hello i'm not entirely sure without just their life and also coming up. the u.n. security council is due to vote on a ceasefire of a series east in ghouta but it's unclear if russia is on board. five west african countries are looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to fight on groups in the region. and the australian lake that could become one of the world's biggest battering. they've been scenes of desperation in northeastern nigeria after the government retracted a statement in which it claimed that dozens of a ducted schoolgirls have been rescued suspected by harrumph isis took the girls from the school in your base states on monday al-jazeera as ahmed idris was the first international journalist to get the he sent us this report from ducky. disappointment inductions i was after parents were told that daughters have been rescued the state government apologized saying the information was not true for the relatives of more than one thousand students the wait has just begun some say it's all over again. these sisters have not only escaped the kidnappers but they're older sister wasn't as lucky the incident leaves them devastated. and i know one of them long as they came just after we broke our monday fast we heard gunshots there was chaos everywhere she tried to comfort us but it only got worse four of us sisters started running to give that she fell and i fell down to her but someone picked me up that was the last time i saw her she was taken. neighbors poured into their home to offer support at the go school we were refused access to from inside i would necessary some of the attackers dressed in military fatigues drove through the school gates but before they got in many of the girls alerted by the gunshots fired early on the scale of the problem at the front of the school and escaped but some girls say they saw some of their schoolmates being led into a waiting truck so literally and his family thought they too were received fourteen year olds and up but she was one of the schoolgirls taken in to tell us a tassel matal mother isn't hospital she fainted on hearing the her daughter was and found the grief is too much for her family is that much is expected of the second year high school student for now they continue to wait hoping to hear good and definitive news about the return of their child. residents hope the tragedy will be as long as a twenty four incident where more than two hundred seventy goals like kidnapped from their school more than a third of them are you to be found one hundred reese al-jazeera dumped. the u.n. security council is set to vote on a draft resolution which would demand a thirty day cease fire in syria's east. at least four hundred people have been killed in the government on the rebel held this week. from the turkish. that's close to the syrian border. to the full circle was suffering the smallest coffins of the heaviest and besieged there in their dozens every day for parents saying goodbye to little children is not easy but almost every family has lost someone the number of the dead is so high that trenches are being dug for quick burials. was if people linger outside for too long they risk becoming victims of the next bombing. living rooms in offices are now makeshift morgues. for those who survived the attacks medical facilities are not available. for doctors without borders says thirteen hospitals have been hit in three days. since sunday the syrian government and its allies have stepped up their strikes since troops are being converging on the field and. are supposed to be bought off for deescalation zones agreed upon by russia iran and turkey but the syrian government says it stopped getting what it called in an area home to four hundred thousand people and russia denies it involved in the relentless one but the civilians. the situation really leaves much to be decided well as you know the responsibility for the situation in eastern huta rests with those who support the terrorists tunnels like these have been crucial for rebels who have stopped multiple attempts to storm the eastern front in the past. the rough numbers and their supplies have been cut off but the rebels feel they will not surrender without a fight man we are a lot higher our capabilities are weak but god willing we will deal with this the regime will lose again face similar attacks and it didn't fall and now again we will survive. besieged syrian say none of the words from people in power have done much to protect them messages for help from eastern who have been nonstop street after street there are bodies and parents have been trying to pull their children out of the rubble the united nation calls it hell on earth for besieged people in eastern guta who feel abandoned by the outside world they might as well be living on another planet some of a job with al-jazeera. leaders from africa's region are trying to raise more money to pay for a joint military force a meeting the e.u. as well as international politicians in brussels the so-called g. five saw hell group is made up of mauritania mali the kenya faster. and chad their troops work alongside french and u.n. forces but as the tatar butler reports more funds needed to secure the future of the alliance in december the french president held a fundraising conference for the g. five sile force back then a promise of one hundred million dollars by saudi arabia added money already pledged by the e.u. france and the us but just over half of the five hundred million dollars targeted has raised. the funding shortfall prompted the president of one of the so-called g. five nations to call for more support