and live in colombia legally and illegally. already at all morgan was returned to vast. to visit friends is that i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. bearing witness global news that matters g.w. made for mines. this is the w. news live from berlin a major prison a swap between ukrainian forces and separatist rebels the exchange of three hundred eighty prison is currently under way in eastern ukraine will be going live to our

correspondent in the capital kiev for more on exactly who's being exchanged and why . also on the program votes are being counted off to liberia's presidential runoff as the country prepares for its first peaceful transition of power in over seventy is liberians with choosing between a former soccer star and the country's current fice president. go go go go go go go go go go getting to grips with the monkey business in south africa conservationists have come up with a novel way of keeping pesky primates away from humans. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us a rare moment of deescalation in the bitter conflict between ukrainian forces and

pro russian rebels in the east of the country a prisoner exchange between the two sides is under way this ukraine central. the government is releasing three hundred and six prisoners and expects the separatists to release seventy four of its captives in return this off the talks in moscow mediated by the head of the russian orthodox church. and we're going to get the latest on this story now from correspondent david stern in kiev david why is this prisoner exchange happening now is this a sign in any way that progress is being made in the search for peace well yes this is definitely a sign that some progress is being made without a doubt with a prisoner exchange of this size as you said seventy four ukrainians will be returning home while three over three hundred separatists will be going back to the

breakaway territories this is the largest exchange so far in the conflict so obviously this is a major step but on the other hand it needs to be said that the fighting continues and continues it continues in a very very high level not as high as it was a week ago but in the last twenty four hours we've seen one ukrainian soldier killed. and five wounded so obviously the fighting continues so much so that emmanuel mccall and angle americal issued a statement over the weekend calling for an immediate cease fire that still has not taken hold we're hoping that we will see a cease fire for the holiday season so obviously we have two separate things going on we have the fighting and the prisoner exchange it remains to be seen which one will actually be the indication of how things move forward and david does some prisoner exchange still i believe the last prisoner exchange was about fourteen months ago how exactly did this one come about the deal that made it possible.

it's difficult to say we're really not privy to the discussions but it needs to be said that these discussions have been continuing pretty much under uninterrupted we have the discussions that go on in minsk each time there is talk about a possible prisoners exchange there is hope or there has been hope there would be an all for all prisoner exchange but that is still not that's still not has happened both sides still have prisoners in their position in their possession so we really don't know how this came about it's been a topic for quite some time and we'll see whether there will be any other ones any other exchanges happening in the near in the near future and do we know anything about the prisoners that are being exchanged today no we don't exactly we will everything will become much clearer with it when the exchange or when the exchange starts i should say in about an hour's time at least that's what scheduled they will be taken from there to the nearby cities one of the kids in the

in eastern ukraine and then they will be returned to kiev but he spoke will be greeted at the airport so we'll find out the details who exactly there is some discussion that some of them have been in captivity for quite some time indeed but we'll find that out when they actually return ok david many thanks for that david stern reporting from kiev. and as david was mentioning the beginning of our interview the conflict in eastern ukraine continues it also continues to demand great sacrifice from ordinary people on both sides of the front line what began as a russian backed separatist insurgency back in twenty fourteen has since claimed over ten thousand lives the pros infighting gives these people need donetsk time to repair the homes as best they can without enough glass evaded people are living with plastic sheets wet and windy as used to be the height of freezing cold.

one of the there was a ceasefire at the beginning of the school year and another one now but we still get shells coming over it's happened seven times in our neighborhood. the winter weather has exacerbated an already die a situation waterpipe to frozen and there is no heating local residents have come up with stopgap solutions for the cold nights the cooler i fill plastic bottles with hot water and they keep us warm in bed i still can't get over the shock that there is fighting going on here where i live. shows on the only danger hundreds of people have been killed or injured by landmines including dozens of children posses to the conflict on both sides have deployed mine clearance squads but even as they carry out that work mines planted. four hundred thousand violations of cease fire agreements have been uprooted as the year

goes to a close there's little hope that peace will return to eastern ukraine any time soon trying not to look at some of the other stories making news around the world the red cross in syria says the evacuations have begun of critically ill patients from the rebel held enclave of eastern go-to forces loyal to the government of president bashar al assad accountable sieging that play for almost four hundred thousand people live the united nations have called on the government to allow the evacuation of five hundred patients who urgently need medical care in libya militants have blown up a pipeline pumping crude oil to the port of se that explosion occurred near the town of. libya's oil output has been cut by one hundred thousand barrels a day leading oil prices to surge to two and a half year high as the country's state run national oil corporation is blaming so-called islamic state. and south korea says the comfort women round with

