of international pressure mounts on syria to end the bombing in eastern guta. and i don't understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. survivors and families of victims of the florida school shooting express their anger and sadness. plus how free movement in the west african nations is laying the foundation for a strong economy. twenty seventeen was one of the darkest years for human rights in recent history that's according to a new report by amnesty international it covers a state of human rights in almost one hundred sixty countries and in a direct criticism of the trumpet ministration the group unveiled its findings in the u.s. for the first time has it culhane has more from washington d.c. . a bleak assessment on the state of human rights in twenty seventeen they will not look back and draw any lessons from this they will look back and they will see that they will. all of the drafting of some of the dockers chapters in modern history the forward of the four hundred page report takes aim at specific countries first and foremost me and mar accusing the government of committing crimes against humanity which forced almost seven hundred thousand rohingya muslims to flee it singles out saudi arabia's blockade for creating a humanitarian catastrophe in yemen all of the countries fighting i saw in iraq in syria for not protecting civilians and south sudan for crimes which forced thousands of people to flee from their donald j. trump is calling it calls out the united states calling president donald trump's plan to ban entry from citizens of several muslim majority countries a transparently hateful move and it blames european leaders for creating the conditions for what he calls shocking abuses of refugees in libya it names countries it says are consistently violating human rights such as turkey china russia than israel and egypt and iran it also pointed the finger at six african countries for stifling public protests this is the very first time that amnesty international has chosen to unveil their annual report here in the united states and they chose the capitol building they say in large part because they believe what they call his nationalistic and sometimes even hateful rhetoric in policies of president donald trump are spreading across the globe anything that the u.s. does has a massive in a multiplier effect across the world but they want em bored and by the fact that you know trampling on human rights abandon me human values is something which is acceptable today we asked the white house for a response but didn't hear back as for amnesty international it says it's not all bad out there it sees the rise of hate being met with the rise of a resistance from the u.s. right now. to poland. then this way or two around. which embassy says gives it some hope that just maybe twenty team won't be quite as bleak in so many places probably calling out zero washington for the philippines president rodriguez to turkey is one of the leaders who's been specifically criticized in this report his anti drugs campaign has resulted in thousands of extra judicial killings by police officers that's according to the report it says thora says that report to president to tessie have encouraged these summary executions meanwhile relatives of victims live in fear of reprisals if they speak out at the same time attacks against human rights defenders well they have increased since president the tatty encouraged police to shoot anyone who was quote obstructing justice all right well let's speak now to see ruth who's father in residence at the social weather stations that's a social research institution in the philippines he's joining us now via skype from the capital manila thank you for talking to us is the picture that has been outlined by the c international a picture that you recognize of the philippines today. well certainly the scope of the killings in the drug war has been accurately reflected in a number of international ports the philippine administration would on the other hand retort that they're anti-crime. tactics are working and that's why they are serving the filipino people in that manner and of course president detested came to power on a wave of approval and support because of the the tough measures that he was promising to put in place and as far as i'm aware anecdotally at least that that popularity remains. yes indeed the data that social weather stations produces quarterly shows that in fact president are charities extremely popular people are very satisfied with the way he is running the government they might have some quibbles for instance most people in the philippines would prefer that drug suspects not be summarily executed but rather face trial but in the end the fact that crime is down is the sort of thing that leads to approval for the president and so effectively seems very much as though anybody who does raise concern about the conduct of the campaigns to clean up the philippines if you like is is squashed their voices quashed well there are some voices that are bringing out the church for instance the catholic church is providing refuge to the families who as you say are worried about reprisals there are lawyers movements trying to produce more protection for the victims and so on so there are people pushing back but the fact of the matter is in a presidential country like the philippines the president has the perk on durance of power and also the report outlines the imposition of martial law in mindanao in fact two separate impositions of martial lauren outlines the human rights abuses that carried out. those but it says that the human rights abuses were committed by both sides both the rebel fighters and the security forces. yes indeed particularly in the clash and city the militants linked to die and executed people and committed human rights violations where the philippine military going in is accused of somewhat arbitrary treatment of people but certainly not some summary executions all right stephen bruton you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us thank you thank you for having me that the u.n. security council is expected to vote on a draft resolution which would demand a ceasefire in the rebel held enclave of or in syria more than three hundred people have been killed there in syrian and russian air raids this week alone the u.n. human rights chief has condemned the violence accusing the syrian government of carrying out a month stress campaign of annihilation is a diplomatic editor again space. the security council met to discuss the un's charter the governing document of the world organization