this is you know we news live from berlin no place to hide the united nations chief reasons the alarm over syrian slaughter in a sprawling suburb of damascus situation for families in besieged eastern ghouta is only getting worse with no respect from the brutal government airstrikes and shelling reaching new levels of intensity also coming up give teachers guns u.s. president double trouble it commands teachers carry concealed weapons in the aftermath of last week's deadly florida school shooting at an emotional listening

session in the white house victims of gun violence past and present demanded stricter gun control. and will get the highlights from the winter olympics in south korea including a falling finish in the women's ice hockey final as a team usa beats hot favorites canada to win gold for the first time in two decades . thanks very much for your company everyone hell on earth that is how the united nations chief describes the fast a teary orating humanitarian situation in the besieged suburb of damascus for the four hundred thousand civilians trapped in eastern guta there is 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 end 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. because we couldn't evacuate we had to do it under the rubble. the outrage 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 three are condemning it she said that germany going to try a bigger role there no idea what she's talking about i want to see consequences as the air strikes continue relentlessly russia a key ally of the assad regime blames the rebels holding out 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. all

right we could talk to mark milley us now from the aid organization care in amman jordan good evening martin i understand that partners of your organization care were active in the region until roughly two days ago is that correct. net interest here i used to live in touch with people in east and go to what are they telling you you noticed in a tad some databases we hear from our partners and you know it's basically has been desperate desperate cries for how it has been really really terrorist a thing that allows higher stays and even today at lunchtime we've already had dozens of casualties reported throughout history and aerial bombardment are really really what is densely populated neighborhoods that they describe what buildings were being targeted you know i mean we heard really it's.

it's sadly very similar to what we had seen and our level last year you know that really targeting off medical facilities that. market is. very infrastructure so the roads and nobody can go out people are sheltering in that basements that they're frayed for their lives i heard this morning the door judge load year old girl were saying i don't want to die i still have dreams it's really really destroyed the people that you spoke to how are they protecting their families what are they doing to stay safe. i heard a woman and it said she told me i mean this is normal this is normal bunkers i mean it's they are there for him down in the basement if they cannot what is going out by one of the women she told me in the morning saying that you know my hands are no not big enough to shelter my children and it was really is just to sit there and hope and the hope is getting didn't hurt horses idle so there's nothing this is

there's nowhere there's nowhere to go it's one hundred great kilometers densely populated there's no way in or out so it is a racially nothing nothing you can do to your protective sentiment of what needs to happen to ensure humanitarian access which is as you describe mostly needed at this moment. i mean we support obviously the call for an immediate cease fire and we hope that the security council or remembered something huge and well designed to do it behind closed doors that there is an immediate cease fire and injured people can be evacuated that humanitarian aid can be delivered are we talking really very basic things like war jitters forward medication that we haven't been able to bring in for quite a significant amount of time all right thank you so very much martin millions from

the aid organization care in amman jordan thank you thank you and want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. amnesty international has named the philippines president as one of the worst performing leaders on human rights for the second year running iran's group says the widespread killing of alleged drug offenders in this war on drugs may constitute crimes against humanity. has done supreme court has banned former prime minister nowhere shareef from his position as head of the ruling party sharif was barred from holding public office over corruption allegations back in july the decision has created political turmoil ahead of senate elections and could actually see homier in pakistani politics. in the united states president donald trump says he'll push for stricter gun control measures including raising the minimum age

to twenty one for a broad range of weapons he tweeted his strongest position on this issue as president just a day after meeting students and parents from various school attacks including last week's shooting in florida which killed seventeen people. 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 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 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. and 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. 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 it just 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 got to the news of 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 fight. i think. 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 over an attorney at a midterm election we're going to go to the point i want to election and none of them are going to stand up for. your washing the w. news we still have a long way to tell you about including the students who defied hitler and paid the

price and five years ago we visit an exhibit in munich that examines the legacy of hans and sophie schol who were members of an anti nazi resistance group. but first another chapter in the diesel gate scandal it goes on and on this one joan prosecutors have raided the homes of true form the board members plus a third person involved with the subsidiary rights of part of the ongoing diesel gate investigation is suspected of complicity in bringing cars equipped with manipulated diesel engines on the market out he stands accused of selling over two hundred thousand cars with software designed she thinks those test. let's bring in . the senior managing director at the investment advisory group ever core as a mentioned there this investigation it's the third search this year of audi a german investigator is making inroads into diesel.

