Bloody day in syrias rebel held enclave of Eastern Ghouta unicef issues a blank statement outrage. Tensions flare Northern Syria turkey stores the advance of fighters sent in to help the kurds in a free. In a rare speech at the u. N. The palestinian president calls for an International Peace summit to resolve the conflict with israel. For frances greatest ever limpin wins another gold medal in killing chang must. Leave his country home in the biathlon mix relates a claim that korea. Opposition activists are calling it a massacre france says its a violation of humanitarian law unicef is so outraged its released a blank statement with a footnote saying that no words will do justice to the children killed or referring to the furious Bombing Campaign by progovernment forces in syria targeting the last rebel stronghold near damascus nearly two hundred people have been killed since sunday well this is Eastern Ghouta its been besieged by the government since twenty thirteen four hundred thousand people in the rebel held enclave of being bombed by Syrian Government troops and their russian allies and so happening on the edge of the capital damascus it is only a few kilometers away from the Government Center of power the president ial palace there fears the bombardment is a precursor to a larger ground Operation Center ports. Panic in the streets i. Fear she didnt see the. Fear in peoples faces. The neighborhoods flattened the airstrikes are almost continuous. Towns across eastern who are coming under intense fire was survivors emerge in shock children traumatized. Was was one girl one some four hundred thousand people are trapped in this besieged Syrian Opposition enclave nowhere is safe. The sound of fighter jets in the skies frightens the population. And muhammad and her son the same say they can only hope the walls in their home will save them if a shell or an airstrike hit nearby i didnt we have no choice but to stay in our harms despite be in strikes and shelling out building and those in the street said i dont have underground shelter. Possibly within the u. N. Says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control because of what it calls an extreme escalation of hostilities scores of civilians have been killed since sunday and the number continues to rise. There are hundreds of injuries as well doctors are appealing to the International Community to force the government to allow supplies in several cars food we have shortages in medicine and medical supplies because the regime has been hitting this area for weeks weve had to deal with many injuries imagine we know a longer have blood bags the the attic. The un is demanding an end to the targeting of civilians but for the Syrian Government and its allies this is a military tactic. They hope that by inflicting suffering on the population they will turn against the rebels and force them to surrender. Eastern hooters the last remaining opposition stronghold around damascus comments made by russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov about what he calls using the experience in aleppo and there are causing concern the Syrian Government regained full control of the city of aleppo when like this thousand of its after months of siege and a full blown military assault that rebels. The main opposition body the Syrian National coalition is calling the latest wave of violence a war of extermination it is also condemning what it calls the international silence. This is not the first Public Campaign in eastern. Hundreds of civilians were killed in weeks of bombardment earlier this year many believe the renewed bombardment could be the final assault senator. Many people inside eastern who have taken to twitter to launch pleas for help one photojournalist says we cant sleep russian warplanes did not stop their bombing everything no one is standing next to us in this besieged area and all the journalists know either has been regularly tweeting about whats happening in and is vowing to continue documenting the destruction to give a voice to the people there to syrian children have also been tweeting about their experience nor and say they just want to live without fear theyve been posting videos appealing for help those bombs rained down around them is what they had to say on monday. Everyone who can be army we are hearing that as a vision has brought much stuff for this is just really good if i can give them help. As a child on out and there is of being more to the children going back before college. Im not from the physical. Were joined now by a mentor a. J. Is the president of the Syrian American medical association thank you very much indeed for coming to talk to us and i know that youve got teams who are operating in eastern and weve just had some was coming in saying that the one the clinics has just been put out of service by russian led strikes what can you tell us about what the second was are they operating on and as a matter of fact over the last forty eight hours seven medical facilities were bombed in eastern go to four of them our sons medical facilities including the woman hospital in go to that leave the area is to go to completely are supported by medical Services People are disturbed are suffering from injuries we cannot evacuate them from the buildings and certainly we dont have enough resources to treat system to treat them in the hospitals exactly this is an area that we witnessed in other people more than a year ago and see if you or your impression that these strikes a little medical facilities are deliberate that