U. N. Call for a ceasefire is ignored in syria there are more strikes more dead and wounded as Government Forces bomb east and. The white house response to north koreas offer for talks saying certain conditions must be met. How does ray tax plan has led to the closure of one of christianitys holiest sites plus. It could be the rival revival of tamil films made in sri lanka we show you the first one produced over forty years. At least twenty seven people have been killed in syria by russian and syrian as strikes in the rebel enclave of east and near damascus the continuing bombardment comes despite a u. N. Security Council Resolution demanding a cease fire rescue volunteers. Toxic gas has been used a white helmet spokesman told aljazeera the village of there was hit by missiles containing poisonous gas more now from osama bin with a warning to view is that there was some distressing pictures in his reports. I this is what the United Nations agrees has to stop i thank. The hours into the Un Security Council has thirty day cease fire declaration forms kept dropping on eastern. Medics aboard a dozen of the dead and injured from more than one hundred years strikes barrel bombs and artillery bombardments all of which was supposed to and continues in the rebel held area home to four hundred thousand syrians what experiences from b. B. s and. Dont give us high expectation its the fish and. Whats. The. Possible we dont know we dont we dont know. And and then here this is a big number of population it wants to be a solution three bring them one or two home boys and one be the solution that we evacuated one thousand or two thousand of them to be suitable for withdraw as feared Government Forces try to enter eastern huta from three sides attempting to seize as much land as possible before the cease fire is implemented reinforcements from the syrian armys fourth and tenth brigades have been circling eastern huda for days special forces and troops from the elite tiger battalion are also on the front lines. Bulldozers and tanks are deployed to breach rebel defenses iran and syria maintain that the security Council Resolution allows the targeting of what they call terrorists who would despite facing large approved numbers and heavy firepower levels and they have held their front line so far killing and capturing some soldiers should think about how we welcome the Security Councils decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted of the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in east and. As usual we didnt find any commitment by the Syrian Regime and its russian allies. Northwestern go to southern with almost every front and go to has been stored by the regime on sunday in order to achieve some advance but they havent succeeded. Many besieged people have been stranded in underground shelters for days and fear the worst to come. We cant eat because theres nothing to eat our sons have no work my son has five children and he doesnt know how to feed them we will die hungry without food weve been targeted no homes have been destroyed we have done nothing to be treated and targeted like this but eastern good has been intense to be targeted for the past week the u. N. Called it hell on earth. The book calls the victims in syria martyrs that have been conversations between the leaders of france germany and russia to draw and persuade the Assad Government to stop attacks and allow in humanitarian aid thats when the people who to continue to face what they see is annihilation. Of the turkey syria border. Correspondent mohammed al jazeera. This update. Now on the how the a lot of outnumber the walk off but youre not going to c. R. Y. Russian and Syrian Government warplanes have been stopped targeting the residential areas of eastern greta we can hear theyre flying over us to target the different districts and towns people stuck here are very scared the Syrian Regime forces have attacked eastern due to from several different fronts with the aim of advancing its control of parts of the area the opposition says fighting is ongoing in world and twenty Syrian Regime forces have been killed while another group of them has been captured and the fighting is happening even after the Un Security Councils decision to demand a cease fire that would have led aid and assistance to reach the people of east. And north korea in general has had in the closing of the Winter Olympics in south korea has jesss country is willing to hold talks with United States. As meters from the u. S. President. Thats a guy name has more from. Protesters at the border and the stadium too uncomfortable questions asked by reporters. It was a controversial arrival at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics for the north korean delegation. Some South Koreans are angry about the delegation leader general kimmitt is thought to be behind attacks against the south including the sinking of a warship in twenty ten that killed forty six sailors. Prisoner of korea is almost zero. Simple play during north korea hero. Thrown in protest. No prisoner and the north korean dictator this is. South korean president moon j. In use the games to reboot intercalary and relationships with. The socalled peace olympics included a joint womens hockey team athlete celebrating korean nationalism by marching under a unified flag as well as a visit by kim yo job the sister of the north Korean Leader she arrived with an invite for me to does it yes. Its a two hour test and it was a good olympics and we were so concerned about it last year but it went so well many North Koreans came and i wish this could lead to unification i didnt it was interesting it was an honor for us to host it i really enjoyed it and even the choice of olympic venues was symbolic gang one province is divided between the north and south. If the tension continues tourists dont come so peace is very important to our economy north korea participated in the olympics and this has become a basis