and there. this should sherman percentage. platform for joining. this is deja vu news live from berlin the u.n. war in syria government forces to stop their assault on a rebel held on claims at least one hundred civilians have been killed in airstrikes on eastern hotels many of them women and children will bring you the latest developments in syria's civil war also coming up a shock result of the far right alternative for germany overtakes the social

democrats for the first time in a national opinion poll that says the s.p.d. launches a make or break vote to enter another coalition government we'll get some analysis . and there were more medals up for grabs out the winter olympics that's including the ice dance competition workout of the graceful couple virtue and moir were vying for another gold will get you caught up on dale love and in the junction. i'm sumi so much got it good to have you with us the united nations says the syrian government must stop targeting civilians in the rebel held enclave of eastern how to. have a london based a syrian observatory for human rights says that government air raids on eastern how to close to the syrian capital damascus killed at least one. one hundred people on

monday around four hundred seventy were injured this africa has been under siege by regime forces for more than a one month now. let's talk to adnan had data syrian opposition activists observing the situation from turkey he joins us on our program i don't thank you very much for being with us you had some contact in eastern how tell what have they been telling you about the situation on the ground for the past up an hour be talking to at least seven activists meet the person inside that three hundred sixty five thousand living human beings and are they under the threat of being annihilated this is very much going to go to. the top told by the way to go to think to some officials including that i should officers who worry about if this is not you know one hundred over to the regime of

this it is not covered over to that it seemed and there will be as you know that is something a little what we also know over the past week this has and then supply to a level where that at now thousands of ground troops not only the militias but also it in yemen supported militias including hezbollah including some afghani fighters some other militias as well and very soon it is this campaign will be led by him famous regenerator call hasan who has also led the same campaign in a little. over a year ago so i don't ingest if i can jump in there are you saying that there is there is going to be a ground offensive here. it's going to be another holocaust i'm afraid if the international community is not. in a position to act and there is no one to act there is no one to prevent that's the

problem with who does that that does not have any international blood with any country to have an end to this and and the kind of stuff allies in this situation it's a completely besieged with civilians that have been bad for all that five years now and that video died a human conditions and this unfortunately seems to be the last episode and as c.d.'s also. you know people suffered and and not quite to get that area of focus all right i've not heard that a syrian opposition activists who's been watching of the situation from turkey i've been thank you very much for bringing us up to date now the deadly assault on eastern how to comes as fighting looks set to intensify on another front to turkey's president says he plans to lay siege to the northern syrian region of affray now turkey first launched an offensive against kurdish militia in the region last month syrian government forces are reportedly set to

enter the region to aid the kurds in their conflict with turkish troops. 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 white peachy fine tis many of whom can be seen in the city. that i know they're the syrian army and we are one of the syrian people and we are one 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. before to my kitchen or to my solemn occasion if the syrian regime really does enter affray into clans 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 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. we have with us she's the president of the european center for kurdish studies here in berlin she's with us in our studio good morning turkish president said today that turkey will lay siege to our free does that mean we're going to see a further surge of violence in this area. well that depends on if the y.p.

will further a fight against the turkish army or not i guess they will as they see turkey if their main enemy so yes i believe. we will see further but of course it also depends on if the syrian government will move in then we could even see an open war between turkey and the syrian government depending on what the goal of the syrian government will be of course no longer a proxy war but an open war because there is a deal that you just mentioned to let serious pro-government militias then descend we haven't seen any movement on that why is that what i belief that syria doesn't really want to go into the open confrontation with the turkey and i could imagine that this is why they didn't go in because what we know at least there are strong rule morris is that the y.p. those who are in branch of the p.k. k. and the syrian regime already came to an agreement we know that the syrian regime

had preconditions which is why p.g. has to fulfill it so that they can come in for example they said that they want to have the weapons which the y. p.g. got they said they want to control the border they said they want to recruit and they want to establish a new administration they are so i think the reason why nothing has happened tonight is really because there are still discussions probably between the syrian government and turkey what would it mean if we saw an all out confrontation between syrian forces and turkish forces in. well as we said we will see more while and and in the end if the syrian government takes over again the syrian courts will those who lose of course because they will then have to live again under a regime which has persecuted the current some of for a very long time even though one must say that the situation now under the white p.g. is much better because they are also not interested in human rights or a better situation for the syrian kurds really all right so good chance we could

