Africas Parliament Passes a motion to take private land without giving any compensation. Causes outrage telling a young girl she would be on it if she were martyred for turkey. South korean prosecutors demand thirty years in prison for former president bargain hay. And a german court give cities the green light to ban diesel cars to help reduce air pollution. The russian president s call for a five hour ceasefire for the besieged syrian neighborhood of east and has failed to stop the bombing a pause was designed to allow civilians to leave the rebel held suburb of damascus the u. N. Says a thousand sick or wounded people need to be evacuated but after a brief lull which allowed people to venture out residents say government planes resume strikes so hard to reports from beirut. Some emerged from underground shelters to buy food and water others returned home to collect whatever is left of their belongings the relative calm gave the people of eastern some respect a five hour pause in the assault by the pro Syrian Government alliance on the besieged enclave ordered by the russian government the temporary truce from nine am until two pm is due to be repeated daily its not enough for the syrians trapped in the war zone. What ceasefire we have been under bombardment all night planes flying above our heads death is everywhere theres no ceasefire. The Bombing Campaign resumed soon after the limited ceasefire expired the last rebel stronghold near the capital damascus has been under attack for more than ten days civilian deaths are already close to six hundred the stated aim of the truce is to allow civilians to leave but the opposition says the true goal is to displace the population. So how do they expect the people of ghouta to leave their homes this can never happen we call on the countries who voted for a ceasefire at the un to pressure russia and syria to implement it no one can kick the people out of guta eastern huta surrounded by government controlled territory the Russian Center for reconciliation says a corridor has been open for civilians to leave via their was fifteen crossing point the center accuses rebels of shelling the Evacuation Route and preventing people from leaving the opposition denies that. But the people do not want to leave they dont not want to be displaced and never be able to return to their homes it has already happened to thousands of syrians after Government Forces recapture rebel held territories its not just that many are afraid to cross into government controlled territory without International Observers or security guarantees they fear arrest or conscription. Up to four hundred thousand people are believed to be trapped in eastern hooter hundreds need Urgent Medical assistance and evacuation its not clear if aid will be allowed during the pause in the fighting medics say they arent able to cope when we last doctors and nurses there are women and children dying we want these massacres to stalk please end this. The procedure in Government Alliance has taken the decision to recapture eastern huta at any cost for now the people of eastern will have two choices deaths or displacement of. Beirut. Correspondent Mohammad Al Jazeera has the latest from inside eastern. Yes shelling is still ongoing in eastern guta through many villages and towns and even the city of duma you can hear the intensive bombardment of several areas battles are also taking place the host of a hair and front says the Regime Forces are trying to advance and storm east and grew to russia yesterday announced a truce between nine am and two pm in addition to humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave the area but the civilians dont want to leave to areas controlled by the regime via these corridors or crossings because of the continued shelling the syrian Regime Forces only a few hundred meters from where i am civilians have been killed today and people stuck here scared administrative and medical authorities here say that there is no contact or coordination between them on one hand and the russian side all the syrian red crescent on the other hand the administrative and medical Authorities Say this is aimed at circumventing the Security Councils decision on the truce. Well hospitals are. Struggling to cope with the number of injured especially as their own staff are also getting course in the firing line. My name is moloch. Ive been a nurse in one of his hospitals for five years we had a very tough day at the hospital five days ago as we received so many wounded people after the barbaric shelling of the area. I finished work and left for home all of a sudden about one hundred meters from the hospital i was shocked to receive a bullet wound to my stomach i yelled out in pain and a group of colleagues rushed to help me they took me to the hospital where i was treated at the same period where a few minutes before id been treating other wounded people. I spent the night at the hospital and the next morning an aerial raid hit the city everything shook everyone of us forgot about how pain and we turned to the emergency room that was full of the wounded i left my beard and i went to try and help the wounded i was shocked to see one of the patients was my best friend i tried my best to calm him down as he knew well what had happened to me five days ago you know. Were joined now via skype from riyadh by panelist months as his new un we general humanitarian coordinator for syria weve been hearing about there being a brief lull in the fighting in east and go to what are you able to tell us about whether aid convoys have been able to access the area. Well the situation really is highly straight because we havent been able to get bring in any aid convoys more than ten days now there has been really high