absolutely i mean weve seen a pattern where those hospitals were attacked constantly recurrently over the last few years and the Syrian Air Force is very clear about attack in those facilities again some of the pattern that we witness know therefore the with the goal of collapsing the civil side because we the Civil Society is in google and how do you manage i mean. Its been under siege for nearly for five years now so presumably it was difficult to get medical equipment and supplies in there in the first place but now that those clinics have been bombed what do do you. Well at this time we try to rebuild as much as we can unfortunately the u. N. Is completely failing in supporting any medical services and theyve been fairly over the last year and a half the convoys that got in is in good of for example example more than four months ago were not sufficient to support the medical services over there weve seen the units of reporting increased cases of managing for children more than five fold compared to beginning of twenty seventeen so weve seen those cases deteriorating and unfortunately the failure of the a Security Council the failure of the humanitarian relief operation by the u. N. In damascus has led to the situation the food storage is not theres not more than ten miles away from good still theyre not able to get the food inside was some of the injuries are still able to operate and provide services because the means to do so on the u. S. Completely useless at the start but you talk to them what kind of state. Theyre seeing that this time they have the scenario for the fall they are committed to serve the people with everything they have and theyre optimistic the somebody will hear their voices having said that they are facing very difficult decisions where with limited resources they might not be able to save some lives which usually use they should be able to but this time they might not be able to save and thats very difficult stress on the physician to be worried about his or her familys to be worried about their patients and to look at cases where they can save lives but they cannot because there are no curtains and one of the things that social can is that the number of children who are caught up in in this what sort of equipment and needs to the children have in particular what are you asking for if indeed it can be brought in so at this time what the cost and destruction of medical facilities running almost out of major. Instruments and supplies of medications for children who dont have anything in particular for them at this time barely anything survivable you can see cases not being treated so at this time we feel the u. N. Should be bringing antibiotics in situ medications but merely stop the destruction to hold the cease fire in gaza thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you thank you. Turkeys president says his soldiers have forced fighters loyal to the Syrian Government to leave a kurdish controlled area of a free and take his military is said to fire on the fighters as they entered the enclave president richard one is bound to capture the area within days. Earlier images of the Syrian Forces arriving in the region were broadcast on a t. V. Network run by the Lebanese Group hezbollah fighters were going in to help kurdish y. P. G. Forces defend themselves against a turkish offensive that some avenge of aid has more from on turkeys border with syria. A group of fighters loyal to president Bashar Assads government has retreated from the city of our free these fighters were trying to get close to the city of the kurdish fighters had asked for help from the Syrian Government and it said that it will not send its regular forces but will provide them with irregular militias which it calls a Popular Forces this happened after turkish artillery hit these areas when it saw that these forces were going in it happened only a couple of hours after the turkish president of the gun announced that he and his forces are in another phase of the operation which as we know ongoing since last month and he promised his cabinet members that the city of our friend is going to be captured by Turkish Forces and their allies these arab f. S. A. Fighters in a matter of days this operation has been ongoing since january the twentieth and it has come at a heavy toll to the turkish government as well i need to kill the saga at the same time it takes to make certain perforations in the field the c. G. Of the effort will start rapidly in the coming days. Military sources on the ground have been telling us that it is easier said than done to capture the city because its very tough terrain and these type e. G. Kurdish fighters are locals to this area so the advance of the turkish government as well as the f. S. A. Fighters who say theyve captured a number of villages around the city of the can help them encircled and. Have been very very slow their advance according to them has been not only because of the tough terrain but also because they want to avoid civilian casualties but as weve seen in the syrian conflict as more forces arrive as a bigot of powers to take areas. They want to control its the civilians who suffer the most the palestinian president has laid out his vision for the future of the middle east Peace Process in a rare address to the United Nations called for an International Summit between israel and palestine this. Time we call for the convening of an International Peace conference by mid twentieth team based on International Law and the relevant un resolutions with broader