darkness city's after war. starting march tenth on d w. this is you know you news line from berlin the u.n. security council is gathering at this very hour to vote on a temporary ceasefire for syria will russia greenlight a resolution that stops bombs raining down on eastern ghouta the u.n. wants to allow humanitarian aid into thousands of people trapped there without food water or fuel hundreds have been killed since the bombardment started on sunday

also coming up. how to fill the hole left by briggs it european union leaders meet to plant future budgets without britain's substantial contribution. to us so we go to the berlin film festival to see a comedy about identity mug is about a man with a new mug and you face the problem is his neighbors don't recognise him anymore which makes life rather difficult and somehow there's a statute of christ involved as well and then i talking shocker at the winter olympics germany stones defending champs canada so booking their place in sunday's final we'll have all the day's action from john chiang. thanks very much for your company. and we begin again in syria in the damascus

suburb of eastern ghouta were residents have been living a nightmare as government forces have unleashed waves of air strikes hundreds of people have been killed since sunday clothing many children the u.n. security council is gathering about now to vote on a temporary ceasefire that would allow in humanitarian aid russia had opposed the resolution but has now in the kid it will support it if there can be a guarantee that rebel fighters in eastern guta will respect it will bring you the results of the vote if we get it. these crackling bright lights have all the hallmarks of a firework display. but they're designed to devastate not celebrate activists say they are proof that the syrian government is firing indiscriminately cluster bombs and to built up residential areas. and after a fifth night of regime pounding this rebel held posture looks like this. the

grieving here takes place amid the search for life. well out of all the. knew he would go. i told his grandmother he would go. he didn't want to continue living in terror. i wish it had been me who was killed instead of my son. you know i wish it had been me who was killed so i wouldn't have to green for you my son nor the little of the logo although. i thought that. some have lost hope others cling to it. the work of first responders here made ever harder by treacherous conditions and the lack of medical supplies. as death rains down from above while the powers are still arguing about how to stop it. the special envoy for

syria and stuff and things to rough eating rates that the human the cat in situation of the civilians in eastern is appalling and therefore we are in argent need for a ceasefire the stops both the already thick heavy bombardment of. and the in this community mortar shelling on the mosque. as i want and security council members want to cease fire that would give safe passage for aid and evacuations no one needs to punish russia a key city an ally once guarantees any trust will also apply to rebel fighters. are i to punish someone to this is a un regional humanitarian coordinator for the syria crisis and he joins us now from kuwait she said thank you so much sir for being with us do you have any news from eastern time what are people on the ground telling you i'm afraid it's still bad news from. the sea and it's very early rate rate taking place

more than four hundred people now that have been killed more than a thousand are injured and a total terror in this area with civilians being caught up you know it impossible situation for it since they are all know how are people surviving do they have access to food water fuel basic a medical help. it's really difficult the moment to wharton electricity's completely cuts there are some boreholes of people trying to do as they can with whether they have food also supplies is very low so there's lots of before complaining about being hungry because really there is no all the markets are not functioning we haven't broke see it a convoy for more than three months now and we had just a tiny one of the fourteenth of february so it's it's this year it's the physical not knowing if they're going to live another day or not because of the aerial

attacks and buildings several buildings collapse when this battle bombs fall and on top of it is the hunger and of course trying to do conciliate to children and you know elderly or people who are in a vulnerable situation it's just too much and has been going on for now that says a thousand thirteen of the seats so that's really not an impossible situation i'm as you know of course the u.n. security council is scheduled to consider momentarily a temporary humanitarian resolution again after russia blocked it initially yesterday what would a cease fire allow you to do this is fire is going to be a complete change because it would allow us to bring in food supplies medical supplies it with allows us to take out people who needs if medical assistance to be evacuate it would also allow maybe any civilians who want to move either way to be

able to have this choice is ceasefire would be a game changer and he's desperately needed that's what pro calling for and we very much hope that this is yours a council of today wisdom and and a few minutes and diplomacy will prevail to help civilians and people or in a desperate situation are you optimistic a truce will happen. i think we have to be optimistic and we have to keep on raising our voice and we have to really give hope to the people of the moment they really sitting like the rest of the world is completely forgotten them or really that nobody cares and i think that's a message for us for the international community in this extreme situations to be able to intervene and to alleviate to bring solutions even if this is just a temporary what this is fire is there is a listen it's rod syria because it's not just italy because our mortars also threaten damascus but also it's about. it's about their lives is about actually it

