this is deja vu news live from bergland serious protected board just got more chaotic as alliances shift kurdish militia in syria are teaming up with president assad's forces to push turkey out of the border enclaves it invaded last month also coming up after the florida school massacre students staging a diane outside of the white house to demand more gun control at the same time the man accused of murdering seventeen people last week appeared in court.

i'm sara kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us human rights monitors say that the syrian government has stepped up its bombardment of a rebel held area close to the syrian capital damascus killing scores of people the syrian observatory for human rights says that the government air raids on eastern ghouta have led seventy one people killed seventy one people over the past twenty four hours and injured three hundred and twenty five of the suburb has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years the united nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis in the area which is home to four hundred thousand people. and elsewhere in the syrian conflict the state news agency says that pro regime forces will soon be entering the northern region of offering to help kurdish militias repel turkish troops turkey has warned that it will confront syrian

government forces if they enter offer in on corrupt again a military offensive there last month aimed at the displacing the kurdish y p g militia that control the reach him. an entire town in mourning this is become a familiar sight enough rain in recent weeks with residents regularly attending mass funerals for kurdish fighters killed in clashes with turkish troops. it's against this backdrop that syrian state t.v. reported on a move that could change the dynamic of the fighting the news anchor of this bulletin announcing that militias allied to the syrian government would soon arrive in a free to help kurdish forces push back the turkish offensive. meanwhile in government held aleppo just south of a free syrian kurds have been demonstrating against the turkish offensive and in support of y p g fighters many of whom can be seen in the city. and then there

the syrian army and we are one of the syrian people and. we are all one and we have one will. during a visit to jordan the turkish foreign minister said a deal wouldn't affect his country's resolve. to my kitchen or my solemn duty if the syrian regime really does enter x. raying to cleanse kurdish militia then there's no problem however if it comes in to protect them then nothing and nobody can deter and stop the turkish army it's very clear operation olive branch and affray names to cleanse these areas from terrorists and if it is that it will go your. turkey is keen to avoid a kurdish stronghold in itself border with syria so its own forces launched a major military offensive into a frame last month in a bid to expel the kurdish fighters that control the region the offensive has

further complicated an already but will during web of alliances and rivalries in syria. and to help explain the fallout of a possible deal between the syrian kurds and assad i have with me here in the studio middle east analyst daniel baer lucky is also the editor in chief of zenith magazine and daniel thank you so much for joining us this evening thank you as we just heard we have this report basically from from syrian state television telling us that you know that the syrian regime is about to assist the kurds in this fight against turkey. could this just be tactical mis information or do you think that this is actually the case. no i don't think i think it's tactical but i don't think it's misinformation because such a move would make sense and could also be lead to a face saving solution for all the conflict parties involved here. that's a bold statement so i should probably explain why i think the p.y.t.

and its affiliated militias in this area the kurdish militias that are considered a terrorist organization by ankara they have strong enough rain but they have no way to move out of they have no way to defend it in the long term so on the other hand they can give the turkish army a very very difficult time and so they're minister because they would say as long as the syrian regime moves in we have achieved something politically we can tell our constituency the syrian regime has taken over the people id has been weakened and what i think the turks want to achieve is control the border zone they don't want to take over three and they cannot they would just want to control like a buffer zone along the turkish border in this area and so i think all three parties would be satisfied to a certain extent only of course the people id because they are the ones that are suffering so tell me if i hear i'm hearing this correctly do you think that the syrian regime is going to take over administration of a free man or will it still be in the hands of the kurds well you know there is administration in this fake up ministration administration in this part of the of

syria has meant much in the recent dia's but we have seen deals between the syrian regime and the p word in other parts of syria let me remind you that since two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve the syrian regime has withdrawn from certain parts of northern syria and has given silently given the up ministration of this area over to the people id militias the airport infamously which is like a very important let's say the capital of one of the continents at the turkish border until today held by the peabody but the airport of the city is controlled by the syrian regime and it's lies in the now to damascus so we have seen deals before and i don't think this is an unreality sixteen are you but what if we have a different scenario what if we have turkey continuing to. you know assault framed for example continuing with its an offensive in order to regain this territory how close could we be to a direct war between turkey and syria we have seen clashes between syria and turkey

