James up and this is al jazeera live from also coming up there are reports in the u. S. That president son in law has lost his top level security clearance. A day in court for two words as journalists imprisoned by me and my government and. Im Catherine Sawyer in Central African republic a town that is controlled by one of the largest rebel movements in the country ill be telling you why they are here despite the presence of u. N. Peacekeepers. The United Nations has warned russias partial truce in the syrian rebel enclave of east and go to is not enough to help improve the situation the u. N. Says its impossible to evacuate the injured or send aid to civilians in the truces short window between nine am and two pm instead its called on all sides to implement the full thirty day ceasefire agreed at the Security Council on saturday russias pause in fighting has just begun for a second day but the first attempt on tuesday failed to stop the onslaught with at least thirteen killed in fighting. U. N. Experts are accusing north korea of supplying the Syrian Government with items to create Ballistic Missiles and chemical weapons the report is expected to be publicly released next month and outlines north koreas dealings with syria over the past ten years the supply of such items would breach u. N. Sanctions the Syrian Government has been accused of using chemical weapons and what is live for us from beirut in neighboring lebanon day two whats the expectation today. Well like you mentioned the pause in the fighting just an hour ago we were getting reports of heavy bombardment and airstrikes targeting a number of towns and among them so they too in the process of the fighting there is no doubt that this is a welcome or spite for the citizens the residents of eastern who have been spending over a week really many of them at least in underground bunkers they managed to emerge from the bunkers to find food to bury their dead to search their homes for personal belongings that that are left behind so for the people of eastern. It is not enough what they want is a ceasefire because people died during the first the five hours the pause in the fighting yesterday the syrian observatory for human rights says that two people died in this five hour time frame so what the people wanted like you mentioned is a long lasting cease fire and are we getting a sense of the situation there what people have been through what they need zohn now. The needs are great really first and foremost medicine medical supplies according to the United Nations one thousand people need to be evacuated urgent evacuation they need medical treatment outside. We have to remember that this Bombing Campaign started approximately ten days ago but has been coming under fire since december the government really bent on recapturing this enclave. Of damascus. Capitol so one thousand people need to be evacuated theres not enough medical supplies there scores of people who were injured in the latest Bombing Campaign and its not just medicine it is food as well because this area is under siege and as of late the underground tunnels they have been closed smuggling routes have been closed so food needs to get in but this pause in the fighting has not allowed aid to enter the eastern like you mentioned earlier the United Nations the International Committee of the red cross they are saying that this is not enough time for food to enter this the u. N. Once the implementation of the full safety days agreed why is russia and syria not behind this and whats the end game. Their end game is to recapture who they want all rebel groups to lay down their arms and leave now the rebel groups have proposed that they will ensure and they are committed for the few hundred several fighters from the front the formerly known they will leave and they say they are committed to do this now the russians the Syrian Government the progovernment alliance rejecting this proposal because they want the fighters and we believe that there are thousands of fighters. But these groups actually attended russian sponsored talks and asked and so in one way or the other the russians and you know have dealt with them but now it is clear they want all these rebel groups to surrender and leave but the problem is what will happen to the people because these fighters are from eastern so theyre going to leave with their families so at the end this is depopulating an area and this is why the opposition is refusing to surrender thank you. Hillary Mann Leverett is chief executive of strategic and Political Risk consultancy and former u. S. State Department Official she says russias truce is being used to deflect International Criticism. From the russian perspective to make this work and from the Syrian Government perspective to make this work is to enable those Syrian Government with russians of port to retake eastern quota so how do they do that how do they do that most effectively they have to they have to in a sense mute International Criticism they have to give the International Community away to feel good about itself as russia and syria russia back the Syrian Government to retake eastern good as they did with aleppo so i think this is more of a measure to keep the International Community at bay as your own government takes the territory i think its nothing more then an attempt to minimize criticism as they can to continue the military after operation until theyve retaken the territory you already see the United States really getting out of the way the United States has more than two thousand troops in syria not one of them is lifting a finger to go anywhere near is john good and addition to that the u. S. Commander in the area general said today that the u. S. Interest in syria is just to combat isis he made no mention of going against the government of bashar assad and he made no mention of helping the civilians and these are good to us so i think when you look at what the United States is actually doing on the ground literally and what the military u. S. Military commanders are saying and doing there theyre basically standing up for russia to work with the Syrian Government to retake this territory one of christianitys holiest sites in jerusalem has reopened three days after its leaders close of a protest against israeli tax measures the church of the holy separate because believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of jesus christ it reopened after the local mayor suspended the plan to make churches pay substantial back taxes on their assets. The head of the army in sudan has been replaced in the shake up of the defense establishment president bashir ordered a series of new senior portmans in the armed forces but she replaces head of security earlier this month he also announced more than eighty Political Prisoners would be released. Us media reporting Donald Trumps son in law an advisor jared krishna has lost his access to top secret security briefings hes one of several aides under scrutiny about the level of information theyve been allowed to see ellen fishers more from washington d. C. Well the white house will never confirm who has security clearance and it was level well its confidential secret or top secret but this whole row blew up a couple of weeks ago over there or porter incident no you remember he was an executive secretary to donald trump which essentially meant that every piece of paper that the president saw went across his desk and it was revealed he only had interim security clearance when he faced allegations of spouse abuse he then resigned and john kelly who is the chief of staff said that he would start a fool skill review of who had through a security clearance an interim security clearance it was revealed that in november forty seven people who were very closely with the president only had that interim security clearance and they included dont mcgann white house chief counsel and also say the Huckabee Saunders who of course is the White House Press secretary weve heard from a spokesman for gerry said he has cooperated fully with the clearance process and will continue to do the job that he has been given by the president john kelly whos the