for establishing peace here and that means a lot to us. For the russians the games and did as they began marching without their flag two of their athletes were disqualified after testing positive for banned drugs four years on from the sochi doping scandal russians were only allowed to compete under an olympic flag. As all athletes return home the question here is what happens after the olympics. The u. S. Announced its toughest package of sanctions against north korea on friday with the hope it will pressure the country to denuclearize whether that will work when other sanctions have failed remains to be seen and theres no word yet on when president moon might travel to the north if he does hell become the first south korean president to meet kim jong un since he became leader seven years ago natasha going to. South korea well but dr joins us now live from seoul several of the North Koreans are still in the south what are they doing. Thats right kim young jarl the most senior of the delegates is still here with his delegation still here for another two days laura and theres a lot of speculation about what meetings they might well be having they are expected to have talks with the south Korean UnificationMinistry Just on future dialogue the way of trying to build on the apparent goodwill thats been built up around these games and of course most importantly about the possibility the intriguing possibility of a visit by south koreas president in north korea that would be a very Significant Development certainly theres a lot of optimism from president moons office here just about the kind of progress that has been made and about the prospects of north korea south korea dialogue going forward. The speculation is. From moons office this is the way forward only by dialogue can they ease tensions and ultimately bring about the denuclearized of north korea now the North Koreans for their part have given no indication that they are likely to make any concessions on their nuclear or missile programs and indeed when the prospect of that has been mentioned in any of the talks around these olympics they have literally bristled at the idea so it seems as though the subject has been conveniently skirted for now but if dialogue does go forward it has to be addressed and the concern is from the United States in the background the North Koreans have not changed despite all of the smiles and there concern is very much that the South Koreans might be beguiled by the north might be making too many concessions that what concerns them they want the South Koreans to maintain this united front against what they still see as a potentially very dangerous adversary yes of course because the u. S. Will be watching closely to see how county and response to its agreement to talks if the end goal is denuclearization. Thats right i mean there has been this mention of talks from the north there is a possibility that they might take place still the north america the american delegation is still in town theyre late due to leave south korea later monday but the americans have stipulated that any talks must ultimately lead to denuclearization and the North Koreans of course have put no preconditions on any talks they want talks to go ahead but no preconditions so it does not seem to bode well for any talks taking place on this trip certainly ivanka trump is not thought to be going to be meeting with any North Koreans there are some delegates in both the american delegation and also in the north korean delegation who possibly could hold the low level talks but again it comes against this latest spat between the americans and north korea with the announcement of further sanctions by the United States against ships and companies that are thought to be getting around the sanctions and the North Koreans very strong reaction saying predictably this is a further act of war so it doesnt bode well for the possibility of talks at least in the immediate future and does give the North Koreans the opportunity to walk away from the possibility of any kind of meeting which does fit with their dialogue and all of this all the narrative in all of this of the two koreas working towards a kind of peaceful progress and the United States being the ones trying to spoil the party and being the real villains of the piece or pride in self thanks very much rob. Chinese president xi jinping could be reelected in twenty twenty three under new proposal put forward by the ruling party it wants to change the constitution to remove term limits for chinese leaders the Vice President also be allowed to serve for longer than the current two term limits to cover his policy elected president c. As its head for another five years last october took a pollen has more from hong kong there was much speculation he would be angling to stay beyond the next five years back in october when he was addressing the time his Peoples Congress he laid out a vision of thirty years and a very ambitious vision of chinas development but socially infrastructure vice and financially now this has still has to go through a parliament but its inconceivable that this will be blocked in any way as parliament this tactic politicians that are loyal to the ruling establishment paying well now if this goes ahead be chinas most powerful modern day leader as hes also the leader of the military he will become a cult of personality many fear much like mao tsetung was during his thirty tenure thirty year tenure which ended in one thousand nine hundred seventy six now theres also concern that under his rule china will see many of their human rights or many of their rights squeezed even more under his tenure so far we have seen china turn into more of a surveillance state dissent very quickly crushed its also of great concern to the people of hong kong as unders easing pings rule weve seen the biggest closed to hong kongs Democracy Movement people here are now concerned about how he will or whether he will continue