A purana also ahead. Four of us sister started running to give that she fell and i fell down but someone picked me up that was the last time i saw her she was taken. Aljazeera is on the ground in Northern Nigeria as officials try to establish what happened to nearly one hundred schoolgirls. International donors pledged more than five hundred Million Dollars for a Security Force in africa so how. On Andrew Thomas in the gun is a strong outs ill be explaining plans to turn. Water into one of the worlds biggest. Trades. The United Nations envoy to syria has called on russia and turkey to urgently reinstate deescalation zones that were designed to reduce violence the u. N. Security council is set to vote on a trial. Resolution demanding a thirty day ceasefire in the rebel held on claim of Eastern Ghouta the place four hundred sixteen people have been killed and government there just this week now activists say forces loyal to president bashar assad have begun firing rockets to cause fires asama has more from. The latest development which weve heard since last night going to defray the morning that rockets which cause fire incendiary bombs have been used which when they land it creates a fireball which will cause everything and its surrounding there have been a very few casualties because of the fact that a lot of people have been going to underground shelters because of the intense bombardment in eastern we heard last night from the u. S. Diplomats in the in the United Nations the saying that it is preposterous when russia says that it is going in that there is no link between killing civilians and fighting terrorism and one has to be separated from the other the u. N. Has been insisting that it is their right for people to have humanitarian access it is not one of the viciousness it is supposed to be their right and they should get it but inside the east and the besieged east and the situation has become much more grim weve heard multiple attacks in areas in various parts of eastern where people have not been able to come out of these shelters that theyve been living in and people especially parents are finding it extremely hard. To other news now the governor of nigeria as you know of a state Security Forces delayed their response to the abduction of dozens of schoolgirls because theyre worried that the air force would mistake them for boko haram fighters or the armed group of a suspected of taking the girls from their school on monday in the Nigerian Government is already under fire for falsely claiming the girls have been rescued our correspondent our current address was the First International journalist on the ground and sent this report from. Disappointment inductions i was after parents were told that daughters have been rescued the State Government apologized saying the information was not true. For the relatives of more than one thousand students the wait has just begun some say its all over again. These sisters have not only escaped the kidnappers but theyre all the sister wasnt just lucky. The incident leaves them devastated. And then im wondering as they came just after we broke our monday fast we heard gunshots there was chaos everywhere she tried to comfort us but it only got worse four of us sisters started running to give that she fell and i fell down but someone picked me up that was the last time i saw her she was taken. Neighbors pour into their home to offer support at the girls school we were refused access to film inside i would necessary some of the attackers dressed in military fatigues drove through the school gates but before they got in many of the girls alerted by the gunshots fired early on scale the problem at the front of the school and escaped but some girls say they saw some of their schoolmates being led into a waiting truck. So literally and his family thought they too were received fourteen year olds but she was one of the schoolgirls taken in to tell us the mother is in hospital she fainted on hearing that her daughter was and found a grief is too much for her but this is a much as expected of the second Year High School student for now they continue to wait hoping to hear good and definitive news about the return of their child. Residents of the tragedy will be a small group of the twenty four incident where more than two hundred seven to go selected now from the school more than a third of them are yet to be found but. Ill just. Go to the u. S. Now where president isnt backing away from his controversial proposal to teach is to prevent School Shootings hes even suggested that they should be paid a bonus or trump is under pressure to pass tougher gun laws after last weeks mass shooting at a Florida High School a White House Correspondent kelly has more. Arming teachers in the classroom is a controversy ally dhea being promoted by President Donald Trump prevent School Shootings if you harden the sights youre not going to have this problem because these guys who lack courage will never go into those schools he says he wants to encourage educators to become comfortable with a gun even offering bonuses for those with firearms skills i want my schools protected just like my bags are protected truck made the comments on thursday at another white house listening session following the shootings in parkland florida that left seventeen people dead most of them teenagers. Since the School Shooting fellow students have made their voices heard and brought pressure to bear on tribe and other right of center politicians to tighten gun restrictions Arming Teachers is not what they have in mind thats their plan anyway mark barden lost his son in two thousand and twelve in the sandy hook School ShootingSchool Teachers have more than