those sponsored by distinctive instagram or zz. g.w. stories talk to each week on instagram. this is g w news live from berlin and the syrian government's onslaught on a rebel held damascus suburb intensifies mortars and missiles raining down on easter and put without mercy killing nearly three hundred people including at least fifty children according to monitor hospitals overwhelmed struggle to cope in a besieged area home to some four hundred thousand people. also coming up

calling for change students in the united states in the state of florida demand tougher gun controls in the wake of last week's deadly school shooting but can make progress makers to act. and the united nations refugee agency warns that a humanitarian disaster looms in congo the fighting has displaced at least six hundred thousand people and we have a special report. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program 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 airstrikes pounding east. again today independent monitors say that more than two

hundred and seventy people have been killed since sunday it's not the first time that good to has come under attack back in two thousand and thirteen the government allegedly bonded with chemical weapons we want to warn you that you may find the images in this next report upsetting. to see. for a war that's been raging for nearly seven years the images in their last shocking and no less harrowing. this boy's parents fate is unknown and watch will become of him. in towns already reduced to shelves and a hospital still standing it's completely overwhelmed. since sunday the syrian government reportedly aided by russian forces has stepped up its bombardment of this rebel on clay with little regard for those who inhabit

it. oh. yeah. anyway oh. and. by. the way ok. i'm still the fighter jets keep coming if what happened in homes in aleppo is anything to go by they were installed until there's no one left those who survived being starved in their own homes. for the newbies who are on the situation is getting worse and people are forced to stay underground to avoid the shelling on able to go on to the streets or whatever's left of them to collect or buy food. world leaders condemning the syrian government but that comes as little consolation to the people of eastern or actions how far more facts than just words on

a little come on the people in the movement are going on on this one. and elsewhere in syria turkey says that it will press ahead with its offensive to clear kurdish fighters from a syrian enclave on its border this after forces local to the syrian government attempted to enter a frame in support of the kurds turkish president recha type air to one warned that there would be serious consequences for anyone trying to reinforce the current the latest threats from ankara raise fears of direct conflict between turkish and syrian government forces. well gunmen have killed five police officers in an off duty soldier and an attack on a police station in south africa police said that the gunman entered the building in the early morning and opened fire before stealing weapons on a vehicle the country's police minister calls it a national tragedy. police in peru say that at least thirty six people were killed

when a double decker bus veered off of a mountain road into. humble two hundred meters down a cliff in the country south at least thirty others were injured because of the accident wasn't immediately known. and billy graham the man described as the most widely heard christian evangelist in history has died at the age of ninety nine the us preacher rose to fame in the one nine hundred forty s. holding huge revival meetings across the country he served as a spiritual adviser to twelve u.s. presidents and traveled to north korea on a peace mission in one thousand nine hundred two. in florida hundreds of protesters have gathered in front of the state capitol in tallahassee to demand stronger controls on firearms leading the protests are students from the mage marjorie stoneman douglas high school that is of course the parkland florida school where the gunman killed seventeen people last week the rally comes a day after survivors from the school went to tallahassee to push lawmakers to act

but a bill to ban assault rifles and large magazines failed by a two to one margin there are reports that students at other high schools are staging walkouts in solidarity with the stillman douglas high school students. and earlier we spoke with louis mizen a survivor of the school massacre who travels as hell hacienda asked him whether he thought he and his classmates would be able to get politicians to do something about the gun violence. i think you know you can or look around we're the next generation of voters and the next generation of leaders i think that the way we agree has really shown that we we will be a strong generation of leaders on that we all willing to make change we have a real generation to columbine we've grown up with the mushy thing in school the legacy that they left us and we want a legacy to be fixing the changing the i really have hope for the future that we

can go on and we can make this a national issue and it's always a wholesale to get american politics but i really believe that we can be the people who brings it up and makes politicians talk about it and hopefully bring change across the country. and in the wake of the florida high school shooting us president donald trump has announced a tougher stance on gun ownership days after the killings trump said that his administration would take steps to outlaw so-called bump stocks now these are the devices that enable a semi automatic rifle to shoot at extremely high speed fully automatic weapons are tightly regulated in the united states but i'm stocks get around that restriction the president also tweeted whether we are republican or democrat we must now focus on strengthening background checks earlier white house spokeswoman sarah sanders said the trumpet to consider raising the minimum age for buyers of the assault