see further violence as you're seeing in the region a president of the european center for kurdish studies thank you very much for joining us thank you now to some other stories making news around the world authorities have warned new zealand south island to take precautions ahead of a powerful storm the remnants of cyclon which bat battered tonga and samoa last week are expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain flights to and from the capital wellington have been cancelled. in mozambique at least seventeen people have died after they were buried in a landslide of garbage authorities say heavy rain caused a mountain of trash of a dump in the capital to collapse on to surrounding houses officials believe more bodies could still be buried under the debris. a court in peru has ordered former president alberto fujimori to stand trial for the killings of six farmers in one nine hundred ninety two the court decision comes after fujimori was pardoned from a lengthy prison term because of ill health the more he was jailed for crimes

including commanding military death squads. you're watching d.w. news still to come we'll bring you up to date on the winter olympics including germany's find showing the germans are close to the top of the medals table. but first germany's rightwing a populist party the alternative for germany or a.s.d. has overtaken the social democrats for the first time in a national opinion poll the latest poll for the daily newspaper billed found that if an election were to be held now sixteen percent of voters would support the a.f.d. compared to a fifteen point five percent who would vote for the social democrats the news comes just before the s.b. to begin to critically internal vote on whether to join a grand coalition government with chancellor merkel's conservatives the s.b. these numbers have been in freefall since the national election in september.

correspondent thomas sparrow is following this for us hi thomas good to see you how significant is this poll result. so me this has been described as the first time a national survey shows this result in other words the head of the social democrats but it's also important to stress that this is only one of various surveys that we have here in germany basically every month and most of the other surveys still place the social democrats in second spot behind conservatives but the general trend behind not only this poll but all the other polls as well is certainly important to mention namely the crises of the traditional parties in germany the conservative bloc on the one hand the social democrats on the other they both suffered a lot in september's federal election and on the other hand mainly the rise of the anti immigrant. they also entered the german parliament in september and in fact

they did that for the first time i became the third strongest party in germany's parliament so frustration with the mainstream parties is one side of the story but how do you account for the fact that the far right a.f.d. continues to gain ground. well they are essentially still topping on people's fears and that's a particularly important aspect from the trying to provide also simple answers to to complex questions they tried to do that during the refugee crisis they still tried to do that when it comes to integration for example but they also very critical of the establishment of what they described as the elitist traditional parties and they present themselves as an alternative to that alternative that has allowed many people to actually shift from those traditional parties to the alternative for germany alternative for germany has been successful comparatively successful in trying to get some of those voters from their traditional parties and

also attract people who previously didn't even go to the polls so those are elements that certainly account for the rise of the. thomases opinion poll comes at a crucial time as s.p.d. members as we said they're due to vote on whether or not to join a chance america's conservatives in another coalition government this is a deeply dividing issue even within families let's take a look at this report now. father and son one for the grand coalition of the rig and at this s.p.d. event in northern germany there's only one question on everyone's minds should the party risk another coalition with angry merkel's conservatives it's up to party members to decide including five b.n. the critical young socialist and his father the veteran s.p.d. man and to lead with the party. if you believe the majority of members will say yes if we convince them so we need to use the time i'll try to do my part. even so for his son fabio and most of the party's younger

members it's far from a done deal they want change. that's just never been able to see that we need to be more proactive and forward looking string quartets are ok but we need some heavy metal too and a political keyboard. at home with us staking is of course there's plenty of talk about politics the prospect of governing with angela merkel for another four years has triggered a number of arguments between father and son when this she give the grand coalition doesn't happen i think we'd face a debacle in fresh elections it'd be likely because everyone would blame us for pulling out. but fabien on stage now believes the party needs to have courage and refocus on its core values was a club where people say this is social democracy this is the kind of society we want this is our idea of humanity of social cohesion of solidarity and social