well i'd say they are and they've already been active you know over the last two years really rating offices out he has been at the center of allegations especially when it comes to software for the larger diesel engines for the three point zero liter engines that the v.w. group is using so i think it's an ongoing story there it's not too surprising what we're hearing today we've seen similar action at the headquarter of i would be a couple of times before how much longer will the story of diesel go on though we've been talking for the past couple years you and i about the death of diesel and a court here in germany has been ruling on whether or not a band is going to be introduced that decision postponed to next week where do you think that's going to go well a i continue to be firmly a believer that diesel will disappear from the european market it's only a european technology we are used to fifty percent penetration of diesel engines in

europe it's dropped to just about thirty percent so it's not just a small death of diesel it's actually a pretty quick death of the diesel engine the german court decision it was postponed today to the twenty seventh of february i can well see driving bans in cities becoming a legal action to protect the equity in cities and that will only accelerate the transition away from diesel politics reins to electrified power trains especially hybrids so broadening this out the internal combustion engine also faces a death of sorts. well you know ninety percent eighty percent of all the one hundred million cars that are sold globally will still have a combustion engine but the engine is getting smaller and smaller the better e is increasing in size to the extent that the in some cases the engine is just charging the battery as it already does in some cars today like the b.m.w.

i ate so i'd say yes the combustion engine will increasingly be a nuisance importance in the car the better we will gain importance and i think it's a good roadmap for the environment just tell me from your position as an investment advisor a car company shifting and nuffin there are indeed budgets to the right technologies right now well it depends who you are who you look at right i mean toyota sells any diesels today the europeans are selling diesels and electric cars and combustion engines all over the place i think the r. and d. botches are shifting as we speak radically away from combustion into electrified mobility there are still major question marks out there such as the battery capacity that we're still not having in europe but i see reelection especially in germany given where at the you know the at the center of the discussion when it

comes to diesel and cables if germany stays at the at the centers for as the global comma goes on having cost senior manager managing director at the investment advisory group ethical thank you. the german economy has hit the euphoria of brakes as according to the head of the research institute evans first is an analysis is based on a survey of around seven thousand business executives in germany dragging the indicated down in february was both the executives assessment of the current state of the economy and their expectations for business conditions a few months down the line still said the february reading of the indicator came in at its second highest levels in one thousand nine hundred ninety one resulting in the institute for costing solid growth rate for the first quarter of this year a point seven percent the strike by a false on board personnel as lead to cancellations and delays at major airports in europe you know and says he would cancel every second outgoing flight from paris

and every fourth medium whole flight pilots and air crews demand a six percent raise air france's offer and just one is that the workers' union says it's the biggest walkout in twenty five years. and the days of disposable plastic items and numbered type one is the latest plan in the island's drive to cut waste and limit pollution disposable plastic bags straws and cups will be totally pretty evident by the year twenty thirty the new restrictions for the distraught of the gastronomy business next year type one started recycling plastic surgery decades ago but says the new measures will improve from plastic garbage significantly. to an important anniversary of them thank you ban seventy five years ago today germany's nazi regime executed hans and sophie shot siblings were members of the so-called white bros one of the country's very few resistance groups the shoals and four other members of the group paid with their lives for standing up against

a brutal regime a reporter went to munich to see whether their legacy lives on. munich's ludvig next a million university today looks like a fairly typical campus with students hurrying to libraries and lectures but look a little closer and you see that this is one of those places where germany's twentieth century history resonates and gives us a glimpse of a different path it might have taken. for a few months in one thousand nine hundred two in one nine hundred forty three students of this university were the core of the white rhodes one of the very few resistance groups inside nazi germany which managed to organize and actually do something against the regime its best known members a hand shaw and his sisters of both students in their early twenty's they were intellectuals interested in philosophy and religion but as they learned more about the nazis crimes they decided it was time to act they typed defiant appeals to their fellow germans printed them on

a secret press and distributed them around the country in these leaflets the shoals and the other white rose activists called on germans to recognize their moral duty and overthrow the system by passive resistance and then by sabotage spreading ideas like those at the height of the second world war was a very dangerous and courageous thing to do. on the eighteenth of february nine hundred forty three hansen's of fee came here to the main university building armed with copies of their latest flyer. what happened next was one of the tensest scenes in the movie the final days which made the white rose better known internationally . filmed partly of the original locations it showed how determined the shells were to wake others up to the evil of the nazis. they left piles of leaflets in the hallways knowing they would be found when students came out of their lectures.