to treat hong kong as a special in ministry to a region separate from the rest of china. Tang is a political analyst and advices the Chinese Government on economic and development and he joins us now from beijing on skype good to have you with us is then definitely she didnt ping will a good idea. Well. Thats an interesting question and pounds on your point of view i think those who like what she jinping has done with corruption and creating a new initiative for economics in the on a new era for china applaud what hes doing i think there are concerns on the other side that what does this mean in terms of his power whether there is a cult of personality but you know she didnt ping is pretty much pretty well known right now no one is guessing about what his next move is this is not like donald trump where every day a new tweet its a very slow and steady progress so i think its ok the real question comes down the line once you a sample this kind of power structure how do you you know pass it on to the next generation and how much power do you want them to have i mean i think towards the end of whatever he intends to serve because i think he believes he has to make sure that the reforms and they are big are actually seated and start to grow before you know if there was some change and somebody wanted to to reverse what hes doing so in the in the end the question is about transition in the future and how its going to go but just before we get to ask about those reforms you mentioned what is it that is his vision for china. Well its interesting because hes not following a path that you know is you know according to american exceptionalism you combine ing democracy and capitalism hes chosen a third route so far economically china has done exceptionally i dont think anyone can argue with the last thirty five years of progress and what theyve done so theres always been this theory in the west that once you adopt capitalism democracy will follow and therefore cap. Communism will will falter and or drift away that hasnt happened now she faces a very very different animal and that hes trying to reconcile the kind of social stability of the country this involves trying to bring to things that are very very different you hear a lot about confucianism that the sign same time you hear about communism so just like it is an idea about the big hand of government guiding visible hand market hes trying to reconcile what are seemingly very very different ideas and create a new society part of that is reforming the Party Getting their corruption having a goal but you know eventually runs some headwinds because as you have a more middle Class Society theres going to be different pressures not necessarily the ones that we face in the west but certainly something that is going to be a little different to how puppet is a tinys happy that he will essentially be a strong man in a country that has not got a good history with strong men. Well i mean interestingly enough i think the greatest on ease is probably in the middle levels of government because theyre this is a change that affects them directly if you if you talk to people on the street if you talk to a cabbie you talk to Somebody Just walking by and you asked about xi jinping theyre all smiles are very very happy that give you the thumbs up theyre very very and about him a lot because hes established russian hes strong hes cracking down on the corruption that these people have on a daily basis but if you talk about intellectuals people within the government they waste some reservations and things like that and i think shes a lot of his efforts returned try to. Get them to understand exactly where hes going so popularity for him among the masses is very great the question is among the elites ok and its im going via saying speak to thanks for joining us from beijing. Thank you both so i had her on the news hour including. I. Believe philippines protesters fearful that country is returning to an era of dictatorship plus. A. Hollywood reacts to the death of one of indias biggest movie stars dies suddenly at the age of fifty four. And in sport despite there being no russian flag at the winter olympic closing ceremonies russian athletes the games to end on a golden note tachyon a well explained why. Nigerian government has confirmed that one hundred ten girls remain unaccounted for after an attack by the armed Group Boko Haram in the countrys northeast gunmen overran a school in the town of deputy last monday although hes initially denied that any of the girls had been abducted as information minister says Additional Police and Security Officers have been deployed to schools president Muhammadu Buhari called last mondays abduction by boko haram a National DisasterChurch Leaders in occupied East Jerusalem have closed the holiest sites in christianity of what they say is discrimination by the Israeli Government the Speed Sensors on the touch of the he said believed to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ high force that explains. The chance to experience sunday mass at the place where they believe christ rose from the dead draws pilgrims from around the world to the church of the holy sepulcher but this sunday the Greek Orthodox armenian and Catholic Churches which jointly run the site announced its abrupt closure protesting against measures which they say would constrain their rights over Church Property is that in mind the. Office in which were in that. During. In europe. This is the about the and unprecedented attack against christians in the holy land. And some of the right the Church Leaders say they face a twin attack first in the shape of a demand by jerusalem City Government what it says is more than one hundred eighty Million Dollars in back taxes and secondly from proposed legislation which would seize retroactively for the state church land sold to private companies or sundays in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher always thronged