enough responsibilities right now. Then to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life on twitter trump attempted to clarify his position and floated other proposals such as background checks for those buying a gun raising the legal purchasing age to twenty one and again suggesting the end of the sale of socalled bump stocks that increase a weapons fire power not zero but some of those ideas are at odds with the biggest Gun Rights Group in the United States with National Rifle association or n. R. A. Pushing back against any effort to limit gun ownership the elites dont care not one whit about Americas School system for them. Its not a safety issue its a political issue they care more about control and more of gun owners agree they were right to protect ourselves protect our children so if theyre properly trained why not be able to use that i think that it would send a message across the nation that we are taking it in this into our own hands were fighting back and we will be the first line of defense and while there is support for at least some of Donald Trumps proposals even the most basic limits on gun ownership will require congressional approval and accomplishment that in the past has proved difficult can really help get aljazeera washington and in the next hour donald trump is expected to address the largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists lets go live to maryland where where hell be doing that cost on it allan fisheye is joining us from there so troubling second address to the conservative Political Action committee or c. Pac allan what are we expecting from him especially given the events of the last few weeks the reports that company just did on florida. Well it depends what donald trump we get here whether hes the one that sticks to the script and sticks to the prompter or whether he feels warm and wrists its received and loved and he starts to go off script as he does in those sort of circumstances when we talk about the School Shooting almost certainly because its the thing that most people here have been discussing where he mentioned what he said but Arming Teachers very probably because that will get a lot of support and the whole all the talk about raising the age to get guns when we talk about banning bump stocks probably north simply because there are a lot of pro n. R. A. People in the audience a lot of progun people in the audience and they dont want to hear that sort of thing coming from the president because they see that as some sort of restriction what else are we likely to hear about what were being told that hes going to talk about north korea and imposing stress sanctions on which we will get more details over the next few hours but he will mention it here at c pac so it really depends on what sort of donald trump shows up in the room to to decide what sort of speech we will get but we know that he will feel respected and loved here this year last year he was just a few weeks into his presidency they were entirely sure about donald trump now hes delivered on tax reform hes delivered on a Supreme Court justice hes delivered to on cutting regulation he will get a very warm reception from the conservatives in this hall and for those reasons alan the says going to be as is expected to be to go from you know the safe at the conservative show to the trump show somewhat the seer. He certainly made the conservative movement very much Donald Trumps movement a unit ago there was a division theres no doubt about that there were conservatives who wanted to see what donald trump would do they werent entirely convinced that he was a conservative think it was a republican thing perhaps an opportunist there are a lot of people and there still are very concerned about some of the things we see when he talks on twitter when he talks extemporaneously in the white house when hes caught on camera elsewhere there are concerns about that but when it comes down to core conservative issues such as cutting taxes cutting regulation making sure that immigration is discussed and discussed when he talks about the wall all of those things are important conservative issues so what has been a conservative movement no really is the movement of trump all right allan thank you very much for that for now that alan fischer joining us live from out in thank you. And still ahead on the bulletin a forgotten crisis find years into the conflict in the Central African republic half the population now needs urgent humanitarian aid and one look at why chinas government has taken control of a major insurance for. What it is and its a bad across southern parts of china over the next few days a little bit of cloud just sticking its way into hong kong for example so some record of watery sunshine further north a classic enough to produce some outbreaks of rain for a time that will slide back down towards the southwest sunday of pride today hong kong getting up to twenty five degrees celsius with a good deal of pleasant sunshine double figures there for shanghai getting up to about eleven degrees celsius so warming up quite nicely hey want. Up too across much of south asia largely clear skies just notice this huge massive cloud thats spilling out of afghanistan across a good part of pakistan and bring some rather wet weather to it to the fall north of india up towards the himalayas tends to snow with the high ground of course elsewhere this fall and dry hot in that pool thirty five celsius already over the next couple of days its also want to show is just creeping into sri lanka as we go through sunday and a chance to some rather heavy rain pushing across in all the possibilities down into the northwest of in the end that cloud of rain thats