intensity who still it is a civilian area in areas where theres more than four hundred thousand people that have been there living. This accuser Council Resolution has not translated into action in the field it really ridicules the Security Council of a decision is made it is not interpret its in action on the ground and on the humanitarian side we are within a ten minutes distance ten miles distance from is that who in the last was unable relieves rollout food medical supplies that are desperately needed to bring to people in the area so this iteration is really highly satisfactory to say the least and we continue to worry about protection of civilians the number its become almost like your routine daily statistics of how many people are killed and how many people are injured and yet we dont see any action to really implement the security Council Resolution and to allow us to bring to go in and bring commits and assistance to also take out the medical cases can i just to be clear about this we didnt we saw the u. N. Pos for the resolution demanding a ceasefire not just an instant but across the country that we know that there is an agency to whats happening in east and go to that didnt materialize the russians and intervened saying that there will be a five hour daily humanitarian pause for humanitarian aid are you saying that nothing has has gone in to the area. Nothing has gone in nothing has more not just in his will there but in other areas indeed the security Council Resolution resolution covers the tallit of the country on our side we are ready to move into action we are ready to deploy the urgently needed humanitarian assistance what we do need is the political will is the green light so allow us to bring in to the people well in the areas which are desperately in need. What do you do if you have a situation where there has been a deadlock over syria at the un Security Council and then after much discussion and painstaking negotiations a resolution has actually passed away have taken action and then nothing happens well we continue talking to everybody we continue really advocating for what we see and we know is happening on the ground and what needs to happen now on the ground and this is a moment where really diplomatic humanitarian at block is the really big capitals Everybody Needs to call the existing pressure we ourselves are also talking to everybody to try and find a way forward the Current Situation as it is is an acceptable we cannot continue another day with bombs being without sacks and hear all the reports and that come up from the civilian areas human examine it has to be deep deep politicized were there to help people in need of thats what were asking to be able to do well thank you very much at the uns Regional Humanitarian Coordinator facade for sarah lunde says speaking to us about the situation that. South Africas Parliament has passed a motion allowing the government to take private land without compensation the motion was brought forward by the left wing Economic Freedom fighters party it was passed by an overwhelming majority of two hundred forty one votes in favor versus eighty three votes against south africas new president so around a person has said that land reform needs to happen immediately michael ware joins us now from johannesburg why is this motion passed now but ever since the a. N. C. Came to power in one thousand nine hundred for its promise land reform and redistribution but progress has been slow many people say its because of a lack of political will there have been allegations of corruption purchases of land from wealthy white farmers involved sometimes highly inflated prices more people suspected deals with politicians so the reality hasnt changed much in the vast majority of south africas farmland remains in the hands of the white minority and ever since european colonialists came here in previous centuries and took it often violently so theres a lack of changes lack of progress is one of the things that helped the rise of the Economic Freedom fighters a breakaway Opposition Party led by Julius Malema and hes for some years been making the case to give the government greater powers to take land without compensation and put in motion to Parliament Today to begin a process of changing the constitution to allow them as he said it was passed with a significant majority because the a. N. C. The ruling a. N. C. Party voted with the Economic Freedom fighters on this issue for the first time how lengthy could the process be what happens next. It was meant to go to a committee now that it wont come back to the National Assembly in till august and it could take some more months before this constitutional changes actually made theres an election next year we dont know who will be in power or what the Political Climate will be like by the time the government has this new power and what kind of policy of course theyll bring in to what extent they will radically redistribute land or not but we have seen in recent years the trend slow land distribute distribution general Poor Service Delivery has led to the rise of more radical or more populist policies being discussed often led by the Economic Freedom fighters and now being adopted by the a. N. C. As well so if that trend continues then maybe well see more radical policies actually being implemented which may be popular with some voters probably wont be popular with investors and of course not with large landowners either thank you very much malcolm webb in johannesburg a controversial plan to tax the Christian Church in jerusalem which led to the culture of one of its holiest sites has been suspended by the citys mayor the church of the holy sepulcher considered to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of