to start this season two more. starting march tenth on g.w. . you're watching a d w news live from berlin the syrian government onslaught on a rebel held the mask a suburb intensifies mortars and missiles raining down on eastern ghouta without mercy killing and nearly three hundred people including at least fifty children according to monitors hospitals overwhelmed struggle to cope and besieged area home to some four hundred thousand people also coming up. calling for change students in the u.s. state of florida demanding tougher gun control laws in the wake of last week's

deadly school shooting but kill a problem makers to act. also a new immigration bill for france the government is this the law will be firm and fair but human rights groups say it will be world nygren civil rights. and it's day twelve of the winter olympics in pyongyang superstar skier lindsey vonn who was aiming for gold in her final olympics keep watching to find out whether sequence to . move. on layla iraq thanks very much for your company everyone. no words left the united nations children's agency describes the suffering of civilians in a rebel held suburb of damascus as beyond what words are capable of expressing with the airstrikes pounding eastern ghouta again today in the pen that monitors say

that more than two hundred seventy people have been killed since sunday. is a group of suburbs on the outskirts of the syrian capital duma is the main town of the enclave and it is completely surrounded by pro assad forces they say they're only bombing rebel fighters the sea just thought to have trapped as many as four hundred thousand civilians i can twenty thirteen the government allegedly attacked guta with chemical weapons. in the bombed out carcass of a stone gets these are the lucky ones terrified shaking but still walking. first responders osher them to safety as an air raid siren underlines the arjan seen as the escape yet. the government's four year long aerial siege of the rebel held in place of has

intensified in recent days. with hundreds killed and injured and to national observers say it marks a new epoch of violence. we are witnessing some of the worst fighting of the entire conflict and the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure including medical facilities. wors received reports of attacks on five hospitals in eastern go into and is working to verify these reports of the casualties. the syrian opposition leader begged for an international response saying the atrocities a moment or two a war crime. this big boy these children had been killed just for the game is doable. because of the bent of the suit every team on the on the militias. of their forces they are the claiming that this artillery that's the other is our children and that it will fight for years. the bloodshed is so relentless here unicef issued

a blank statement in response to the un agency for children said words couldn't describe the suffering. which is left to numbers to tell the story of the devastation but even monitoring groups can barely keep up with the daily death toll here. to absolutely not i mean what we are witnessing is atrocious the situation and he's told that had been already difficult before it is an area that was busy by the government forces and almost four years and the last years that has even intensified. we were hardly able to bring in any medication have food so the area we're struggling to four hundred thousand people inside the war already an extremely serious situation before and now with that military escalation really

broad and not only are suffering for the people and there is by no means a great deal with that make this very concrete for us describe the situation of the civilians on the ground are there shelters where they can hide what do families do when bombs start raining down on them. there's basically nowhere to go this area is besieged you consciously anywhere it's densely populated there's no bunkers people aren't going down in the basements if they can and. you know we have seen people that varied under the rubble of this. increasing storing tricia in that area people are not able to chase food drives we have seen what we've never seen before really a level of suffering you know we met an interesting day here that is aimed at t.v. it's been really really devastating it's very hard to describe and really difficult

to find the right words for that absolutely words do fail us but we have to continue and try to describe what's going on on the ground as you alluded to this is an area that's been under government siege for years it has also been the site of the twenty thirty nine alleged chemical attack what do you fear will happen to those thousands of civilians now that the syrian government seems ready to retake the territory at any cost i mean we are afraid that something very similar will happen that we have witnessed and how that will be for that this is kind of you know only a pretty loose on the offensive to take the last thing plays that are held by the syrian rebels and syria we have a similar situation receives a similar kind of escalation of military on one floor and that is basically carried down cynically you know without any regard to the civilian cost is my plan.

