a few hundred of them but they're ready to leave but what is clear is that the government wants all rebels to leave including. people who are from they don't want to leave with their families but clearly the government is going to push ahead with this bombing campaign as one objective and that is to recapture. senior political analyst joining us from london the moment it was interesting was listening to this valedictory speech. human rights commission and hussein he listed a series of of events and listed a number of places where he's a human rights but definitely on the threat be saved his greatest frustration for the events in syria he's railed at it calling it a amongst campaign of annihilation. yes absolutely and i think in so many ways whether it is a question of syria or more importantly and more globally the question of the united nations security council the responsibility for the deterioration of an escalation of situation like that in syria or human rights in general around the world i think were very important very central and in so many ways i think what that hussein did was answer. to the general good terrorists i mean the fact that he juxtaposition the human rights and speaking of human rights in geneva visit the the so-called reality in new york and the so-called realists in new york i think that was really a very high moment in this warning what will we hear from geneva so let me say something that sounds contradictory but i think that's exactly what illustrates the functions of the united nations. i think what. mr hussein as well as secretary general said was very important value of all indispensable at the same time talk is cheap. so they can talk all they want but as you said as you just as we just reported sixteen dives in go after the u.n. the u.n. council reserve you should so so many ways countries that the forty seven member countries of this you and human rights council are some of the most a great risk of fender's of human rights around the world and that is the reality of the united nations and i'm just wondering though the frustration that you heard coming from both of them with regard to the the the resolution and the implementation of it i mean the blame falls squarely doesn't the on the the five permanent members the use of veto as we heard from commissioners there that the use of veto is is currently being reviewed and being led by the french and apparently being supported by the british but the three culprits as far as commission is eight are the soviet union russia i should say formally the soviet union of course the united states and china. yes that's very true yes and in fact i had this discussion here in london with one of our colleagues talking about the international community really the international community if the if there is any such thing it will probably been reflected today by both the terrorists and the hussein unfortunately in as far as the international state system is controlled and the united nations system is is concerned it is the veto holding members of the united nations security council that hold the entire international community hostage to their will so just look at this past week marty on the one hand we had nikki haley defending israel and its occupation of palestine and basically offending the palestinian leader the second day it was offending the syrian regime and defending the syrian opposition while a while on the opposite side the russian ambassador was of course defending his client the syrian regime and of course not paying even the lip service to the war crimes committed by the syrian regime by the iranian militias as well as by the russian forces so really the russians in the americas have showed so much hypocrisy over the last few days that it does leave both the international community as well as syria hostage to their strategic calculus all right now and thank you for that. well we've been speaking to the chemical weapons expert hey mr breton golden about these allegations of a chlorine gas attack in eastern. i think we are working at a chemical attack in torino sack a lot of the doctors who are treating the people who were injured or doctors that i know have trained myself in my role as the chemical advice that the union of syrian medical charities run a lot of the hospitals and gives us so. if they're saying it's chlorine then that is pretty good i think secondly of course looking at the images that you show and looking at images of people sent to me. it seems so their. problems are occurring and that is synonymous with. gets into the lungs mixes with the fluid in the lungs to produce a very powerful acids which then destroy some saudi changing is very consistent with or an attack on i think the third element the best bit of this at all if it in any way is we know the charles to start we know that children are more just the sex of all adults can generally cope with a couple of long holes of gas and survive children caught although the guns are still far away it does seem a bit less than on saturday before the ceasefire came into effect i personally believe and i would be no bring the british government to do this the that we need un wallaces in ussa the un monitors who went into eastern alaska to allow the evacuation that were very effective. now south career is pushing for both the u.s. and north korea to compromise so that talks can go ahead soon but the white house remains resolute that any meeting with the north must lead to an end to its nuclear program a north korean general who's visiting the south has suggested his country is ready for talks with the u.s. kim young charles presence has been met with protests in the capital seoul many blame the general for the deaths of dozens a south korean sailors in twenty ten mcbride is at the protest. continuing protests in seoul at the presence of general kim young child on south korean soil a man that many people here blame for the attack in twenty ten that sank a south korean warship with the loss of nearly fifty lives the north koreans have denied they were never involved but people here believe it's an evidence that the north korea can never be trusted under the current leadership but it's true to say the goal of the people here share the same kind of optimism of many people in south korea after the build up of goodwill over these olympic games the talks though continue between the visiting north korean delegation and their south korean counterparts according to moon jay in the south korean president it is the only way forward to try and deescalate tensions here looking for the ultimate denuclearization of north korea but in the background is the united states concerned that this is a continuing charm offensive by north korea and that the south koreans are being beguiled the united states and also many protesters here