recycling. transport can help regional the line find out what you can do today at regional the lines. this is deja vu news live from berlin the temporary truce for eastern good is in question one day after it failed to take effect the fighting resumes was no sign of aid going in or civilians getting out to talk to an aid agency waiting to get to people in the embattled syrian enclave also coming up to w. travels to a small town in the urals to bring you an exclusive report on the fate of russian

men fighting as mercenaries in syria a story of the government also keep under wraps. and is this the death of diesel environmentalist breathing a sigh of relief as a top german court rules of cities can ban heavily polluting diesel vehicles but will this move saddle millions of drivers with worthless cars. also on the show i see air from siberia sending europe's temperatures plummeting extreme weather warnings are in place in many countries as the cold front blankets even the continent's southern edges with snow. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show. a day after

a temporary truce fails to take effect in syria the fighting rages on as does the war of words between the united states and russia a top american general has accused russia of quote behaving like an arsonist and of fire fighters well in syria general joseph fatah lashed out after the planned daily ceasefire collapsed the u.s. state department has also slammed moscow for backing the syrian government russia is certainly not hearing to this cease fire they're not adhering to the cease fire because they continue to sponsor and back the charlotte sides government that is tragic as a result of that we are seeing innocent civilians and you've all seen the video many of you are parents you have seen the children who are suffering and dying you've seen the innocent people doing that the world has come together the world has said that this has to stop i find it ironic when russia calls for a humanitarian road a humanitarian zone you know what humanitarian zone as it's the entirety of syria

will break you know hostilities and he's been good to have been ordered by the russian president vladimir putin this followed the international outcry over more than a week of airstrikes on the rebel held region left some five hundred civilians dead but just hours after the truce began reports of renewed mortar fire and air raids for its part moscow says it is the rebels who hold the enclave who first broke the cease fire with a series of attacks. the skies over eastern ghouta were supposed to fall silent. but a five hour humanitarian pause brought little relief to besieged residents in the rebel held on klav strikes were reported during the pause and observers say that syrian government war planes resumed their bombing as soon as it ended. up we pray to god for help what kind of ceasefire is this without attacks and barrel bombs. humanitarian corridors set up to allow residents to leave and aid to enter went

largely unused rebels claim people are refusing to leave on buses out of fear of being captured by government forces. and i bottle and we are meant to pick up the wounded from eastern guta and take them to the clinic in the suburbs of damascus on humanitarian grounds. the. syria's ally russia accused the rebels of preventing people from leaving and blamed them for failing to uphold the truce ordered by president vladimir putin that the militants are intensively shelling the area and not a single civilian escape for the humanitarian corridor to get to do it. moscow's plan falls short of the thirty day cease fire which was passed by the united nations but it's yet to take effect a group says still waiting to deliver desperately needed supplies so i imagine. that you have. a security business that we can't imagine it's really getting big

for. the residents of eastern can do little but clear up the rubble and hope the next pause brings real relief of more of the situation we're joined now by alan mcdonald from save the children is based in amman jordan thanks for being with us this morning mr mcdonald what are you hearing from eastern guta have any civilians been able to leave the area. so the second day of the trees is just started now it's a bit too early to know what would happen today but yesterday we saw roaming continue in many areas throughout the throughout a five hour truce one of the local partners on the ground in just in the space of two hours during that truce counted more than thirty asteroid still going on so most people are still afraid to sleep and i'm still afraid to leave the underground shelters even in the parts of the goods that were quieter yesterday there were

still planes flying overhead and people and stills too scared to move most people don't want to leave they want to stay where they are but they want to be safe while they stay ok what what needs to happen for you and you're going to zation before you start trying to get supplies in are you going to wait for the ceasefire to take hold or or will you try nonetheless to get the aid that people so desperately need into the eastern good area. well we work with local syrian aid agencies who are based in eastern goods or. they are delivering some aid at the moment said despite the bombing. some basic food to some of the basic supplies but it's it's very small scale and it's it's frequently disrupted by distributions of frequently called top involving i mean yesterday you know they were planning to use the five to five outreach period to do much being distributions but then they had to suspend