syrian jets have been downed by a turkish army and we have seen a military intervention of turkey last year in other parts we have the area of monday which was just still contested which is between nothing and the other quitters cantons it is possible but what we see in syria is it clashes between two countries two armies of forces occur that would not necessarily ended in full fledged war between these two countries what is what is important it's to to to keep the promise of weakening the p.y.t. and of course like in all this setting of brinkmanship to prove himself a commander in chief as long as this war if this war continues and continues for him he's going to lose a lot of troops and it's going to weaken the reputation of the turkish armed forces this is why i think this would be a solution and it seems that the russians have also had a word to say and it seems that iran has talked to putin about it and quite confirms the scenario that i just try to depict the shifting alliances are absolutely fascinating we thank you so much for joining us to talk

a little bit about the potential fallout of it all dan your gallup editor in chief of the magazine middle east expert thanks for joining me. to the united states now where protesters in washington have staged a so-called die and to demand tougher gun control in response to the florida high school shooting the demonstrators gathered in front of the white house and lay on the ground to push their message although mass shootings are commonplace in the united states the latest massacre which saw seventeen people killed has prompted a particularly angry public response the protest was organized by a group called teens for gun reform. and for more let's bring in carolina chinmoy who is following the very latest from washington d.c. and carolyn i want to begin by talking about these student activists because they have really been imploring lawmakers to do something we've seen a series of very very passionate pleas in the past few days what has been the

reaction from washington. well speaking about the president donald trump he spoke with the senator on friday we've probably kind of out a billion traduced with democrat a senator or a democrat and this is bill. how state and federal governments report offenses that could prevent people from buying a gun but we have to remember that donald trump a ran for president as a pro-gun can mediate and tied himself to the n.r.a. to the national rifle association throughout the whole presidential campaign so this kind of questions always arise after such a tragedy sara what is congress going to do is there going to be a legislative response or not experts say that people are not now nor really shocked anymore after such tragedies we have to remember this is the thirteenth tragedy in this year and that a major change in gun control is unlikely to get the support it needs in congress

but also among american citizens people here in the united states are still defend their rights to carry and to own a gun carolina chinmoy checking the pulse of washington d.c. in the united states amid this debate about gun control in the wake of the shooting we thank you so much carolina. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world in mozambique at least seventy people have died after they were buried in a landslide of garbage of the word to say that heavy rain caused a mountain of trash to the dump in the capital puto to collapse into surrounding houses officials believe that more bodies could still be buried on the under the debris. a new empty brags that party has launched in britain to burn new is hoping to capitalize on the uncertainty over brags that to gain popular support to pressure the u.k. government exists something the process the party is drawing inspiration and

getting advice from france's governing and march party. the premier of the tiny german state of zod land has been put forward as the new secretary general of chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats it is a significant move for ana gretchen. the decision is fueling speculation that merkel is lining up her successor. now we are heading to the berlin international film festival where scott roxborough and charlotte pale are standing by the two individuals who get paid all of this week to watch movies i'm not bitter guys i just want to know how you've been in a way as one of your favorite really hard struggling. yeah my favorite so far i think has to be actually opening film wes anderson's isle of dogs which is the perfect way to get the festival started it's a beautiful movie funny upbeat quirky as wes anderson's films always are

and really i don't know a deeply human humanist film i think anyone except cat lovers maybe i got to love this movie. it really is for me to talk film so far about it yeah i was really excited i had the. thing that's special and he delivers exactly what you hate he would if i wanted to pick a second film that i would because more and more downbeat film can we say something something less entertaining to still very powerful and that the italian film feehan me and that's really complex and quite rules story details that's who within battling with motherhood looks agenda very strong female characters and also a female director as well and this really could be in the one of her stuck me to this really could you know when i think that's definitely right i think i'll dogs might be a little bit too entertaining and i think likes to make political statements with the films they've picked for the top was and i think definitely has a good chance though i have to say both those films as one of the film we agree on

which is transit it's a german film here my favorite directors petzold very interesting movie it's sort of a reimagining of the story of nazi occupied france but set in the present day very sort of story very compelling and it stars for me one of the best the most interesting young german actors yes that's france for close and he is everywhere at the ballot not of this year he is into competition films this film one is due to premier later this week. he's also tonight on the red carpet once again and that's because he's one of the ballet not is. that means that the ben and i decided that he is one to watch in european film i think we have a quick synopsis. from some of the plays offbeat characters hard on the outside but with hidden depths he looks a bit odd but he plays oddballs. dozens of

knowledge. he says as much as his list or his a symmetrical face the result of being born with a cleft palate. the stars in two films in competition at this year's barely knowledge. transit and in the aisles. he's also a european shooting star one of a select band of actors being promoted as the stars of tomorrow he's an actor who loves extremes and prefers to take risks. charlotte tells him pale and scott roxboro with the latest on the berlin wall of thank you so much to both of you. and with that you are up to date now and news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thank you so much for joining us we have to see you again

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