this is deja vu news live from berlin a cease fire goes into effect in syria's eastern. humanitarian aid get through to this rebel held that's endured over a week of airstrikes russia says it will enforce a daily five hour truce will call us cross live to our correspondent in moscow for more also coming up. millions of people are at risk of famine in yemen as a bloody civil war there rages on with the u.n.

security council set to address the crisis today one doctor's quest to save children caught up in the conflict. and the top german court is set to decide on whether cities across the nation can ban diesel vehicles after emission levels are found to exceed. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin this program in syria where a daily five hour truce proposed by russia was put in place today but russia's military is now claiming that there has been mortar fire from the rebel side today the call for a suspension of hostilities comes after russian president vladimir putin faced pressure from the international community to help and force a u.n. improved crew spot that resolution provided for a month long not

a daily ceasefire the bombing of eastern has killed more than five hundred civilians in about a week. well meanwhile the international committee of the red cross in geneva saying getting aid to traps of mill civilians remains the top priority. is that humanitarian access should be separated from political agreements political agreements are hard to reach we don't need long lasting and the metrics this fact what we need is for or those fighting to agree to windows during which date let's humanitarian aid in. well together with the civil war in syria the conflict in yemen has been described as one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our era a saudi led coalition has been bombing targets in yemen controlled by rebel who these millions of yemenis are now dependent on food aid and brisk famine our next

report follows one doctor trying to ease the plight of children caught up in this conflict a warning for viewers this report can say it contains some disturbing images. it's the start of a long and busy day for pediatrician a shrug know how to today she'll be making house calls in the countryside. but first a father is waiting anxiously at the central clinic in what data with his emaciated daughter. shrugs occupation requires her to remain optimistic but she's frustrated during the three years of fighting the number of undernourished children has risen dramatically for her the suffering is unbearable especially when the children are brought to the hospital when it might already be too late my daughter crime idea don't cry don't be afraid. doctors hope to save the child's life with an infusion of liquid nutrition when asked what her name is

the six year old cannot answer she's too weak to talk. her father says a name as i shot the girl doesn't utter a single word during the examination ash work will try to help her but the effectiveness of her work depends entirely on adequate deliveries of medicine actually reaching yemen. a shrug drives to the harbor area of data to find out what kind of relief aid has been delivered this time but when she arrives she can hardly believe her eyes. the united nations and sent this ship. a swag asks the harbor workers if they know why such a small ship was sent but they say they don't know the reason. why. the benefit is not enough unicef sent back we need unicef the medications for food to combat the malnutrition among children cholera diphtheria can unicef only least

ships this mall is not supposed to be enough for twenty seven million people. a day does harbor is the largest and therefore the most important port in the hoof the rebel held area it's under constant attack by the saudi led coalition but a shrug says the bombardments of civilian homes nearby is a worse crime than. again this is a district as close to military base says the airport is nearby that's why it is continually bombed including the university's medical. drives to a village south of hood a down the war is also hitting people in the countryside hard the few deliveries that do arrive really make it out of the city that's why the doctor makes these trips. the town of adam now is near the coast to fishermen who live here are very

poor i shrug my heart i'm his able to help them because of her relatively good income when she arrives she can see how rightful the people are she's almost their only contacts to the outside world the war's effects are highly visible here. the children are terribly undernourished. and. before i could give my child milk every two days that i haven't gotten anything for two months now. their parents are grateful to us shrug for treating the children for free and give her a gift of hima it's a small gesture that allows these poor people to maintain the dignity i shrugged and has made it her mission to help people but this is becoming increasingly difficult she sees no end to the war and has made a professional decision. and then the other half of the children is deteriorating

because they are not getting adequate treatment and i've decided that if we can't provide food supplies to adults we have to at least guarantee the children that because they need nourishment more urgently. that's why she's come to this village bringing only powdered milk. believes it's the children who must survive because they are humans only hope. ok let's go back to our top story right now the cease fire in eastern in syria russia they're attempting to open a civilian cord or to the rebel held area let's go to moscow and bring in aaron tilden our correspondent following this for us there aaron what are you hearing where you are about the cease fire. official word coming out of the kremlin or military circles here in moscow about the state of the ceasefire thus far we had heard some reports of sporadic fighting leading up