jesus has been shut in protest since sunday christian leaders say the tax plan was a deliberate israeli policy aimed at weakening their presence in the holy city how a force that has more from outside the church in occupied east jerusalem. This is the third day that pilgrims tourists and others have been gathering in front of the closed door of the church of the holy circle k. But right now theyre gathering with increased intensity because theyre aware of the news that has broken this afternoon that came from the Prime Ministers Office saying that the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu had brokered some kind of an agreement between the leaders of the various churches the three churches that run this holy site together and the jewish and the disappearance of the issue at hand is taxation that you should be musicality had been trying to collect what it says one hundred eighty six Million Dollars worth of back taxes owed on commercial properties rented out by the Greek Orthodox church the Prime Ministers Office saying that they will now be a professional team composed of ministers to this policy and others which will assess those claims are not situation and that the collection activities will be suspended as a result the Church Leaders have also one negotiations on a separate issue the proposal of a law which would allow the Israeli Government to seize land which the church had sold to private investors the government and the proposal that law saying that it leaves people who live on that land in an uncertain situation and thats why the government needed that power the church says all of this is discriminatory against christians in the holy land so for now the church doors remain shut but there does seem to be an agreement which may have been able to bring this standoff to an end in of aljazeera much more still to come why even searching for winnie the pooh is banned as china cracks down on criticism of its move to scrap time limits for president xi. And to you saying you can run on. A highly anticipated announcement about the same ball turns out to be quite different from what his fans were expecting. Welcome back across central and southern parts of china weve got a night two weather front which is clearing southeast or is cheering the course of wednesday so fuzhou is going to be wet and windy during the day that all clearing through as we head on through into thursday another area of rain up towards the n. C. River valley fine weather conditions across much of indo china hanoi there looking at temperatures of twenty seven degrees and then fine across los on into me and mark so lets now move across into south asia weve got the satellite imagery here showing showers affecting parts of sri lanka and up towards the north weve got an area of cloud and rain and the snow at Higher Elevations pushing across pakistan so cloudy picture across much of pakistan during the course of wednesday fine for delhi temperatures there are thirty one showers still for colombo as we head on into thursday where you can see the area developing more widely with snow on its leading edge as it pushed up through the hindu kush and into the himalayas but otherwise fine conditions the most part again sri lanka still seeing some showers here the Arabian Peninsula is looking to a bit more unsettling to more cloud around here in the course of wednesday across the gulf states generally in the risk of want to show as temperatures just twenty five degrees here in doha on the other side the potential is looking fine for the top temperature of thirty four in mecca. From Satellite Technology to three d. Printing. Called waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change Building Communities creating your point and solving problems challenging systems and shaping. Creative thinkers sure continents future. Africa. Back without a zero recap of the top stories aerial bombardment of the besieged syrian neighborhood of Eastern Ghouta has resumed after the day a five hour humanitarian truce was called for. South Africas Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a motion allowing the government to take private land without compensation. And the controversial plan to tax the question church in jerusalem which led to the closure of one of its holiest sites is now been suspended by the citys mayor. The u. N. Special envoy to yemen has been briefing the Security Council on the crisis in the country for the last time before he leaves the job lets go straight to our diplomatic editor james bays who is listening into that what did we hear about the situation in yemen. Im afraid as youd expect the situation is very grim and thats the word were getting from the Security Council the swedish ship bassa describing it as deplorable or un humanitarian chief saying catastrophic so it was important to hear the final briefing of the special envoy will show comet who leaves his job after this briefing to be replaced by british veteran u. N. Official Martin Griffiths he said that there was a destructive pattern of zeros some politics which has not been broken which has led to poverty and destruction he also revealed for the first time that peace talks that he led in switzerland and then in kuwait in twenty sixteen nearly resulted in a deal well now or a new york today i would like to announce for the first time that we did Reach Agreement on a peace proposal developed in consultation with the parties but they refused to sign at the last minute at the end of the consultations it became clear that the who these were not prepared to make concessions on proposed security agreements or even get into details about a comprehensive security plan this has been a major stumbling block towards reaching and the go she added solution. Well this