this is the news live from berlin syrian forces pushing ahead with airstrikes on rebel held. more than five hundred people have died in the bombing which has gone on now for more than a week now that despite a u.n. demand for a cease fire on one of syria's most deadly fronts also on the show. only makeover rosa rolls out her picks from the conservative right talk posed in germany's possible future government why is one of her most outspoken critics among

them. and a week after an islamist attack on a school in northern nigeria more than one hundred school girls are still missing we'll have an exclusive report on how one family is desperately trying to find their daughter. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show syria's rebel held. is reeling from airstrikes that have lasted for more than a week reportedly killing about five hundred people. on the french president to moneyball mccraw russia to cooperate in imposing a cease fire in the region they've called on president putin to put maximum pressure on syria now over the weekend the u.n. security council passed a cease fire resolution. but despite that deadly russian backed syrian forces

continue. there was supposed to be a break in the bombing instead. responders are back plucking life from the rubble it has been a long and deadly week in this rebel held enclave. and at this hospital doctors are seeing the washed of it most of their patients have grown up and missed seven year war medical supplies are running out for these children any truth cannot come soon enough this is a matter of life or death every hour counts at the moment and if the cease fire has been agreed at the u.n. security council there's no reason why it should be able to come into effect immediately. the longer this goes on without people getting food or medicine with the bombing going or every day we see more schools hospitals destroyed so that the more days this goes on the more children will die. for seven days the syrian

regime has been bombarding this suburb of the capital trying to wipe out the rebels who control it. just a few kilometers along the road to damascus it feels like a different planet. once looked like this empty street speech or fear of mortar shells fired from the nearby rebels. a well managed it seems mortar started to hit the area no one has been on the street and if you find anyone they're probably going only to do something very important or to buy stuff. in downtown damascus signs of life but let's all hope that a truce will end this war. that the truce is useless i mean after thirty days everything will return to the way it was whatever happens it is a chance for vital supplies to reach their cities desperately hungry and it's injured

. well the man who was once the head of syria's main kurdish political party the p y day has been arrested in prague on a turkish arrest warrant. considered a solid muslims party an offshoot of the banned p.k. k. a group accused of running a decade's. long insurgency on turkish soil his arrest comes as turkey continues its military offensive against kurds in syria's afrin region now last week he was here spoke with michael a colleague sara kelly about whether his party has any links to the p.k. k. that's turkey's outlawed kurdish movement let's just ask you turkey says that the white peachy and that the people that these are terrorist organizations. they say that they are no different from the p.k. which we know that many governments around the world have classified as a terrorist organization the links are strong aren't they know it's not true

and then going on where you yourself though once with the p.k. know i was with him. and you know they were in so doing it via was in the. internet in what is it that then nothing to do with why is it then let's go now live to our correspondent a lot of my phone bill ginsburg he's in the syrian town of bani salim muslims hometown of lot of me or what have been the reactions in kabbani where you are to his arrest in prague well most of the reactions are that there are this sort of idea of unbelief they are like us and we like how is it that europe and all those that they can are to us the kurdish leader although sadly most of them very vocal role in relating more support for the fight against isis and go vonnie for instance so that the people here are kurds they are a bit upset also because turkey is now attacking our freedom and i don't see much.

of the nation from the west ok well what type of reputation does he have there is he believed to have links as turkey is claiming to kurdish fighters inside syria. well i mean turkey itself them himself went to turkey to negotiate about the norden syria so they also invited him if they were thinking he was a fighter it wouldn't have invited him he needs a politician and he's an engineer and he has been a sort of the face of the sharon kurtz of florida last week years until he stepped on so he has no links to any fighting and actually turkey is accusing him of carrying out being involved in the bombing and really solid muslim has no military role so i think the accusations off fabricated of course now. also of their attacks and after they want to have some destruction by showing that france is they arrested the kurdish leader that's why they're asking for the

