Know im in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up government officials apologized to parents told their missing daughters have been rescued we have an exclusive report from northeastern nigeria President Trump expected to announce the largest sanctions against north korea targeting shipping and the transport of coal and fuel. The desperate journey in the hope of a better life we look at how the refugee crisis is hitting the big screen at the film festival. We begin at the United Nations where the Security Council will soon vote on a draft resolution demanding a thirty day cease fire in the rebel held Eastern Ghouta will than four hundred people have been killed in government as strikes there this week now activists say forces loyal to president bashar assad have begun firing rockets to deliberately cause fire as aid workers are struggling to cope aljazeera arabic correspondent mohammed al jazeera is inside eastern and sent this update. The aerial bombardment on guta has been without interruption as the russian and the regime jet fighters are still pounding the city around the clock the shelling is targeting critical installations like hospitals and residential areas any moving object within the residential areas is a target to them the picture behind me speaks volumes this is living proof the residential buildings are destroyed theres no movement on the streets residents have fled their fear shelling by russians jet fighters the regimes artillery and rocket launchers we are standing in the most dangerous spot but the recon planes in the jet fighters are hovering which was of russian and syrian helicopters hovering above our heads any sign of life in kuta has been targeted nothing has been spared above all critical installations of residential buildings were targeted alike bakeries hospitals schools you name it theyre either destroyed or now after function the situation in eastern cooter is nothing but catastrophic we cannot continue covering the situation life as it is very dangerous here and the jet fighters and helicopters are coming our way are diplomatic editor james bays joins us now from the u. N. Headquarters and james the vote on this latest draft resolution was supposed to be happening now it seems to have been delayed whats the reason for that. Yes we have scheduled now an hour delay for the Security Council meeting and vote lead to show you the live pictures from outside the Security Council chamber its there a short time ago that we were told about the delay you can see journalists there waiting and ambassadors now coming out of the Security Council entrance they were inside talking about this resolution we had a meeting of the ten elected members of the Security Council not the five permanent members theyve been doing a lot of the negotiation for this leading this resolution which was drafted by two of them by coate and sweden the reason for the day appears to be that russia is still negotiating in fact we saw the Russian Deputy ambassador shuttling in and out of that doorway in the last twenty minutes or so he clearly has amendments to the current version of the resolution that hed like to make this isnt the resolution was on the table twenty four hours ago that they didnt end up voting on they had negotiations until pretty late last night new york time they came out with this slightly amended version of the resolution which is the one they want to put to the vote but still russia wants further amendments and in fact this is being driven we think not from here in new york but from the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov himself who gave a News Conference in the last couple of hours saying that he was ready to support the resolution and then there was a but buts he wanted the u. S. To guarantee that the fighters inside Eastern Ghouta would also the cease fire i think the u. S. Position is that they will try to make that happen but they cannot guarantee what those fighters will actually do negotiations continue and for now the meeting is slated to start at midday new york to. In about fifty five minutes from now and we believe that that meeting will start with a few speeches probably a speech from sweden which along with kuwait has drafted this resolution a last appeal i think to the Security Council to support it and then it will go to that vote that important vote which is for a thirty day ceasefire clearly the reason that they are pushing so hard for this now is the situation youve heard about in the scooter but this actually is a thirty day ceasefire that if it came into effect would apply to all of syria all right thank you james. U. S. President donald trump is expected to announce major new sanctions on north korea trump is currently addressing the conservative Political ActionCommittee Conference in oxon hill just south of washington d. C. Hes expected to unveil the largest ever set of sanctions on aims to aggressively target that coal and fuel transport part of what were talking about a culture that condemns violence and never did laura pfizer violence we need to force to real human connections and turn classmates and colleagues into friends and neighbors that want to fight for us were not just having a conversation about School Safety youve had conversations in all fairness im pretty new on this show we hear a little more than a year ive been watching the stock stuff go on for twenty years. The president gets up everybodys enthusiastic for the first couple of days and it fades nothing ever gets done we want to see if we can get it done lets get it done right we really owe it to our country. And ive been watching for a long time seen a lot of words and ive seen very little action. And you know if you think about it most of its just common sense its not do you love guns do you hate guns its commonsense its all common sense and some of the strongest advocates about what im saying are the strongest advocates i know very well political people the strongest advocates for the Second Amendment but this is commonsense in addition to securing our schools were also implementing a strategy to secure our streets we want our kids to be safe everywhere they go whether theyre in a classroom walking home from school or just outside playing with their friends. Every child deserves to grow up in a Safe Community surrounded by a loving family and to have a future filled with opportunity and with hope the a. Thank you thank