japan is unresolved despite the two countries having reached a deal in twenty fifteen officials in seoul saying the agreement of a south korean women who were forced to work in japan's wartime brothels fails to meet the needs of the victims. now a court in myanmar has responded to reuters journalists in custody for a second fourteen day period of origin is approaching allegations that the to breach the country's official secrets act they were reporting on the crisis in rakhine state or a military crackdown has forced more than six hundred thousand range of muslims to flee the country. while only wearing the blue jacket has not seen his family in two weeks even so as he and fellow journalist toso all arrived to a courthouse scrum he protested there and listen. we're just carrying out our jobs we never violate the journalistic ethics he told the crowd and the frenzy knew all

minds of police operations could stop his wife. the men are accused of breaking secrecy laws as they pursued the story of a military crackdown on. human rights groups and foreign governments have condemned the arrests observers see it as an attack on precious freedoms. outside the hearing while loans wife called for him to be released. i want my husband to be free soon i trust him that he would never violate the rules of law he has good morals so he should be free soon. not for another two weeks at least as the judge extended their detention. had his say we tried to tell the truth he told the crowd. with the man being led away

while loans wife made one final bed to hold him. a trial date has been set for january tenth. vote counting is underway in the west african nation of liberia after a presidential runoff yesterday there were no reports of violence during the polling and results are expected within the next few days liberians hope the election will mark the country's first peaceful transfer of power in over seventy years and servers say the election has gone off smoothly with only minor irregularities former nigerian president goodluck jonathan who is there to observe the vote count called on the candidates to respect the results and the will of the people. so what was it was we've got this is it. because it was

a source. so the issue is no we didn't know it was that if you when you celebrate this a bit and we're sure that it was you go to the president of everybody if you lose yourself accept that it's a runoff vote between former international footballer george weah and vice president joseph bach both of whom join voters in casting their ballots. that are great beer because of the curse of democracy that we went in one time that would warrant your work and i would reduce it cool. we have got critical process there's a process that we're through we're willing to live with. born in a slum in the capital monrovia george weah star performances for europe's biggest football teams in the ninety's won the hearts of young liberians this is his second run for president. to do this. they said i am going to win walk back and i will go georgia. outgoing president ellen johnson

sirleaf said rule cemented peace in the west african country after civil war ended in two thousand and three but the majority of liberians still live in dire poverty whoever wins this election will face that challenge and will have to prove that he can govern in a way that will benefit the country and its citizens. imagine coming home from work to find a huge boon trashing your kitchen at night man in a reality for many people on south africa's cape peninsula is often break into homes in search of food but now an innovative new method of deterring the animals could solve the problem once and for all. aboon burglary in south africa's keep potential people bashes primate is an almost daily occurrence thanks to brazen boone's in search of their next meal.

pot riley has seen her fair share of the monkey business there are a lot of them in cape town and. coming to your house and they make an awful mess. with it but not too bad they have been in my house quite often. they're not aggressive they're find them aggressive and they're not really interested in you they're looking for food that's what they're looking for to drive the monkeys out of our brain areas conservationists from the human wildlife solutions organization have been testing a new strategy g.p.s. callers are used to track the baboons movements once the pesky primates get close to town come the boom boxes. of pertaining to or predators the long course on the prison sounds of being killed they're scared to go. a few bangs. reinforces the scary and earth and

the void. with the help of predators such as lions leopards and hyenas the aim is to create what they call a landscape of fear an imaginary birendra that the monkeys do not dare to cross for villagers in nearby her minus it's music to their ears. i've noticed in the last two weeks since the team arrived with what they call the virtual friends we've had large military variants for the last two weeks there will be there are magination are there certainly but there are. at stake is the region's famed been population until recently the cheeky monkeys would have been shot following positive results the plan is now to rule out the system in other cape town suburbs hopefully ensuring that fewer and fewer light fingered friends are killed

unnecessarily. boxing day football yesterday in the english premier league giving tottenham forward harry kane the opportunity to break a longstanding record kane netted his thirty seventh his thirty eighth and his thirty ninth premier league goal of this year in a five to win against southampton the england striker breaking alan shearer his record of thirty six goals in a calendar year which was set back in one thousand nine hundred ninety five came by the way also the highest scoring striker for club and country all over europe that's this year with fifty six goals to his name. you're watching news in berlin do stay with those four ball.