justice. things are certainly not harmonious in the s.p.d. right now the rank and file is spit right across the party. predicated i'll vote against the grand coalition quite simply because it would not be good for the s.p.d. it's not good for their city. you've been there fifty you know i've been a member of this party for over forty years but if the majority refuses to appreciate the many things that we've achieved and the good cabinet posts with gained then i'll be handing in my party membership. for the. coaching is set to continue until march the second social democrat members will get to decide on the fate of germany's next government and the future of the country's oldest political party. ok so thomas just briefly how will these negative poll numbers affect the vote. there will affect the debate within the s.p.d. about the direction the party should take we can say that for sure and as we know as with so many there are different opinions on what direction the party should

take so i do believe these poll numbers will have an effect on the debate within the s.p.d. did of these political correspondent thomas feral thank you very much time for business now and a risk appears to have paid off for h.s.b.c. it certainly seems to have seen you don't remember the massive job cuts that were implemented by the bank but now it's just posted a huge jump in its profits now that is due to a strong performance in asia the british company making over seventeen billion dollars in profit for tax twenty seventeen a one hundred forty one cent increase compared to the year before now the results are an indication that h.s.b.c.'s pivot to asia is paying off the banking giant laid off thousands of employees elsewhere to focus on asian emerging markets it's also been attempting to recover from several embarrassing scandals and nov eighth

just b.c. paid three hundred million euros to french authorities to settle an investigation into allegations that helped wealthy clients evade taxes. so let's get more with our financial correspondent kanata booze and now conrad investors don't appear to be all that happy with those numbers from h.s.b.c. why's that. well some analysts believe that h.s.b.c. should be able to profit more from the boom in asia you know this pivot to asia means that the bank has returned to where its core is hong kong and shanghai banking corporation that's what the acronym eight as b c stands for the bank has a huge network on the asian continent it should be able to profit enormously from china's one belt one road policies and certainly the increase in profits compared to last year looks impressive but many analysts had made more

ambitious forecasts before and that's why the share of a to b c today is having the . word is that the e.u. is mulling tariffs on some choice u.s. products tell us more. well the european union is getting prepared for the case that the united states might impose import tariffs on european goods terrorists that the european union of course would consider to be not in line with world trade agreements in this case the european union might consider a counter tariffs import tariffs on for example harley davidson motorbikes or jack daniels whiskey which would of course make those products much more expensive here in europe i have to say though those are only rumors the european union at the moment seems to only be considering this all right with an incredible choice of products of that kind of had booze in it for us in frankfurt thank you for keeping

us updated. u.s. carmakers general motors recently announced plans to shut down one of its full plants in south korea the decision welcomed by u.s. president donald trump who took it as an opportunity to criticize the free trade agreement with south korea now while some had expected g.m. to close its remaining plants in south korea it looks like the u.s. comic could be set to make a u. turn. g.m. is stuck between a rock and a hard place the comic a doesn't want to be the target of washington's america first policies but he doesn't want to ruin its reputation in south korea eva. it's certainly our preference to stay and to fix the business and continue to be an important part of the green economy and you know there's a lot of work to do to make that happen but i'm very i'm encouraged by the discussions that i'm optimistic that that that is an outcome that together we can

achieve. is now proposing to work with the korean government to keep the remaining factories open in exchange for a comic i would benefit from financial support and tax benefits the factory closure announced last week is a sensitive topic here workers staged a protest which seoul was watching closely the g.m. factory closure has been part of discussions about the trade ties between south korea and the u.s. . for whom will torture tears and i ask the government to act firmly and sternly to unreasonable protectionist measures such as lodging complaints to the world trade organization and second for violations of the us south korea free trade agreement. are made on the factory workers have the support of the top policymakers the korean government says it will provide cheap loans and financial support to those laid off in the area. over to see me now for the latest on what can only be described as