International Participation and including the two concerned parties and any settlement for most must be the cessation of settlement activities in the territory occupied since one thousand sixty seven including East Jerusalem and suspension of the decision regarding jerusalem as well as holding the transfer of the us embassy to jerusalem a diplomatic end to james bases at the United Nations for us and james came to the u. N. To confront the israelis and the americans what do they have to say in response. Well they spoke immediately after the palestinian president the next speaker was the israeli ambassador danny down on who is a political figure and self before he became ambassador in israel and a performer when it comes to Security Council meetings hes very good in this format by the time he spoke president abbas it actually got up and left nothing unusual there in terms of u. N. Protocol he was the only president in a room full of ambassadors and he had another engagement to go to but it didnt stop the israeli ambassador scoring a point i expected news that a day without another dialogue unfortunately is once again running away look what just happened in this room with the game in you put demands on the table in the left and expecting your to deliver the results its not going to or that way the only way to move forward if they wrecked negotiations between even in the palestinian and those direct negotiations israel would like to see brokered by the Trump Administration they are very supportive of those efforts that the administration has put in place clearly president abbas is not he believes that the trumpet ministration can no longer be trusted because of their recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital and the cut to funding recently of the u. N. Agency that helps palestinians but the u. S. Ambassador nikki haley came to this meeting with the two key figures in the trumpet ministration involved in negotiations jason green blatt and jared cushion the president s own son in law and she made this appeal to president abbas. You can choose to put of the Palestinian People the United States stands ready to work with the palestinian leadership our negotiators are sitting right behind me ready to talk but we will not chase after you the choice mr president is yours and the israel palestine conflict in the spotlight here again at the Security Council a day of drama and theatrical but the reality is this and its very depressing i have to say that there was nothing really achieved at the Security Council meeting that brings us any closer to a resolution of a conflict thats gone on for more than seventy years james bays thank you very much. But a smith is in ramallah for us so how will it go down with the palestinians but it. Well i think the recognition recognition here amongst palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza that Mahmoud Abbas is in is in a very difficult position his leadership the leadership of the Palestinian Authority came under a lot of criticism but simply from hamas is main rival hamas runs gaza after donald trump recognized him as the capital of israel criticism because hamas and other critics of the p. A. Said look after twenty five years of relying on the americans and as a mediator youve got nothing in this is what youve got the vaccine gone backwards so hamas so Mahmoud Abbas today went in strong at the u. N. Stuck firmly to palestinian lines that they they want to see East Jerusalem as their capital they want settlement construction to stop before they can go forward on any sort of negotiations with the israelis and theres not much else the palestinian leadership could do because they realize that if they dont press to stick with these principles if they dont try and get some sort of further furtherance in the talks then they could be stuck with pressure from the u. S. And israel to take what the Current White House plan might be which is in palestinian capital other elsewhere from East Jerusalem vast swathes of the west bank given over to israeli settlements those would be unacceptable to the palestinian public so Mahmoud Abbas knows he has to stick to those long held principles for negotiations large and its me thank you very much andy. Theres more to come here on the news hour including a final farewell to Morgan Tsvangirai zimbabwes late Opposition Leader is laid to rest in his hometown. Empowering women an all female t. V. Station is launched in gaza. And in sport well hear from the football manager who says his team is to get ready to suffer in the European Champions League. Senior management at the Charity Oxfam have been answering questions from british m. P. s in london it follows allegations that staff at the charity paid women in haiti for sex in the wake of the twenty ten. Oxfams chief executive told a Parliamentary Committee or tuesday that its now investigating a further twenty six cases of alleged sexual abuse or u. K. Correspondent bonamy phillips reports. Oxfam senior officials came to parliament knowing they were in for a grilling. In the chaotic aftermath of haitis earthquake how could oxfam have allowed staff to take advantage of such Vulnerable People and when it found out why did it tell the public. My colleagues at the time made a set of decisions as to how public to go not all organizations choose to go public at all with hindsight they made the wrong call as to how public to be they should if we were going to if we were culpable which we were. They shouldve been completely transparent everybody knew that the aid sector wa