it's. to show the way. shape. or. this is due to every news coming to watch from berlin over preferred dozens of gravely ill people in the syrian towns battered by years of war among them children urgently need medical treatment a syrian aid agency brokered the deal between the government and rebels in the

received area east of damascus also coming out. a large exchange of prisoners between pro russian separatists and the ukrainian government is underway in the east of the country why is it happening now. and a very unusual congress gets underway in the leipzig germany's digital activists hold their annual get together in a clandestine setting. welcome to the program my name sarah harman thanks for joining us aid workers in syria have begun evacuating twenty nine critically ill people from of the siege rebel town in eastern guta evacuations were part of an agreement between the syrian government and rebels the u.n. has drawn up a list of some five hundred people to be evacuated from the damascus suburb it

faces severe shortages of food fuel and medicine as winter approaches. for this little girl it's not just the end of a it's a chance to stay alive. she was one of the first of almost thirty critically ill people evacuated from eastern cooter. for weeks international aid organizations have been calling on syrian president bashar al assad to allow hundreds of people in desperate need of medical attention to leave the besieged suburb. tuesday night saw the first of them get into ambulances and leave. where they are there has been no medical supplies for months children are dying. so it is an absolutely shocking state so a small glimmer of hope but there are now twenty nine desperately children who should start receiving medical attention very soon. syrian government forces have

laid siege to the eastern part of go to for the last four years now. not far from the capital damascus it's one of the last rebel strongholds in the country activists accuse government forces of trying to starve out any resistance by blocking deliveries of food fuel and medicine the united nations says dozens of people have died in the suburb after waiting months for medical evacuation. turkey claims it used its clout to organize the latest evacuation deal but president richard type other one still insists that asset should have no part in syria's post conflict future. said you to make first of all it is impossible to continue with our sad why how can we embrace the future with the syrian president who was killed close to a million of his citizens. it looks like these evacuees have escaped death for now. but the fate of hundreds of thousands of others in eastern

guta hangs in the balance and there is still no sign of a breakthrough in talks to end syria's civil war. i'm joined now from dallas the untap in turkey by mohammad could two he's with the syrian american medical society which supports hospitals in mostly opposition areas mr gotobed thanks for being with us are the evacuations proceeding smoothly or is this too little too late. exactly thank you but if this is too late and very manners say to what the evacuation is only for people who were evacuated last night from a list of twenty nine people who are approved from a bigger list of six hundred forty people who need to go evacuation from there and unfortunately all the talks about two minutes here in operation and the syrias turned on the on medical evacuation why there are four hundred thousand people are

in need of basic needs like food and medication and vaccinations there are one hundred thirty thousand children in days of school. least half of them cannot see schools because of the seizure and because of the a bomb meant on the area the evacuation issue started months ago when the tsunami jeanne tightened the seas on the area so people couldn't have any axes to go out of the area to have complicated cheetham and she is already not available nor for medicines inside for the one hundred and seven doctors who are still in the area cheating people to give them to their patients so yeah it is a school of services that we it is guiding a really grim situation the u.n. has a list of five hundred possibly more people who need to be evacuated from good but only twenty nine are being evacuated in this round are there going to be more about

the way sions how optimistic are you. we don't have high hopes on this because this is this issue is stocks is a stock and in some place months ago where the syrian government is not giving an air pull for the medical evacuation very few cases where in fact with it and everyone for some reason and those those twenty now are twenty nine people very good example of those reasons this is a deal between the syrian government and one on the honorable including the it leasing of detainees by the position on the group. so we don't have any hopes that people will be evacuated for him instead in reasons just all the to get to the teeth and they deserve how exactly did this current deal come about because what you're describing sounds like a prisoner swap exactly and we don't want to have a lot of information about how the government and this are who preached this deal

