put big dreams on the big screen. movie magazine. you're watching news coming to you live from berlin kept teachers that suggestion from u.s. president donald trump as he met with school shootings survivors listening session in the white house says demands for gun control grow louder following last week's florida massacre. also coming up the u.n. calls it hell on earth civilians. are trapped as the syrian government continues to

rain mortars down on the rebel held end play hundreds are dead hospitals are struggling to cope. and it's decision day for diesel cars a german court is set to rule on whether to allow bans in major cities we'll go to our correspondent in stuttgart which is being sued over its air pollution. oh i'm sorry marchin good to have you with us. survivors of the florida school shooting have appealed to u.s. president donald trump to do more to stop gun violence in an emotionally charged meeting at the white house trump promised to take action even suggesting the possible arming of teachers lawmakers are making or facing a new push for gun control after last week's rampage that left seventeen people

dead. it was called a listening session but president donald trump had plenty to say meeting at the white house with survivors of gun violence and victims' families suggested one solution to school shootings could be more guns seen after and this would only be obviously for people that are very adept at handling a gun and it would be it's called concealed carry where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them they'd go for special training and they would. be there and you would no longer have a gun free zone gun free zone to a maniac because they're all cowards a gun free zone is let's go in and let's attack. the father of a boy killed in the twenty twelve sandy hook school shooting didn't think much of the idea. of school teachers have more than enough responsibility is right now

then to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life. thank you. nobody wants to see a shoot out in a school and to arrange sociopath on his way to commit an act of of murder in a school with the outcome knowing the outcome is going to be suicide is not going to care if there's somebody there with a gun that's their plan anyway trump also vowed to improve background checks and said he was open to raising the minimum age for buying high powered weapons it was a meeting heavy with raw emotion. just it doesn't make sense fix it should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it i turned eighteen the day after. or up to the news that my best friend was gone. and i don't understand why i could still go in a store and buy

a weapon of war. and. i thank. god these students say they're angry that school massacres have become commonplace and little has been done to stop them on wednesday they skipped class to protest at the white house for more gun control this generation of mass shootings is reminding politicians that their voices are growing stronger. we're going to do it for money at the midterm elections we're going to vote in the forty one elections and none of them are going to stand up was. here in germany a chance but i'm going to medical is due to give a key policy speech in parliament today it will be her first major address to the bonus dog since the general election pod months ago and will focus on the e.u. summit starting on friday the e.u. talks are expected to focus on how to plug the braggs it budget hole for the remaining twenty seven members it's thought britain's departure in twenty nineteen

could leave a twelve billion euro annual shortfall shortfall machall admits will be very challenging. more of the chancellor's speech let's bring in d.w. political correspondent tola sparrow good morning told this morning terry the chancellor merkel regularly addresses parliament thomas what makes today's speech so significant that's correct she does address part of an irregular basis but as you mentioned this is the first time that she will do precisely that before the parliament after the election in september so it will also be the very first time that she will be confronted directly in the parliament to for example her most vocal opponents the elected members of the alternative for germany the act immigrant populist party so that's one reason why will be particularly important but it's also important because it will happen against a backdrop of uncertainty here in germany the fact that germany still doesn't have a new governing coalition and also uncertainty at the european level when you talk

about for example that on that will be one of the topics that will be discussed at the european union summit namely that long. when they talk about the budget or the long term composition of the parliament in other words issues that go well beyond. the membership of the u.k. in the e.u. so uncertainty at home uncertainty also the european union so the chancellor is briefing parliament just ahead of that e.u. summit coming up to morrow i'm going to michael still hasn't formed a new government since september election as you noticed. she take charge in any european decision making given that she's essentially a caretaker chancellor or she is a caretaker johnson and the fact that we have uncertainty here in germany is also the fact that we have uncertainty figure appeared level germany's european partners are rather concerned about the fact that germany has been now for more than four