extradition ok is that what you think is behind his arrest why the change on him in turkish policy well i'm in southern muslim has been on this interpol arrest warrant for a long time but no european county has acted on that and signaled with the tensions brewing over a three and turkey's attacking us three. turkey doesn't like saddam will simply go in european capitals and talk about civilians being killed they want to keep it silent and this is one of them muslim was recently in capital what about where you are how of kurds in syria in reacting to the turkish military presence in the region. they're being very upset because now they see that civilians are being killed in our stream and there's not much response from it from the west for instance the west is always talking about the fighting should stop in ghouta but they're not talking about africa where the same is happening so i talked with one of the military spokespersons and he said for instance ok russia is responsible for

the killing in. but also it's responsible for the killing in. an afternoon and why nobody do something so that people are very upset that there's not a lot of pressure to stop this turkish attacks on our feet which used to be safe for as our correspondent lattimer friend bill ginsburg is in the syrian town of bani right now for us thanks very much you're welcome. now to some of the other stories making the news at this hour at least five people have been reported killed after severe thunderstorms swept across central parts of the united states and storms spawned tornadoes cause widespread flooding in kentucky and tennessee a number of states have declared disaster emergency. christian leaders in jerusalem have closed the church of the holy sepulcher in protest over new israeli taxation and a proposed law to prevent land sold by churches the church of the holy see is built on the site where christians believe jesus was crucified and buried.

co-dependence demonstrators a clash with cattle on police in barcelona while demonstrating against a visit by spain's elite day supporters of catalonia split from spain have criticized the march for allegedly failing to pay enough attention to the region and promote political dialogue. here in germany chancellor all americans conservatives are due to vote later today on a deal to enter a coalition government with the center left social democrats now both parties must approve the deal before a new government can be formed ahead of today's vote america presented her picks for top post in the country's potential new cabinet she says she's put together a young dynamic team which marks a new start for the c.d.u. the conservatives the teachers three women and a surprise cabinet job for yen spawn a champion of the party's right and a sharp critic of macros open door policy for migrants in asylum seekers.

ok we're going to go now live to the floor of the convention is here in berlin we're joined by dave mcallister he's from the c.d.u. executive he's also a member of the european parliament and a former state premier of lower saxony good morning to you and thanks so much for being with us. first off mr mcallister noni from berlin first off i'd like to ask you are does the naming of young spawn for a top post mean that the c.d.u. that your party is now shifting to the right as many suggest. the c.d.u. is for a party at the political center and joan it will remain the political party of the center in germany because elections germany a one in the center of this is exactly where we belong i'm going to merkel announced

a new cabinet members yes city evening will become the new health secretary i know you had sprung for many years and now he has a chance to show what he can do as a new minister there's a lot to do in this field ok let's take a listen if we could to what the chancellor had to say about her picks. it's been a moment the i instigated the at the moment on the only one he's past the age of sixteen all of his a younger and some very much younger than this and with this team we cannot tackle the challenges of the future and there are many this feeling. ok now are the new polls personalities that the chancellor named the ones that can bring back the voters that the c.d.u. has lost to the far right if the especially the ones who say that your party has abandoned its conservative principles especially on migration and on gay marriage for example. first of all we have to wait until the social

democrats approve the coalition treaty next week but in case they do that we will have a new government this is the team of the c.d.u. i welcome angela merkel's decisions of yesterday evening and this is a good team of experience politicians on the one hand some new faces on the other we have equal representation of women and men and i think this is the team that the c.d.u. is ready to show responsibility for germany we want a strong and stable government this is what these women and men stand for ok well let's go back to spawn if we could is he the new face to lead the c.d.u. at some point in the future. i go amok lizotte chancellor angela merkel is a party leader she leads a c.d.u. and at some stage of course we will then have to discuss who will follow her but this is certainly not now the case what we now need is for the next nearly four years a firm and stable government and the leadership of bangalore merkel and everything

else will be discussed at a later stage ok with that include policies that could bring back the disaffected c.d.u. voters who've gone to their day giving the seat policies that would give the c.d.u. more of a conservative profile. the result of the last general elections in september wasn't that what we had actually hoped for and that what we had expected yes we want to do better and this is exactly what we're going to do in the next years i think what we have to show german citizens is that we've understood their concerns that we have to deliver concrete results and then i believe that we can do better and if you don't for instance the voters we lost we lost more than a million voters to the liberals a more than one million voters to the ultimate evil to door shut that shows that we have to stay in the center this is where elections are won but of course we have to reach out to those disappointed conservatives who voted for the altitude of the

