this is the w.'s live from berlin no place to hide the united nations chief who raises the alarm over syrian slaughter and he's sprawling suburb of damascus situation for families embassy should be eastern ghouta is only getting worse with no response in the brutal pro-government airstrikes and shelling reaching new levels of intensity also coming up. these also on trial a time german court hears a case that could allow cities to ban the vehicles the ruling could have a huge impact on the country's powerful motor industry.

i'm little rock thanks for your company everyone hell on earth that is how the united nations chief describes the fast a teary rating humanitarian situation and a besieged suburb of damascus for the four hundred thousand civilians trapped in eastern guta there's nowhere to hide from unrelenting airstrikes carried out by the forces of president bashar al assad his military says it's targeting only what it calls terrorists but in the kind of monitors say the shelling has killed more than three hundred civilians since sunday many of them children. hell on earth and there's no escape this hospital now a graveyard government were planes have been pounding eastern cuba for the fifth consecutive day children are under siege in one of the most brutal bombardments

this war has ever seen it's about the mobile. we were unable to evacuate our patients or treat them. we had to do one of the operations under the rubble and if . we couldn't evacuate we had to do it under the rubble. rage is palpable speaking to germany's parliament chancellor angela merkel called the assad regime conduct a massacre. the horrifying events that we're seeing in syria the fight of one regime not against terrorists but against its own population killing children destroying hospitals all of these constitute a massacre which needs to be condemned and we say a clear no to this. that i but in opposition politician said that without action words are hollow. it's

not enough just to say that we are condemning it she said that germany is going to try a bigger role no idea what she's talking about i want to see the consequences as the airstrikes continue relentlessly russia a key ally of the assad regime blames the rebels holding duty for the region's humanitarian crisis. the u.n. security council is due to vote on a thirty day humanitarian ceasefire in syria. the u.n. envoy for syria says there is quote no alternative. well earlier we spoke to sign your course sure she is the syria director of save the children in amman jordan we asked her to give us a sense of the tragedy unfolding and. you know our partners that are currently working and he's angling to describe a situation in which there is so much fear. now that he's especially on children

you know they've been living under siege since december twenty twelve so they already had very volatile situations in recent months we had seen levels of malnutrition rai's we had seen no medical supplies getting into the area and so now this mumbai i mean is really compounding the separate of the people there one of our primary said everyone in eastern goods has an underground now and that means they're seeking shelter in basements in tunnels we even heard that people are digging holes with shovels in order to have somewhere to hide from the body. and that was the syria director of save the children speaking to us from amman jordan all right we're going to shift gears now a top german court is hearing an appeal that could lead to a landmark ban on diesel cars in major cities the case was started by an environmental group which says the southern german city of stuttgart has not done enough to limit the harm caused by diesel emissions dozens of german cities are vocoded annual levels of nitrogen dioxide emissions above thresholds in the past

twelve months toxic air pollution is linked to thousands of premature deaths every year the courts are ruling due next week were dramatically hit the value of diesel cars on germany's roads. are right and our very own are christopher spring gate is in stuttgart covering the court proceedings for so christopher the decision i understand has been respond until next week. that's correct and i think that's an indication of how much is at stake. in this case the presiding judge said that the court proceedings took considerably longer than he expected they took courage just four hours and we understand that among the key issues that were discussed with things like whether this issue should be resolved at the regional level at the city level like here in stuttgart or whether

this is not perhaps something that should be resolved at the national level so that's an issue that we will hear more about next week when we have a final ruling and there's also been discussion about whether a driving ban for diesel powered vehicles is a proportionate response to the fight against or air pollution to the damage done by air pollution and the other issue the key is how to control a diesel driving ban if one is imposed how the police would be able to control something like that it's rather difficult to stop every single vehicle and check their papers all right now christopher every heard from germany's car makers. well germany's can make his or all dead against any form of diesel banned heavily involved in producing diesel powered engines and they point also to the fifteen