with tourists and christian pilgrims many of whom are travelled a long way to see this most important holy site its always an atmosphere of emotion today the chief atmosphere though is one of disappointment the belief that jesus christ died and if you was buried here would have liked just to go there and have the east point is you you know that would we be able to understand it better you know i dont know if the sides of the parties involved but you know it certainly is going to get the public attention to do this and hopefully it drives a quicker conclusion the christian patriarchates only large areas of often prime real estate in and around jerusalem much of it at least to the state palestinians have criticized the Greek Orthodox patriarch the selling property inside the old city the jewish settler groups and others jerusalems municipal leaders say only properties being used for religious activities should be tax exempt not those rented commercially theyve already frozen about nine Million Dollars in assets of the Greek Orthodox church were talking about other places that the church own fact has hotels and they have been exempt wrongly from paying city taxes for years and years and years and the mare at the moment is trying to correct a wrong that was done that affects us from evidence every single day and ministerial discussion on the bill to allow seizure of already sold church land has been postponed to next week the author of the. Law says its designed to protect the rights of those living on the land from often anonymous offshore entities Church Leaders say their long established rights are being trampled in what they call an attempt to weaken the christian presence in jerusalem ari force it occupied East Jerusalem. Course has frozen the assets of a prominent opposition figure accused of having contact with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood former president ial candidates apple footer was arrested on the fourteenth of february after calling for a boycott of next months president ial election he has his own Political Party has distanced himself from the Muslim Brotherhood figure is. Appeared on aljazeera earlier this month he was critical of president. Large crowds of fans have gathered outside the home of bollywood actress sridevi as they await the return of her body from dubai the fifty four year old who started more than one hundred films died suddenly of a heart attack at a family wedding on saturday tributes have flowed from indias Prime Minister to actors who worked alongside her. Early marriage mine and. No one really. Drove the goats or. Were not. Showing more from books or more we were probably. Very grateful for the dog in a canoe in opposition and you should divvy for the past forty years while working in the hindi cinema industry weve both started from the second movie of mine together nobody can fill his shoes and therefore i pray for the peace of his soul but i would also like to pass on my condolences to boney kapoor and the family members i pray that sridevi lives in our hearts with us forever. One hundred takes a look back now at her life. I guess she stepped into bollywood at a time when the industry was largely a male. Tree daveys performance in this eightys blockbuster mr india turned heads and redefined the place of female actresses and bollywood for eva. The a. Film critics described her as a show of stephen a mr india became a cult classic and suddenly sridevi was filling sentiments the we the ambassador was good in the egypt was. Comic genius true the crowd thanks it was a and it was his skill and beauty as a dancer that truly kept device with audiences who was rwanda and not only was she started out as a child actress in Southern India i mean black eyed. And went on to appear in more than a hundred films mean to make you feel like many actresses of her generation she went by one name tree davey but unlike of the leading women she quickly overtook him my old costars to become the box office draw. It paved the way for todays bollywood stars to seamlessly make the move from bollywood to hollywoods themselves you want it was getting it was ephemeral he says she suffered a heart attack on saturday while attending a wedding in dubai her Instagram Account received tens of thousands of messages and bollywood fans in india and abroad took to social media to express their condolences among them bollywood Actress Priyanka Chopra and didnt do as Prime Minister. Never in ramadi many in india was shocked at his sudden death. This was a certain friendship but never the richie rose i think at that particular time for females to come to that level was a little difficult was the first news flash on my for me and everybody at my home was very sad. She stopped acting after him marriage to Film Producer bernie cup poor but made a successful comeback in two thousand and twelve with the hit Movie English vinglish. But many will feel True Division i this part to shoot. So has had on aljazeera. My priority is to keep the community safe. And of a us city defies the federal government and warns immigrants that government raids are calming. We had fungus in our classroom so we had to take classes in tents. College students course and harken maria forced to flee the country and sauce over in the u. S. And well hear from the golden girl of the olympics after precedented ski and snowboard double. From the neon mites of asia. To the city that never sleeps. Hello there its mostly dry forests in eastern parts of china at the moment theres not a great deal of cloud showing up on our chart for monday but things change as we head into choose day because the winds are all feeding up from the south bringing in a lot of moisture and thats giving us quite a bit of wet weather across the central belt of our chart and further south theres been a lot of rain here over the past day or so and thats thanks to this weather feature thats making its way across the philippines has given some of us some