door shut last time the f.t. in my view is a single issue party they're playing upon people's fears and they only have this one issue it's illegal migration so if you tackle this benefit you have a good chance of bringing them down again and that would be better for germany mr mcallister this is tackling this means tightening current policy on migration. but we've already tightened up policy and we've made clear in the coalition treated with the c.s.u. on the social democrats that there will be a maximum cap for migration to germany with about around about two hundred thousand people a year this is a which germany is able to manage and we have to make sure that not so many people come in such short periods of time to germany but it's also important to make clear those who are in need those who need protection and shelter. asylum seekers refugees they can stay in germany but other people who are coming for economic reasons will have to be brought back to their home countries and those who can stay

we have to integrate them better and the first thing is that they have to learn the german language david mcallister from the c.u. executive also member of the european parliament and former state premier of lower saxony thanks so much for being with us today. thank you all so. it's to nigeria now and more than one hundred girls are still missing a week after an islamist attack on a school in the north of nigeria boko haram insurgents are suspected of targeting the teenagers in the town of dr now the country's president mahmoud abbas has described his disappearance as a national disaster correspondent adrian creech traveled to the word spoke to one family desperate for news on the whereabouts of their daughter. they came to come for their loved ones but the relatives of the cut down family

themselves inconsolable. god help us crisis one distraught. family. inside the family home. shows a picture of his missing daughter ayesha she's just seventeen years old. her sister was the last person to see her. sitting outside the school. then we suddenly saw her round fight and had shot. my sister said we should grab our things and run we held onto each other's hands but at some stage i lost sight of her while we were running. the school is now deserted a few belongings lie scatters on the ground. this is the school

where the siblings i should have sat where divided when they tried to run away during the attack since then the school is deserted classes are suspended its and nobody knows where i currently is. the parents have compiled a list of the names of the missing schoolgirls. eye witnesses have told. that boko haram drove the girls out of town on a truck. totally disappointed by the action of the government. i mean. a sample of the security sewage in the in the town after three weeks ago. so this. would do. to the barracks and get them. that moment where own sort as a result of that and then. come as

a result of that the states commissioner of education rejects any responsibility he says it's impossible to place soldiers on guard at all schools under his watch but he's concerned that parents in the region might stop sending the children to school the school for one week. i don't think it would open that school after the one we would have given because the pattern is developing code to fit. they may not be willing to asses their work to go back to the school after one week that on his own is already a setback so the terrorists could achieve their targets. was younger daughter doesn't want to go back. she says she's too afraid will her father continue to send his children to school. i don't have to get into that.

prayers and face over the family to not lose hope that their daughter i will soon return continue her education and fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor. the world's biggest fare for mobile phones is on the way in barcelona amid growing concerns that a fast moving market might have hit a speed bump at the end of twenty eighteen global smartphone sales decline the first ever sought strop on record now more than ever the question in barcelona seems to be how to will cost emersed now for its part market leader samsung believes the answer is beefing up its new model. samsung is focusing on cameras its new galaxy s nine and the slightly larger s nine plus might don't look a whole lot different from their previous answers but the pictures they take in low light are less grainy. and there's

a new super slow motion feature it takes nine hundred sixty images per second and is able to capture even the fastest moving objects samsung says that could even attract professional photographers but it at mit's most of the improvements are under the hood. is it is a huge amount of innovation that you do not see a list of us because we've we've kept the best design of a phone. that we introduced last year that we've designed around that best looking phones and then there are the animated movies that something apple already introduced on its i phone ten users can create three dimensional avatars that match their clothing in facial expressions the new galaxy is cheaper than the i phone ten still they cost around eight hundred fifty and nine hundred fifty euros when they go on sale in europe next month. samsung has this show to itself fast growing chinese rival huawei won't be unveiling any phones in barcelona just tablets and

