Justin forsyth says there were claims of inappropriate behaviour was he was out the charity save the children. The Syrian Government continues to bombard the rebel enclave Eastern Ghouta near damascus. Activists say more than 100 civilians were killed today. 127 civilians were killed yesterday. Thousands have died since the siege began five years ago. Eastern ghouta is particularly important because its the last major rebel stronghold near damascus. Those rebels hold most of it. They control another area to the south of damascus. This area though is controlled by the Islamic State group. All of eastern ghoota is surrounded by Government Forces and they want it back. These pictures show how its going about that. The un has issued this statement on the situation there. It says it is blank. In a footnote it says. We no longer have the words to describe childrens suffering and our outrage. Do those inflicting the suffering still have words to justify their barbaric acts . The answer to that question is. They do. The assad regime maintains its fighting islamist terrorism and that it tries to avoid civilian casualties. Its action tell a different story. Lets hear from from someone inside ghouta. Firas abdullah is from the Ghouta Media Centre which is affiliated with the rebels. More than 77 civilians today were killed by the continuous bombardment. Since yesterday until today. We now have 149 civilians killed by the continuous bombardment. The jets are russian. They are a squadron of six jets, with four helicopters belonging to the assad regime army. The drones are capturing the perimeters and the civilian neighbourhood of Eastern Ghouta. We have over 200 mortars dropped on the civilian neighbourhood. In addition, more than 90 air strikes and about 50 explosive barrels on civilians neighbourhoods. Barrels on civilian neighbourhoods. The people here are mostly in shelters. Others are in their homes. They come here crying, from their homes. It is so serious, war conditions here in Eastern Ghouta now. You heard firas there talk about russian bombers. Russia and iran are backing the Syrian Government as are hezbollah fighters from lebanon. Lets hear more about what is happening in Eastern Ghouta. Lina sinjab in beirut. What were hearing from people now is that they are trying to hide in basements, whatever basements are available so that can take cover from the continuous shelling. We are hearing that today the government and the air force has resumed the attack on Eastern Ghouta. People are pleading for help. The un made an announcement that this should stop immediately. The International Committee for the red cross also called on this to stop immediately. To protect civillians. So far the last 2a hours have been the worst that Eastern Ghouta has faced in years. People are really struggling to seek safety basically. The attacks yesterday targeted for hospitals, targeted four hospitals, the main roads that would allow people to run away or ambulances to rescue. That is causing a higher number of injured and a higher number of people dead. Unfortunately for syrians on the ground and for civilians trapped there, the government and russia have the upper hand. Russia yesterday announced that we are probably seeing another scenario that we have seen in aleppo last year. People are worried that they are going to face the same destiny and be forced out of their town. What were seeing and yesterday is a big escalation from Government Forces and that is only telling us that this could be the last push towards the end of the situation in Eastern Ghouta. At what price and at what type of end will it be . It will be a horrific end for civilians there. Lets stay in syria to update you on afrin in the north. This is an area controlled by kurds and being attacked by turkey. Yesterday we told you how pro Syrian Government forces were promising to enter the area to help the kurds. Since we last spoke thats now happened. These are pictures from earlier. Syrian state media is calling them Popular Forces though its farfrom clear who these men are. We can be sure they were met with artillery fire from turkey. This is a more detailed map of syria showing territory. The green area is controlled by the Syrian Government. The mauve is controlled by the Kurdish Forces. Turkey considers all of these Kurdish Forces terrorists. That is why it has began an offensive to drive them out of afrin. It is very close to the border of syria. Turkey. Syria considers that to be an attack on its sovereignty although its worth saying there is a long list of countries 0nur erem from bbc Turkish Service with the latest. They are trying to control all of offering including the city centre. That is according to the president. Today they responded by artillery by an effort from the pro government militias of syria. We dont know exactly who they are at the turkish state media calls them pro regime terrorists while the Syrian Governments call them the Popular Forces. Last week we heard that they are in negotiations with the why p g and the Syrian Government ypg. Turkey have said they will not stop u nless turkey have said they will not stop unless all of afrin is under syrian control. And they will get involved in any type of buffer zone that will be set between turkey and the white pg ypg. Is every possibility of a confrontation with the turkish government under Syrian Government . A p pa re ntly government under Syrian Government . Apparently the ypg have told that these militias are coming to help them with their fight against turkey. But according to the turkish president , the Syrian Government and the army are coming to afrin and getting control of all of the city centre including its institutions. What is turkish Public Opinion on what is the Turkish Military is doing in afrin . According to polls, the turkish public is supporting the government here. They are supporting the operation. It depends on the poll but some of them are showing 70 and some of them are showing 80 . We also must keep in mind that it is very ha rd also must keep in mind that it is very hard for people to express their discontent because lots of people, hundreds, even more than 500 of them were arrested because of tweets and social media posts. That have criticised this operation. 