months without a new stable coalition it is probable that academical will also address this today in a speech before parliament she will also be talking about what role your. plays in that coalition deal that was signed on the hopes the members of the social democrats will vote in favor off so. the fact that there is still no government office so long will play a role in. discussion that will fall off thomas thank you so much from. there from our political desk. and we'll be covering chancel michael's address to parliament live you can stream it online at d.w. dot com if you like that's coming up in just about an hour from now head of the united nations has described the death and devastation in a rebel held suburb of damascus as quote hell on earth despite calls for an immediate ceasefire syrian government airstrikes are again pounding eastern today

the syrian military says it's targeting terrorists but independent monitors say more than three hundred people have been killed since sunday most of them civilians we want to warn you that you may find the images in this next report upsetting. for a war that's been raging for nearly seven years the images in there less shocking and no less harrowing. this boy's parents face is unknown and want to become of him. in towns already reduced to any hospital still standing is completely overwhelmed. since sunday the syrian government reportedly aided by russian forces has stepped up its bombardment of. if with little regard for those who inhabit it.

i. can still live fighter jets keep coming if what happened in homs in aleppo is anything to go by they won't stop until there's no one left those who survived being starved in their own homes. for the situation is getting worse and people are forced to stay on their grounds 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. actions have far more facts than just what's. going on there.

the un security council is considering a resolution on demanding a thirty day cease fire in syria to allow for humanitarian aid and medical evacuations a vote could come as early as today. well an attacker has thrown a suspected grenade at the u.s. embassy compound in montenegro he then blew himself up with another explosive device the blasts in the capital. occurred in the early hours of thursday morning the embassy is warning u.s. citizens to stay away until further notice officials in nigeria say the military there has rescued seventy six schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others they were thought to have been kidnapped by boko haram militants during an attack on the village of in the northeastern state of you'll be about one hundred children with originally thought to be missing. an explosion on the ferries has injured as

many as twenty five people in the mexican beach city of carmen the ferry was when the blast occurred authorities say none of the injuries are life threatening and the calls explosion is. just a few hours a federal court in light sake is set to hand down a landmark ruling that could clear the way for a ban on diesel cars in major cities the case was started by an environmental group which says the city of has not done enough to limit the harm caused by diesel a mission. well for more on that expected court ruling let's bring in christopher spring gate he is in stuttgart today how did we get to this point that the country's top administrative court has to deal with the issue. well terry the crossing you see behind me here the nica tour crossing is some crucial for this process basically the russias getting underway here in stuttgart

and thousands of commuters coming into the center of the city and the emissions that they are causing mean that the readings of a. quality monitoring station which is just to my right very high and they have been quite high for some years now is specially the readings for nitrogen dioxide which is a fairly noxious substance caused by diesel cause and as you mentioned a leading german environmental group took should got to court they won that case last july the court suggested that diesel bans on diesel powered vehicles. should be imposed that's when the state to vote and back took over they worried about the legality of such bans so they appealed to that ruling at the

administrative court here in should they took it to the top court in germany the federal administrative court in light station that's the court ruling that we're waiting on later today ok chris if there is a diesel ban who effected the most. well of course the owners of diesel powered vehicles will be directly affected if there is a ban they won't be able to drive into central stuttgart for instance and there's another group that is very very warry. the large community here in germany of small businesses tradesmen handy craftsman they've invested heavily in diesel powered vehicles and as i say they are very very worried about the possibility of a diesel ban as i've been finding out. it's the busiest time of day at this family run bakery and. dozens of customers throughout the city are waiting for their morning to liberates. like many small businesses in germany it's invested in diesel

