oh to foreigners cities after a war. starting march tenth on t w. this is d w news live from birth land reports of russia effectively blocking a un security council resolution that aims to bring a cease fire to eastern gupta the situation for people trapped in the damascus suburb is getting worse but with no respite from the brutal government airstrikes shelling is reaching new levels of intensity. also coming up president trump

appears to give some ground on gun control laws plus he suggest arming some teachers to prevent school shootings like the one last week in florida. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us we begin with reports that russia is effectively blocking a u.n. security council resolution that aims to bring a cease fire to eastern goods on the edge of the syrian capital damascus russia has put forward a raft of amendments and a vote has been delayed until friday syrian government forces are bombarding eastern gupta and the u.n. chief antonio good ted as she has called the situation how on earth. human rights monitors say that government shelling has killed more than four hundred people since sunday including many children and

a quick warning our next report contains disturbing images. your thoughts are going with their difficult even for those surrounded by day it is a crushing moment. so both. father hugs his child one last time. for city as victims there is no dignity in dying. should slow. down for syria's government there is no relenting every minute bombs are dropped. monitored groups say more than four hundred men women and children have been killed since sunday homes and hospitals obliterated leaving doctors to handle matters of life and death amid the ruins. so. we had to conduct one of the sarge reason under the rubble we couldn't evacuate so

we did it under the rubble. because of the thoughts coming out. the syrian regime says rebel extremist groups who control eastern are using humans as shields the u.n. security council has been debating a threat to the cease fire that will allow for a deliveries and the evacuation of casualties. these are not terrorists showing up in these makeshift emergency rooms these are civilians they are ordinary people under attack by a barbaric assad regime that is bent on leaving eastern ghouta level to the ground with no regard for the four hundred thousand men women and children who live there . but it was meant with resistance and russia blocking the resolution. but hold still locks within these beseech concrete canyons and for these young men it comes in the shape of a hole and that's slowly but surely they're digging their way to safety. the only

escape were from a torrent of golems must be an underground one. and earlier we spoke with marchand milius from the aid organization care in amman jordan he spoke of the situation in eastern get to. some daily basis we hear from our partners and you know it's basically has been desperate desperate cries for how it has been really there stating that at last five days and even today at lunchtime we already had dozens of casualties reported throughout history and aerial bombardment are really really what is densely populated neighborhoods it's sadly very similar to what we have seen and our level last year you know that really targeting all medical facilities that bakeries market is. infrastructure so there are roads and nobody can go out people are sheltering in that basements that

they're 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 and that was my ten milius from the aid organization care speaking earlier from amman jordan and german chancellor angela merkel has called on the european union to step up pressure on russia and iran to end the violence in eastern good to both countries are allies of president assad and address the german parliament merkel condemned the syrian government's bombing campaign here's what she had to say. that's him on the scene we're currently seeing terrible events in syria a regime fighting not against terrorists but against its own people the killing of children the destruction of hospitals all of that is a massacre that deserves to be condemned and which must be opposed by us with

a clear a no but it also calls upon us to play a larger role so that we can stop massacres like this. let's turn to some other news now because u.s. president donald trump says that he will be strongly pushing for comprehensive background checks with an emphasis on mental health for anyone buying guns the statement follows the massacre at a school in florida last week in which seventeen people died. this is the coffin of kris hicks and hailed a hero for trying to stop the shooter at the florida school he worked out a u.s. navy veteran he was given full military honors. but the latest shooting has led to a raging debate on gun control the national rifle association vienna re-offered its solution to ending gun violence. stop bad guy with a gun it takes a good guy with

a gun to school districts p.t.a. teachers unions local law enforcement mums and dads they all must conduct gather to implement the very best strategy to harden their schools including of affective trained armed security that was absolutely protect every innocent child in this country. advocates of further gun control are demanding action be taken students protesting outside the white house this week said they were angry that school massacres have become commonplace and little has been done to stop them according to a gun control advocacy group there have been eighteen school shootings since the beginning of the year. amid the public outcry president trump has endorsed a higher minimum age for buying certain rifles and tighter background checks for