in the process of moving across northern parts of the middle east not even see some wet weather across northern parts of saudi arabia and sad state maybe even here in a more right possible on sunday. Paint the scene for us where theyre online which is a very nice sign in yemen that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there. Choosing between. This is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone whos an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. Its good to have you with us on aljazeera these are our top stories the u. N. Envoy to syria is urging russia iran and turkey to urgently reinstate deescalation zones designed to quell the violence the u. N. Security council set to vote on a draft resolution demanding a thirty day cease fire in the. Eastern. Nigerian government leaders have apologized to the parents of missing schoolgirls for saying that they have been rescued the girls are still missing after being taken from their school in the state on monday. Fighters are believed to have abducted them and u. S. President donald trump is not backing away from his controversial proposal to. Prevent School Shootings he is under pressure to pass tougher gun laws often last weeks mass shooting at a Florida High School trumps addressing a major gathering of conservative leaders in the coming hours. Now scuffles have broken out between Palestinian Protesters and israeli Security Forces and the Gaza Strip Palestinians angered by the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital. Staged demonstrations every friday since that announcement and december child stratfor has more from gaza. But this is one of five confrontation points along the gaza Israeli Border jaime weve seen. People gathering for the last couple of hours theyve been throwing stones at Israeli Forces close to the feints on the other side is just in the last few minutes that a second person who has been injured we understand was shot by Israeli Forces and in the process of being taken away in an ambulance the first person we understood around twenty years old was shot in the leg and has been taken to hospital now weve been seeing these kind of protests in the gaza strip every friday since Donald Trumps announcement in december that he thinks the jerusalem should be the capital of israel but its important to recognize that these protests here today its much more than just that lets not forget that the people in gaza have suffered for ten years of an air sea and land blockade this being opposed them by israel the rougher Border Crossing with egypt has also been closed since two thousand and fourteen and very occasionally opens up the egyptians saying that they keep that closed because of security concerns ongoing security concerns with darsheel eisel on the other side of the border so these these people have suffered horrifically and that suffering continues to escalate. International donors have managed to raise more than five hundred Million Dollars for an African Military alliance aimed at combating across the sahara invasion when leaders of five african countries to want more funding at a gathering in brussels the socalled g. Five so how joint military force works alongside french and u. N. Troops and is made up of soldiers from large tamia mali kena faso and chad Natasha Butler has more from brussels. Well the g five force had been struggling to raise the funds that it needed to be fully operational its target was about five hundred Million Dollars now this fund raising meeting here in brussels brought together International Leaders and at the end the e. U. Foreign policy chief said that she was pleased to say the more than five hundred Million Dollars had indeed been raised for the president of new jersey although he welcomed us amount he was quick to point out that the challenges dont end there that money will have to continue to be raised over the coming years in order to keep this force fully operational now the g five forces comprised of five thousand troops from the socalled g. Five nations they will work closely together with the u. N. And French Forces already deployed on the ground and again the presence of really setting the tone at the beginning of this conference when he said that unless something is done to really stabilize the sile to crack down on groups and trafficking of people and on that the region will simply descend into chaos and violence and that is something that of course european leaders do not want to see because there have been an increasing number of refugees making their way up from west africa and reaching european shores and that is something european leaders say they want to stop. The United Nations is making an appeal to the International Community to help with humanitarian efforts in the Central African republic the agency says half of the population requires urgent assistance of fighting between various armed groups plunge the country into a civil war in two thousand and thirteen Catherine Sawyer reports from the town of briere. Says she had a farm and have family didnt rely on anyone for their basic needs before march last year she lives in bria a town in North EasternCentral African republic that was considered relatively peaceful but then conflict between several armed groups started on all her neighbors had to flee so now they leave here in a calm for displaced people that is on one end of the town and right at the doorstep of the u. N. Peacekeepers. The gunfight started at night we hid everything of ours was destroyed i came here with nothing. More than seventy thousand people in brianne have been displaced in just over a year theres a religious element to the fighting but the rebels are also in conflict of a