is about multiple locations where the moment the care mission. situation in syria where we read about multiple countries the multiple entities who are in a significant escalation on the minister fronts which has a dramatic impact on these midsentence rose that is what is u.n. regional humanitarian coordinator for the syria crisis thank you through and say we're expecting the united nations security council it to meet momentarily let's go to new york where the security council members are gearing up to a debate again the resolution for a temporary truce james right now is correspondent in new york and he joins us right now good to see you. are the members of security council gathering at the moment. yeah the latest information that we've got here from u.n.

headquarters in new york is the security council members here they're in the building and then it goes the ating there was meant to be a vote taking place eleven am local time today it was understood that the russians were going to come on board this regulation and vote for it but that hasn't happened just yet the vote is being rolled back by one hour as these last minute negotiations take place and diplomats here. on some fine points of this draft resolution right so how does a resolution now being discussed and honed and differ from the one that russia blocked yesterday ok tell us yeah yeah of course the sticking point about this robert about the resolution which calls for a thirty day ceasefire across syria. originally did not include extremist groups like islamic state al qaeda and al nusra front now russia had objected to this because they said that the resolution should go further than

those three groups and to ensure a should include two of the largest rebel groups that are fighting in eastern guta they include josh and its rival its fighting there iraq man all right now we've been getting reports that russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. says that russia is preferred to vote in favor of the resolution as you also alluded to but there are caveats that you just outlined some are saying that russia is buying time. yeah russia of course has come under a lot of criticism for repeatedly stalling and preventing the un security council from acting when it comes to syria as the was progressed over the past few years recently amnesty international human rights group put out a report saying the russians must go had blocked nine resolutions in the un security council and the human rights group argued russia was really just trying to

block the prosecution and any international action against its ally in syria syrian president bashar assad even though the group claimed that he was committing war crimes and human rights abuses on a grand scale james is the handling of this crisis by the u.n. underscoring the international powerlessness in the face of syria's for tract it were earlier this week we had unicef issuing a black blank statement and now this russian veto. i mean this is a big debate as to whether or not the u.n. security council is fit to task when it deals with these big international crises and where it really seems to always be a stumbling block is when there is a great power involvement there or the u.n. security council it structures that there are five permanent members russia the u.s. china britain and france and they've got this thing called a veto so if they want to they can stop action from the u.n. security council and when they have. when they see what's happening the ball

whether it be syria and the russians or america and israel what they see is like a core interest their foreign policy they're willing to step in and use that veto and that effectively stops the u.n. council from acting james are reporting from new york thank you. all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world an armed officer who had been assigned to protect the american school hit by last week's mass shooting in florida has resigned local police say the mount a cuppa zisha outside the school during the attack but failed to confront the shooter the officer is now under investigation are you an investigation into the conflict in south sudan says there is enough evidence to prosecute at least forty senior government and rebel officers for crimes against humanity and war crimes the u.n. report gives horrific witness accounts of gang rapes castration and ethnic violence incest children are not being spared. human rights watch is accusing me in mars

government of using bulldozers to raise the villages of the range of people and says these satellite images show large scale land clearance which could be aimed at hiding evidence of atrocities hundreds of thousands of the muslim minority fled to neighboring bangladesh last year following an army crackdown. and brussels e.u. leaders have been meeting to decide how to fill the multi billion euro hole in the budget that will be left after britain leaves britain has agreed to keep paying its share worth at least ten billion euros a year until twenty twenty but the other members are divided over how to deal with the budget shortfall after that. three national leaders on a mission to solve how the e.u. will plug the post breck said funding gap should it be done via cutbacks redeployment of finances or should the richer member states pay higher

contributions germany's chancellor angela merkel has already made it clear that berlin is prepared to increase its membership fee but the netherlands and austria are against the idea of rich countries paying more. niche to foreign used what we do not want is an ever increasing good in on the net contributors because the net contributors already make a very very large contribution and. britain's departure from the e.u. will lead to a multi-billion euro funding shortfall the netherlands only by making cutbacks can more money be found for mutually important issues like security and immigration for we've contributed large sums and for good reasons but we can't allow this to increase now. uncle americal has made one contentious proposal to save money by attaching conditions to funding this would mean countries like hungary and poland accepting more refugees critics say this measure would be unjust. then we it's. on funding with solving immigration issues who carry the cost not the