you. Just not fair reducing Violent Crime in america is a top priority for my administration and we will do what ever it takes to get it done no talk were going to do what it takes to get it done. As youve seen pretty well reported that were significantly increasing gun prosecutions by tremendous percentages and where work. To get violent offenders or for our streets and behind bars and get them behind bars quickly for a long time or get them the hell out of our country the law. In twenty seventeen we brought cases against more violent offenders than any administration in a quarter of a century more than any administration and were just gearing up. We have tough people ill tell you what when you deal with them mr teen the only thing they understand is tufts they dont want anything all they understand is tough times if that ice agent or Border Patrol agent is tougher than them they respect him we get the toughest guys youve ever seen weve got tough the respect anything else then they shouldnt be in our country the there were let in for years they shouldnt be and were getting them out our administration prosecuted more people for federal firearms charges than has been done in more than a decade and again which is gearing up we convicted one thousand two hundred gang members and nearly five hundred human traffickers here like Human Trafficking who would think that we have this in this age. And with our foreign partners weve helped charge or arrest more than four thousand members of the savage gang that we talked about m. S. Thirteen they dont like guns you know why theyre not painful enough these are animals they cut people they cut them they cut them up into little pieces and they want him to suffer and we take him into our country because our immigration laws a so bad. We catch him its called catch and release we have to by law catch him and then release them catch and release and i cant get the democrats and nobody has been able to for years to approve commonsense measures that when we catch is animal killers we can lock up and throw away the keys the were one in twenty seventeen thank our brave ice officers arrested more than one hundred thousand criminal aliens who have committed tens of thousands of crimes. And believe me these are great people they cannot. They did the laws are just against us theyre against theyre against safety they dont make sense and you meet with democrats and theyre always fighting for the criminal theyre not fighting for law abiding citizens are always fighting for the criminal. Doesnt make sense. Here are just some of the criminal charges and convictions for the illions arrested by ice eleven thousand charges or convictions for sex crimes forty eight thousand for assault thirteen thousand for burglary and eight thousand five hundred for killing people were cracking down on sanctuary cities can you believe this where they protect the thats another one. Who has we want our cities to be sanctuaries for law abiding americans not for criminals to a guy. Who has by the way. The Senate Democrats and the House Democrats have totally abandoned daca theyve totally identity even talked to me about it they have totally abandoned you know we get the reputation like dhaka its not republican well let me tell you it is republican because we want to do something about daca get it solved after all these years the democrats are big totally unresponsive they dont want to do anything about doc im telling you and its very possible the doc at war happened and its not because of the republicans its good because of the democrats and frankly you better elect more republicans folks or itll never happen the and a yeah the democrats voted in favor of sanctuary cities in other words. Voted to protect criminal aliens instead of voting to protect the american citizens to secure our country we are calling on congress to build a great border wall to stop dangerous drugs and criminals from boring into our country to it and now theyre willing to give us the wall. But they dont want to give us any of the laws to keep these people out so were going to get the wall but they dont want to give us all of the other chain migration lottery think of a lottery you have a country they put names in you think they are giving us a good people not too many of you people are going to be a lottery so we chat we pick out people then they turn out to be horrendous and we had it we dont understand why. Theyre not giving us their best people folks theyre not giving us i mean use your heads theyre giving us its a lottery i dont want people coming into this country with a lottery i want people coming into this country based on merit based on merit the law to a the i want people work and we all ought to be admitting people who have skills who can support themselves financially who can contribute to our economy who will love our people and who will share our values who will love our country the i dont want people were who drive a car at one hundred miles an hour down the westside highway and kill eight innocent victims and destroy the lives of fourteen more nobody talks about that nobody ever talks about the people that have been so horribly injured who lose legs and arms in manhattan where i used to spend my time i know it very well the stretch along the westside highway people run in order to stay in shape they want to they want to be healthy they want to look at they run theyre running all the time i see they run we work in different ways but they run no but think of this they run and theyre so they want to be fed theyre proud people they want to be fit and theyre running up and down the west side how its beautiful its a beautiful thing. And this maniac takes a car going down the highway it just turns to a right and it kills eight but you really badly wounded twelve to fourteen other people so somebody think of it runs to stay and she leaves the house is jogging along working hard ends up going home two months later with no leg or with no arm or two way two legs missing nobody ever talks about them they talk about the people rightfully that were killed but they dont talk about the people that whose lives have been just changed just changed they dont talk about that this guy came in through chain migration and a part of the lottery system. They say. Twenty two people came in with him in other words and then ill call a grandfather a mother a father whoever came in but a lot of people came in that