because dude every news coming to live from berlin a reprieve for dozens of gravely ill people in a syrian town battered by years of war among them children urgently need medical care the syrian agency brokered the deal between the government and rebels in the

besieged area east of damascus also coming up. giving young out for cans a reason to hope at home instead of risking their law it's getting to your. reports all project in guinea that aims to help would be migrants as well as returning migrants. not monkeying around conservationists in south africa come to grips with breeding bathrooms and find a new way to keep these uninvited guests said hey. i'm sarah harmon welcome the show it's good to have you with us aid workers in syria have begun evacuating twenty nine critically ill people from a besieged rebel held 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 sets in. for this little girl it's not just the end of a nightmare 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 and there has been no medical supplies for months children are dying tradition so it is

an absolutely shocking state so a small glimmer of hope there are now twenty nine desperately children who should start receiving medical attention very see. syrian government forces have laid siege to the eastern part of quarter 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 sipe over 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 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 better this is too late and very manners say to what the evacuation is only for people who are backwards that 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 this area's tent on the on medical evacuation while 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 and the u.n. has a list of five hundred possibly more people who need to be evacuated from gooda but only twenty nine are being about accurate in this round are there going to be more about here way sions how optimistic are you. we don't have high hopes on this because this is this issue is stocks stuck and in some place months ago where the syrian government is not giving any approval 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 isms this is a deal between the syrian government and one on the honorable including the and 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 have a lot of information about how the government on this on who preach 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 to moms the conditions are completely different and one of them died while on the other side we don't have information about that either 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 mohamed could to place from the syrian american medical society thanks for joining us this evening from gaza and thank you thank you miles. ukrainian authorities and russian back separatists have completed

a massive prisoner exchange it craney and president petro poroshenko flew by helicopter to kharkiv where the seventy four captives who are released by the separatists earlier he welcomed their convoy of buses in the town of lemonade torched in eastern ukraine in return the government handed over two hundred thirty three prisoners to the rebels it's the largest exchange of captives since the conflict began. we have a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world an explosion has ripped through a supermarket in the russian city of st petersburg injuring at least ten people the homemade device containing two hundred grams of explosives was traced to a baggage walker no one has claimed responsibility for the blast which took place in the northwest of the city center. russian opposition leader alexina vall me says he's organizing a nationwide welly on the twenty eighth of january to support his boycott of next year's presidential election the country's election commission has barred the

kremlin critic running in the march vote citing a controversial embezzle my conviction of all he says was politically motivated. the french coast guard has rescued a polish sailor who says he spent seven months drifting in a broken down boat the fifty four year old was discovered near the french island of re you know on he says he set off for south africa in the islands back in may. to the african nation of 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 lives our next report shows how a project near the capital is helping them 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. women also play a crucial role in the reintegration of the return. on funds to. our own children

and not among the rhetor unease 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 and the i.o.m. have interviewed young people in conakry. they need to work. he's all the interviews help 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. other young people will hopefully be spared terrible experience

he now lives with relatives and 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. coming home from work and finding a huge grab trashing your kitchen nightmare is reality for many people in south africa's cape peninsula where baboons often break into homes to rummage for food now a new method of the turns 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 along. the sands of being killed they're scared to go. a few bangs. reinforces this earth and their 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 and i've noticed in the last two weeks since the team arrived with what they call the virtual friends we've had largely. for the last two weeks they were saying is 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. and that's news you're up to date this hour as always you can find the latest on our web site or on twitter for now. the whole team thanks for watching we. take care. of. trouble.