this is deed of news live from berlin syrian forces launched new strikes on rebel held eastern ghouta more than five hundred people have died in an all out them bargain that's gone on for more than a week now the u.n. chief demanding an immediate cease fire on one of syria's most deadly frogs also on the show. rolls out her picks for top city you posts in germany's possible future government why is one of her most outspoken critics among them.

i'm brian thomas a warm welcome to the show reports are coming in from syria indicating at least ten civilians have died in new airstrikes on the besieged enclave of eastern goes up the un chief has called for an agreed upon ceasefire to be implemented immediately saying it's quote high time to end this hell on earth the rebel held area is reeling from strikes by russian backed syrian forces that have lasted more than a week. there was supposed to be a break in the bombing and stayed eastern gets his first responders are back plucking life from the rubble it has been a long in date we can this rebel held enclave. and at this hospital doctors are seeing the washed of it most of their patients some growing up and the 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 ceasefire has been agreed at the un security council there's no reason why it should be able to come into effect immediately. without people getting food and medicine with the bombing. every day. schools hospitals destroyed. goes on the more children. 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 speak to a 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 done time damascus signs of life but let's all hope that a truce will end this war. 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. turkey has requested the extradition of a syrian third politician who was arrested in prague over the weekend on a turkish arrest warrant a government spokesman says salim muslim is expected to appear in a check court today it was once head of syria's main kurdish political party the p y d ankara considers the party an offshoot of the band p k k which turkey has designated a terrorist group accusing it of orchestrating attacks inside turkey last week

muslims here d.w. and spoke with my colleague sara kelly about whether his party had any links to the p.k. k. is outlawed kurdish movement. well let's just ask you turkey says that the y.p. cheney and that the people that these are terrorist organizations. they say that they are no different from the p.k. 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. you yourself though once with the p.k. no i was with him. and you know they were in so doing libya was in the end and you know why is it that then that nothing to do with why is it then and you can watch that entire interview at our website view dot com well earlier i spoke with correspondent lot american building bergen who's in the syrian town of qubani

muslims hometown i asked him what's been the reaction there to the kurdish leaders arrest well most of the reactions are that there are this sort of idea of unbelief they are like us in the like how is it that europe can all do is that they can all do as the kurdish leader although sadly most of them played a very vocal role and really more support for the fight against isis and go bani for instance so that the people here and kurds there are a bit upset also because turkey is now attacking a free 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 was 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 and he needs

a politician and he's an engineer and he's been a sort of the face of the syrian kurds for at last we years until we stepped down so he has no links to any fighting and actually turkey is accusing him of being involved in the bombing and the solid muslim has no military role so i think positions off fabricated but of course now they're going to want also of their attacks and after they want to have some destruction by showing that france's they arrested the kurdish leader and 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 the signal with the tensions brewing over a three and out that there is attacking our free. 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 the reasons why now they are trying to put more pressure on western governments through debate to see arrest saddam with them because they don't want people to talk about after and they want to keep it completely silent against all the 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 that side it 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 ghouta but also it's responsible for the killing in. an f. ing a y. nobody do something so that people are very upset that there is not a lot of pressure to stop this turkish attacks on our fleet which used to be safe

before as our correspondent lot of and bill ginsburg is in the syrian town of bani right now for us thanks very much you're welcome now for some of the other stories making the news this hour at least five people have been reported killed after severe thunderstorms so across central parts of the united states the sermons of storms spawned tornadoes and caused widespread flooding in kentucky the. tennessee several disasters and disaster emergencies have been declared. christian leaders in jerusalem have closed the church of the holy sepulcher protest over new israeli taxation laws and a proposed law to expropriate land sold by churches the church of the earth is built on the site where christians believe jesus was crucified and buried. pro independence demonstrators have clashed with cattle on police in barcelona all demonstrating against the visit by spain's king philippe supporters of catalonia split from spain have criticised the monarch for allegedly failing to pay enough

attention to the region and to promote political dialogue. here in germany a chance for 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 this deal before a new government can perform ahead of the vote malcolm presented her picks for top posts in the country's potential new cabinet she says she's put together a young dynamic team which marks a new start for the conservatives it features three women in a surprise cabinet job for you on a champion of the party's right and a sharp critic of medicals open door policy for asylum seekers earlier i spoke with david mcallister from the c.d.u. executive who's at the party convention here in berlin i started by asking him if some of miracles cabinet choices signaled the party is shifting to the right.

the c.d.u. is for a poxy of the political center in germany it will remain the political party of the center and germany because election germany one in the center of this is exactly where we belong i'm going to merkel announced a new cabinet members yesterday evening will become the new health secretary. on 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 pets. it's been a moment the i instigated the at the moment on the only one he's past the age of sixteen oh now there's a younger in 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 pals 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 decision 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 but 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 lizza 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 have a case what we now need is for the next nearly four years a firm and stable government under leadership of aguilar 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 about what we had actually booked for that what we had expected yes we want to do better and this is exactly what we're going to do him and the x. 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 look for instance of 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 ultimate t.v. for door shut last time the a fifty in my view is a single issue party the 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. i was david mcallister from the city you convention speaking with me earlier we have been a slave of football now and there were two cracking games on sunday the days early game pitted leverkusen against shock of both sides have been exceeding expectations in the showdown was bound to be a good one. two ambitious teams battling for the champions league laver cozen coach looked skeptical at the start of the match he may have suspected the visitors were poised to pounce along and veto book.

one deal for shaka in the eleventh minute. the austrian made it look easy and served up a perfect finish. in needed some time to bounce back leon bailey with a good chance after twenty minutes. both teams went all out laver cozens dominic going a bit too far here a second red card and the hosts were a man down. after the restart shaka dug in at the back and threatened on the counter-attack and les no preventing bale ambo from adding to the score but it was only a matter of time after a red sauce followed them below in the box substitute ben talib stepped up to the spot to make it two nil. shaka celebrated a win on the road while laverick who is in continued to struggle on their own turf they have lost three home games in the second half of the season.

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