them because the moment carried on so we are. saying is there is a real truce we are. looking to to scale up distribution. support from owners children but there has to be an end to the bombing before that can happen ok well what are your local partners saying to you right now and do they anticipate anticipate an end to the bombing today or in the days ahead. they're hopeful but skeptical to be honest i mean there's been so many so many broken promises so many words and statements from. from the security council from international governments and it doesn't translate into any difference on the ground so i was speaking to somebody and he's thinking it's or he was certain that every time there's a new announcements of a ceasefire or truce they people actually get scared because a lot of the times things get worse before many increases before and immediately

after the trees period. they're hopeful because the situation is certain i spoke to a cease fire is certainly needed but they all skeptical that it's that we're going to see any improvements in the coming days alan aidan from save the children based in amman jordan with us this morning thanks very much and and all the best of luck to you with your efforts in the eastern ghouta area thank you we're turning now to russia and a story the kremlin would prefer to keep under wraps according to russian media reports about three thousand russian mercenaries have fought over the course of the war in syria they were employed by a contractor called the wagner group now a u.s. air strike earlier this month reportedly killed a number of russians paid by that group this comes as a couple and says it is pulling its troops out of syria w.'s emily sure when traveled to a tiny town in the urals which reportedly saw

a number of local men joining a private military company she has this exclusive report. it's about as far as you can get from syria and yet here in the russian town of kid the people are waiting for news about seven locals who reportedly went to fight in syria they allegedly worked as mercenaries which is illegal in russia the topic is sensitive many people here say they know nothing about the man. who in fact we are repeatedly met with rejection and kids this building is home to the mother of one of the fighters she had agreed to speak to us about her son but canceled the interview after being told her son had been killed. a local gives us the address of the wife of another mercenary when we tried to speak to her she insists she is someone else but she also warns none of us is going to talk to you. just like the relatives of the

mercenaries the russian government has largely kept silent about them and even denied their existence the foreign ministry took over a week to respond after a recent airstrike reportedly killed up to two hundred russians. reports about the death of dozens and hundreds of russian citizens it's a classic case of dissent from a ship according to preliminary data we could be talking about the death of five people presumably russian citizens as a result of an armed clash the causes of which we are currently investigating. analyst john but i need thinks the russian government is using mercenary groups to keep the fischel military losses low. which you want to look at because this strategy is beneficial for the russian government because it can show it's doing its job just like the americans and the british russia can say those aren't our soldiers no soldiers have died but yet we don't know who these people are ask

whoever sent them there. to treat it with in the run up to the presidential elections news about the death of russian soldiers is inconvenient for the government here even from kid they're all over this small town in the year olds seven men reportedly joined a private russian military company to fight in syria the town's population is just over two thousand although no relatives wanted to talk on camera other residents were willing to speak about the man but. he was a good boy he wasn't a thug who didn't care about anything he was a good boy maybe he wanted to earn money towards an apartment there's not much work here with the. dust. by you i think the government is behind all of this it's not like these guys just decided to go there themselves and just went someone must have sent them. but.

it's not clear when and if the man in syria will return ticket for now the town and the government are both keeping their silence. now for some of the other stories making in the news today u.n. experts say north korea has been supplying items shipments from prick john yang to syria between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and seventeen. you know u.s. president donald trump's son in law has reportedly been stripped of his top level security clearance cautionary got an interim permission to receive top secret information in his role as a white house senior adviser said to be one of several aides whose clearance has been downgraded this is due to be news still to come on the show the beast from the east just will not stop roaring extreme weather warnings are in place as to put yours plunge across europe. au-prince office here now

germany's biggest bank is taking a new step to deal with the misdeeds of the past it's yet another one of bryan dawe your bank has agreed to pay another two hundred forty million dollars to settle a two thousand and eleven lawsuit in the united states accusing it of manipulating the lie bore benchmark interest rates germany's biggest bank is the third after citi group and barclays to resolve claims by investors including the city of baltimore and yale university had denied wrongdoing but has already paid four billion dollars to resolve libel or claims not live or is used by banks to said rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions. for more let's cross over to our markets correspondent daniel koeppen frankfurt pays a quarter of a billion dollars and still says it's done nothing wrong how does that go together . yes there is indeed some are hard to believe george a bank