martin you work for the organization care how much access does your organization have or aid organizations like yours have to eastern ghouta. these are what has always been like one of the most difficult areas to reach because it is besieged we don't have the same level of kind of cross border assistance that we have from turkey from jordan. that is simply not the case so you have to be sickly crossed front lines and given the fact that now you know the tunnels have been closed that the checkpoints have been closed so they're actually our partners that are inside they themselves are not able to cross so the last convoy we have really been able to get in is already a number of months ago and i was in november and had enough food for around thirty thousand people i mean that this is not enough obviously poor poor the

kind of humanitarian situation the grisly scene martin milius from the it organization care in amman jordan thank you. and staying in syria turkey has vowed to press on with its offensive in academe spite a planned alliance between kurds in the region and pro-government syrian forces turkey's president's watch attired one claimed his country's forces were hindering the deployment of syrian troops in africa and there are fears that damascus is involvement in the region could further complicate syria's bitter civil war. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. billy graham the man described the most widely heard christian even even jealous in history has died at the each of ninety nine the us preacher was to fame in the one nine hundred forty s. holding fuge rival meetings of revival meetings excuse me across the country served

as a spiritual adviser to twelve u.s. presidents and traveled to north korea on a peace mission in one thousand nine hundred ninety two. and beheading a court has sentenced a human rights activist to another five years in jail or job has criticized the saudis involvement in the yemeni civil war on twitter is already serving a two year sentence for voicing criticism of the beheading the government on television. survivors of last week's florida school shooting have marched on the state capitol to ask lawmakers to ban assault rifles like the one used to kill seventeen of their classmates. around one hundred students travel to tallahassee to protest the easy availability of firearms they met with legislators legislators to make their case but they were dismayed when the legislator rebuffed

a bit to ban sales of assault rifles u.s. president donald trump a vocal supporter of gun owners rights is due to meet other survivors of gun violence this evening. well in the wake of the florida high school shootings the u.s. president donald trump has announced a tougher stance on gun ownership days after the killings trump said his administration would take steps to outlaw so-called bomb stocks now stocks are devices that enable a semi automatic rifle to shoot at extremely high speed fully automatic weapons are tightly regulated in the u.s. but not by stocks they get around the restriction the president also tweeted this next tweet whether we are republican or democrat we must now focus on strengthening background checks earlier white house spokeswoman sarah sanders said trump would consider raising the minimum age for buyers of the assault style rifles like the one used in that deadly school shooting in florida. all right you're watching d.w.

news we still have a lot more to tell you about including soup. our star skier lindsey vonn was in action on day twelve of the winter olympics she was aiming for another gold did she clinch it. we will tell you in just a moment but first to france now were a controversial law a new migration law has been introduced let's take a look at some of the issues the government is trying to tackle with this new bill france as seen on asylum and seen its asylum figures surge even as the numbers of asylum seekers across the european union have been decreasing in twenty seven paris received a record one hundred thousand asylum application requests up by seventeen percent. compared to last year migrants have also converged in large numbers on hotspots

that's paris the capital long france's southern and northern coast thousands are living in very very difficult conditions on top of that asylum procedures are very slow currently asylum seekers wait on average eleven months for a decision now let's take a look at the new bills main goals. the major goal the major goal is to speed up the asylum process from eleven to six months including the appeal time for a sound seekers who are turned down the law also includes a stricter detention rules the maximum detentions time for illegal migrants pending deportation will double from forty five days to ninety five and it also imposes high fines on people who illegally cross borders within europe schengen zone all right well let's talk a bit more about this new bill which has

a lot of people talking in france with jake a narrow he is a journalist based in the french capital of paris good to see you jake why is this new migration bill so controversial. that's right lou well human rights groups are calling the new measures repressive and even some lawmakers from macro's own party are critical of the build this bill risks tarnishing france's in the edge as a bastion of human rights as you mentioned it doubles detention times ninety days shortens deadlines for asylum applications so making a little bit more difficult to get that information in on time to qualify for asylum it imposes jail time and fines for illegal border crossings however it does make it easier for minors to get asylum that what prompted the legislature legislators to introduce this new bill well as you mentioned france saw a record number of asylum requests last year up seventeen percent from the year before the government says the asylum system is overwhelmed and that many of the

asylum requests are not qualified for asylum status that many of those migrants are rather economic migrants who should be deported back to their countries france also dismantled cali and canada known as the jungle in two thousand sixteen which was home to a very large population of unregistered migrants so that was also a factor that quite a bit of pressure on the system but we should also remember that the number of asylum requests france received last year is still less than germany's one hundred eighty six thousand registrations which still is the highest in all of the european union what happens next is there brought support among lawmakers allow this bill to pass. well as initially even michael has. some criticism and some opposition and his own count so where they're going to move forward from here is going to be lawmakers and officials will debate the bill as it is proposed today and revise it before sending it to the national assembly later this spree lawmakers there will then discuss the bill further and criticize it even more and try to mix