with charter drawn up over seventy years ago gives the council the key role of maintaining peace and security a job it's miserably failed to do over the last seven years and syria as it met once again divided and impotent some of the worst violence of the war was in eastern guta once again. four hundred thousand people that believe. in hell on earth and so my appeal to all those involved. is for any immediate suspension of all war a t.v. tease in eastern guta there were in fact for one day two secretaries general in new york mr good terrorists his previous sesa bang ki-moon had also been invited to speak he also expressed concern at the continued bloodshed in the syrian situation you'd really have must come to an end it's going to be a seventy year in for a come march tenth it will be seventy or appearing doors or seven years a sore many civilian population have been killed there is now a new peace effort the ambassador of sweden hopes to bring a new draft resolution to a vote in the council in the coming days we're asking for a cessation of hostilities for thirty days throughout syria throughout syria forty or forty eight hours after that access for weekly u.n. humanitarian and convoys aid aid convoys to. areas in need particularly urgent busy areas russia had blocked previous efforts to get a resolution on a cease fire in eastern guta facing mounting criticism and bassa vasoline the benzine has now himself called for a security council meeting on the situation on thursday the charter which the un has actually been discussing is in effect the constitution of the world body it begins we the peoples of the united nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war now compare those words to the pictures from eastern guta history is bound to judge but in recent days and over the past seven years the u.n. has failed the people of syria james pays zero at the united nations the russian border crossing to go. has closed just days after it was reopened egypt over the checkpoint on monday to allow around one hundred sixty palestinians who were stranded in cairo's airport for nearly two weeks back into the gaza strip people who were on a waiting list to leave girls are also allowed to pass through many people who left the seeking medical care that's a veil that was not of a available in the palestinian territory that's been under blockade since two thousand and seven. shouldn't some families affected by florida's deadly school shooting have shared their anger their sadness and indeed their frustration at a meeting with president trump he hurt their pleas for reform and has responded with ideas of his own including arming teachers castro reports are from washington d.c. . a meeting with the president dominated by emotions and raw pain i'm very angry that this happened because it keeps happening nine eleven happened once and they fix everything how many schools how many children have to get shot that stops here with the said ministration and me this man's daughter was shot nine times at stillman douglas high school in florida last week this student lost his friend i turned eighteen the day after or got to the new front was gone. and i don't understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. described as a listening session by the white house trump joined by his vice president and secretary of education said all ideas to prevent future school shootings are on the table that includes arming teachers an attack has lasted on average about three minutes it takes five to eight minutes for responders for the police to come in so the tack is over if you had a teacher with who was adept at firearms. they could very well and the very quickly the students and parents invited to meet the president were handpicked by the administration some said security and better mental health should be main priority . but outside the white house students who continued their protest wednesday were united in their opposition to guns we will continue to try to get gun legislation until congress listens to the white house was. trump said during his meeting with shooting survivors that this was no longer the time for just talk as in the past but elected by a pro-gun base and backed by the powerful gun lobby it remains to be seen just health far trump will go to bring meaningful reform. castro al-jazeera washington we're going to level to come here at al-jazeera including a suicide attack and tell his a u.s. embassy in montenegro it will be live in the capital with the latest plus. what are we going to have this stops of this. new case of missing schoolgirls in nigeria it's fear that dozens have been abducted by boko haram. the stormy weather continues across central parts of the mediterranean apply the cloud swirling away haversine some heavy showers into italy in particular cross the balkans some big down poles here thundery showers as well fam out of snow in the northern flank of that the snow extends away towards gary a little bit of cloud there up into ukraine cold enough in moscow minus ten celsius the high here just how the around four five maybe six degrees for london and paris will get colder as we go on into next week winds coming in from an easterly direction there's a sleaze really setting in as we go on through saturday and sunday as you can see for friday six celsius in london four degrees in paris just hovering around freezing for zero eight but the shower was stormy weather that will continue across central parts of the mediterranean more big downpours coming here at that stage and some of those showers they stretch across the other side of the med well the positive is you could see some lively showers from time to time. in the normally when temperatures struggling to get into double figures and not a whole lot better as we go on into friday actually by friday that right really setting in for today's big showers coming through this day twenty two celsius to the east of that in cairo five and dry here and not too bad in a bat with a top temperature of sixty. tarvaris a take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera i'm the c international's report on global human rights says twenty seventeen was one of the darkest years in recent history and examined conditions in one hundred fifty nine countries and in a direct criticism of the trumpet ministration it unveiled its findings in the u.s. for the first time. the un security council is expected to vote on a draft resolution maybe later on thursday if it the resolution demands a ceasefire in the rebel held on clay of east and peter in syria more than three hundred people have been killed