a bank also in two thousand and seventeen that was not able to come back in the winning zone is not going to span such a huge amount for not doing anything wrong it seems to be another case where the bank can be relieved that they were at the end able to agree on a settlement analysts and investors here on my end are very sure that there's accuse ations of looting with competitors to manipulate the us dollar on the longer interbank offered rate short lived war and another benchmark interest rates in fact could have happened and then the international monetary fund called the most dangerous bank in the world that was back in twenty sixteen is there still truth to that today is largely the has been called in the past the most dangerous bank because of the hundreds of international divisions but also because of the hundreds of lawsuits the bank has been dealing with remember that some of them have almost killed the bank in the past during the last annual press conference just

a few weeks ago you and frank for the c.e.o. of culture bank on crime said to reporters that the bank was able to work on those pending lawsuits and was able to reduce them to a minimum even though in this case two hundred forty million dollars the bank will have to pay in this case won't kill the bank but it's just another example how much money the bank every year needs to put aside because of those pandering lawsuit was as an immediate result i can also tell you that their share price off daughter bank has been really under pressure this morning bank coughing up another quarter of a billion dollars to settle the library scandal during a court reporting from frankfurt daniel thank you. a landmark decision is causing a lot of uncertainty here in germany municipalities commuters and companies are grappling with the ruling of one of the country's top courts that diesel powered cars can be banned from certain cities the move comes in a bid to combat air pollution but small businesses in particular whose diesel

powered utility vehicles are essential to keeping operations running are hoping for exemptions. the idea of small normally conjures up notions of bustling capitals but lynn is just one of seven thousand german cities notorious for breaking legal air pollution limits could city centers across the country soon be no go areas for millions of cars. over in frankfurt used car dealer marcelled l r ball is only too aware of the diesel problem his yard is full of cars waiting for buyers the main difference between them one type sells well the other doesn't. as i mean any prizes the last year prices have been falling dramatically along with demand in some cases demand has fallen by ninety percent the prices have come and i reckon about twenty five percent pass what's happened today it means prices will go down

again we'll have to see how things develop i think sales will come to a standstill. that's and for anything stop. carmakers marketed diesels as the environmentally friendly choice they burn less fuel per mile and emit less carbon dioxide no wonder one in three cars on german roads is a diesel car owners rely on them to get to work businesses for regular deliveries. manufacturers are confident a general ban on diesel cars will never materialise the car industry lobby group v d a's says even partial measures could be damaging. to. the decisions problem is that different cities could have differing regulation. that this concerns us because a patchwork of different regulations in place that would obviously confused rivals . that's why we hope for

a reasonable nationwide regulation. diesels will stay on german streets for now whether they'll be restricted in some fashion is another matter. diesel bans could be seen as another useful tool for cities in their fight against out of control and pollution but how to implement them without disrupting business or harming economic growth is it enough to exempt certain streets all vehicles vital to business cities across germany will now be asking themselves these questions. and staying with the challenges for the automotive sector australia has ordered a mandatory recall of almost four million cars fitted with faulty airbags from to kata the recall affects multiple manufacturers australia assistant's treasury minister michael soccer says the government is unhappy with the progress on last year's voluntary recall making the compulsory recall necessary to cost effective

airbags have resulted in one hundred million recalls worldwide and forced the japanese company into bankruptcy. now cuba is trying to cope with a new rear out new euro reality as the united states imposed sanctions on the country's exports just as relations between the two sides had improved but trade with cuban cigars is nevertheless flourishing the industry has grown steadily and that's and part thanks to the search for other markets most recently china an icon of cuba no not fidel castro his cigar something the communist dictator had in common with u.s. president john f. kennedy who ordered twelve hundred cuban studies before blockading the island during the cold war. ties aren't quite so bad nowadays but the economic boycott is still in place so cuba has to look elsewhere for exports that's good news for

aficionados in countries like canada for them anything but a cuban is close but no cigar as far as the passion and dedication the way they make it the cigar it's really crafted in cuba which is different from any place of food so the place to be is heaven as annual cigar festival which draws visitors from fifty countries to place orders and sample latest offerings and more and more of those sales are headed for china. the government sells its a car through up on knows it's a joint venture with britain's imperial tobacco and this year it hit a milestone. in terms of worldwide sales by no scruple to reach the historic figure of five hundred million dollars for the first time with twelve percent growth compared to twenty sixteen at a constant exchange rate it's a spectacular result. so cuba's cigar sales are on a roll even if its neighbor to the north isn't buying. and inspector brian