government it's the citizens and i don't know if that's the best solution. john clarke president of the e.u. commission is taking a pragmatic approach e.u. nations will have to pull together he says but it seems there's a long way to go before that will happen. you're watching the news we still have a lot more to tell you about including we'll take you to the berlin film festival to see a comedy about a man with a new mug a new face the problem is it's neighbors don't recognize him anymore which makes life rather difficult. but for some good news for one of europe's problem banks ben well bank of scotland a bit of a surprise today to announce its first annual profit in a decade the three billion dollars plus comes as a relief to the lender which was once the world's biggest that was before the financial crisis plunged r.b.s. into insolvency the british taxpayer rescued the lender last year old thirty's and

customers hit the scottish bank with billions of dollars in litigation over its conduct before the two thousand and eight recession let's go to conrad in frankfurt to put this into perspective conrad the balance sheet looks quite good but it is still facing trouble. absolutely there's a big grain of salt in this earnings report a very salty one rob bank of scotland says that the find it will have to pay in the united states for malpractise in the selling of mortgages many years ago might be huge up to twelve billion u.s. dollars now even if the fine eventually will be lower than this of course this will be a huge dent in any profits off a royal bank of scotland this year twenty eighteen and with this bank we also have to always mention the other impediment which is sort of looming over the share

price the british state is still the most important shareholder off this bank it owns seventy one percent eventually this share will be sold and this will of course have an effect on the share price also out today results for v.w. the german car maker as it supervisory board discusses that monkey business. is quite likely that those strange experiments emission experiments including monkeys that. had initiated where discussed at this supervisory board meeting today for the market more important and more interesting where the numbers were twenty seventeen and let me tell you they just confirmed that this was a strong year for folks watching despite that these are scandal say never before this car maker has sold as many cars the dividend will be doubled still the share price of folks walking is one of the weaker ones here in frankfurt this friday the outlook for the profit margin was not according to the taste of investors or

abusing their first impression but thank you. and germany's b.m.w. it's planning to build electric models of its iconic many in china it'll be the first time minis were produced on side europe the premium comic is set to produce the first electric minis in england next year but china is its biggest market and the one with the biggest demand for any cars it's zero five hundred sixty thousand vehicles there last year b.m.w. is finalizing plans for joint production with chinese comic a great war motor regulation required by the chinese government. which chinese authorities have taken temporary control of private insurance group unbinding the government says the group's chairman was shall we has been prosecuted for economic crimes the companies made a series of high profile multibillion dollar foreign acquisitions in recent years especially in germany the regulators say and bang has violated rules that could make it impossible for it to pay back its state's takeover is said to last

a year and is part of beijing's if it's to curb excessive debt let's bring in andrei hangout asia correspondent who's based in singapore and dr first of all what's the company actually done wrong what are these economic crimes well it's not really clear what but this whole thing it is one of those situations where the company has gotten too big to fail and it's now a check that and want to attention from the government so it's part of the government's measure to come any excessive capital outflows from leaving the country and given how and brown has been acquiring a lot of high value high profile properties of the seas such as the new york so well the full story will tell it's pretty obvious why because how they got caught so how is this going to affect those foreign companies that support is the waldorf astoria now run by the chinese state. you could probably technically put

it that way but it's really not clear. has been ordered to sell off its overseas assets we're not sure whether the waldorf astoria is going to be one of them or not . this one you know takeover is going to rattle some nerves for a lot of these foreign acquisitions it will have to leave a downgrading for us in singapore thank you. today is the final competition day at the berlin international film festival and my colleagues are charlier to tell some pill and scott roxboro are still down at the carpet you can't beat them away from that car great get to see you guys or fails in competition are from women directors are they likely to win an award. we are very hopeful this. woman will win the award the golden bad one if i film is the film that i have my money on it's