chain migration. Lets see how those people are doing by the way weve got to change our way merit system i want mercer because you know whats happening all these companies are coming into our country theyre all coming into our country and when they come in we need people that are going to work im telling you we need workers now we need workers. But when i walked in today. It it went over here we do it so weve been hearing President Donald Trump giving a speech at the annual conservative political summit that hes been speaking on a range of issues from cry gun violence to immigration lets get to alan fischer because he is following events in Oxon Hill Mary Lang joins us now take us through what president has said so far. Well if im honest it feels like twenty sixteen all over again that this is almost like a Campaign Rally that we saw in the run up to the elections donald trump again couldnt resist the point of you know that he won the election claiming that he did the difficult way by winning the Electoral College suggesting that its just been the popular vote he would have won that as well because thats what he would have concentrated on hes talked about immigration with a chance of build the wall hes talked about by the democrats he believes. Picked a candidate think he said this group could play to china itself thank you once a bit for some positive though coming out some of the reference to the Russia Campaign the doctor said that the problem was the movement is of course all about the democrats refusing to move even though he is the man that says that he was ending that as well hes talked about tax reforms and successes of his first term hes talked about cutting regulation which he says has been huge but hes also. Talked about appointing conservative judges a but this is a crowd were dont trump feels very comfortable hes talked about the shooting in florida said that he was very touched by some of the families who came to meet him in the white house earlier this week and he had stories that he said he never wanted to hear from anyone suggesting that there will be action by his administration to make sure that children in schools are safe he again went back to the idea of teachers being armed and suggesting that perhaps the veterans or people who were in the course got to used to handling weapons that the two could be involved in protecting schools as well and he said that they were also going to look at the background checks which got a mixed reaction in the hall because many people here are very much a pro the n. R. A. Says issue which is more to look at background checks and certainly not to introduce any legislation including bombing stocks which just look at the weapon fire. The bullets a lot faster than the normal but this is this is donald trump talking about all the things all the themes he talked about during the twenty sixteen election and they gave him a very warm reaction from the crowd here that they werent sure about one year ago and though he is the president that they want to see what hes doing things like cutting taxes and as you say alan there is this strong. Everything hes touched on so far and that the rhetoric that were getting a strong focus on domestic issues as well what are we expecting to hear from on north korea. Thats. Well he has touched on International Issues very briefly he said that the iran deal was a bad deal and they were going to get out of it he talked about the paris accord saying that was bad for america as well the biggest cheers so far came when he said remember weve also decided to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel that got a standing ovation here and would expect him also to talk about north korea. As you see hes going to introduce new sanctions we believe on a number of Companies Organizations and at least one individual and he believes that this will tighten the noose around its north korea forcing them to the negotiating table he wants them to reconsider their position saying that at the moment there is no incentive for them to go to the table to talk about the Ballistic Program or the Nuclear Program so he believes that these new sanctions which we will get more details over the next few hours from the Justice Department the Treasury Department he believes that this will force north korea into negotiation of course the u. S. Where this comes as his daughter ivanka leads the u. S. Delegation to the closing ceremony in south korea for the Winter Olympics and of course the North Koreans will be there as well we know that my pants was there for the Opening Ceremony had intended to meet a north korean delegation but they pulled out at the last minute because of the rhetoric from the american so were not expecting any meetings to take place whenever it is in korea for the closing ceremony was all right thanks very much alan fischer monitoring that speech President Donald Trump addressing a conservative political summit there in Oxon Hill Allan well them leaving to continue with that. Now officials in northeast nigeria apologize for telling the parents of dozens of missing schoolgirls that their daughters have been rescued after being seized by iran the force announcement sparked outrage among concerned families the girls were taken from their school in the town of duchy and yobe a state on monday there is an address was the First International journalist on the ground and has this report from. Disappointment induction i was after parents were told that daughters have been rescued the State Government are paula just 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 there she fell and i fell down but someone picked me up that was the last time i saw her she was taken. Neighbors poor into their home to offer support at the go 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 perimeter friends of the school on this case 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 and up but she was one of the school girls to come. In to tell us the mother is in hospital she fainted on hearing to her daughter was and found the grief is too much for her but he said much was 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 hope the tragedy will be as long as a twenty four incident where more than two hundred seventy goals like kidnapped from their school more than a third of them are yet to be found one hundred al jazeera doctrine. The e. U. Is doubling its funding for an African Military alliance