but the twenty nine list it was submitted that the list of the twenty nine patients was submitted to wants to go through that you and. those were considered at that time as the very urgent cases who need to be evacuated immediately this took monds the conditions are completely different and one of them died while on the other side we don't have information about that he had but yes as you said the business we don't know if there are civilians or soldiers but at the end they also have the right least muhammad cartoons from the syrian american medical society thanks for joining us this evening from gaza and thank you thank you miles. an explosion has ripped through a supermarket in the russian city of st petersburg authorities say at least ten people were injured a homemade device containing two hundred grams of explosives was traced to a baggage locker investigators say it was rigorous shrapnel to cause more damage no

one is claimed responsibility for the boston which occurred in the northwest of the city center u.s. secretary of state works tillerson has expressed concern about the rising level of violence in eastern ukraine during a phone conversation he asked his russian counterpart sergey lavrov to make up words to lower the bloodshed in the region that comes as ukrainian government forces and pro russian separatists carry out a prisoner exchange kiev handed over three hundred six captives to the rebels and received seventy four prisoners in return. what's being called the largest prisoner exchange in the eastern ukraine conflict david stern is in kiev david this is the first major prisoner exchange in over a year why is it happening now. well it's a good question this could be a sign it's obviously a sign of progress the only question is how big of a sign of progress it is this is

a very large and exchanges you've said in fact the exchanges been completed now what we're being told is that all seventy four of the ukrainians have are now on their way back to kiev where they will actually be greeted by people crowds that are going to the main airport just outside the capital and on the rebel side on the russian backed rebel side a few some fewer than were originally reported the koreans are saying about forty three have decided to stay in ukraine but again the question is why is this happening now obviously this is a sign of progress but the fighting is still continuing in the east and as you said at the top that there is concern about the level of fighting right now and indeed the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has asked russia to clamp down on the violence in eastern ukraine so is it fair to say this conflict is heating back up well this is the question right now it is it has definitely heated up over the last

week or week or two weeks whether this is a temporary surge which we sometimes see before cease fires could be a possibility or it could be something a sign of something much more serious obviously the international community is watching very closely and also making statements not just secretary secretary of state tillerson but emanuel mcallen angle americal made statements over the weekend what they're hoping for is a cease fire for the holiday season which will which they hope will prove to be more lasting all right so world leaders are watching this very closely but david put this in context for us what it all mean for the peace process. we will see exactly how what the moment the momentum is whether we'll see more exchanges in the in the coming weeks or perhaps in months there is there have been indications or some statements by the rebels and we'll see what exactly comes from

this on the bigger picture of whether there's going to be a larger agreement between russia and the united states and ukraine right that's david stern reporting for us from kiev thank you as a look now at some of the other stories that are making news around the world right now russian opposition leader alexina valmiki says he is organizing a nationwide rally on the twenty eighth of january in support of his boycott of next year's presidential election the country's election commission has barred the kremlin critic from standing in the march vote citing a controversial embezzlement conviction of all me he says was politically motivated . south korea says the comfort women rao with japan is unresolved despite the two countries having reached a deal in two thousand and fifteen officials in seoul say that the agreement over south korean women who were forced to work in japan's wartime brothels fails to meet the needs of the victims the french coast guard has rescued

a polish sailor who says he spent seven months stripping in a broken down boat a fifty four year old was discovered near the french island of reunion on he says he set off for south africa in the choros islands back in may. well some call them computer nerds some call them digital cyber security experts either way these guys are holding an annual congress this week in leipzig daniel has the data well if they know the highest class the chaos computer club has been giving tabs on surveillance privacy and data security issues for over thirty years its annual meet ups have grown ever larger leipzig event is no different they just cyber threats and data privacy issues top the agenda and edward snowden is this year's keynote speaker and you might notice looking at the pictures there the lighting is did because unusually for events like this no one wants to be in the