in germany almost every young person has heard this story. today are probably different circumstances but if something like this would happen again people would stand up against such a risk regime one. what have i done if i were in that situation i don't know actually i think it's. very good what they did and. they should be a role model but. if i'm honest. i don't think i would have done that because i would be scared to get in trouble. hansen's and fi schol did get into trouble they were arrested by hitler's secret police the gestapo and along with another student who'd helped write the pamphlets given a show trial before the infamous people's court on the twenty second of february

they were executed. more than six hundred streets and squares all over germany and named for the shoals and other members of the white rose. reminders there's only a few people who are willing to risk their lives for freedom i seventy five years on the sacrifice of these young people still seems extraordinary and has the power to inspire as the white rose wrote if we don't have the courage to demand what is right we will deserve to be scattered like dust in the wind. the burly an international film festival is in his final days ahead of the bear is that will be awarded this weekend and my colleague david leavitt's is down at the red carpet david what have you seen today. just

a little while ago i saw the world premier of eldorado and now this is the latest documentary by swiss director michael imho if and it's about fear for years in the making this is the story of europe's refugee crisis and it's told from a very personal perspective actually just a little while ago on the red carpet we saw michael semple of the director with one of his protagonists a guy named i had who's from ivory coast who he met in a refugee camp so this is a refugee camp to red carpet story in a sense but of course it's not like that for most of the people who come to europe sitting asylum it's a very personal story let's take a closer look eldorado. my name with the nominee. swiss director marcus inhofe first experience with refugees was as a child and world war two he worked on a girl some group. of people come and meet in his concert on the spot. to obama

in his memory of him to examine the plight of today's refugees in. his film eldorado texas on a rescue mission in the mediterranean. like was taken because. the documentary takes a critical view of european asylum policies and the organizations the try to help my friends as well as the industries that exploit them. call them a little and then going all full of i got this sense on this from people. it's a quiet film about desh topes and a brutal reminder of the lives that for most europeans go on seem. so so topical david what else has been screening. but we also

are seeing the world premiere later today of museum this is the latest movie from mexico starring mexico's superstar guy i've got to see a better now and this is based on the very strange true story of two veteran mary students in the mid eighty's who conducted the country's most famous heist of the national archaeological museum and they get away with one hundred forty pieces of priceless archaeological treasure artifacts from the ancient mayans and this story takes a lot of twists and turns for he ends up in sort of a kung fu situation there's even a scene with the main character's famous star of soft pornographic films i want to see turns and the director through a lens or. he was telling us that he didn't want to let truth get in the way of a good story so they're giving themselves a lot of creative license here and this is definitely one of the more upbeat movies we've seen today. my god he's always wonderful to watch touch me not with screening to day one of the four movies by a woman director out of

a total of nineteen. yeah this is of course something we're talking about a lot in the wake of the me two movements four out of nineteen of the competition category female directors now when you look at the entirety of the festival several hundred movies about forty percent of the directors are female and this movie is a very it's a very intimate movie from let's say a very female perspective it's about intimacy it's about human sexuality told from perspectives that we don't normally see one of the protagonists is living with a disability for instance and this film really blurs the line between documentary and drama it's very experimental and some perspectives we don't normally see david leavitt's down at the red carpet always good talking to you catch up later.

now it's time to look to p.r. and chang in the winter olympics joining me with all the big stories is a call for us from new sports good to see you let's talk about that thrill of a match the ice hockey women's ice hockey major upset definitely definitely this is it was a brilliant game and this is the type of games that you expect to see at the olympics it makes the for your weight definitely worth it so it's definitely one of those games that you want to see we see that first account i claimed the two one lead but less than seven minutes left in the clock then the american one more of tied it to to taking it to overtime eventually to the shootout and the morris team to win just one and gave the lead to the american so get get it's just her her twin sister was one that put the americans up adding the pressure for canada and of course giving that goal to the u.s. . anything can happen i know one of this canada has the title for what two decades definitely deafened so it was it was definitely historic when it had been twenty years since last time the u.s.

won and it's just a huge rivalry between canada and it has gone on and on as a mentor for twenty years so it's definitely it's historic talking about upsets there's also been a major upset and yeah definitely i mean marcel history of austria was the one. was the favorite for the race and this time he he missed the skate so that's one of those things that it's probably the beauty you're going see how you miss that it's probably the beauty or probably what you would consider to be the best part about slalom it's one of those things where when you miss that gate that's it you don't have any other chance and of course i'm telling you today of sweden was able to take that gold home and that makes him now with the oldest gold medalist and alpine skiing he's thirty four years old so that's really down to tell me if you think that's a lot of feel that's old but ok there's a lot of competition and let's talk a little bit about the women's all pine combine because that also had a surprise winner yet. exactly there's been a lot of a lot of surprising winners this time michelle is in switzerland was the winner but

much of a surprise maybe not her sister actually unsought she the golds four years ago so you can say that run from the family for them to be good at the sport but leave mikaela shiffrin the american who was she was the favorite to win the gold she left her in second place so it's an upset definitely and we keep on seeing that in the olympics and that's that's quite what we mentioned what we were watching exactly that keeps it exciting heck a florist thank you so very much good chatting with you and me for i let you go i want to remind you of our main headlines right now international concern is growing about the number of civilian deaths in syria's eastern ghouta airstrikes by pro-government forces on the besieged rebel held enclave have claimed hundreds of lives since sunday. i thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us will be back at the top of the hour.

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