aimed at combating armed groups across the whole region leaders of five african countries are in brussels for a Security Fund raising summit. They need they need to raise more money for a joint military force that works alongside french and u. N. Troops now the socalled g. Five sile group is made up of soldiers from. Mali became a faster chad and mischa. Related with a little your city is it what i said that there was this very close link between security and development and in combating terrorism in the short term we need a military victory but in the medium and longer term the important thing is of Course Development because its poverty that is then the feeding and breeding ground for terrorism. The United States has confirmed that it will open its new embassy to israel in jerusalem in may the opening will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of israels founding but its much earlier than expected as Vice President mike pence that suggested the move wouldnt take place until two thousand and nineteen u. S. Decision to move its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in december sparked angry protests in palestine and solidarity rallies across the world yes lets go to our there is roslyn jordan is following this story for us and roslyn what do we know about why the embassy move has been expedited. Well theres no clarity yet why the move is being done beyond what a Senior Administration official. Our which is that this is going to coincide with this seventieth anniversary of the founding of the state of israel and i am told that the ambassador David Friedman as well as a few aides will take up their assignment in the current consulate general building in the a rona neighborhood i believe thats how you see it in jerusalem the additional staff will be transferred from tel aviv to jerusalem over time but theres also still the outstanding matter of trying to find a location to build a Permanent Embassy u. S. Embassies and consulates are now governed by a new set of federal regulations which require a considerable land and set back requirements for security purposes and even though there have been reports in the past suggesting that there is a patch of land that could be available it has to meet the setback standards before any companies can be hired to design a new u. S. Embassy much less build that facility all right for now thank you very much allan jordan in washington for us i just want to bring up to date with a developing story that were following with police in somalia saying that two car bomb blasts rocked the capital Mogadishu Police say that was followed by gunfire which broke out near at the president s residence so i have more on that story as it comes to us but two car bombs that are exploding in the capital of money market tissue. I got i kid has president on a thomas still interesting back and have to let go some it thats less than what you are people weve had people that never voted but theyre great patriots but they never saw anybody they want to vote for then they go to the election theyve got trouble parents trump parents are going to add say god all sorts of things trump over here make America Great again had the iraq so. So our country is starting to do well. We are going to make it great or better safer than it ever was before the reason is you this has been a Great Movement they try like hell they cannot stand what weve done but were doing the right thing were even doing the right thing for them they just dont know it yet. They just dont know. Even the media the media will absolutely support me sometime prior to the election all those horrible people back that theyre going to support you know why because if somebody else won their ratings would go down there will be out of business nobody would watch. Theyd all be out of business so i just want to tell you that we are going to win id love you to get out there work really hard for eighteen we need more republicans to keep the tax cuts that keep all of this going and i love you i respect you i appreciate everything youve done for the country the Iraqi Authority of. Iraq. Were. So i bring up to speed with the days other top stories now a new wave of bombs has struck a rebel held on plave near syrias capital ahead of a u. N. Security council vote calling for a ceasefire that first six Straight DaysSyrian Government and allied warplanes have pounded the densely populated area of Eastern Ghouta more than four hundred thirty two people have died in the offensive in the past week alone the un Security Council is due to vote shortly on a thirty day ceasefire to end the deadly Bombing Campaign by syrian ally russia has called for changes to the draft resolution and is widely expected to exercise its veto rights. Series opposition is criticized russias military campaign in east to go to saying that it amounts to genocide while how to whats taking place in eastern is a genocide and a crime against humanity in violation of international and humanitarian law and the perpetrators should be held liable accountable and cannot escape punishment under any circumstances russia is to blame for directly being involved in the military campaign and the bombardment. U. S. President ronald trump has just said he will announce major new sanctions on north korea trump is currently addressing the conservative Political ActionCommittee Conference in oxon hill maryland just south of washington hes expected to unveil the largest ever set of sanctions aggressively targeting pyongyangs coal and fuel transport. Officials in northeast nigeria have apologized for telling the parents of dozens of missing schoolgirls that their daughters had been rescued a false announcement sparked outrage among concerned families in the town of bay state the girls were taken from their school by a book around fighters on monday night and at least one hundred one girls are still missing. And the u. S. Has confirmed it will open its new embassy to israel in jerusalem in may the opening will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of israels founding but its much earlier than expected Vice President mike pence had suggested the move would not take place until two thousand and nineteen u. S. Decision to move its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in december sparked angry protests in palestine and solidarity rallies across the world as you headlines more news in twenty five minutes time to see that