limelight. events that like to trade fair grounds don't usually have such a clunker stein and secretive feel some areas are right off limits to t.v. cameras it's the first time the venue is hosting a convention by europe's biggest hacker group the chaos computer club with visitors from across the world. to see and to learn i want to learn as much as possible internets the internet security advances. my head will probably explode while i'm here i hope. the array of c.c.t.v. cameras normally used to track trade papers it has been turned off on exactly keen on being watched surveillance is high on the agenda the organizers oppose the facial recognition system recently introduced to the person train station despite it being aimed at preventing terrorist attacks. off if surveillance becomes as intense offline as it already is online and soon they'll be no place left where you

can have any privacy is kind of. the event will also be talking issues such as security loopholes on smartphones and computers the kind of communication congress in my position and saturday. and hot on santas heels amazon and ploy he's at a major distribution center here in germany are going on strike they're unhappy about pay and have been for the past four years striking several times over that period the vandy union says they should be paid the same as retail workers amazon argues that their employees are more of a logistics firm saying that these strikes will not interrupt deliveries the industrial action will continue until the end of saturday. let's go to china now and all week we're looking at the new silk road its namesake was an ancient trade route which were at rand from china to the rest of asia and beyond the chinese government is investing hundreds of billions in infrastructure projects that to

resurrect that trade route on land and on water as well today we're stopping in africa since two thousand and five the chinese have invested sixty six billion dollars across the continent that makes them the largest investors there they're pumping money into the construction of harbors roads and railways to boost their own supply lines in may this year a new railway line opened in kenya linking the port of mombasa to the capital nairobi soon the line will be extended all the way to lake victoria the total price tag eight billion us dollars even though kenya needs massive in for infrastructure investments the railway agreement with china raises many questions. there's no effort spared to keep trying on the new nairobi mombasa link looking spick and span they're not just an infrastructure project they're important to the image of

progress that kenya wants to project and that includes the polish presentation of the train staff at morning roll call. the four hundred seventy two kilometers of railway line cost around three and a half billion euros the chinese state stumped up most of the capital chinese companies laid the tracks and delivered around sixty diesel locomotives and seventeen hundred carriages the opening of this artery of communications in eastern africa is a great achievement of the friendship between china and kenya in the new era it is also the chrysalis zation of the win win and mutually beneficial cooperation between china and kenya. this stretch is just the beginning they are a big plans afoot for expanding kenya's rail network this line links the capital with east africa's most important port the transport of goods a lot of them chinese of course should become much cheaper the new link should more than half the travel time from around ten hours to just four passenger tickets cost

around eight euros but contracts for the massive projects have also raised questions there was no transparent tender process and there's talk of corruption critics say kenya is being sold obsolete technology at an exorbitant price on credit which has to be paid back at high interest rates. you know african leaders think china is santa claus they're not santa claus they want returns on the investment we've already had a levy on each of the two or a few in kenya there is a libby going towards the repayment of that loan now this is more sophisticated banking than china has been known for they have got a fantastic group and they've got security they own and run and manage the whole thing but. there have been plenty of protests against the project the route passes directly through the nairobi national park and threatens the nature reserves existence but the protests have had little effect in kenya the

chinese are pressing ahead and in uganda they are building another rail connection china's grand plan is to link the two countries with rwanda burundi and south sudan carving out a new trade network and new markets for chinese goods. and staying in africa to liberia now of voters are waiting for the results of yesterday's presidential elections it's a result that could see the first democratic transition in the country in over seventy years a little while ago u.s. secretary general antonio good terrace hailed the quote peaceful conduct of the vote now counting is still going on at the national tally center preliminary results were expected the saving but that announcement was canceled official results are due on thursday voters have the choice between senator george we are a former world footballer of the year and the incumbent vice president joseph. we

atop the first round of voting with book coming in second but neither secured the fifty percent needed to win outright and so the election headed to a runoff a we are as a favorite with many young liberians and his supporters think he's got this in the back. i feel happy i feel happy because i mean a lecture this is free and fair and transparent we are going to get but i guess a leaflet that we saw your beloved president will eat some very happy well you. know my next you know would be chargeable party we have this president. we do not meet anyone at places who do not want any part of. their house over there. you can. down trees and somebody get in there no one is been gone. before let's go to the capital monrovia where correspondent evelyn had