very heavy rain and it all sort of drawings up to whats going on a bit further south for some of us in borneo were also seeing some heavy rain too thats gradually trying to push its way towards the north as we head through monday and into tuesday but for now its not quite reach reaching us in vietnam so for some of us here it does look like it should be drawing just the outside chance of a shops if youre unlucky now over towards india is just in the north weve got some wet weather thats edging its way eastwards into nepal but the next system is building here it is on the satellite picture making its way already into pakistan by monday lunchtime its across many of us with some heavy rain making its way into the western parts its not going to stick around for too long though it will clear out the way so choose day doesnt brighter for many of us here thirty three as a maximum in karate for many of us across india it will be a draw a day too. The weather sponsored by cattle and race. Winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media and state p. R. Machine its going to overdrive. But just who is going fill in saying. We just dont know yet where the lines weve been drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. Some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside polling the media opinion the listening post base time on aljazeera and monday put it world on. U. S. And British Companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped Natural Resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. Again youre watching aljazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour its twenty seven people have died in a new wave of attacks across eastern cusa despise a u. N. Resolution demanding a cease fire in syria a senate takhan of the list left several people suffering symptoms consistent with exposure to chlorine gas. The north korean general attending the closing of the Winter Olympics in south korea as a test of his country is willing to hold talks to the United States at the start he sat just meters away from us present at all times. Vanka. Sites as against north korea will continue. And Church Leaders not bodies to islam have closed the holiest sites in christianity in response to what they call discrimination by the Israeli Government of the church of the believed to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ i agree our proposed taxes on the charge. One person is dead and twenty injured off Security Forces in the democratic republic of congo a protest says the nationwide marches are in the latest in a series of church the demonstrations calling on president Joseph Kabila to step down peter shop reports. The Catholic Church has been at the forefront of demonstrations calling on the Congress PresidentJoseph Kabila to stand down. And after Morning Service on sunday protesters took to the streets again. Since december more than a dozen people have been killed by Security Forces in protest like these and today there was an all too familiar response by police. Tear gas quickly followed by gunfire was heard for the local candy was shot dead before the march started. His body taken to a nearby hospital to. Finish just two others were seriously injured one of them a student serge muka a wash featured josh im not protesting by accident or in vain and not because i dont know why im protesting but protesting today i was just claiming my right and this is what happened to me. Organizers said the protesters no longer believed in the political will of current leaders to ensure a peaceful transition of power if capital is forced to stand down then his good care is killing here is kabila condemning them hes not condemning them a tall we will not end these protests we will maintain our fight and we will go up to the end with this fight. As with previous protest mom. This internet mobile data and messaging services were cut across the congo was one of you could do. It with but the opposition message is getting out. And the shooting by the Security Forces is for the stoking up anger peter shop aljazeera. The philippines is celebrating the countrys return to democracy its been thirty two years has the end of the dictatorship that some fear that current present are to get a test say is trying to bring back the era of the strongman under schapelle reports. For thirty two years filipinos have come together to celebrate a watershed moment in their history when a revolution forced president Ferdinand Marcos from power. In recent years that unity has been tainted by partisan politics between political dynasties and concerns of the current leader rodriguez deter take his tuna style joke of the marcos era and its important to stand up now especially since last year we saw that this administration blatantly disregarded our history that they buried the dictate our marcos and now we see the same of our day and seize from the current regime of the current government after twenty years in power marcos was toppled in an army back to revolt after he was accused of cheating in the president ial election when filipinos flooded at a main road in manila demanding an end to corruption and human rights abuses thousands were killed for voicing opposition to his rule to territories were on drugs reminds many of the darker time because thousands more filipinos have been killed. Despite that and opposition from these protesters and others such as the roman Catholic Church deterred say remains popular able to withstand whatever criticism he gets from Rights Groups the media and his political opponents and several new show on the we are celebrating decades. More than three decades after could being used to define what we are a nation which is a democratic society. Are republican government where there is a rule of law but the main problem with after that we all will. Deter wish the protesters well calling the anniversary a time for unity in the name of democracy but unlike his predecessors he wasnt