believe that north korea has not changed despite all the smiles and that now is the time for a united front against what they believe is still a potentially very dangerous adversary. the number of people in south sudan who don't know where their next meal is coming from has risen to an alarming level a new u.n. report says more than half the population is now totally dependent upon handouts and health as those are on the brink of starvation charlotte palace has more. half of south sudan some five million people a face and malnutrition and even starvation this map shows how hard it is to get food in south sudan people in yellow areas can find just enough food to survive all are into areas represent a crisis phase where many people malnourished and rate areas are one stage more severe where there are high levels of malnutrition and people at risk of starvation in january one million people in the raid areas a forty percent increase on the same time last year and this is the u.n. forecast for the middle of the the orange and the raid areas grow to include areas with seven million people living what is in these met some estimates what the u.n. calls catastrophe areas where there could be widespread starvation from zero in january one hundred and fifty five thousand people will fall under the category within the next six months south sudan had only just experienced a famine last year was the first to be declared in any country since twenty eleven the struggle to find enough food since of war broke out and twenty through st a quarter of the population is displaced food prices have soared and fighting has prevented many farmers from planting and harvesting crops. and the u.n. is calling for an investigation of the security forces in the democratic republic of congo opened fire on protesters to people were killed dozens of others were injured in violence across the country they gathered all of the church on sunday calling for the president to resign pizza shop reports. the catholic church has been at the forefront of demonstrations calling on the congress president joseph kabila to stand down. and after morning service on sunday protesters took to the streets again. since december more than a dozen people have been killed by security forces in protest like these and today there was an all too familiar response by police was tear gas quickly followed by gunfire was heard for the local candy was shot dead before the march started. his body taken to a nearby hospital and. two others were seriously injured one of them a student serge moca a washington george i'm not protesting by accident or in vain and not because i don't know why i'm protesting by protesting today i was just claiming my right and this is what happened to me. organizers said the protesters no longer believed in the political will of current leaders to ensure a peaceful transition of power it kept the lid is forced to stand down to me is get there is killing here is kabila condemning them he's not condemning the metol we will not end these protests we will maintain our fight and we will go up to the end with this fight. as with previous protest marches internet data and messaging services were cut across the congo was whatever you want. but the opposition message is getting out. and the shooting by the security forces is for the stoking up anger peter shop al-jazeera. the nigerian government has sent its air force to search for. more than one hundred girls who are missing after buckle her arm attack the gunman targeted a school in the country's northeastern state of view bay a week ago one hundred ten of the school's nine hundred students remain unaccounted for president bihari called the abduction a national disaster so to come here at al-jazeera the winter olympic battle is handed over to beijing where there is a push to get more people on to the snow. and could this lead to a revival of tamil films being made entry lanka find out by saying here with us at al-jazeera. hello again across southeastern parts of asia the weather is much as you'd expect there are few showers to the philippines but jenny weather conditions not too bad some bigger showers across the island of borneo in the forecast suggests there will be more scent of course malaysian borneo for java east timor generally weather conditions not looking too bad once you get further towards the east towards west papua then the showers show that once again now as we move through the malay pincher we've got a scattering of showers here but generally fine conditions for kuala lumpur want to see showers in the gulf of thailand but i think for bangkok for much of the time it should be dry and fine and fine conditions across southern parts of both cambodia and through into central and southern vietnam let's head down into a strait where we have trough of low pressure given the threat of showers or the cross western areas through up across northern territory and into queens there was still risk of some severe storms so there's the forecast heavy showers along the coast of queensland for the south it should be fine in sydney on an outlay with temperatures of thirty two degrees but we get a change of wind direction more from the south westerly as we head through wednesday so certainly will be turned will be cooler but still funniness to melbourne with temperatures thirty one and then for new zealand generally looking fine across the north on the south and there will see this area of rain pushing southward and some of the on wednesday could be particularly heavy. on the benefit. people. see. there are cars. documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the u.s. actually general has described the situation in syria as hell on earth and tony harris uses address at the human rights council for an immediate ceasefire in rebel held eastern control. talks as a rescue workers in the same groups are accusing the syrian government of a chlorine gas attack they say a child has died a dozen more people are being treated after the suspected attack on sunday. south korea is pushing for both the u.s. and north korea to compromise so the talks can go ahead a north korean general has repeatedly expressed his country's readiness to meet the united states came young charles presence has been met by protests in seoul. australia has a new deputy prime minister after weeks of mounting pressure full spawn to be joyce to quit he's been replaced by the veterans affairs minister. the conservative joyce campaigned on family values and then came under fire when it was revealed he'd had an extramarital affair with his press secretary he also faces a sexual harassment complaint has the latest principally. well the government is now hoping that it can move on from the toxicity and the sniping back and forth between the two parties who make up the governing