using interactive content to inspire people to take action movie problem due to the multimedia environment series on d. w. . this is the w. news live from berlin no place to hide the international committee of the red cross condemn syrians water in the sprawling suburb of damascus the situation for families besieged in eastern guta 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 that suggestion from u.s.

president donald trump as he needs with school shooting survivors are listening session in the white house comes as demands for gun control grow louder following last week's florida massacre. thanks for your company everyone the international committee of the red cross says it is shocked by the violence raining down on the suburb of eastern ghouta on the outskirts of the syrian capital damascus is calling for immediate access to civilians there for the four hundred thousand people 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 pen it monitors say the shelling has killed more than four hundred civilians since sunday and many of them are 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. were being we were unable to evacuate our patients or treat them. we had to do one of the operations under the rubble. 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's 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. but in opposition politicians said that without action words are hollow. it's not enough just to say that we 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 the consequences as the air strikes 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. all right we can 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. that they were a kid i used to lie in touch with people in east and go to what are they telling you you noticed in the tabs on daily basis we hear from our partners and you know it's basically has been desperate desperate cries for i have it has been really really terror stating that our last high stage and even today at lunchtime we've already had dozens of casualties reported throughout jewelry and aerial bombardment are really really what is densely populated neighborhoods that they describe what buildings were being targeted you know i mean we've heard really it's. it's sadly very similar to what we had seen and our level last year

you know that really targeting all medical facilities that bakeries market is. infrastructure so but the roads and nobody can go out people are sheltering in their basements that they are afraid for their lives i heard this morning the door judge was year old girl were saying i don't want to die i still have dreams it's really really desperate the people that you spoke to how are they protecting their families what are they doing to stay safe. oh the woman did shit she told me i mean this is normal this is normal bunkers i mean it's 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 on are not big enough to shelter my children and it was really is just to sit there and hold the hope it is getting didn't hurt horses vital so there's nothing in this there's

there's nowhere there's nowhere to go it's one hundred square kilometers densely populated there's no way in or out so it is a racially nothing nothing you can just sure protect your family 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 carrots are or will remember its constitution and will designed to do it behind closed doors that there is an immediate cease fire and that injured people can be evacuated that humanitarian aid can be delivered are we talking really very basic things like war cheerful words 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. i want to know about some of the other stories making news around the world with kenya's high court today began hearing arguments challenging laws that target gay lesbian bisexual and transgender communities i can in gerrans group says that criminalizing same sex relations between adults denies a basic human rights and is therefore unconstitutional it's not clear when a ruling is expected. amnesty international has named a philippines president already ordered their day as one of the worst performing leaders on human rights the rights group says the widespread killing of alleged drug offenders into thirty's war on drugs may constitute crimes against humanity. in the united states during an emotional listening session in the white house with victims of gun violence president donald trump proposed the idea of teachers

carrying concealed weapons the focus of the meeting that was a student was on students and parents speaking out on gun policy reform were feeling still fresh and raw after the deadly mass shooting in a florida school trunk vow to go hard on tightening background checks 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 seem. 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 like 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. 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 trying to 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 doesn't make sense fix it should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it i turned eighteen the day

after. ork up 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 take. 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 get it so many at a midterm election we're going to vote in the corner on election and none of them are going to stand by.

the girl and the international film festival is in its final days ahead of the bear is being awarded this weekend and my colleague david leavitt's is going to the movies for us somebody had to do this tough job so why not do it oh what's going on down at the red carpet. it is a rough job well actually right now i'm outside the world premiere of mexico's biggest latest film called museum and the fans behind me are waiting to catch a glimpse of guy i've got to see a better mexico superstar now this movie actually to take a look at a true story the biggest most famous heist to take place in mexico in the mid eighty's when two veteran ery students broke into the national archaeological museum and got away with my in treasure and this film takes a lot of funny twists and turns there's some kung fu fighting in it the main character actually meets up with his favorite star of soft porn. it's quite an

adventure and it keeps you pretty nervous because you know it's not going to and well and director alonso respond uscis was telling us earlier that he didn't want to get to let truth get in the way of a good story so that explains some of his artistic license that he got to take there and david of course a billion on is not just about this year's films and entries there's also a major retrospective. there is there's a look back at the films the german films of the weimar era this is the twenty's and early thirty's right before the nazis took over this is considered the golden era in german cinema and now there's a renewed interest in this era specifically there's been a lot of new movies so. there's some chanting behind me i don't think i was here yet now is that our there's been a renewed interest in and the weimar era and this is a look back at some of the favorites of that year and some of the differ got classics it's comes at a time when actually the biggest t.v.

series made outside of the english speaking world takes place in that year and it's directed by time to put the jury president this year let's take a look at the weimar era. nostalgia for the one nine hundred twenty s. is booming like never before the period drama series babylon berlin revels in the glamour and the vice. at the end i live via cinema revisited is a wide reaching retrospective that explores one of the most productive and influential times of german filmmaking. his hands this is a very rich time in film a period that was particularly influential and successful internationally it's also a time when german cinema gained a level of importance at home i mean and london a course of a daughter and. films like the docks of hamburg already come in france and polly to

say lands in search of adventure and a bit of fun but he gets more than he bargained for when he meets jenny the star of the local dive bar she drags him into her life and a gang of smugness just a few years later nazi sensibilities white flawed characters like jenny from the silver screen. the devious path up vega also typified the artistic spirit of weimar film and you restored version can now be seen at this year's berlin on a retrospective it tells the story of a woman who leaves her husband for a painter she loses her way and plunges into a world of drugs and excess. all right david there's some excitement behind you going on has he arrived. here is here he is on the red carpet oh. that's right you're right and screaming i don't know if you can see here but this is going to be and it's all about you've got you

don't even need a ticket you don't even need a ticket you just show up and you can get an autograph from your favorite star all right fantastic and anybody who's watching go check out mozart in the jungle he's phenomenal in it and of course all the other movies thank you so much david catch up later thank you i have a fear. right so much more coming up in the business that we're spending and i'll be back at the top of the hour. why i'm. sure.