earlier this month. it is urgent that this force be operational the international community whose serious decisions in libya have had disastrous consequences for the security of our countries must show greater solidarity with the. the joint military force known as to five was launched last year by the leaders of new share picking a fast so charred mali and mauritania backed by france its five thousand troops will work alongside un peacekeepers in mali and french soldiers already deployed in syal its mission is to stop cross border attacks from armed groups including boko haram and affiliates of al qaida and eisel as well as crackdown on weapons and people trafficking instability in libya is worsening the crisis. we have to fix the causes which brought a spread in violence the big reason is a full look at afi and this is responsibility of the international community g five style and european union leaders meeting in brussels on friday hope to raise enough money to enable the force to be fully operational within weeks more money for joint force is a sensual but some analysts say can only be successful if it's allowed to fully cooperate with the national and international forces already deployed and his operations must go hand in hand with more developments in the region and it must win people's trust that it's vital that the rights of the people are respected there must be proper training you can't have troops for example who don't even speak a local language it won't work or. it's a g five force can gather the necessary money to carry out its mandate it'll be an urgent plea needed and important step in cooperation in a region where so many people have been killed in violence or forced to flee their homes. by let's go live now to natasha is there in brussels and it looks very much as though that meeting is about to get under way and what i wanted to ask you is this is being sold as an african led initiative why are they in brussels then seeking financing. while i think thirty even though it's being sold as an african led initiative everybody knows about e.u. funds are absolutely essential and the e.u. has been one of the big contributors in fact just a short time ago we heard from the e.u. foreign policy chief frederica more greeny and she announced that in fact the european union will double its contributions to the g five a force by around sixty million dollars now that will certainly be a boost but whether or not we are going to see money raised here today reaching that target of the g. five forces it needs a five hundred million remains to be seen so far the money that has been raised has already been used we have a headquarters in mali for this new force and also some soldiers from the g five have carried out their first operation is alongside french troops and the europeans they have a vested interest in keeping this part of africa more stable than it presently is there is there the threat obviously of of armed groups spreading and of course of migrants the irregular migrants that are regularly crossing the mediterranean trying to get into europe. and that was something that was raised by the foreign policy chief a short while ago because it is in your it's interest she said to stabilize this region it is not very far away you have been. just across. the mediterranean west instability is has been fueling the instability within the zeile region and of course with the migration real to europe more and more refugees have been running up from the solid region of reaching european shores about is something that european leaders are very open about saying that they want to stop moderating it was also very adamant that this isn't just about putting a military power in place it is also she said about development she says that moscow hand in hand with a development in the region she said development does not mean charity and it should not be seen like that but basically you have to put all those pieces of the puzzle together in order to try and stabilize a region which has seen a huge upsurge in violence and just this week alone we saw there in nigeria boko hall very bowker on the abduction of those schoolgirls but also a couple of days ago two french soldiers in mali were killed so there is a real sense of urgency here amongst european leaders right now tasha thank you for that the fashionable for our correspondent life in brussels. lots more to come here at al-jazeera including it will examine why china's government is i think control of a major insurance firm. and a dispute over the gas ignites more tension between cyprus and turkey. from the clear blue sky of the doha mooney. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city. how temperature is the starting to tumble now across much of here because cold air digging in from siberia but in northern areas already seeing those temperatures struggle further south the cold able to get here as well as we go on through the next few days at the moment so we've got this large massive cloud across central areas of the mediterranean producing some valan thunderstorms pushing a little further north with snow over the alps snow over the austrian swiss and french alps as well and we got that's a cooler air so it's keeping things very very cold and that's why the snow is starting to seti sway and further north monist eleven in moscow that's cold even for most cold enough for london at five degrees celsius three there for paris increasing waynes making it feel increasingly raw as we go on through the weekend just five celsius again for london and also for paris for the south we've got a high of eleven celsius in the sunshine for