minerals cattle and trade routes and what they leave behind is a trail of death destruction and misery its really hard to imagine house dead people as they fled from this neighborhood with christians and muslims used to live here before the fighting intensified last year different blame each other for the destruction of the power also in the north is another area where there was no fighting until recently displaced people receive food aid at the town square around sixty thousand have fled from violence and moved into the town that already had forty thousand residents the fighting in Central African republic is spreading fast with many armed groups and forced un peacekeepers in the National Army are all. So our aid workers who are often unable to reach many of those in. One hour or two people in the Central African republic are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection and due to the resurgence of violence and the fighting of armed groups particularly here in the north of the Central African republic in power that has led to a massive displacement of people the u. N. Is appealing for just a half a billion dollars this year money that will help people i could to suzanne who says she has nothing left to go back home to. Him to move. And well skip the next three husband killed i dont even know where. Their situation is desperate many of those who spoke to said they would rather be home for ending for themselves right now home is not an option catherine. Brianne said african republic. To india now where Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has met canadian Leader Justin Trudeau in new delhi trudeau arrived in the country six days ago but only met morny on friday on wednesday canadian diplomats were to draw an invitation to a former member of a band sick group to attend an official dinner with trudeau some have accused members of his cabinet of supporting six separate as them. And this Train Company is turning a lake into one of the worlds biggest batteries the system of lakes turbines and tunnels water around in a way that guarantees electricity is always on tap supporters of the scheme hope it will reduce the countrys dependence on coal and a thomas reports from taliban go in australia slowing mountains the plan is to turn this reservoir into a giant. Battery the hills would be its casing the water itself the battery stored power. This standard hydroelectric scheme in australia Snowy Mountains already catches snow melt in rainwater and uses it to spin turbines to make electricity the new socalled pump hydro scheme is different it would take the water thats already passed through the system and pump it back up from a Lower Reservoir so its original one no need for a new right full it would really use the same water to generate power many times over when were generating the water will flow from ten tanger through the power station. And then when were pumping it just we reverse the turbines and pump or back up the hill there is one big problem more electricity will be needed to pump the water up there will be created when that water falls back down. Roughly seventy percent so to some people say little bit more something to sell it a little bit less so essentially you are losing energy pump hydro schemes make money because water is pumped up when energy from other sources is plentiful and cheap water is released only when prices are high when the electricity grid needs new power fast the best thing about my dr pao is how quickly we take into action about ten seconds ago i requested that the top of the existing ziff. Of our reality. Electricity markets are finely balanced producers try to make exactly the right amount of power at any one moment to satisfy that moments demand hydropower is unusually responsive unlike salwa that only works when the sun shone and im like when that awning works when the wind blowing by drought is there ready to not matter what on earth i dont know but as well as being unreliable when solo wind farms make too much power its often wasted because its hard to store lithium ion batteries are changing that but the snowie pump. Scheme would store almost three thousand times the power of whats currently the worlds biggest lithium battery were orders of magnitude cheaper than battery so even if the Battery Price comes down dramatically over the next decade on the next decade after that. Ive got a message for you to go in terms of course the hope is that palm pilot dr schemes will encourage investment in other renewables as Energy Created by the sun or wind when it is needed wont be wasted but converted into upstream water energy and stored Andrew Thomas aljazeera helping go in the Snowy Mountains of australia. Chinas government has seized temporary control of one of the countrys Largest Insurance Companies the founder and chairman of the and bank is facing charges of fraud and embezzlement and shanghai the takeover seen as an attempt at protecting chinas economy from financial risk there gopalan has more from hong kong. Most analysts are applauding the move saying the company was at risk given its high profile buying sprees around the world amounting to billions of dollars the takeover of management though by a Regulatory Agency is unusual on bhang was founded by wus yahoo a man with Strong Political connections within china and internationally the company had a Humble Beginnings just over a decade ago it was a provincial car and sure and now its one of chinas biggest Insurance Companies and hong kong its offices are in prime real estate taking up space in the citys tallest building which you can see lit up behind me a few years ago on buying expanded to wealth investments in insurance selling Financial