to the cease fire more mortar rounds and rockets supposedly coming out of eastern gotovina aimed at damascus but we haven't heard a lot of confirmation of any type of military action today coming out of the kremlin or of the russian military circles ok with a very fluid situation on the ground there how is russia going to be able to ensure that the cease fire holds in the days ahead. that really is the big question now at least when we're talking about the assad regime russia does have a lot of sway with the government they are their largest international partner partner and they wouldn't have made this announcement of these humanitarian cease fires daily humanitarian cease fires without discussing that first with assad's forces and most likely with his government directly so it's very likely that it at least from the side of the assad government we could expect them to respect the

five hour cease fires moving forward of course it's in their best interest because it lets them at least publicly appear as if they have military pressure against the rebel groups but also doing what's best for the local civilians i don't see much of that remains to be seen or answered rather. i want to ask you if these daily five hour truce is proved to be successful might russia then impose the month long truce that it backed with other nations in the u.n. security council. that is a really big and rather open question now of course russia says it would like to see a long term ceasefire for all of syria however many of russia's international partners and security council were very critical of how they change the language of the cease fire resolution they said that russia they choose russia rather of putting in loopholes that will allow him to actively continue its military campaign against

many of these rebel groups while at the same time claiming it was a hearing to the cease fire and now when it when it comes to whether or not there is the long term goal at least for moscow it seems the most important thing is what happens in the next several days basically they by employing these humanitarian cease fires they're given the assad government or wait around before a long term cease fire actually takes effect so it really seems like for moscow at the moment it's all about the short term game in syria before they go into a long term peace deal like peaceable rather peace or cease fire like we saw pass the united nations security council on saturday aaron thanks very much for that from moscow. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making the news at this hour saudi arabia's king solomon has fired some of the country's top military officers in a major shake up they include the military chief of staff general dual rahman alben

yon and other top defense officials no formal reasons yet been provided for the move which was announced early tuesday. prosecutors in south korea are demanding a thirty year jail sentence for the former president park on hay and a landmark corruption case the ex-president was impeached for corruption in march of last year and is facing more than a dozen promote charges parker's been in custody for about a year. freezing weather is gripping much of central and eastern europe with temperatures plunging to minus twenty degrees celsius in a number of locations several deaths have been reported across the continent as a result of the weather cold spell is expected to last through the week. while a final decision is being made in germany today on whether major cities can ban heavily polluting diesel vehicles the country's top administrative court is set to rule on the move after some seventy cities were found to have emission levels

exceeding eleventh's now the main offender nitrogen dioxide which can cause serious respiratory problems has more. there are more than fifteen million diesel vehicles on germany's streets drivers find the reliable and economical and popular with businesses transporting phrase and goods but the future of that popularity is in doubt in the face of a possible diesel ban vehicle sales have slowed the new regulations address concerns over high levels of nitrogen dioxide in diesel emissions the gases linked to cardiovascular and lung disease in a study in his federal environment agency research has linked nitrogen dioxide in diesel exhaust fumes to some eight thousand per mature deaths from heart related disease. i don't

think politicians are serious about the results of these studies because otherwise we'd have to really enforce these driving restrictions. regardless of any doubt surrounding the findings one thing is certain traffic contribute significantly to nitrogen dioxide pollution the main culprit is diesel. levels are over the limit of the hof the measuring stations in germany residential areas are the least affected. and in those places on average we see values between twenty and thirty micrograms per cubic meter which is well below the limit excess values are really just an issue on busy roadways and few of the fun and. the highest levels are found in large cities such as stuttgart cologne and in which have to most to lose from the new rules shipping companies and other trade industries warned us

a ban could put the delivery of goods to cities actually risk. we'd have to shut down immediately we can't transport our goods by train so we had no other options next under of us and michelle measures which have been announced include improved public transportation networks and electric buses this should provide some relief in cities affected by the driving and. football now and in the german bundesliga last night dortmund looked to improve their eight game unbeaten streak as a lot or as with our spring at home dortmund opened the scoring on seventeen minutes when marco royce cleaned up a defensive mistake from aus words martin. it was his second goal in three games since making his comeback from an injury out bird got back into the game at the seventy three minute mark thanks to kevin downs of goal one one the final score

there. that's all we have time for i'm brian thomas for the entire g.w. news team thanks so much for being with us and rita will join you at the top of the hour. stories that the world over information may provide the p.m.'s they want to express t.w. on facebook and twitter are up to date and in touch and follow us home.