World, doctors in india carry out a successful double hand transplant. We begin with breaking news out of egypt. One of our journalists peter greste has been freed from prison after 400 days behind bars in good health. He was arrested alongside our colleagues. They remain behind bars and al jazeera continues to demand their release. The three were falsely accused of colluding with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. Al jazeera had this release the network said all three have to be exonerated and the convictions against its other journalists tried in abstention have to be lifted. This was the most recent media protest against the detention of al jazeera staff in egypt. At the end of december, mash ago year since their arrest, journalists rallied in london and around the world. Sydney the hague sarajevo. It had been a year of agony for the families of the men. Australias peter grestes parents hoped for his release by christmas. Giving him a hug at the end was quite difficult. Just to say go
Are they really mexicos best bet for law and order . The government is syria is accused of deliberately demolishing thousands of homes in the city of damascus and hama. They are carrying out a Systematic Campaign of destruction. Dominic kane reports. This is the suburbs of damascus, fought over by the government and rebels repeatedly in the last few years. Like much of syria it presents a picture of bombed out buildings and rubble strewn roads. But now new evidence suggests the destruction of property here is not an accident of war. Human rights watch compiled a report claiming the government has been demolishing thousands of houses here, other parts of damascus, and the city of hama. The report uses satellite images to show how extensive the damage is. This is one district in hama seen in september 2012. This is the same place one month later. This is part of the capital close to the military airport seen in february last year. Move forward to july, the contrast is clear. Human rights
And an industry struggling to survive. Thailand is gearing up for a massive security operation ahead of sundays controversial lec election. Tens of thousands will be deployed. Protesters are mobilising, calling for a boycott of the vote, saying they will not stop the demonstrations until the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra resigns. They want an interim government appointed to implement anticorruption reforms. Yingluck shinawatra is determined to push ahead with the poll. The leaders of the protest movement issued a familiar call for the supporters to stage their biggest rally yet. Their supporters will fill the street of bangkok to bring it to a stand still. That will start today and run through the election on sunday. The focus not just in bangkok, they want the supporters to gator in other centres to set up stages outside government facilities such as the city halls. The aim to disrupt the election. The leaders of the movement are saying they will not stop people voting on sunday,
And putin and the most expensive games in history hours away. Im in australia and why the berry industry here refers to their products as white gold. Three years of fighting in syria finally a glimmer of hope for the besieged city of homs and the continued violence on what was once a major city is now a pile of rubble and has been referred to as leading the battle against Bashar Alassad the capitol of the revolution and reduced to rubble with just a few people, maybe as many as 3,000 still in the city, trapped in many of the old parts, extremely dangerous of them to move around and we understand at the moment they are gathering, waiting for the first aid to come in. No sign of that yet. We have been told it probably wont happen even though the convoy has moved out of damascus until saturday. And homs has over a Million People and battleground in the civil war and launching offensive on the city two years ago and tried to crush resistance and we go to the city of the southwest and bomba
Now the highlycharged trial begins. Plus, play it again. A stolen strait various is recovered, tonight we talk to the man who young restored the 5 million instrument. With begin with the developing story on iraq its from Human Rights Watch the in a report the organization documents widespread abuse of thousands of women and girls. The charges include allegation of systematic torture and the threat of sexual abuse, arrests, based on coercion and secret testimony, and the an women and chirp held for months even years before seeing a judge, some of the women who have been freed are speaking out and telling stories of brutality and injustice. Translator all in all i was tortured for seven days. They tied my hands, stripped my clothes. And covered my legs with ice. It was during the month of february, so it was very cold. I felt like my fingers were broken from the cold. The beating. The cursing and the insults. And joining us now on the testifying is the director of global initiatives at H