purchasers he also reiterated his call for some teachers to carry guns with you or have in my opinion you want to have the shit is because these people are cowards they're not going to walk into a school if twenty percent of the teachers are maybe ten percent or maybe forty percent and what i'd recommend doing is the people that do care or we give them a bonus we give them a little bit of a bonus back in florida the family of slain teacher chris hickson like thousands of others in the u.s. every year is coming to terms with the consequences of gun violence. let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world the deputy director of the united nations children's fund unicef has resigned after allegations of inappropriate behavior during his time at a different charity save the children justin forsyth stepped down from unicef saying that he wanted to prevent further damage to both groups. the dutch

parliament has recognized the mass killings of armenians in the early twentieth century by ottoman turks as genocide an overwhelming majority of lawmakers approved the resolution the move is likely to further ratchet up diplomatic tension between the netherlands and turkey immediately expressed strong condemnation of the decision. and authorities in montenegro say that wednesday's attack on the u.s. embassy was carried out by a yugoslav army veteran police say that the man threw a hand grenade into the embassy compound and then killed himself no one at the embassy was injured. the berlin international film festival is in its final days ahead of the bears being awarded this weekend that is the top honors we have to mention and my colleagues melanie cora deval and bias fader are calling to the movies for us thank you so much guys what would we do without you of what has been coming on down there

at the red carpet. well sarah right behind us in the belly not of the last is the premiere for the movie museum happening right now it's a movie by seals and it's based on true events set in mexico it's about two young friends who break into the national museum they break they break in they steal a lot of artifacts they're what has a lot of money and what they do not expect is that the whole nation turns against them they are being seen as and patriotic enemies of the state something they do not expect and they really struggle with that have a bad conscious somewhat surprising is no surprise that we had today was given out at the start of the film actually showed up at the press conference we were not expecting him there and we got a lot of really interesting insights into the film during the press conference the director himself said that when he approached the families of the real people who

were involved in the real heist back in the mid eighty's the family said they wanted nothing to do with the film and please don't make this film and the director said that this really freedom up to tell the story that he wanted to tell and one thing that he said that was very funny was why let the truth get in the way of a good story. oh ok well what to make about that one but in the meantime i mean that wasn't the only film that was being shown today what else have you guys seen. so one film that we saw this morning was the new documentary by the legendary swiss documentarian marcos imhoff called el dorado and it is about basically the process of becoming a refugee in europe and in what really got some unprecedented if not very impressive access to every single step of the bureaucratic process that it takes to become a refugee from being dragged out of the waters of the mediterranean to sitting in an office waiting to be rejected essentially for your asylum claim and he was

telling us in the press conference today that his main aim was really to show the critical look in a very very critical way why there is this that the machinery of the aid machinery and he wanted to have a critical look at that and really show that the refugees are being exploited in the country and in europe as a whole so he feels very very passionate passionately about that and the main reason why he does this because of his own past no history him and his family took in a refugee and during the second world war we have a little bit more on that take a look. when i'm with the nominee. my. swiss director marcos first experience with refugees was as a child and world war two it was time to grow some brutal. has come from the. obama in whose memory of him to examine the plight of today's refugees.

his film eldorado takes us on a rescue mission in the mediterranean. like. the documentary takes a critical view of european asylum policies and the organizations that try to help my friends as well as the industries that exploit the. before i got this sensation. it's a quiet film about dash topes and a brutal reminder of the lives that for most europeans go unseen. so now the film that we saw today was a film called touch me not by the bulgarian director i didn't it aside the romanian director excuse me adding it. this is a film that was very close emotional and very it was the word i'm looking for

explicit look at human sexuality that's true there is a lot of nudity in the movie and a lot of explicit sex scenes as well what makes it really interesting that it's not just about the intimacy of heterosexual couples and there are also other couples and transgender people severely disabled people speaking out about intimacy and intimacy problems and so that's really really interesting take but there are blurred lines between a documentary and fiction and what we should mention is that betty is one of only four women directors whose films are in the competition section of the ballet knowledge the other sections of the bailing out i have about forty percent female directors but the competition's actually has a reason got a little bit worse on that so we're pulling for a woman to at least win best director here area and four out of nineteen in that competition i understand thank you so much and also melanie cora deval both of you there at the red carpet we appreciate it. a quick reminder of the top stories that

we're following for you here g.w. russia is effectively blocking a u.n. security council resolution that aims to bring a cease fire to eastern good to in syria the damascus suburb is under bombardment by government forces and the growing number of civilian deaths is causing international concern. and with that you are up to date on g.w. news i'm sarah cali and berlin thank you so much for watching take care. of. them why you should. ensure.

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