Products to chinese consumers using that money its wrapped up its profile by buying extravagant asses around the world like the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in new york now if the company crumbles it would have meant that thousands of ordinary people could park their cash on buying would have lost their money and many of them there and sars savings a collapse of the old so impact chinas Financial System after the whole buying had set the tone for many chinese conglomerates or just snapped up major assets around the world at exorbitant prices and this is a huge concern for the government the grows in debt in Chinese Companies is one of the Biggest Challenges for president xi jinping but there are concerns about whether where the line should be drawn when it comes to regulation and there are those who call this intervention chinese style capitalism where the government is still the government guardian of the markets while it is still unclear whether this will set a president analysts say this serves as a warning and Many Companies in china now which have been going on International Buying sprees amassing debts will start being more cautious. Now from the war in syria to the plight of myanmar the past year has been dominated by news of refugees and directors at this years Berlin Film Festival are exploring how hopes of a new life can quickly turn sour dominic kane has more from berlin. In recent years this has become a recurring image the human cost of the refugee crisis. In the film eldorado we see the desperate journeys being undertaken for a better life. From the moment of risk not nose drift. To the start of the process that will bring them ashore. In a country where some people do not want them. And which puts them to work in jobs which pay little certainly that is the view the films director wants the viewer to take. The refugees hope. That they will find. Somebody in a film. Very important floria and. Or even worse the theme of migration is prominent in several films at this years festival where collectively the different aspects of adapting to difficult circumstances are laid bare and where we see the individual human stories of failure and success. As in the film which tells the story of money im shot the state has refugee in lebanon who forms a Catering Company with friends in the. Camp south of beirut and on the only economics you know i love with most of them wished for something related to cooking because theyre good at cooking and its something they do daily. In the film we see their struggles to build their business and how their efforts help to heal the wounds of war. Has been brought to the screen by Thomas Morgan he told me why he felt this was a story he had to direct the fact that it was women and taking their dignity and their power back and having this is unbelievable will to finish but ive always told stories of like underdog stories always always people who you know incredible odds and their lives and what theyre doing and so i think miriam really. In doing this not just for herself for an entire community really embrace this opportunity. The Berlin Film Festival will soon be drawing to a close but the issues many of its films have highlighted will not. Dominate aljazeera. And again. The headlines on aljazeera the United Nations envoy to syria has called on russia iran and turkey to urgently reinstate deescalation zones designed to reduce violence the u. N. Security council is set to vote on a draft resolution demanding a thirty day cease fire. At least four hundred sixteen people have been killed in government airstrikes there this week now activists say forces loyal to president bashar assad have begun firing rockets to cause fires and other news the government of nigeria as your bay state says Security Forces delayed their response to the abduction of dozens of schoolgirls because they were worried the air force would mistake them for boko haram fighters. Suspected of kidnapping the girls from their school on monday Nigerian Government is already under fire for falsely claiming the girls have been rescued. U. S. President donald trump is not backing away from his controversial proposal to teachers to prevent School Shootings hes under pressure to pass tougher gun laws after last weeks mass shooting at a Florida High School trumps addressing a major gathering of conservative leaders in the coming hour now International Donors have managed to raise more than five hundred Million Dollars in pledges for an African Military alliance aimed at combating armed groups across the region the leaders of five african countries were seeking funding at that gathering in brussels the socalled g. Five so how joint military force works alongside french and u. N. Troops and is made up of soldiers from mauritania mali. And chad indias Prime Minister that is the more he has met canadian Leader Justin Trudeau in new delhi trudeau arrived in the country six days ago but only met morty on friday on wednesday canadian diplomats withdrew an invitation to a former member of a band to attend an official dinner with trudeau well some have accused members of trudeaus cabinet of supporting sick separatism and dia. Chinas government has seized temporary control of one of the countrys Largest Insurance Companies the takeover seen as an attempt at protecting chinas economy from financial risk those are the headlines on aljazeera but do stay with us as we have the stream coming up next. Facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a socalled secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because he expressed himself here theyre stored on a tour to aljazeera at this time. 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