a seat by is standing by evelyn we know supporters say he is the winner is it a done deal. what they know his commission does not so easily and now anyone as you know but what's happening is that the you know the dog was coming up from the gulag and i think maybe get clarity. if we can or i can most of the board we are you ok most of the force i don't work almost all the think out something that there's something that's not an ounce anyone with one now ok another winner whoever it is will succeed president ellen johnson sirleaf who won the nobel prize for helping to secure peace after liberia's back to back civil wars what does we all want to do that certainly didn't. during the campaign two years of georgia we had said that the issue of corruption is an

issue president chavez administration was not able to deal with if she had any except three people played that she did not perceive a practical option as she promises to solve it by also the issue of reconciliation the government of president kennedy has called not to do that these are things that judge me i repeat this because you know to talk about doing his campaign while still support yesterday he also talked about you know poverty most of the time people consider george weah as something of a young population as a marriage that is there for the young people and another resentment so that you see the collection poverty and reconciliation have been the talk of judgment for the exception of the campaign for how we can go about doing it clearly yes not go there let them go how do people go about of you know say look at your corruption and also the father thing which is very high among my theory and almost half of the population lives below one dollar a day. i thank you very much evelyn pat

a sikh faith for reporting for us from monrovia. saying in africa we have to guinea now where many young people attempt the dangerous land and sea journey to europe those who don't make it and return home face the challenge of rebuilding their wives and our next report we show how a project near the capital is helping them to reintegrate into the society they tried to leave behind. it's early morning on a chicken farm near conakry. mamadou to lead but he is working for a project for returned migrants. but he himself tried to reach europe last year but he only made it as far as. he saw many of his friends die along the way and he was tortured by people smugglers and thrown in jail by soldiers after he was released the international organization for migration or i.o.m. flew him back home. after i returned many people made fun of me because i didn't

make it but i felt relieved i'm back home now and no one is oppressing me i'm living well in the share we have problems with the military and we were discriminated against. a total of three hundred people work for the e.u. funded project which was launched by the i.o.m. and a local ngo the most important aspect its members are made up of equal numbers of return and local residents that's to ensure there is no resentment of women also play a crucial role in the reintegration of the return. not on funds to. our own children and not among the retina knees but these young people could easily be our children that's why we take care of them. soon the first chickens and eggs will be sold with three hundred participants though the first payment will probably be low but at least earn some income. many young canadians have lost hope well paid jobs are

hard to find and there aren't enough career options for many escaping to europe seems like the only way out so the local job office in the i.o.m. have interviewed young people in conakry. it is though that they need to work. he's all the interviews helped us determine who is most likely to leave the country illegally. we then selected them for a total of twenty one projects such as the chicken farm and now we're supporting them with other young people will hopefully be spared the terrible experience he now lives with relatives in cannot create and is studying political science for now at least he's given up his dream of going to europe. because all of my friends warned me before i left but i had to experience it for myself to believe them all i would say to my friends now is don't even try it destroys even if you do survive

either you feel so ashamed that you didn't make it or you go crazy. it's not clear whether he can really stop his friends from leaving the i.o.m. estimates that around fifteen thousand canadians are still waiting to be repatriated. now imagine coming home from work to find a huge baboons trashing your pichon that nightmare is real for many people in south africa's cape peninsula or baboons often break into homes to rummage for food but now a new method of deterrence could put an end to the monkey business once and for all . a boon burglary in south africa's keep potential people dashes primate is an almost daily occurrence thanks to brazen but boone's inception of their next meal. part 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 its 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 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 boon population until recently the cheeky monkeys would have been shot following positive results the plan is now to rule the system another keep time suburbs hopefully ensuring that fewer and fewer light fingered friends are killed unnecessarily. thanks for watching thank you.

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