negotiations to get some leeway and to modify the bill before they hold a vote so there's quite a long road ahead of negotiations our producer spell it out for us jake what is this bill designed to do because already amnesty international has condemned it. that's right macaroons government says the law is fair and balanced and the interior minister argued that if france does not want to doesn't tighten its laws that the country would attract refugees put off by stricter laws elsewhere in europe potentially risking overwhelming this is an even more and hampering its ability to operate silent in the future so while the measures might not be in line with more stringent countries it's certainly a signal to migrants that france is not the promised land of asylum jake is again you know a journalist based in paris france thank you. the

latvian defense ministry says corruption allegations leveled at the country's central bank governor a part of a disinform ation campaign from abroad ministry says claims for him show they took bribes in return for keeping a bank a business were intended to erode trust in the u.s. and state and influence elections in october of the investigation has rocked a small baltic nation which blames close neighbor and former political master russia. bill maher's rim cheviot says he's a victim of a smear campaign he's accusing private latvian banks of trying to get revenge for tougher financial regulations by accusing him of demanding bribes of one hundred thousand euros a month. i have become a target have an obvious and well coordinated campaign of some latvian commercial banks to discredit the latvian state. but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is

a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show latvia as an untrustworthy ally. to ministry didn't say which country was behind that campaign but there's little doubt it meant russia the russian foreign ministry in moscow refused comment but the bribery accusations come from a russian businessman and with elections due later this year fears are mounting that the kremlin could be attempting to sway the outcome the defense ministry says that dissin from ation campaign closely resembles others that preceded recent french german and us elections. in frankfurt following these forests the home of the e.c.b. i should point out conrad talking about one of the top officials of the e.c.b. and the top council has been meeting today was this discussed by any chance. well the e.c.v.

doesn't talk about what was discussed at this meeting all we know is that in muslim chauvet was not taking part in this meeting the anticorruption of origin is in latvia prohibit him from doing his job at the moment so is deputy governor came to frankfurt but i think the fact that the european central bank does not talk that it remains so quiet is very telling as well quite obviously the e.c.b. once to keep this a domestic affair something that has to be solved on the national level and not on the european level which is if i may say so a shame because not only the reputation of the national reserve bank of latvia is at stake here but the reputation of the whole euro system and the e.c.b. itself will the united states sure is saying something about this it's it says that it has full confidence in latvia as ability to deal with the corruption claims now it flagged this whole affair how do you read into this. i can tell

you ben how many people in financial scene have reacted to this why do we need the americans to flag such an affair that's a question that you that is being asked here very often of course it's the job of the european central bank to make sure that the financial flows in the system works you go smoothly it's not the job of the e.c.b. to raise allegations against one bank i'm talking about of course about those allegations that this bank in russia enabled illegal dealings with north korea but obviously this whole affair shows that our monetary union is an unfinished affair the e.c.b. for a long time has talked about that money laundering should be included in its mandate but it's not. now with the analysis in france i think you

now everyone used to worry about the globe's oil reserves running out now the industry is demand will start drying up b.p. reckons it will begin plateau ing in the late twenty's thirty's as renewables. automotive companies around the world are betting on the mass adoption of electric vehicles in the next decades and they're not the only ones oil and gas giant b.p. is anticipating the same it predicts a one hundred fold growth in electric vehicles by twenty forty and a corresponding hit to the world's oil and gas sector b.p. forecasts continuing growth in global demand for oil and other liquid fuel in the next years but that demand is set to stop increasing after it hits one hundred ten million barrels a day in the late twenty thirty s. it's the first time b.p. has forecast a peak in the world's appetite for oil. it's not just about electric