million people here in germany who own diesel cars cars with diesel engines and as you mentioned the resale value of those vehicles it's been plummeting in recent months germany's carmakers are essentially saying a driving ban would be tantamount to expropriation all right so people are already reacting without the decision having been made what kind of ruling can we expect. well one thing that was being discussed by the presiding judge and the lawyers representing the two sides today was some form of progressive ban on diesel cars starting with the much older. diesel engines the euro for diesel engines and banning them from city centers in the moving progressively towards new . models diesel models the question is how would the timing be on that

a lot of discussion still to come a final vote in this case coming next week we'll check in with you a little later again thank you so ray much closer spend it reporting for us thank you. now i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world belgian police moved in on a residential building in a major security operation in the in a brussels neighborhood specialist armed units that took over several streets and for a section of the belgian capital brussels the remains on high alert after suicide bombers killed thirty two people in twenty sixteen. congolese refugees in rwanda say soldiers shot at them and wounded at least two people this is around two thousand refugees trying to march out of their camp in protest at a cut in food rations some seventeen thousand people live in the camp.

focused on supreme court has banned former prime minister nawaz sharif from his position as head of the ruling party sharif was barred from holding public office over corruption allegations last july the decision has created political turmoil ahead of senate elections and could ensure reaves career politics. amnesty international has named the philippines president as one of the worst performing leaders on human rights for the second year running the n.g.o.s says the widespread killing of alleged drug offenders infer that he will do that this war on drugs may constitute crimes against humanity in the united states president donald trump says he'll push strongly for stricter gun control measures including raising the minimum minimum age to twenty one for a broad range of weapons he tweeted his strongest position on the issue as president just a day after an emotional white house session with students and parents from various

school shootings including last week's shooting in florida that killed seventeen people. it was called a listening session but president trump had plenty to say. meeting at the white house with survivors of gun violence and victims' families trump suggested one solution to school shootings could be more guns 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 is anybody like the father of a boy killed in the two thousand and twelve sandy hook school shooting didn't think

much of the idea. 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 but it was a meeting heavy with role emotion just doesn't make sense fix it should have been one school shooting and we should a fixed 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. listening session is unlikely to quieten the growing calls from school students for stricter gun laws. and islanders were at the tail end of the berlin international film festival the bears will be or this weekend and my colleague melanie the ball is down on the red carpet to say validate what has been happening where you are. right now behind me in the belly not there is a movie premiering called the rondo a documentary by mark close imhoff this with director and i have to say it's a brutally honest picture of what it means to be a refugee arriving on europe's shores here. takes us incredibly close to what every where everything is happening we go on board of the ship with one thousand eight hundred refugees we go in the ghetto like shelter undercover and we

also see what happens to doe's refugees that do not qualify for asylum so it's really a critical picture of this huge machinery of organized aid that ends up exploiting refugees here in europe but we also had a nice surprise today and we had one of the refugees featured in this documentary here in the press conference and on the red carpet and he told us that he had been distrustful when it came to janice asking him to many questions he was hesitant to be in the movie but the one person who could convince them to do an interview was marcos imhoff not because he showed his profile in that pedia but because he knew that he would really tell his story honestly and truthfully and show the situation as it stands and he did so it's no big surprise it's screaming here. all right and melanie a very topical movie what else has been screening. well tonight we

will be seeing the world premiere of the movie. that's yes and it's a movie that is not a documentary but it's based on true events that set plays in mexico in the one nine hundred eighty s. we have two friends that break into a museum they steal priceless artifacts but what they do not expect to happen is that the whole nation turns against them they really see them as enemy as enemies unpatriotic how could they steal these artifacts and so that to have plagued by a very bad conscious i can't tell you much more because the premiere will be happening tonight but i can say there are a lot of surprises and twists taking place that the audience can look forward to and. will also be here so yes the audience will enter that i'm sure they

will thank you so much for that it will catch up with you later on. in the doesn't for us thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us so we'll be back at the top of the hour were more news.