all follows in the last twenty four hours some drama in the Security Council over yemen the renewal of the sanctions program for yemen keeping those sanctions in place which resulted in a veto by russia in one draft resolution that came that the u. K. And the u. S. Came up with which actually specifically had a criticism of iran in it so they ended up voting on another russian draft that didnt include that and some of that criticism of iran has come up again in the Security Council meeting the u. K. And u. S. Quoting a panel of experts report saying that iran has been interfering in yemen helping the who these with their Missile Program its worth telling you that there are other parts of that panel of experts report that theyve not been mentioning those are the parts that say that the Saudi Led Coalition has been causing a great deal of civilian casualties with its wide square scale bombing in yemen and one member of that coalition the u. S. A has been involved in southern yemen yemen backing separatist forces and has also been running torture camps in the country right now diplomatic editor james bays of all the latest from the United Nations turkeys president has been criticized for telling a six Year Old Girl that she would be honored if she were martyred for turkey i mean terror as it was brought on stage while Tayyip Erdogan delivered a speech at his ruling partys congress in the city of carolina us. After trying to comfort the crying by kissing her tend to the crowd and commended her for her military uniform divine is increasingly brought children dressed in military uniforms on stage at public appearances which critics say is a bit to win him more support. God bless her a turkish like in her pocket if shes martyred good willing this flag will be draped on her shes ready for anything on to you in colombia at least five soldiers have been killed and ten others wounded in a bomb attack by marxist rebels the National Liberation army rebels bombed military vehicles on the road between the northern towns of two boo and salazar the attack came one day after the group said it would hold a unilateral ceasefire during elections next month anger is mounting against the government in nigeria after one hundred ten schoolgirls were kidnapped by the armed group last week theres been criticism over the handling of the mass abduction of a school in the countrys troubled Northern Region teachers have resumed classes but many school kids say theyre too scared to attend parents of the missing girls have been speaking about their fears and the struggle to find their children. When i knew my all this time we have been looking for our lost daughters some were found during the attack and a few days after having tracked for days some had sword and legs some were bitten by snakes while trying to return but i and many others are still looking up to god hoping theyll be rescued those who witnessed the abduction said our daughters were whisked away in a truck. Has defended its military operation against rangar muslims minister of International Cooperation was speaking to the Un Human Rights Council which is meeting in geneva since august almost seven hundred thousand rangar a fled violence in myanmar and taken refuge in bangladesh. The euro kind is issue is not a religious one i repeat it is not a religious one but a political and economic challenge involving migration competition over limited resources poverty and the rule of law it does reasonably evolved from Community Conflict into the issues of National Security and terrorism it has never been a case of religious discrimination or conflict between the two different feet majority of muslims are residing peacefully and harmoniously in the remaining part of this multi religious country prosecutors in south korea are seeking a thirty Year Prison Sentence for former President Park and hey the ousted leader faces charges of bribery abuse of power and coercion last year was formally removed from office and arrested of reallocations she colluded with a friend to take millions of dollars from companies in bribes of course sentence parks french oil shin cell to twenty years in prison earlier this month from mcbride has more from seoul. Parkin hay has faced an array of charges from alleged bribery to abuse of power even to things like discriminating against artists who she felt were opposed to her government all this dates back to an unfolding scandal in twenty sixteen and much of it related to a friendship with her longtime confidant choice and still its claimed that together and choice forced a number of conglomerates to hand over more than fifty Million Dollars in return for business favors the whole scandal led to massive street protests calls for her resignation she clung on to power and was eventually impeached and which brought about her downfall at the end of twenty sixteen since then choi has been found guilty of her part in all this two weeks ago she was sentenced to twenty years in prison something she is appealing against parker and hey though has pleaded not guilty and indeed has said that shes been treated unfairly by the judicial system and has been boycotting a number of of her Court Appearances but according to the prosecutors shes guilty not only of these crimes but also of damaging the very constitutional fabric of south korea itself dozens of people have marched in hong kong protesting against amendments to chinas constitution the proposal that scrap president ial limits allowing a president to remain in office indefinitely if approved it means current chinese president xi jinping may never have to retire activists say the constitution changes will severely hand chinas development in the move to extend things rule as president have come in for criticism and