now has the latest on the afghani citizens who are in peril in pakistan that's very close off and that's because afghan refugees in pakistan are facing the prospect of deportation that after islam bob placed a new cut off on the amount of time that they're permitted to remain in the country this move comes amid speculation that pakistani officials are preparing the forced return of millions of afghans many of them fear what lies back across the border in their home country now she brings us this exclusive report. chava pakistan more than a million of hundred fiji's have crowded into the city close to the of dawn border many of them have fled the war plaguing the country for decades nestor love is one of them he was born in pakistan and has lived in this camp his whole life. he's university educated and used to work as

a teacher nasir lost five children are all in school being forced to leave is the last thing he wants what he says i'm up to my parents and grandparents are buried here and i can visit their graves whenever i want to thank you my friends from school and university are all here my life is here and i wonder how can i just leave everything in a few months if the government just allowed us to stay to continue our jobs we could live in peace there are nearly one and a half million registered afghan refugees in pakistan and many more living here illegally. all of them have been told they have to leave the country by march thirty first previously the government had assured their legal status for at least a year this most recent that line has come amid increasingly hostile relations between kabul and islamabad pakistan says the presence of afghan refugees is not only a drain on resources but is also a way for terrorists to infiltrate the country from across the border there of america's aliens who are going to work up to about thirty percent of their going to

the caps seventy percent of the outside the live in suburbs of bridges cities adult ships. to beckon as a crew which we should be able to check as to who is who owns them and the indians they have no statistical fistula so we really start over the point for really right when pushed about and whatever method could we use we would use that i've learned is fun has recently seen a wave of deadly attacks even sees fear for the safety of those who return u.n. officials also say the repatriation of so many refugees is an unrealistic toss to undertake by this latest deadline they're hoping talks with the government may help them buy time any large scale returns from pakistan. will have significant impact. here are the challenges. in some places. situation which is satisfactory and issues. education.

challenges are no one is there and so these are the challenges. which needs to be addressed and the international community should try to get to doing them an assistance you know wonder so. some political commentators suggest that holding the feet of refugees in the balance is one of pakistan's bargaining chips when dealing with diplomatic pressure and while many refugees like nestor not fear they are being used as political pawns they have no choice but to accept their life in limbo as another deadline ticks down. and you can find much more on many of the issues related to migration at our website that state of you dot com or here in europe a rare siberian cold front still holds much of europe and as i see grip and sent temperatures plunging but a continent and carpeted some usually warm southern cities and snow while the snow

fall has been causing havoc for many it has been an absolute delight for children who didn't have to go to school. the beast from the east continues to stock its way across europe freezing rivers blocking roads and causing general destruction across the continent and britain heavy snowfall in parts of the country caused some schools to close and the country's met office to issue travel warnings. and southern italy snow paralyzed traffic and train services schools were closed in naples so youngsters could enjoy a rare snowball fight in the shadow of the custom. and delegates and western croatia record snowfall of one hundred eighty two centimeters coast huge snow drifts burying houses and roads and forcing rescue services to evacuate the stranded locals. for them it has been quite a shock. nothing like this in living memory i've been living

here a long time but i don't remember it ever snowing like this it has always been within the average of half a metre maybe a metre. further east severe was resplendent in white but flights in and out of the bulgarian capital were cancelled for the blanket of snow left thousands in the west of the country without power. that led to schools being closed perfect for the city's young sledging enthusiasm. well tennis legend roger federer stole the show at the race awards in monte carlo the world number one not only walked away with the sportsman of the year award but after returning to the game following a serious knee injury in two thousand and sixteen he also won the comeback of the year award and what a comeback it was the swiss won his fifth australian open is eighth wimbledon title

in two thousand and seventeen bringing his total of grand slam titles to twenty already the most successful male player in history the thirty six year old said he was old by the maybe one day we remember let's get you a reminder now of our top stories this hour a monitor group says forces allied with the syrian government have gained more ground in clashes with rebels and eastern. this fighting comes despite a russian plan for a daily cease fire aim to create a humanitarian corridor for much needed aid and civilian evacuations. this is the time you news live from berlin for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us.

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