there in syrian and russian air raids this week alone. students and families affected by school shootings of share their frustration at a meeting with president trump who heard the stories and pleas to tighten gun laws he responded with some ideas of his and which included teaches. that there's been a suicide attack at the united states embassy in the montenegran capital the attack a through an explosive device before blowing himself up outside the building in pulled good it's the embassy the u.s. embassy that is warning u.s. citizens to stay away until further notice melissa modern of it joins us live now from outside the embassy in hold good it tell us what more you know about this rather strange event a strange event to be happening in montenegro. yes really a strange event in in montenegro something like this really never happened nothing something close as this the far now as we know demand about half an hour after midnight he threw a bomb inside the u.s. embassy this compound and after dead he blew himself up in this moment it's not really certain it was his intention to blow himself up or the second bomb actually was triggered by incident police investigation is going on in this moment a lot of police went are blocking the whole area around u.s. embassy in port but it's up the name of the attacker is not yet known and everybody is now thinking and talking about what could be the motive of this whole incident as you said it's advice to the u.s. citizens in montenegro not to come in and by sea to avoid do building of embassy and also the same thing is advice to the stuff of dempsey who didn't come to work today in this incident there was no hurt people or both in the embassy stuff or depletes munt and there was no damage done to the building itself so i guess the identity of this individual will be very revealing in terms of understanding the motive of the attack. yes of course you have now speculations about who could be that person is it a montenegrin and citizens we heard some rumors on this part that he could be maybe an asylum seeker in montenegro because a lot of damn come to montenegro these days on their part to the european union when his name is ruled we will know much more about. the motives of this attack really strange for this country i have to say that montenegro recently become a twenty nine member country of the nato alliance people here are talking could be that may be some kind of motive but we will surely know much more in the next hours to come melissa martin novick thank you very much indeed. the nigerian police say that dozens of schoolgirls are feared missing following an attack by boko haram on a village in your base state that's in the north of the country there are conflicting reports about the situation some say the girls have been found after fleeing the attack others that they were rescued by the military and some ripples say they've even been released by the group now of course you'll remember that in twenty fourteen book around the ducted more than two hundred seventy girls from the town of chip uk armitage race has more from my degree in northeastern nigeria. well there are differing accounts as to exactly what happened at the government girl's school in new york state our initial reports say the fight is went into town started fighting sporadically in there and then went to the school raided the school fruit store but nobody was taken then a day later after the attack at least one student told local media that you saw some of our colleagues being taken away so when the fighters moved into the institution members of staff of the school and the girls killed the first and ran into the bushes then reports emerged that more than ninety have been unaccounted for from then there were reports that some of the girls who have found their way back into town and back into the school but to the school now some parents also approached the school authorities telling them that in fact some of their daughters have made. found their way home so the obvious to government issued a statement saying that at least fifty students have been unaccounted for as of the time it will ease that statement but said the military and other security services are calming the bushes trying to rescue those who fled and found their way why they actually couldn't get in now this is coming at a time when there are still up to one hundred schoolgirls kidnapped in two thousand and fourteen in chibok and now a lot of people oppressiveness triggs back to what happened and many people are complaining as to why there was no clear statement more than twenty four hours after the attack. tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators managed to shut down the center of this capital on wednesday they were angry over the president. has today's a bow is our correspondent in one of. they belong to one of argentina's most powerful labor unions. thousands of truck drivers that on wednesday took over the streets of when our societies they responded to the call of their leader. who for decades has been one of the most influential men in argentina. the government doesn't understand that we the workers want the country and peace but they have to understand that in order to have peace you do it with decent salaries for their families can feed their children this is what we are demanding. is now a target of a crusade against corruption which has already landed members of previous presidential administrations and other union leaders in jail economic. and demonstrations but if. it is being used by the truck drivers you to protect their leader from the corruption accusations of running him by the people here in the fifth at best growth that happens a lot of people were very worried about economic situation. and that's why people have decided to march against what they say is a government that rules for the rich. mining would have since they took office there's been no one single policy to help the working class a rise in your services transport and gas there are no measures for those who need it the most. he says she came here to demand help for her daughter who suffers from down syndrome she has not received a subsidy in five months i mean the fact that they took the pincian away from us i was able to cover only one month recently in. i need it because i don't have a job. it came to power a little over two years ago with a promise to tackle inflation and fight corruption but his popularity has suffered in recent months after implementing a series of austerity measures and the passing of a pension reform bill going to. be government needs to transition