laptops but even without having to share the spotlight the s nine s. refinements might not be enough to wow consumers after a year of flat smartphone sales. let's get more from barcelona from our correspondent paul chris from brits at the mobile world congress paul i hear this new samsung phones they can turn to speak turns into him oh geez have you tried that. yeah i've tried that and their reaction to that let's me just answer that with an r. in a moment g. . now what do you think that says not convincing is it. no it's not my talk to to industry experts yesterday at the press conference where it was released and while the new camera features are certified cool they said it's not the revolution that samsung told people that was coming it's not really

a camera reimagined because that's what samsung claimed right at the camera reimagine now even when even industry giants like samsung find it hard to come up with something really new how about other companies present in barcelona. yeah samsung is the big player apple is never at the show and it's stealing the light out of it from everyone else but they didn't show anything brilliant it's not in the devices and it's not with any of the other companies sony just unveiled some new phones they're also focusing on slow motion and some camera functions but nothing crazy going on here in the phones themselves but we hear that. presented a new retro phone tell us more about that. that's right. as last year they came out with a thirty three ten and that was a big hit this year they came out with

a banana phone that was featured in the matrix film they're going retro again not a lot of new ideas it seems while they need to make sure that they get a strong foot in the actual smartphone market where we're still sells but paul this is a tech convention so where is the innovation that. it's not in the devices the devices have been developed to a certain degree that probably won't pass anytime soon it's inside so it is artificial intelligence that will make features better that will make the phones more useful to people that's on the one hand and then it's also about the networks five g. is a big one that's coming up within the next couple of years that will increase speed dramatically have to tend even twenty times possibly and that's what will really drive the change for chris and chris reporting from the mobile world congress in barcelona paul thank you so much. shares of chinese automotive holdings genie rose

more than seven percent this morning this after the company's chairman the sewer announced that he has become the largest shareholder in germany's dimer company to board eight nine point seven percent share in the maker of mercedes-benz luxury automobiles t.v. said it aims to forge an alliance with diarmuid which is developing electric drive a week old response to the challenges for new competitors such as. google and who already has holdings in europe genie acquired sweden's valvo car maker eight years ago. so dire has a new majority stake holder let's get some more from our markets correspondent daniel. daniel shares rose in hong kong this morning house price shaping up half an hour into the trading session they are completely different picture here at the frankfurt stock exchange time now shares are actually down at this moment with

a quarter of a per cent there of course the true size of the story on the one hand investors are excited about this news the company from china promises to be a longtime partner they want to build also a new alliance when it comes to autonomous driving and immobility but frankfurt investors also have a rather bad experience with investors from china a chin a whole thing about ten percent off a dog lately it was a bad half lines they were running out of they couldn't see at the moment and we have to remember there's the diesel verdict also happening tomorrow about possible diesel bans as were another reason why investors are little bit careful this morning when the new investor doesn't seem to be wasting much time in germany what's his agenda. well his homework here in germany pretty much is to get trust he is holding a meeting with officials off diamond then we're hearing he will be also meeting

with top officials off the german government in the chancellor. because yes there is this fear that germany that the chinese investors could get too important in germany so he really needs to get lots of trust. thank you. and it's a lot of brian and russians are staying healthy by getting very very cold so christophe with northern europe in the grips of sub by this winter temperatures could be forgiven for not wanting to even go outside but swimmers in russia's baltic sea enclave of clipping drugs didn't get that memo they embrace freezing temperatures to compete in minus ten degrees celsius whether an outdoor pools over the weekend. at the end of february now people all the young take part in what some might call crazy but the russians and ice best of all keeping healthy. get your minder now of our top stories this hour

a human rights monitoring group says at least fourteen civilians were killed in airstrikes in eastern syria on sunday more than five hundred people have died in a government led bombing campaign on the area that's lasted more than a week now that despite u.n. demands for a cease fire and german chancellor merkel's conservatives are set to hold a vote today to grant final approval to the country's proposed grand coalition. made a bid to has also made a bid rather to revitalise party leadership picking some new younger faces for her possible government cabinet. that's all for now thanks so much for being with us.

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