powered delivery vehicles which are cheaper to run due to years of tax breaks for diesel. they use would hit the company. if the ban on diesel powered vehicles covers the whole city then we have a problem in principle that we'd have to shut down and we can't deliver our products by public transport so we'd have nowhere to go. zinah blames the sheer volume of traffic in german cities and has some of the country's worst it's in a city absorbs over four hundred thousand commuters every day this busy stretch of road in central stuttgart is called the neck of talk crossing and it's become something of a household name in germany that's because with an average of almost seventy thousand vehicles passing through in both directions every single day it's now one of the country's absolute hotspots for air pollution. last year the monitoring

station at the nec atoll crossing measured an average of seventy three micrograms with nitrogen dioxide a cubic metre that's almost double the legal limit which is why activists are calling for tough measures. a lot of people here suffer from respiratory diseases old people in particular and. people move out of this area as soon as they can afford to and that's why we urgently need to diesel back here it would have an immediate effects. is keen to avoid diesel bans so it's introduced traffic reduction schemes and public awareness campaigns encouraging people to cycle to work or use public transport policy makers are also progressively reducing the cost of public transport. and the city is also hosting this pioneering project using a wall of morse to suck car pollution out of the atmosphere the walls about one

hundred meters long three meters high whether it works though isn't fully clear yet . germany's powerful car makers are also firmly against driving bans but in the wake of the emissions cheating scandal that tightlipped at the moment. the quest for you know there and stood. there ironic that it would be considering a diesel cars basically germany's motor city. what are carmakers saying about all this now. well some of the bosses are talking about expropriation. essentially if there is a diesel ban even the prospect of a diesel ban has already begun to affect their business model which you know they do sell a lot of diesel vehicles i think thirty three percent of the new registrations in january were diesel vehicles although that is down from forty five percent to the

same time last year so this is affecting their business model and the other thing is the resale value of diesel vehicles is plummeting a lot of candelo is sitting on unsold secondhand diesels that nobody wants to buy at the moment christopher thank you so much to christopher spring day there in stuttgart. as in business news now and helena has a look at some bright ideas for cleaning up yeah that's right terry some of the tech of course because with those diesel bans on the table that verdict could have a nationwide impact in germany and they should feel the debate over how to improve quality in cities now the e.u. commission has already called on germany and eight other european countries with high pollution to take action and many european cities are taking steps to clean up their act. the special plants fight and pollution enthusiastic in germany

say they can grab a particular matter out of the yeah and even convert it into pop. several places in germany now have the so-called city trees. london has another right it since i'll tell you the drivers of old polluting cars have paid an extra ten pounds a day more than eleven yuri's to drive in the city center of britain's capital that's on top of the congestion charge already in place and this is part of a package of measures. the most basic process of a bus is that a cleaner. was stopped by diesel buses only heartbreaking electric and a harder than double decker buses will last and sit in a diesel taxi's we're encouraging them give them the assistance to move from diesel to low mission. increasing the amount of money we spend on public transport but also will create and socket in spain's capital madrid also introduce drastic measures at the end of twenty sixteen when pollution levels get too high hope the privately owned cars abound from the road and whether you can drive depends on your

license plate number the idea came from italy where these temporary bones have been implemented in rome and milan paris also adopted the idea. in the bulk area in capitals the fia levels of particular exceeded the limit for several days at the end of january. the city issued thousands of day ticket for public transport it's a heavily discounted price. one idea currently under discussion in germany is free public transport all the time. the european commission says it is getting tough on the cartels and will no longer tolerate any companies working together to keep prices high and shuts out the competition that's just handed out fines topping off a billion euros and maritime call carious sparkplugs klug supply is and break a system supplies are all going to have to pay up. all the people the e.u.