out of this period but even though it's bad it isn't as bad as it could have been because on the other side there is a divided opposition the for now poses no real challenge. mackie's main challenge continues to be to improve argentina's economy demonstrations like this one show that there are many who are not happy with what he has done so far. it is how will . pakistan's highest court has banned the former prime minister nawaz sharif from serving as head of his political policy sharif was ousted last year following allegations of corruption the decision could spell the end of his political career has come all holiday reports from the capital islamabad. for the second time debugger sonnie supreme court has ruled that mr nigh why should leave who was the country's prime minister and earlier disqualified by the supreme court after court option allegations against him in the panama papers scandal however the ruling party was then able to board old legislation through parliament making amendments to the election act of parliament whereby no why should a void be eligible to go ahead days party despite an earlier ruling by the supreme court that he could not do so all so and major said bag for the ruling party the spokesman for the government saying that they were expecting this word date but it appears that the ruling party is still on a collision course read progress on your dish eighty and now washout evil is also facing serious charges of corruption there's also facing a trial and the national it going to military court and did a landmark war dig for the prime minister which could spare a trouble for progress on muslim league now was led by the shady. now some nations in west africa currently booming senegal guinea ivory coast and gonna have all seeing strong economic growth recently and much of that is being field by freedom of movement and cross border trade as nicholas huck reports now from the senegalese capital dhaka. sheikh enjoys a laborer from the south she stealin gun my ninja near from congo and alpha jello a mason from guinea all or working on this construction site building new office blocks and city girls growing capital. this is no should toll it's the land of opportunity. every week i send money back to my mom and my little sisters going to school thanks to what i said. after having left my family behind i have no regrets to have children senegal i feel comfortable with people who are black africans like me i'll take that any time over being with white people and so far away from my family economist at the international monetary fund see a surge in economic growth in west africa take a look at these numbers across eighteen countries their gross domestic product is a five percent africa sleeping lion economies are now roaring ahead with ghana predicted to grow at nine percent good deed well and so they go at seven percent if you're gonna give me now the u.s. president may call it a shithole and the united states invested sixty five billion dollars in african countries in two thousand and sixteen and that number is expected to rise in two thousand and eighteen. while many europeans in north america still view the continent as poor or torn and desolate african see more opportunities at home than outside the cockpit. so west africans are on the move there seven times more likely to move within west african countries then go to europe or north america. for the past forty years fifteen countries in west africa free movement of people and goods within its borders migrants from the region sent thirty three billion dollars to their loved ones last year the problem we have enough is not a problem of money there's a lack of organization those people leaving their countries to grow abroad those are the champions those are the rules because even though if you and this is a sprint position think about it are many people would say i'm going to now go across the entire. to go to look for something that other african migrants to europe said more money home than those from within the region. most west africans are moving closer to home for a again they jallow opportunities are here and this is where they want to build their lives because hark al-jazeera to car. tarvaris it take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera on the scene to national report on global human rights says twenty seventeen is one of the darkest years in recent history it examined conditions in one hundred fifty nine countries and in a direct criticism of the trumpet ministration the group home veiled its findings in the u.s. for the first time the un security council is expected to vote on a draft resolution later on thursday which demands a ceasefire in the rebel held on klav of east indies here in syria more than three hundred people have been killed there in syrian and russian airstrikes this week alone students and families affected by school shootings have shared their frustration at a meeting with the u.s. president donald trump heard their stories and pleas to tighten gun laws he responded with some ideas of his own including arming teachers this would only be obviously for people that are very adept at handling a gun and it would be it's called concealed carry where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them they'd go for special training and they would. be there and you would no longer have a gun free zone gun free zone to a maniac. because they're all cowards a gun free zone is let's go in and let's attack because bullets aren't coming back at us there's been a suicide attack at the united states embassy in montenegro as capital they attacked us through an explosive device missile blowing himself up outside the building in called gudrid the embassy has warned u.s. citizens to stay away until further notice. dozens of schoolgirls a feared missing after a bomb attack on their school in northeastern nigeria there are conflicting reports that some girls may have been found and rescued after escaping the assault which happened in your base state. tens of thousands of anti-government protests is a shut down the center of argentina's capital one osiris they're demonstrating against president mcchrystal starting measures russia today those are the latest headlines coming up next it's inside story. al-jazeera. and for you. running out of water they're calling it day zero cities like cape town and nairobi a scene to get strong and first three years of droughts and bad planning so why haven't governments done more to prevent this catastrophe is the golden age of water now this is inside story.

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