chief of staff has also said that the clearance the jury question has got a lowes him to do his job not confirming whether or not he has been downgraded as we know is working very closely on the idea of a middle east Peace Process and also watch very closely on relations between the United States and mexico one final interesting thing is that security clearances well they can be set aside by the president any time he can tongue run to anyone at any point including your son in law and Senior Advisor and say there is something here that i think you need to see and that could carry that top secret branding doesnt really matter its up to the president to decide who sees what afghanistans president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate political grid as part of negotiations aimed at ending the more than sixteen years of war shahani was speaking at a meeting of nations trying to build a framework for peace talks but he reiterated that the armed group also needs to recognize her. His government tiny has proposed releasing prisoners and a review of the constitution officials from twenty five countries the e. U. A nato meeting as part of the kabul process in the Afghan Capital and the taliban has said its willing to talk to the United States to try to end the bloodshed in afghanistan david save me is the former deputy u. S. Assistant secretary of defense for gonna stand and pakistan he says the increase of u. S. Troops is impacting heavily on the taliban up until then the taliban have been counting on president obamas promise to leave afghanistan and to end the war there by pulling all u. S. Troops up this change of direction by the trumpet ministration has told both the taliban and their supporters in pakistan that they cant count on the United States leaving and i think that is one of the major factors that is leading the taliban to look at a book to look at talks with new interest i think that his show in both the taliban in pakistan that just waiting out the the fall of the Afghan Government is not going to work at the same time or the increase in air attacks and increase in u. S. Military support for the Afghan Government is leading to greater thatll feel casualties to that for the columbine theyve responded by cheap shots if you will using suicide bombers to kill civilians in afghan cities but on the ground the situation is starting to tilt against the taliban. Fighting in Central African republic between muslim and Christian Armed groups has forced more than a Million People from their homes and more than two million thats half the population need humanitarian aid the conflict is now spreading to areas that were considered peaceful before one of the largest rebel movements controls the northeastern town of brega from where. Has this exclusive report. Rebel gunmen make sure that everyone entering bria is unarmed and dont belong to rival groups the checkpoint is controlled by the popular front for their own essence of the Central African republic the f. P. R. C. s one of the largest factions of what was a mostly muslim group called. The town is only important supply routes and has the largest diamond mines in the country. We are not. Organized we have structures were not so just get out of line we deal with them when i see one commits a crime we have a judicial system to deal with. The hobble business is a town center which is only now coming back to life after groups which had previously quick existed began fighting just over a year ago this is the main markets in which. They keep people here they plan expect them to pay taxes and support. And the arrangement that seems to be working for now. At one end of town and right on the doorstep of a u. N. Peacekeepers base his accomplice placed people all a christian more than seventy thousand people in brianna have been forced to flee their homes the u. N. Says this kompas been infiltrated by gunmen from. A largely Christian Group in the competition i that. During the fighting it is then to block a woman sure that a good your safety be protected us in the company more what you see in bria plays out in many other towns and villages across the country people who are living together have now created their own religious and ethnic boundaries binoy lives on the christian side of town he says he can go to the muslim dominated market during the day but has to return before nightfall. Even at night i dont sleep well. Afraid that people might come and kill me i always have to be prepared to run. Most of the countries controlled by armed groups often fighting over men drawls cattle and trade routes forging an easy alliances and then violently breaking up un peacekeepers in the Central African republic are overwhelmed and caught up in all this Central African such as who are just trying to stay alive catherine saw aljazeera bria Central African republic. 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Hello again its getting colder and colder in Northern Europe and while stuck cold feet in this direction with pumping up moisture in a bit of warmth from the south whether to join a lot of snow is floating out the scotches narrows the relief a sudden ukraine for rumania still gets a ball garriott it look at the difference between the temperatures minus six in bucharest and plus eleven in ankara and its called that temps difference we get this amount of snow this is all rule cold here until you pick up that breeze across the north sea ring starts the British Isles and then same sort of trouble in northeastern spain and Southern France vast amounts of snow seem lucky by day and by night even months ago in the French Riviera you see that mass of white which means about tommy get into thursday it will be staying quite heavily in parts of switzerland for example northern italy and all off further north and this mass is spread out through ukraine towards better roosts the thames has dropped in ankara mind you the differential is still there so active weather particular on the western side of year now that will affect morocco in particular wind and then rain coming in at the same time we see that nobody high temperatures in the sahara will even up in khartoum thirty four is normal but we just missed on wednesday the full cost was nearly forty. And there you watching aljazeera mind of our top stories russias pause in fighting in eastern goods has just begun for second day but the first attempt on tuesday failed to stop the onslaught of the least thirteen killed in fighting the u. N. Says its impossible to evacuate the injured or send in a june the truce is short window thats between nine am and to peer. Us media reporting dont try son in law an advisor jerry has had his top secret security clearance downgraded its believe it. Lost access to the president s daily brief. And afghanistans president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate Political Group as part of negotiations aimed at ending more than sixteen years of war crime he was speaking at a meeting of diplomats trying to build a framework for peace talks. Two imprisoned reuters journalists are appearing in amir maher court for another hearing they were arrested in december and have been charged with illegal possession of state secrets covering the violence against muslim rangan Rakhine State human is calling for their immediate release. Of his story joins me now on set obviously you know the story incredibly well the dynamics happening here on so many Different Levels talk us through the court case and how its playing out well these two reuters journalists were arrested in december last year and they had been invited to meet Police Officers at a restaurant over dinner and they were handed some documents by the police and they were arrested shortly after that meeting so this entire case smacks of a threat up now of course reuters and the journalists have denied any wrongdoing or its president has called for their release saying this is a blatant attack on press freedom they have just been doing their case now theyve also been several discrepancies that weve heard coming up during the hearing. Apparently try to make these two boards as journalists sign a document saying they