coalition you've got to remember that the coalition is the most successful political arrangement in a stranger's postwar period and neither side wanted to see that arrangement derailed a prime minister malcolm turnbull had been calling on to be joyce's affair with a former staffer a shocking error of judgment barnaby joyce retaliated calling his comments inept so that relationship really deteriorated but now they're hoping for a fresh start with the election of michael mccormack as national's leader and deputy leader of the country he says that he wants to focus on uniting his team and on building up teamwork and on really bringing back the focus to governing and keeping the opposition labor party out of government who had been really enjoying the spectacle of the last three weeks the german chancellor angela merkel has unveiled her choice for new coalition cabinet positions as she gets ready to start a fourth term in power she's given her toughest critics from within her own christian democratic party the role of health secretary thirty seven year old a year span wants a party to take a more conservative line rather than the more centrist approach favored by mrs merkel other fresh faces of also being offered positions in the side the mrs merkel has heeded calls to revive the party. the former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has addressed hundreds of supporters of his for the party ahead of next weekend's elections he's hoping he can with enough votes to form a right wing coalition government so we're going to report. this is not an operation of elections past but the return of the great survivor of italian politics despite the scandals that humiliating political defeats and a conviction for tax fraud anyone who gambled on never seeing silvio berlusconi again might feel shortchanged but not the process faithful in a theater in milan to hear his message. yesterday i read a quote from former u.s. president reagan which says they told me that politics is historically the second activity of man and i thought it was very very close to the first activity with therefore need to be respectable in politics. for his supporters it was the one and only chance to see him campaigning and. even if it's for what he's already done for us he has my support then you know all of that he's a miracle of the tour he has so much energy it comes from his desire to see her rescan tree he may be eighty one years old he may have only just had open heart surgery last year but it seems no better story is back and. volatile political stage he is being seen as a safe pair of hands but he is barred from political office because of his tax fraud conviction but in the event of election victory he would have the power to nominate a substitute while the veteran politician has a colorful past in comparison to today's politicians ranging from the populist to the neo fascist scorning is relatively a less controversial figure he remains pro european union a reassuring quality for brussels. despite the fact that one of his political allies is the anti him. current anti e.u. leg up party. seen as a force to keep the far right in check this could be better to school in his final comeback his political career has been declared dead several times before but so far that hasn't stopped him taking on to power so al-jazeera milan. protests as in belgium have demanded the government stop criminalizing refugees i'm more game. than demonstrations in brussels cold for the sacking of the government's minister of asylum and migration franken made headlines last year by refusing to give humanitarian visas to a family of syrian refugees. students have returned to their florida high school for the first time since a gunman killed seventeen people there earlier this month the school reopened on sunday to help students ease in before classes resume when say the three story building where the shooting took place remains cordoned off but a rico has suffered another setback to its recovery efforts after hurricane maria hit last year most of the island lost power when a substation exploded on sunday the u.s. territory is struggling to rebuild and now college students are being forced to move to the mainland to finish their courses christensen amy has more from new york . nineteen year old crystal medina prefers the weather back home but says she's thankful to be here despite the cold attending new york university going to school in puerto rico has been difficult since hurricane maria a lot of the buildings were being really badly damaged we had fungus in our classroom so we had to take classes and tents. there was no electricity for like the first two months there was no water for months after the category four storm a third of the island remains without power even before maria hit the government there cut funding to the university of puerto rico. prompting a student strike that shut it down for a month chrystal is one of about sixty puerto rican students attending n.y.u. free of charge dozens of other schools on the mainland are offering free or reduced to issue but such programs aren't without controversy as many as thirty two thousand college aged puerto ricans are expected to leave the island in the coming year continuing a trend that started with an economic crisis in two thousand and six as they leave in search of better opportunities the worry is that universities like this are luring away the best and the brightest researchers at the hunter college center for puerto rican studies say the d. population of puerto rico is one of the most significant hurdles to its economic recovery the reality. is the long term parole in the now is being intensified. those your people even after you train them which is part of what's up to me then the economy is lacking the skills base to live battle you know new brought a new combine these are enterprises that have actually promoted the going to be brought home and why you require students to continue paying tuition to their schools at home to lessen the impact on their already strapped budgets still christian cruz has mixed feelings about being in new york as an. element of like guilt too because i'm over here and i'm pretty much getting a free ride just paying my son university back home and i'm getting all these benefits and they're not. but the longer it takes puerto rico to recover the stronger the pull to leave kristensen me al-jazeera new york. now that the olympics simpy on january the attention now moves to beijing the host city for the next winter games china though is a relative newcomer to winter sports something the government is now doing something about a dream brown reports from chong lee in northeastern china. china is a nation of production lines and here's another novice skiers children mostly going through their paces on slopes