there to deliver his message or hear how polarized his policies have made these filipinos feel any chapelle. A story as a new deputy Prime Minister as part of the joy steps down following weeks of pressure has been replaced by Veterans Affairs minister Michael Mccormick toys came under fire after it was revealed he had an extramarital affair with his press secretary who also faces a Sexual Harassment complaint. Has the latest from city. Where the government is now hoping that it can move on from the toxicity and the sniping back and forth between the two parties who make up the governing coalition youve got to remember that the coalition is the most successful political arrangement in a strangers postwar period and neither side wanted to see that arrangement derailed the Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull had been calling Barnaby Joyce is affair with a former staffer a shocking error of judgment Barnaby Joyce retaliated calling his comments inept so that relationship really deteriorated but now theyre hoping for a fresh start with the election both Michael Mccormack as nationals leader and deputy leader of the country he says that he wants to focus on uniting his team and on building teamwork and on really bringing back the focus to governing in keeping the Opposition Labor Party out of government who had been really enjoying the spectacle of the last three weeks. Thousands of people have demonstrated in brussels against the belgian governments migration policy on more. Protests as accuse the government of a hardline approach on migrant someone migration state sex trade frank and to be sacked earlier this year the government has rolled by a scandal of the force from the pouch ration of one hundred people to war torn suit on some of those deported say they were tortured on their return to the country. Former italian Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi is addressed hundreds of his supporters of his Forza Italia Party at a rally in milan head of next weekends elections hes hoping they can win enough votes to form a right Wing Coalition government. Has more. This is not an operation of elections past but the return of the great survivor of italian politics despite the scandals the humiliating political defeats and a conviction for tax fraud anyone who gambled on never seeing cvo but again might feel shortchanged but not the process faithful in a theater in milan to hear his message. Yesterday i read a quote from former u. S. President reagan which says they told me that politics is historically the second activity of man and i thought it was very very close to the first activity with therefore need to be respectable in politics. For his supporters it was the one and only chance to see him campaigning and. Even if its for what hes already done for us he has my support then you know hes a miracle of maturity he has so much energy it comes from his desire to see her rescan tree maybe eighty one years old she may have only just had open heart surgery last year but it seems no better schooling is back and its a horrible volatile political stage he is being seen as a safe pair of hands but he is barred from Political Office because of his tax fraud conviction but in the event of election victory he would have the power to nominate a substitute while the veteran politician has a colorful past in comparison to todays politicians ranging from the populist to the neo fascist scorning is relatively a less controversial figure he remains Pro European Union a reassuring quality for brussels. Despite the fact that one of his political allies is the anti immigrant and. New leg up posse italia is seen as a force to keep the far right in check this could be better to school his final come back his political career has been declared dead several times before but so far that hasnt stopped him turning on to power sony aljazeera milan at least five people have been killed in severe thunderstorms in the central u. S. The storms triggered two tornadoes that flattened buildings and flipped cars in tennessee and kentucky has also been widespread flooding from the upper midwest to. Former students of the Florida School west seventeen people were shot dead held a march in parkland in solidarity with the victims shooting on the fourteenth of february has filed widespread student protests calling for tougher gun laws as a gesture of arming some teachers and schools and raising the a summit to buy rifles. Omarion the u. S. State of california has warned residents against possible raids by immigration agents in defiance of a federal crackdown on undocumented immigrants oakland is one of several socalled sanctuary cities which have refused to help federal officials enforce the governments immigration policy the warning to the citys immigrants comes just days after President Trump threatened to unleash a potential crime wave on the state by withdrawing agents from the immigration and Customs EnforcementDepartment Yesterday i have learned information from multiple sources that there is potentially an ice activity planned in the bay area that could be starting as soon as today. My priority is to keep the community safe. It is not my wish to panic people but to ensure that theyre prepared with information that they know their rights as well as their responsibilities and know about the resources that this community offers. Question rico has suffered another setback to his Recovery Efforts with most of the island losing power after an explosion as a substation inside on sunday u. S. Territories struggling to rebuild following Hurricane Maria in september and now College Students are being forced to move to the mainland to finish school chris is libby has more from new york. Nineteen year old crystal medina prefers the weather back home but says shes thankful to be here despite the cold attending New York University going to school in puerto rico has been difficult since Hurricane Maria a lot of the buildings