a film called daughter of mine and mia is an italian film by europe is very and things are really complex very rule picture motherhood and womanhood as i was extremely moved by the film i have to say yeah i think that's of those four of the four films directed by women in competition i think that's probably the strongest but there are two others that could could pull off a prize maybe not the golden bear but maybe on the other awards there's mug polish film which is a look at a man who has a face transplant and has questioned his identity it's a comedy it is very on the end and also is interesting to see a woman looking at sort of crisis and male identity that's an interesting take but the thing the film i think could definitely come out with some award is the film by a german director here and three days and keep this a black and white movie and it's a look at the last interview given by rumi schneider the famous german austrian actress who i actually as a growing up not in germany i wasn't familiar with the actress in this film really

does carry a paints a picture of what it was like in actually what turned out to be the the final years of this woman's life yes and the actress moneyball i must very famous here in germany this is really a parade role for her i think she's got a really good chance of pulling off the best actress prize here in berlin all right and there is a german film being screened a little later on tell us more about that. yeah this is in the aisles it's from thomas dilbert it's it's sort of a romantic comedy set in the huge supermarket and there the main characters are forklift operators. the woman you might know the actress she was the star of tony at mom and she's playing opposite france will go to ski who's sort of the star of the sparely not right to. petition films here he plays a very silent closed off man and i have to say he found a fan in this lady he could later he's dropping me in

a heap sharing that i think i like this that is somewhat attractive man sort of and i mean a german joaquin phoenix i'd say yeah he's in the press conference just a short time ago we were that he was making jokes that how hard it was to drive that drive that forklift it was pretty funny i we can't tell you too much about what we actually think of the film there because we haven't had the world premiere yet so we can't be there want to spoil anything we do have this report take a look. this is not an action movie. and it's an unlikely place for a love story in the aisles takes us to a discount superstore in a small town where there's a new guy working the drinks section. christian hardly says a word but his coworker bruno takes a liking to him as does the unhappily married mother on from the candy department he's sweet on her to. your sister and to the pound.

yeah. it's a touch doesn't go up into what. one might say on goes on sick leave and falls into a deep depression and has checkered past threatens to catch up with him. rising star francois gubs q. leads this portrait of an eastern german working class life in a tale of very cautious. right charlotte scott thank you guys so very much i'll catch up with you is our other bulletins later on for now thank you. now it's time for an update on the winter olympics in south korea had go a flourish from due to resource joins you know with all the big stories from

pyongyang to see you have got a massive upset again in ice hockey canada is just not lucky this time around this olympics the woman's went out last time yesterday and now the men are out and germany is the culprit germany a massive massive results for them they were able to beat sweden in the quarter finals for the world champs now they beat can out of number one ranked team who had won the gold in the last two olympics and so it's a massive result germany went up three nil by the second period and let's not scratch it out with the canada they were able to bring it back score three goals but the last result was four three for germany a nail biter of a game and germany was the lowest ranked team going into the semifinals so as mentioned before they beat sweden canada now it's the sky's the limit for her it pays off to be the underdog sometimes if this is all around it has paid off and ok you eighteen jeremy who are they going to face in the final well it won't be an

easy task for them it will be against the olympic athletes of russia who would be going into the match as the favorites possibly so as. they were able to beat the czech republic we see here they got an easy win three nil win so they pretty much swept the czech republic they're a powerhouse and here we see their third goal as i mentioned three nil easy win for them so it will it won't be any task for germany going into the final but i mean one of those teams are there already secured a medal silver or gold but of course the gold we see here they are thinking their goalie shit skin who stopped all thirty one shots so that's going to be one of the biggest challenge for germany to put it all and they are such a powerhouse as you describe are but they already got their silver medal secured if they don't win but the also one. also want to gold medal today they did they got their first gold in this olympics it wasn't a figure serious skating it was true i mean toba fifteen years old we humans we see

here beautiful moves and it's just just class of her fifteen years old as mentioned and i'll bring the first gold for the olympic athletes from russia she set a new war record with eighty two points in the short program which gave her the edge past her fellow russian as good young midfielder off if i'm saying that right i hope so one point thirty one points past her so. it's a happy one for them occur in the shoes of the russians when it comes to figure skating while they have they have their goal the world ok thank you so much you're right before i let you go i would like to remind you of army headline a right now the u.n. security council has delayed a vote on the proposed ceasefire in syria the resolution calls for a thirty day truce in eastern good times who allow humanitarian aid for thousands of people trapped in this beleaguered enclave. calmly allow rock me back at the top

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