the heated to gun control debate in the united states that's right now and i will now a president donald trump has indicated that he might be supporting a better background checks on people buying guns now he's under increasing pressure to tighten gun control laws following last week's school shooting in florida and much of that pressure is coming from students themselves they've organized a range of protests across the country including a lion outside the white house. these students are from washington d.c. and not from florida nevertheless they felt compelled to head to the white house to protest they wanted to stage a lion to show their solidarity with the seventeen people who were killed at stoneman douglas high school they say they're fed up with the government's lack of gun control oh in the wake of the school shooting my friend whitney and i decided that we wanted to do something about it on the politicians to saying that they're so i put a dent in their family but they're not doing anything about it and my friend when i believe that something needs to be done. many of the protesters criticized us

president donald trump bake you some of simply blaming others and evading the real issue of gun laws and they concerned about how much influence gun lobby groups have on the government. oh. thanks to you we need to stand up to the n.r.a. we need to do what's right for kids not guns. trump arrived back in washington later monday after visiting victims medical personnel and first responders in florida on the weekend he said he's in favor of bipartisan efforts to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases but what that means exactly is still open to interpretation. and meanwhile in florida hundreds of students gathered to mourn the victims of the shooting but the candlelit vigil. students across the nation have been particularly vocal since the tragedy and they're

planning a rally in washington on the twenty fourth of march to draw attention to safety in schools. what's day eleven of the winter olympics and so far it's been a very successful one from germany for germany rather we have maximal from the sports with us here in our studio it's been a really good run for germany yet the second in the medals table just behind norway well let's take a look at this the i.o.c. president thomas bach has been a regular visitor to the german house and jiang chang and on monday he actually went to congratulate the medal winners and athletes for their very impressive a limping form and says the german team has already won ten goals and germany have already improved on their nineteen medal haul from the two thousand and fourteen sochi games and we're not done yet. so max how proud can germany be here now they've done exceptionally well and i mean the german olympic confederations go ahead of the games was as they put it nineteen plus x. so nineteen was what they got in such see they've got twenty now and we still have

quite a few days to go and they can be also very proud that it's come in a variety of sports of figure skating biathlon ski jumping lose ball skeleton and nordic combination the medal so far the biggest medal haul is a little bit out of reach that was thirty six medals in total that came in two thousand and two at salt lake city but another milestone they made that which was their highest gold medal hole that's still within reach because that was twelve and there were only two away from matching that very well done germany their let's take a look at day eleven i'm so the canadians a virtue and moir they followed up their record breaking ice dance routine from monday tell us more yes they beat their own world record in the short answer on monday and then rivals from france had a puppet actress and six of all they led actually off to having a world record in the three dots this is what we're seeing now but this is virtually more whose school was very close that world record which meant that overall school was also a world record two hundred six points they got that and they actually retired

a few years ago after winning gold in twenty ten and silver and. until forty but you can see just how much it means to them in just a moment when they get their story. of what excitement of course and there's one more standout performance we have to talk about kathy sharp in the ski halfpipe yes that's right another one of the sports in the winter games that just looks spectacular we can have a look now at her in the half pipe it's her first ever lympics she won the bronze this year at the x. games just a few weeks ago and we're going to see her winning routine just now this is quite spectacular stuff very dangerous. even though it looks rather fun but his sister darcy actually also the medal she won the gold earlier a few days earlier in the snowboard slopestyle so very proud parents from the canadians right some fantastic performances day eleven of the olympics max sports

thank you very much you're watching a news a reminder of our top stories this hour the united nations has warned syrian government forces to stop their assault on the rebel held town place of eastern how to near damascus the syrian observatory for human rights says that government air raids there killed at least one hundred people on monday. germany's right wing populist party the alternative for germany has overtaken the social democrats for the first time in a national opinion poll the news comes just before the s.p.d. begins voting critical vote on whether to join a coalition government with the chancellor merkel's conservatives. you're watching you from berlin more at the top of the hour you can get all the latest information around the clock on our web site for now we leave you with some sounds from the genius chili gonzales the subject of a new film screening at this year's berlin aleph film festival enjoy.

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