0xfa m 0xfam have been giving evidence in the british parliament. We will talk about that in a moment. But the scandal around 0xfam is jumping across to other charities. Save the children is now in the news. It concerns its former chief executive, a man called Justin Forsyth who now has a role in the united nations. He has a role in the united nations. He has faced some complaints of inappropriate behaviour. Lets get more of this from the newsroom. Most people hearing this for the first time so please take from the beginning. This is Justin Forsyth, the former chief executive of save the former chief executive of save the children. He has been accused of sending inappropriate texts and comments to young females of staff about what they were wearing and how they look. This led to complaints being made. He has apologised unreservedly. Apparently those complaints were not formal and he has not been accused of sexual harassment. As you say, since leaving save the children, he has gone on to become a very Senior Executive at unicef which is the uns children organisation. Brendan cox this weekend admitted that he had acted inappropriately sometimes at save the children. Exactly. It is two people now and save the children. Brendan cox said he made m ista kes children. Brendan cox said he made mistakes at save the children and admitted inappropriate behaviour. But he has denied allegations of sexual assault. In the meantime he has quit us majorities he set up in the aftermath of his wifes death. Save the children are beginning a internal review. We will bring you more information as we know it. Another gruelling day for 0xfam. Its admitted 7,000 people have cancelled regular donations since the haiti prostitution story broke 10 days ago. We heard this from its most senior figures whove been quizzed by members of parliament today. Here they are arriving. And they can ; he aeyeimszff f ~ thats the chief executive mark goldring. The mps wanted to know more about how 0xfam responded back then when it found out what was going on. The charity sacked three employees and allowed four others to quit their roles. Mr goldring was asked why didnt 0xfam report its findings and actions to the authorities. This was the answer. 0xfam leaders made a report to the press. There was no existing press interest. It was not public. Thats serious misconduct had happened. They did not describe that in explicit terms. At the time people thought that was being transparent. We now know that that was not enough. Theres also the issue of why some men were allowed to resign rather than be sacked enabling them to be hired again. Heres Winnie Byanyima of 0xfams international arm. The use of prostitutes in conditions of poverty and helplessness and conflict is abuse. Its exploitation. It is intolerable in our organisation. What happened to let the country director go away with some dignity was wrong. This is something that would not happen today in 0xfam. Bear in mind the sacked men not only found work with other charities one was rehired by 0xfam. This what one mp made of that. These men were predators. I quite agree. Im not excusing it. That is why we have now set up a global database of accredited referees of 0xfam. When was that started . When did you start that . We have just started it. You have just started it. Only because you were found out. Not because you actually wanted to do it or thought you needed to do it but because you were found out. We were also told that since the haiti story broke ten days ago, 26 more allegations of Sexual Misconduct had been come to light at 0xfam some recent some historic. They are all being investigated. Meanwhile the bbc has been speaking to one woman who blew on problems within cahrities. She used to work for a charity called merlin. In liberia, back in 2004, she walked in on a senior manager with a local girl. After an investigation the man and other senior managers were dismissed. One of them was the man at the centre of the 0xfam scandal Roland Van Hauwermeiren. Amira malik miller was asked on the Bbcs Hardtalk programme if she was surprised that 0xfam tried to cover things up. It doesnt surprise me. It exposes a very strong weakness in the system and our hr practices, absolutely. I think Roland Van Hauwermeiren is a particularly interesting case study. He has been able to manipulate the system for a very long time. He has chosen to move around from different countries. Between organisations. He knows that it has not been tracked properly so he has manipulated that. Still to come on the programme, we find out about the soaring rate of measles in europe. We will speak to the who about what is causing that. Jeremy corbyn has accused papers of lies and smears. These papers allege thatjeremy corbyn did meet someone from the Czech Embassy several times. That story has been picked up and pursuit in various forms by newspapers in recent days. Jeremy corbyn has hit back in a post on social media. At what he calls press barons, the right wing press. He says. He goes on. