecedented number of dissidents attempted to take part in these when a civil elections but they were not allowed to do so south koreas launch a review into its anti abortion law after a major Public Campaign when two hundred thirty thousand people have signed a petition calling for the north to be abolished but theres also strong opposition to changing the legislation in a nation with one of asias largest percentages of christians so criminalized abortion in one nine hundred fifty three during the korean war. Cambodias Prime Minister has called for the closure of one of the countrys main human Rights Groups the Cambodian Center for human rights was founded by Opposition Leader came so car whos in jail for treason denies the charges against him Rights Groups say hussein was one of the worlds longest serving Prime Ministers is systematically silencing critics. No it isnt the poor taking part in elections that like the final stage of a Peace Process that started back in two thousand and six and the aim is to turn it into a federal democratic republic to minister reports from district. The Early Morning call is no deterrent for these people in the district they have come to exercise their right to vote district and National Officials have been working for days to ensure the election happens far and the new constitution is being implemented and as a local elections have already taken place this is the first phase of election for national and its did as and leave this election is important because it is about implementing the constitution the first phase of this election is happening in the hills and mountains where climate and terrain can be challenging the second phase will take place on december seventh in more moderate climate there are nearly six thousand registered voters here and competition is fierce every vote counts and representatives from all sides i keep a tight watch. There are candidates representing both the Left Alliance of nepals communist Party Unified marxist leninist and the former maoist and the Democratic Alliance of the Nepali Congress and the right of center parties one candidate will represent this district in the National Assembly and two in the state assembly. But for people like groom who runs a hotel here this election is more about Development Done tours. I really hope that we get a good representative tourism is important for us and we need good roads for people and tourists here we also need schools and hospitals. District is on attracting route and has recently been linked by roads but the journey is precarious polls close at five in the evening local time but by Late Afternoon most people have already cost the while in milan district Officials Say that more than the expected number of people have cast their ballots nationally the turnout has we know making it difficult to predict the outcome of this election which will turn into a federal republic soviet russia out of the euro when one district in a part of kenyas military says its pushed fighters out of a forest along its southern border with somalia but religious fear another group is now carrying out attacks on civilians in the area Catherine Story reports from southern kenya. Elizabeth cards lost two sons were reason he killed by an unknown people believed inside borneo a forest that extends to the border with somalia. Their home area we too as well as other paths along the kenyan coast have been attacked several times over the last few years. We stayed home that night instead of going back to the camp for displaced people one of my sons was not well and so we all decided to be with him we were attacked at around eight pm two other people what killed on that night in this village the government has often blamed somalis are shabaab fighters whove been using the forest as a hideout to plan attacks and train kenyan recruits but also increasingly conflict between firmus and hard as living inside the forest one of Elizabeth Carville sons was in that house when the attackers came the other one was right out there there was also a friend in the compound their mother was preparing to sleep in the next house she says that the attackers targeted the men they slit their throats and then fled the members of. This lama county administrative leader shows us some of the trouble areas he says a security operation has forced alshabaab out of the vast forest. Have been seen in years and when i was serious to live in the country they dont mean free like in the past. We cannot the government now wants more than two thousand people who have been living in this temporary shelters on the edge of the forest to go back home life is stuff for them here they have little food and a bed bag infestation but they say going back right now is not an option so. We quickly said cullom if i knew its true the government has pushed out al shabaab but what we fear even more than alshabaab are the herders in the forest theyre the ones whove been killing our people lately theyre the ones who should be dealt with before we go back. Agnes and also lives in the compound this is the first time in three months that she and her san have come back to check on their home they dont have much time they tell us they have to go back to the camp before nightfall when it gets dangerous Catherine Sawyer aljazeera we too south in kenya. Scientists in australia are encouraging the public to help them study native frogs by recording the creatures themselves. Straight a museum is designed a Smartphone App which allows people to pick up the unique sounds of the countrys two hundred forty frog species ever been is under threat from Climate Change introduced predators and Human Development scientists will collect and study the data to learn more about the health of the front populations not many frogs sort of rabbit that you get hoots with will. Hold that found like a lock tap stripping tennis ball thing absolutely everything so some of the frogs that you might hear might found like but bach and. For amazing diversity and this prime will help you capture those calls and then we can identify who where frogs are and how theyre doing. And one of the top stories are now because there are a series of russian and government has killed more than fifty people across syria twenty three people died in a syrian airstrike in the damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta the rebel held area has been under government siege for four years. And thirty seven people were killed in russian airstrikes on a gathering of displaced people in darrows or province british based activists say fifteen children were among the victims. August ons government and military have agreed not to use force to Disperse Protesters near the capital islamabad the demonstrations have blockaded roads for weeks angry about the wording of a parliamentary bill rallies are spread to several other cities since saturday when at least six people died after police tried to clear a protest camp. Has more from the purchased in. Only highway between the whole and is known about. The protests now broking intersections all along the route which travelled from north to south but then i found really very elderly who are stuck in their garden long queue. Will not allow them to prove any further because of the anger that derek after the budget danny government rent after those general will bring the any plumber by that of god will mean huge problems for the world already suffering a ship carrying more than five thousand tons of flour has docked in the yemeni port of her data the first since the Saudi Led Coalition started to ease a sea and air blockade meanwhile the Un Childrens Agency says it sent one point nine million doses of vaccines into the country unicef says a child dies every ten minutes in yemen from preventable diseases. Urines a voter you know president for election is widely expected to return the incumbent to power when orlando had nandos who heads the center right National Party has been praised for bringing down the sky high murder rates and raising Economic Growth but critics say hes trying to tighten his grip on power eighty is after he supported a coup against the previous president. As the headlines do stay with us next up its inside story and ill have the news after you straight after that thanks for watching often are. A number of International Brands have pulled the ad for us from you tube its in response to a u. K. Investigation that found the video sharing site running ads next in a