were being really badly damaged we had fungus in our classroom so we had to take classes and tents. There was no electricity for like the first two months there was no water for months after the category four storm a third of the island remains without power even before maria hit the government there cut funding to the university of puerto rico. Prompting a student strike that shut it down for a month chrystal is one of about sixty puerto rican students attending n. Y. U. Free of charge dozens of other schools on the mainland are offering free or reduced to ition but such programs arent without controversy as many as thirty two thousand college aged Puerto Ricans are expected to leave the island in the coming year continuing a trend that started with an economic crisis in two thousand and six as they leave in search of better opportunities the worry is that universities like this are luring away the best and the brightest researchers at the Hunter College center for puerto rican studies say the deep population of puerto rico is one of the most significant hurdles to its economic recovery the reality. Is the long term parole in the now is being intensified. Those your people even after you train them which is part of whats up to me then the economy is lacking the skills base to live battle you know new products new companies and enterprises that have actually promoted the going to be problem and why you require students to continue paying tuition to their schools at home to lessen the impact on their already strapped budgets still christian dollar cruise has mixed feelings about being in new york as an. Element of like killed to im over here and im pretty much getting a free ride just pay my sin university back home and im getting all these benefits and theyre not. But the longer it takes puerto rico to recover the stronger the pull to leave christian salumi aljazeera new york their hopes the first feature length tamil films were made in shrank or nearly forty years with a cinematic viable tattles normally watch movies made in india because decades of war cripple the industry but the Mel Fernandez reports the film kings could become an inspiration to others. With an original script a team comprising the amateurs than professionals and a dream to take on a multimillion dollar industry. Called molly kings is the first full length tamil film to be made locally in more than four decades i had made a conscious decision not to you know not to get any indian technicians or anyone in this movie just to prove a point. I only went for sound mixing in and apart from that Everything Else has been done here and thats not been done before either in the film ratnam plays a cash strapped london expectorate who travels here to attend the wedding to save money the family stays with relatives who have problems of their own the ensuing attempts to solve those problems produce hilarious results. The film which the director describes as a dark comedy is refreshing lee candid about some aspects of sri lankas Tamil Community got inspired by mr. Court where he says life is a tragedy in close up but a comedy in long shot and i thought that was apt for me personally and also the life of my community so i thought. The film premiere was a hive of excitement as the community celebrated the achievement initial reaction as many streamed out of the screening was positive i enjoyed it very much and i hope that there is a Bright Future for the movies in st argo this is all more me by all people far less some great movie because of the lack of industry professionals the director had to use more than eighty percent of crew from well established and prolific single movie makers in sri lanka for years tamil film goers in sri lanka have watched south indian firms adored its actors sung its songs and adopted its fashions breaking into an industry dominated for so long by south indian cinema is no easy task but the team behind kamali kings seem determined to take on that challenge one of the main challenges is to create a unique style for sure one can time the cinema we are here to establish oh and i did you. In terms of your job you have done but in cinema we havent three dates a long time to get to cast. Kings will be Different Things to different people but the director says its a first step to finding an identity for sri lankan tamils cinema one that he hopes inspires others to contribute to its revival been a philanderer as aljazeera colombo. Yes. Thank you very much the president of the International Olympic committee has hinted that russias suspension from the olympic family could be lifted soon vast despite two russian athletes testing positive for drugs at the Winter Olympics russias competitors had hoped they would be allowed to march with the countrys flag at the closing ceremony in china earlier on but the i. O. C. Executive committee declined because of those failed tests although president thomas back suggested russia wont be out in the cold for much longer to order these from russia they will be this year in china. This was hugely disappointing. In addition to other considerations related to the i was the from even from the scenery lifting the suspension lucys. 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Germany did win the four man bobsleigh the fourteenth gold of these olympics and it was a second gold medal for pilot Francesco Friedrich who also won the two man event hes just the second man in thirty years to win both disciplines in the same games meanwhile there was a tie for the silver medal between the second german sled and south korea the hosts also got a silver medal in womens curling losing to sweden in the final the swedes one eight three for their third olympic title curling experienced a huge boost in popularity in south korea during these games the team a School Friends whove been dubbed the garlic girls as they come from a rural garlic growing region. 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