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Our lead story is from syria. More than 100 civilians are killed in Eastern Ghouta today as syrias government continues to bombard the rebel held enclave. It is close to damascus. Some headlines from bbc world service. New zealands military has been deployed to areas expected to be hit by the remnants of cyclone gita. It caused extensive damage in tonga, samoa and American Samoa last week. At the olympics, russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has returned a second positive test for the banned substance, meldonium. He had won a bronze with his wife. Hes one of 168 russian athletes allowed to compete after extensive vetting. Evidently not extensive enough. The queen was alongside vogues editor in chief Dame Anna Wintour at a show during London Fashion week earlier. The queen then awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth ii award for british design to richard quinn. You may not know this but there is a big outbreak of measles in europe. These three countries are the most affected but 12 others are caught up in this including greece, germany and france. Measles is extremely infectious causes blindness, brain damage and in extreme cases death. We know there were more than 20,000 cases reported last year. That is a 400 increase on 2016. We should say that 2016 had seen a record low. Here are all the figures. You can see that 2016 unusually low with just 5000 cases. What is going on here . There are shortages of the vaccine in some countries. Some people avoid vaccinations for their children. For instance, in the uk, confidence in the mm are jab collapsed in the late 905. That was by claims made by this man raising fears that the vaccine caused auti5m. There has also been rejection of vaccines in italy. This leader of the. The far right leader of the. The far right Leader Marine Le Pen has also said that doctors are to blame for the ri5e that doctors are to blame for the rise of the case in measles. If we go back to 2004, donald trump 5aid that. Autism, in big capital letters. So there is an issue around trust here. We have a doctor here from the who, the world health organisation, he is live from montenegrin. Thank you for your time. What can you do to persuade people to vaccinate their children . We need to have the parents tru5t. Trust in the vaccines and trust in the authority that deliver the vaccines. Vaccines are safe and life saving. That is the message that the government should give to the parents. In terms of the situation we are seeing in europe, how much of it is to do with children not getting vaccinated and how much is it to do with other factors. A number of countries have a number of challenges and they are very different. In romania we have many children who are getting measles whereas in italy it is more the adult population, the average age of those getting measles i5 around 27 years. This is a reflection of the programme is not reaching the5e reflection of the programme is not reaching these individuals. The adults may not have benefited from vaccination programmes when they we re vaccination programmes when they were introduced at the time. In a country like romania where most of the cases are children, this is a reflection of the challenges they are facing in recent years. We have i55ue5, are facing in recent years. We have issues, as you mentioned, with vaccine supply but it is more a combination of vaccine hesitancy, an i55ue combination of vaccine hesitancy, an issue of complacency where parent5 have not seen the disease and they do not think the disease is around. Measles i5 do not think the disease is around. Measles is a very contagious disease and it can easily enter into a population that is vulnerable, causing big outbreaks. Some people are looking at 2016 when the cases we re very are looking at 2016 when the cases were very low. They are thinking what went right to there . What went wrong in 2017 i5 what went right to there . What went wrong in 2017 is more relevant. It i5a wrong in 2017 is more relevant. It is a growing number of susceptible individuals. If you do not have a high vaccination coverage, for measles vaccines you need to have a very high coverage of 95 with two doses of the vaccine, then you get a population of susceptible individuals. That could be simmering behind the disease. When measles virus was introduced then it can 5pread virus was introduced then it can spread like wildfire. We appreciate your time. Thank you very much indeed. He is lie5 your time. Thank you very much indeed. He is lies in montenegrin. An official with the world health organisation. Walmart has just seen close to 10 wiped off its value to do with its profits hardening. What has gone wrong . While profits are down . Profits are down for various reasons. Walmart says it misjudged the Christmas Period is a focusing too much on toys and Christmas Gifts and ran out of some of its stables. The figure that investors are watching very closely i5 the figure that investors are watching very closely is not the profit but the growth in online sales. The reason for this is that walmart i5 sales. The reason for this is that walmart is in a bruising battle with amazon. It its complete with Amazon Online if it will survive as a retailer. Competes. Early on in the year, their online sales drops to around 23 in the last quarter. That has worried inve5tor5 because they seem to be falling behind amazon and that is why their shares have taken a beating on wall street today. None of this is new. We could have been talking about the threat from amazon ten years ago. Presumably walmart has a plan . Yes. Its plan has been to buy up as many online retailers a5 its plan has been to buy up as many online retailers as it can. It broughtjet5. Com online