competition commission emigrate to be a starter wanted to send a message that the european commission will not tolerate anticompetitive behavior. today the commission has decided to fine seven companies a total of five hundred sixty four million euros for taking part in fort different cartels relating to cars. three other companies involved in these cartels well they excrete getting a fine because they came to us. to reveal the cartels in the shipping industry the fines affect a chilean car shipping carrier three japanese carriers as well as a norwegian swedish carrier together they formed a deep sea vehicle transport cartel for almost six years. in the automotive parts industry germany's bhatia and to japanese companies ran a cartel supplying spark plugs to european car makers bosch was also involved in

running another cartel fixing brake system prices. companies can escape fines through the e.u. commission's leniency policy which encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels a system which in the cases announced wednesday proved to be effective and exchange commission south africans a facing the first sales tax hike since apartheid it put a bit of a damp on the wave of hope following president zero oppose this takeover last week from his scandal plagued prita sesa now the country's finance minister my lucy gabba said raising value added tax by said to point to fifteen percent was unavoidable in the face of a recession the move comes ahead of elections next year increasing pressure on the country's ruling in c.t. party to make sure the unpopular at sales tax hike helps turn the economy around. and i'm afraid this is a potential bad news for the false food chain k.f.c.

a group of researches at princeton university in united states now says that the k.f.c. though which depicts of course the restaurant's founder colonel sanders can be mistaken for a stop sign by all to fish intelligence software used in self driving cars by the princeton scientists have come up with a system to spot signs that might prove confusing for those causing their recent findings well have now got some asking whether the fast food chain will be forced to wave goodbye to. it's famous. all right terry has the latest now from the valley no less yeah no faces that can stop traffic. check in on berlin film one of the contenders for the prestigious golden bear this year as the iranian film pig it's a black comedy about a blacklisted movie director and it challenges stereotypes about iran and iranian women on your call reports. it wasn't she at least seven snipes to

be out on the red carpet. concert with their own. celebrating from your office turbulent comedy peak at the berlin film festival. not just focuses on director haasan who was listed by the government but that's not what's troubling him most and unknown kiddo's talks to beheading filmmakers so. slight it why shouldn't he be murdered as well. but it amounts. to. a billion dollar without an iranian movie and on think about a prospect in previous years iranian directors sometimes had to bypass ukrainian censors by smuggling their movies out of the country that was not the case with

this pick was officially approved but uranian off story without any changes at all what's more the movie will be screened in the rain in cinemas despite its focus on the difficult situation often faced by filmmakers in the land of the more or less the brain. narcissism and vanity run riot in this black comedy that is no hidden message director huggy insists. that film for me is not about saying something this is not a slogan that i wish to express in my film and i'm making a film in order to express that slogan film for me is just a bunch of ideas that come together in the form of images could be heard on the person who is portrayed as a we commend trying to be in the center of attention when the women in his life was with brilliant minds no big deal to director who seemed slightly frustrated by the

question put to him during the press conference you seem to be asking me how come there are these strong women in your well because there are strong women in your. shows to show them. as opposed to conforming to this usual image that. that is presented to you of iran. in women as victims you know that's not how it is . comedy it's in the running full of bear as long as the jury members and of us share his point missed you. well the big names of britain's music industry took the stage at wednesday night's britta wards in london . singers. and. storms each of the biggest winners of this year's edition taking two trophies each including best female and male so those sharon took the global success award.

it's. all the prizes included best international group for food fighter. now wildlife rescuers in britain say they're delighted to have released a seal back into the wild she was found last september injured and then with a frisbee around her neck it's been a long road but now the seal is back where she belongs in the sea they found her like this the frisbee around her neck a death sentence. not only that this atlantic gray seal have a deep wound she was also severely malnourished when she was found on horsey beach in eastern england. we need ten easy day six months an ambience

contest but they will see seals i should call it one day just lying to me if they get me on the side of the school and the school they go to and i'm sneaking like i took the free speech and me and put it into place is this tape. but after several months of specialist care and plenty of fish dinners mrs frisby as she's become known has made a full recovery this week her carers gave her their seal of approval to return home to the cold and murky waters of the north sea. you're watching news join us next hour we'll be going live to the bundestag here in berlin for where it. is going to be addressing parliament ahead of an e.u. summit coming up tomorrow stay with us for much more.

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