partially covered in artificial snow. the ski run is in the chong lead to strict where some of the events in two thousand and twenty two will take place to begin is include funk show high whose father brought her here from their home eight hours drive away. i really like skiing i know joy the fast beat when i go dallas slope and so exciting and so much fun that fun will cost her father almost eight hundred dollars for two days including accommodation but it's worth it he says. it can be expensive if you want you really good at it but for some short term fun it's affordable these skiers won't be in china's next squad for two thousand and twenty two but they are helping raise the profile of winter sports where a lympics success for the chinese remains elusive. not so long ago skiing was regarded as a decadent unaffordable western pastime but among china's growing middle class the sport is becoming more popular encouraged to take to the slopes by the country's president president xi jinping has set a lofty goal for three hundred million more people to take up winter sports according to government figures the number of enthusiastic in two thousand and sixteen was less than eleven million. to help make skiing more accessible to the masses hundreds more resorts are being built the approach of the winter games is helping transform areas like chung lee when host spends half his day working down a nearby mine the rest managing a ski rental shop he's had more than ten thousand customers since the season began four months ago. the government now considers winter sports important industry investors also see opportunities ski resorts in this area now generate more tax revenue than the gold mine. just under half the venue's for two thousand and twenty two are in the capital they include several used in the two thousand and eight summit games that have been repurposed for winter events. and unlike two thousand and eight chinese a limb pick officials may feel they have less to prove now than they did then. adrian brown al-jazeera incheon lee northeast china. produces is the first tamil film to be made in sri lanka in more than forty years hope that this is the start of a homegrown revival tunnels normally watch me this made in india it is a local industry has been crippled pretty much by decades of war and lack of experience movie makers but no fernandez reports from colombia. with an original script a team comprising amateurs then professionals and a dream to take on a multi-billion dollar industry. called mali kings is the first full length tamil film to be made locally in more than four decades i had made a conscious decision not to you know not to get any indian technicians or anyone walled in this movie just to prove a point. i only went for sound mixing in and apart from that everything else has been done here and that's not been done before either in the film ratnam plays a cash strapped london expectorate who travels here to attend the wedding to save money the family stays with relatives who have problems of their own the ensuing attempts to solve those problems produce hilarious results. the film which the director describes as a dark comedy is refreshing lee candid about some aspects of sri lanka's tamil community got inspired by the style supreme court court where he says life is a tragedy in close up but a comedy in long shot and i thought that was apt for me personally and also the life of my community so i thought do a comedy and laugh about the film premiere was a hive of excitement as the community celebrated the achievement initial reaction as many streamed out of the screening was positive i enjoyed very much and i hope that then the great future for the movies in sri lanka this is all more me by all people far less some great movie because of the lack of industry professionals the director had to use more than eighty percent of crew from well established and prolific single movie makers in sri lanka for years tamil film goers in sri lanka have watched south indian adored its actors sung its songs and adopted its fashions breaking into an industry dominated for so long by south indian cinema is no easy task but the team behind kamali kings seem determined to take on that challenge one of the main challenges is to create a unique style for sure one can time the cinema we are here to establish oh and i did you. in terms of your job you have done but in cinema we haven't actually takes a long time to get to cast. kings will be different things to different people but the director says it's a first step to finding an identity for sri lankan tamils cinema one that he hopes inspires others to contribute to its revival been a philanderer as al-jazeera colomba. here without his ear and these are the top stories. the u.n. secretary general has once again described the situation in syria as hell on earth and tony a good terror she uses addresses the human rights council to call for an immediate ceasefire. doctors and rescue workers in the rebel held territory accuse the syrian government of a chlorine gas attack they say a child has died a dozen more people are being treated after the suspected attack on sunday government has tried to continue despite the cease fire resolution passed by the un security council on saturday. eastern good cannot wait it's time to stop these hell on earth and i remind all parties of their absolute obligation an international humanitarian and human rights law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure at all times and similarly efforts to combat terrorism do not supersede these obligations. south korea is pushing for both the u.s. and north korea to compromise so talks can go ahead a north korean general visiting south korea has repeatedly expressed his country's readiness to meet the united states came young troels presence has been met with protests in so many blame the general for the deaths of dozens of south korean sailors in twenty ten. the united nations says the number of people facing a stream hunger in south sudan is unprecedented half the population is now entirely dependent on aid and half of those are on the brink of starvation it's warning another famine could be declared within months. nigeria has deployed its air force to search for one hundred ten girls missing after a book talk gunman targeted a school in the country's northeastern state of view a week ago president bihari called the abduction a national disaster students have returned to their florida high school for the first time since a gunman killed seventeen people there earlier this month those are the headlines this is next. the only nation ever hit by an atomic bomb once again braces for the worst. explores life in japan three years nuclear threat at this time on al jazeera.

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