cars increased fuel efficiency in vehicles powered by internal combustion engines is said to offset consumption to but beyond the automotive sector other factors are set to cause demand to sag like try to regulations restricting the use of plastic as well as an expected increase in the share of renewables in the global energy mix to fourteen percent by twenty forty. it's still lights camera action here in orlando where the international film festival is still in full swing. feel and scott box there are down at the red carpet hi guys tell us about one of the movies that hit the floor of the school today. yeah we had the world premiere of the second of three german films that are screening here this one is called my brother's name is robert and he's an idiot we saw the stars of the film and the director walk the red carpet

behind us just a little while ago and i mean how would you describe the bangalore action packed. i had say late i was in fast we thought no other violence and we've got no kidding we put three hours of philosophy not any of the they did but also it was a bit of a slope to get yeah i mean the director he's easy he's well known he's a very really a philosophical director and his idea is he wants to have the audience experience how time can just draw on what we're going very very quickly and in this case it definitely. needs patience i would say they did it does pay off in the end to what . i'm going to pass out that really is not like a so this is your school or out of the world and they say and not a classic of course are iranian movies tell us about this year's entry. yeah well this is actually another violent film in what seems to be

a growing list of i do know that about another safe ah it's about a radio director he's blacklisted and a killer is gradually picking off then killing his friends twice this is actually your comedy writing it intensity we haven't had the world premiere of this film yet so we can't go into too much detail but there has been a lot of anticipation for this film particularly because of its director yeah and berlin is a real hot spot for raining directors i mean we've had to reign in directors when here in the last couple of years two thousand and eleven with the film a separation from moscow foggy one big here one the golden bear went on to win the oscar really empower powerful movie which looks at. this crisis and around through crisis in the family and then taxi film just couple of years ago another rainy and film that one here from a blacklisted director so really it's always been a real important showcase for really the most important political films to come out of iran how right scott roxboro charlot to tell some things thank you guys catch up

later. thank you. and it's been an action packed day to day twelve i should say of the winter olympics and that herman from the sports is here to talk about that match it's been all about lindsey vonn phyllis and what happened well she had a really great run it was a mistake free run which is not always been the case with this or other olympics but it wasn't enough she finished third italy's sophia good job won the race that was expected to be one of her main rivals and she just simply had a faster race that got faster as she went down the hill second surprisingly it was wrong will be moving go over norway someone who had won a silver in the giant slalom last week but it actually never finished on a podium in a world cup downhill race and it was a big surprise and you know lindsey vonn seemed to take it in stride she said she was going out as a winner getting another medal was the way she wanted to do it no matter what color

that medal was so despite being one of the most decorated world cups of all time one gold is what she'll have to live with this is the last olympic race for her congratulations to the italian contender because that's also a great read let's talk a little bit about this horrific crash ski cross crash what happened it was a wild crash it was in the final of the men's ski cross kevin drury of canada was just ahead of a fellow competitor from russia named sergei reid sick they were both going over one of those jumps and reed sick clipped him they were both in midair when this happened drury fell to the to the ground he fell hard he broke his pelvis. the race did conclude canada's brady layman won the race over mark the ship back to switzerland riddick the man who was involved in the crash from time was able to get out finish the race get the bronze medal but this really was kind of overshadowed by the seriousness of this crash and really reminded everybody what

a dangerous. this can be absolutely fortune we have to talk about doping again talk to us about the russian athlete who allegedly doped alexander kwasniewski he was part of the olympic athletes from russia mixed doubles curling team they won the bronze medal earlier in these games has a sample tested positive for mel dhoni and this is a drug that sort of is meant for blood circulation problems but a number of athletes have been using it for performance enhancing reasons and since twenty sixteen it has been banned now we have a clip from from chris on its case saying he denies taking this drug this is what he told russian television. that we are very interested in the investigation on name korea and the sports life is at stake will do everything to find those responsible for this we are confident that we are clean.

he's tests of positive twice and says he's innocent yeah i mean a sample b. sample both positive. this is a pair of a pattern we know that russia has been caught doping many times male don't e m you know tennis player preassure pobox for alexi prevented many many others from russia he will get his day in court cas is going to look at this case tomorrow so what happens all right matt herman thank you so very much and before i let you go want to remind you of our main headline this hour international concern is growing about the number of civilian deaths in syria's eastern ghouta airstrikes by pro-government forces on the perceived rebel held enclave have claimed hundreds of lives since sunday. thanks caution.

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