madrid but stormy weather will continue for rome a wet eleven degrees here and that wet weather making its way over towards greece by this date already seeing some showers affecting northern areas of algeria and all the parts of she will make its way little further north with adhesive surprise the skies do come back in behind where the west sunshine the fortune is a little on the breezy side while the cloudy for a bat's with a high of sixty eight degrees there with sponsored by cat time release. the scene for us when they're on line which is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and just posted a story join a global conversation at this time on our dizzy. tarvaris take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera have been scenes of desperation in northeastern nigeria after the government retracted a statement claiming dozens of abducted schoolgirls have been rescued suspected book around pfizer's took the girls from the school in your base state on monday. the un security council set to vote on a draft resolution which would demand a thirty day ceasefire in syria's eastern guta at least four hundred people have been killed and government has strikes on this rebel held on klav since sunday. and the e.u. is expected to inject more cash into an african body which aims to combat armed groups and violence in the south held leaders of five west african countries or in brussels to try to raise two hundred fifty million dollars. a us president or no trump is not backing away in fact he's reiterated his controversial proposal to alm teachers to prevent school shootings he suggested that they should be paid a bonus mr trump is under pressure to pass tougher gun laws after last week's mass shooting in florida has our white house correspondent kimberly how can it. arming teachers in the classroom is a controversy ally dhea being promoted by president donald trump prevent school shootings if you harden the sights you're not going to have this problem because these guys who lack courage will never go into those schools he says he wants to encourage educators to become comfortable with a gun even offering bonuses for those with firearms skills i want my schools protected just like my banks are protected truck made the comments on thursday at another white house listening session following the shootings in parkland florida that left seventeen people dead most of them teenagers. since the school shooting fellow students have made their voices heard and brought pressure to bear on trump and other right of center politicians to tighten gun restrictions arming teachers is not what they have in mind that's their plan anyway mark barden lost his son in two thousand and twelve in the sandy hook school shooting school teachers have more than enough responsibilities right now then to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life on twitter trump attempted to clarify his position and floated other proposals such as background checks for those buying a gun raising the legal purchasing age to twenty one and again suggesting the end of the sale of so-called bump stocks that increase a weapons fire power not zero but some of those ideas are at odds with the biggest gun rights group in the united states with national rifle association or n.r.a. pushing back against any effort to limit gun ownership the elites don't care not one whit about america's school system for them. it's not a safety issue it's a political issue. they care more about control and more ago gun owners agree they were right to protect ourselves protect our children so if they're properly trained why not be able to use that i think that it would send a message across the nation that we are taking it in this into our own hands we're fighting back and we will be the first line of defense and while there is support for at least some of donald trump's proposals even the most basic limits on gun ownership will require congressional approval and accomplishment that in the past has proved difficult kimberly helped get al jazeera washington china's government to seize temporary control of one of the country's largest insurance companies the founder and chairman of the group is facing charges of fraud and embezzlement the takeover is seen as an attempt to protect china's economy from financial risk. the bankrupt japan based car parts supplier has agreed to a six hundred fifty million dollar u.s. penalty to settle claims that concealed a defect in its airbags but the forty four usas involved in the investigation agreed not to collect the payment instead they are allowing consumers to recover as much money as possible the diffracted bags inflated with too much force causing at least twenty two deaths. now after weeks of pressure australia's deputy prime minister barnaby joyce is stepping down bob hill remain in parliament to keep the coalition government one seat majority the conservative leader campaigned on family values but he's come under fire since it was revealed he had an extramarital affair with his press secretary he faces a separate sexual harassment complaint which he has referred to police. i have asked that that be referred to the police i've asked for the ride of the person who's made the allegation and i vos football rod of defense to be referred to the police. but it's quite evident that you can't go to the dispatch box why she's like that surrounding. into any discussions about that as you will understand if it's going to be before the courts come before the courts but what what i will say is that on monday morning at the party room i will step down as the leader of the national party