rifles like the one used in the florida shooting. well meantime we're going to head to nigeria now where more than eight hundred schoolgirls are reported missing following an attack by the extremist boko haram group is a list insurgents attacked a village in a doc village in the northeastern state of you'll be earlier this week boko haram carried out a similar mass abduction from the town of to book in two thousand and fourteen with true international which drew international attention to the nine year insurgency in the region. the united nations refugee agency is warning that a humanitarian disaster of extraordinary proportions is about to hit the democratic republic of congo violence erupted late last year in the south eastern province of tanganyika it's estimated that in this area alone more than a fifth of the area's population that is six hundred thirty thousand people have

been displaced. forced to flee their homes forced to seek refuge in camps like this each with a story to tell of the violence that is destroying lives. here they beheaded people they cut open their stomachs removed their guts and leave them to die that's how they're killing people. john key's a can be is one of the six hundred thirty thousand congolese displaced in tank and he could province in the past year he says militias burnt his village to the ground while among women though i had to take all my clothes off and jump into the river but i didn't have a choice i was fleeing for my life i mean the injured were left behind. the violence witnessed by so many is taking its toll with ongoing conflicts between rival militias the un refugee agency is warning the democratic republic of congo is

in crisis the humanitarian disaster extraordinary proportions is about to hit the south eastern part of the democratic republic of the congress the province of tanganyika plunges further into violence triggering spiralling displacement and human rights abuses with so many congolese now on the move the d r c has earned the an enviable title of having the highest number of internally displaced people in africa and with no end to the violence in sight it's hard to imagine what lies ahead for them. it is lights camera action here in berlin where the international film festival is still in full swing and data charlotte telson pill and scott rock sparrow are as always down on the red carpet for us welcome to both of you we know guys about the role of our lead it showcases movies from around the world a mainstay and

a berlin our classic. are usually iranian films and turns out tell us a little bit more about this year's entry. hi sorry yes that's right it is an iranian film on show you tonight we just had the red carpet for that family was very exciting here behind us we had to the stars and the director walking into the world prime yet if that film now starts and i were lucky enough to get a preview of that film and today's i will give you a very brief synopsis basically is about every new director he's blacklisted and it's not a serial killer surprisingly he's gradually oh one by one killing off this star it's friends and fellow directors surprisingly they it's a comedy yeah it's not all you'd expect when you hear the words arraigning in the movie you probably think of something very political very very dark and very troubling this isn't that at all very very funny movie and visually really spectacular this director is sort of

a magic realist he creates really fancy images and uses amazing cinematic tricks as i say something very different than what maybe we're used to seeing from iran we have a small piece to sort of introduce you to the film take a look. good. pig is the story of how. the cystic film director furious that he's been blacklisted from iran's movie industry. possum's also furious that there's a serial killer decapitation iran's top filmmakers only because he isn't one of them. but. that's legit. told them she was amid the laughs film aficionados won't forget that some of iran's top directors really are banned from the country's cinemas but pick director money huggy insists that his

black comedy a contender for this year's golden bear is only parity. and they understand that you guys actually have the opportunity to speak with the director what did he have to say. when we were at the press conference very funny film not so funny press conference well yeah i've been saying this is very different than maybe what we expect from iran or what maybe the western audiences think iran is like and the director was quite annoyed that all the questions about the film seemed to be about the politics around of iran and not about his movie itself that's right and said what is it actually got quite heated he said he didn't want to he wasn't that it betray iran as a country victims were his exact words he was also asked about the betrayal of women in the film there are some very strong very charismatic women let's have a listen to what he had to say about. what has been bothering me for

a long. as it is. is that it. sometimes it conforms to the specific image that audiences. which is usually go through news media things like this. you seem to be asking me how come there are these strong women in the well because there are strong women in the. shows to show them. as opposed to conforming to the usual image that. that is presented of iranian women as victims. and it wouldn't be the. little political. bear on the red carpet. thanks. about the number of civilian deaths and serious. strikes by pro-government forces

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