mockery on social media which sent as a trying hard to block. Users of the microblogging site weibo have been prevented from posting or searching for words and phrases including two term limit disagree shameless and named emperor and senses and also been trying hard to crack down on any mention of winnie the pooh chinese social media users often compared to but social media users are still sharing images like this one showing the cartoon bear hugging a jar of honey with the slogan find the thing you love and stick with it german cities will now be able to ban people from driving diesel cars in certain areas federal Administrative Court approved Lower Court Rulings that cities can impose bans to tackle air pollution environmental campaigners had sued dozens of german cities arguing that they have a judy to protect Peoples Health the ruling could have huge ramifications for com makers in the country which is europes largest car market with german chancellor says that only a handful of cities have emission rates that need addressing. Even a gun in the ruling has only just happened and we would examine it a first look at the decision told us that its basing itself on the adherence to the legal limits for emissions values now we have to look into who has the legal rights to a course of action and we will of course have talks with him and see polities and the federal states we know that many of the cities affected today dont have all too big an excess of emissions targets dont again as more from berlin. This ruling has profound implications for much of the german Automotive Industry and specifically also for millions of road users lets be clear this ruling basically means that specific individual cities can now move to imposing either a ban or some sort of restriction on Diesel Engine engine vehicles coming into into their central areas into their vicinity specifically the cities where the emission levels of what the environmentalist calls call dangerous emissions are very high and that point is something Angela Merkel has said while shes reacting to this ring she believes well actually there arent that many cities but actually there are quite a few also then that the question which will be post is who will pay to deal with the sorts of retrofitting two engines that will need to happen the point is that there are millions of these lands in vehicles in this country and some estimates suggest that to retrofit to change the hardware of these Diesel Engine vehicles could cost up to three and a half thousand dollars per vehicle when you consider as i say that there are many millions of Diesel Engine vehicles its very clear thats a very considerable amount of money and nobody has said so far who should pick up the tab on final point to to make here is the importance of the Automotive Industry in this country nearly a Million People work in it very many millions and millions of people drive the sorts of cars created by the Automotive Industry here so the question is given how important this ruling might be what will the Automotive Industry do how will it react to this particular ruling. Now he was the worlds fastest man for a decade now is saying bolt is setting his sights on a new sporting challenge. Need to. Bolt his to play in a football match to raise money for unicef at the home of Manchester United against a team led by pop star Robbie Williams on sunday the eight time olympic champion created a social media frenzy when he hinted hed signed for a Football Team but it seems the thirty one year old sprinter may not be in it for the long run. But look at the days top stories now aerial bombardment of the besieged syrian neighborhood of east and has resumed this follows the daily five hour humanitarian trees designed to allow civilians to leave the rebel held suburb of damascus while Health Organization says a thousand sick or wounded people need to be evacuated out of their cars for the moment he is inside Eastern Ghouta. Yes shelling is still ongoing in eastern guta through many villages and towns and even the city of duma you can hear the intensive bombardment of several areas fierce battles are also taking place the host over here and ill rearm from this is the Regime Forces are trying to advance and storm east and grew to. South Africas Parliament is overwhelmingly passed a motion allowing the government to take private land without compensation the motion was brought forward by the left wing Economic Freedom fighters party south africas new president Cyril Ramaphosa has said that land reform needs to happen immediately a controversial plan to tax the Christian Church in jerusalem which has led to the closure of one of its holiest sites has been suspended by the mayor the church of considered to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of jesus has been shot in protest since sunday. Attack is present rage of type has been criticized for telling a six Year Old Girl that she would be honored if she were martyred for turkey i mean a terror was brought on stage while i do want to live it a speech at his ruling parties congress in colombia at least five soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack by a marxist armed group the National Liberation army on military vehicles on the road between the northern towns of timber and. And a prosecutor in south korea are seeking a thirty Year Prison Sentence for former President Park in hey she faces charges of bribery abuse of power and coercion last year park was formally removed from office and arrested amid allegations she colluded with a friend to take millions of dollars in bribes more on those stories at the top of the next hour in twenty five minutes time off to innovate africa which is next. 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