and deputy prime minister of the stroke. well in cook is a senior lecturer of global politics at murdoch university and he says that despite being a relatively popular figure joyce couldn't withstand the pressure from the scandals . i think he was hyping it things would die down the people would get tired of of to repeating it the media would start circling him is that i've been doing over the last weeks but it's just a show no signs and it's clearly a distraction for the government that's how the reason all containable was somewhat sort of disappointed if you know if not a little bit critical about to be joyce so i think it's mostly just the fact this is dragged on so low him elkington bill it just was so holy a bit of a bun to be joyce. then clearly i think the mud was sticking as he sighed so he had to withdraw that's a poet and some it's left malcolm tamerlan it in a difficult position that if he didn't coming out criticizing about to be joyce in the first instance it took him some time to move to in that sort of critical position with respect to joyce so i think it does once again sort of applying to the problem of malcolm turnbull's having a real strength of leadership in the extent to which people are seeing him is perhaps not the strongest leader that we've had as prime minister so i think that it will be malcolm acoma who will take it out of her and. a conservative you know a very conservative person spoke very strongly against same sex marriage during you know recent post a plebiscite so he's a he's a very much can say the morally conservative leader and and you know content who is generally to say to be progressive by his within his own party and so i think him on. any side moments of difficulty between marco mccomb act and malcolm simple. press is accused of obstructing it's all fill gas exploration in the east that it's rainy and parents want a revenue sharing agreement to be finalized before any drilling off the divided ivan can start to hold a ripple. greek cypriots say it's their sovereign right to explore for natural gas in the eastern mediterranean but in this divided island sovereignty and borders have long been disputed turkey's decision to hold military exercises off the coast of cyprus prevented drilling from proceeding the rig couldn't reach its intended site turkey. using means the not being called for me with international law is trying to hijack you know where you know the. area over the eastern mediterranean. turkey sees it differently it says its interests and the rights of turkish cypriots are being violated and corrupt says turkish cypriots should have a say in the decision making process and an equal share of the revenue it's a sentiment shared by the breakaway turkish republic of northern cyprus it believes the resources around the island belong to to it. the greek cypriots kicked us out in one nine hundred sixty three and oak by the republic now they are trying to steal what is ours we want a lot of this the potential for natural resources further complicates efforts to resolve what is known as the cyprus problem last year the two sides came closer than ever to a deal but talks collapsed the cypriot government says negotiations can't resume until what it called the turkish blockade and the fact that these factions are copying now is preventing us from the negotiation because you cannot you know. when these kind of or threats. experts say the amount of gas in the mediterranean basin is not a game changer it has a lot to do with turkey's role as an energy hub there needs to be i mean export routes and if this is going to be turkey of course this is strategically very important the international community's reaction has so far been to discourage escalation with the united nations urging a return to the negotiating table the potential for natural resources has brought back attention to the cyprus problem the hope is it will bring the sides closer together but the fear is it will complicate efforts to find a permanent solution. the greek cypriots turkish cypriots turkey they all agree that the island's natural resources belongs to all cypriots apart from that there is little agreement the untapped resources have become a bargaining chip to further political gains in a decades old problem senator i was either on the divided island of cyprus ok we're going back to an earlier story a story about how the chinese government has taken over temporarily at least one of the country's largest insurance companies we can say to our correspondent david of holland she's in hong kong forest divya what's going on. yeah that's right the government has taken over the one of china's largest insurer and buying saying that now the state will run it for the next year also the shanghai public prosecutors officially indicted that come founder and c.e.o. . who are all on the charges are on the crimes of fraud illegal fund raising and embezzlement now you have been under investigation for more than a year so this is all coming to a head now now while this this may seem a least seem suspect that a private company is coming under the government analysts are actually applauding this move basically this company i'm buying back in two thousand and four it was a very small provincial car insurance company and it's grown particularly in the past few years through wealth management mainly giving very risky financial products or short term financial products to your average consumer and then using that money to buy high level high profile assets to the tune of billions of dollars like the waldorf astoria hotel in new york and so what's happened is this company has just grown and it's grown on the back of a lot of debt to the chinese government has basically stepped in before that could in a fact collapse and which all part of the reason they're doing that is because this company so closely linked are so intrinsically linked to china's economy and financial system so a collapse would mean greening down a lot of china's financial system so in essence this is chinese style capitalism a preemptive move a preemptive move to stop a for a possible company collapsing all right to live in hong kong for us thank you. now an australian company is turning a lake into one of the world's biggest sources of energy the system of lakes turbines and tunnels will move water around in a way that guarantees electricity is always on top supporters of the scheme hopeful it will reduce australia's dependence on coal andrew thomas reports from tel bingo in australia's snowy mountains the plan is to turn this reservoir into a giant rich chargeable battery the hills would be its casing the water itself the battery stored power. this standard hydroelectric scheme in australia snowy mountains already catches snow melt and rainwater and uses it to spin turbines to make electricity the new so-called pump hydro scheme is different it would take the water that's already passed through the system and pump it back up from a lower reservoir so its original one no need for a new right full it would really use the same water to generate power many times over when we're generating the water will flow from ten tanger a through the power station. and then when we're pumping it just we reverse the turbines and pump a back up the hill there is one big problem more electricity will be needed to pump the water up there will be created when that water falls back down. roughly seventy percent so some people say little bit more some people say it's a little bit less so essentially you are losing energy pump hydro schemes make money because water is pumped up when energy from other sources is plentiful and cheap water is released only when prices are high when the electricity grid needs new power fast the best thing about my dr pao is how quickly it will take into action about ten seconds ago i requested that the top of the existing. power reactor. electricity markets are finely balanced producers try to make exactly the right amount of power at any one moment to satisfy that moment's demand hydropower is unusually responsive unlike cell that only works when the sun shone and unlike when that awning works when the wind blowing by drought is there ready to not matter what on earth i don't know but as well as being unreliable when solo wind farms make too much power it's often wasted because it's hard to store lithium ion batteries are changing that but the snowy pump. scheme would store almost three thousand times the power of what's currently the world's biggest lithium battery we're orders of magnitude cheaper than battery so even if the battery price comes down dramatically over the next decade on the next decade after that. i've got a message why to go in terms of cost the hope is that palm pilot schemes will encourage investment in the renewables as energy created by the sun or wind when it is needed won't be wasted but converted into upstream water energy and stored andrew thomas al-jazeera tell bingo in the snowy mountains of australia. right time to save a lot of the top stories here at al-jazeera they're being scenes of desperation in northeast nigeria after the government retracted the statement claiming that dozens of abducted schoolgirls have been rescued suspected around the fighters took the girls from their school in yet they say to monday the un security council is set to vote on a draft resolution demanding a thirty day cease fire in syria. at least four hundred people have been killed in government has strikes on the rebel held on klav since sunday it's not clear whether russia will support the resolution. the european union is doubling its funding for an african body that combats armed groups across the sahara the e.u. foreign policy chief frederica murray made the announcement as she arrived in brussels for a fundraiser raising summit leaders of the five west african countries are hoping to raise two hundred fifty million dollars for the force. and i did a premier. european union with the first to believe in and invest in this union with the fifty million euros about sixty million dollars we gave them last july today the european union will double that amount to the joint chiefs of forces and also receive other contributions from other members and other partners china's government to seize temporary control of one of the country's largest insurance companies the founder and chairman of the bank group is facing charges of fraud and embezzlement in shanghai australia's deputy prime minister about to be joyce is stepping down after weeks of pressure the conservative leader who campaigned on family values but he's come under fire since it was revealed he had next or marital affair with his press secretary right you have today those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera back in about thirty minutes or so after the story. the head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily news biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time zero . welcome to a new year of the stream a live one hour. ok now lab may to meet driverless cars and give us all once part of some fantasy but the future is he at right now today on the street. the story of human evolution is one that is intimately tied.

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