this is deja vu news live from berlin there are reports coming in government allied syrian forces are gaining ground in the rebel stronghold of eastern ghouta the reported clashes coming despite a daily truce bordered by russia will talk to a relief agency waiting to get aid into the embattled syrian rebel on play also coming up. what next for the millions of afghan refugees living in pakistan their right to stay has been severely curtailed raising fears of mass deportations back

to a country mired in war. and is it the end of the road for diesel environmentalists phrase a top german court ruling that cities can ban heavily polluting diesel vehicles and boss will this saddle millions of drivers with worthless cause. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show monitor group is reporting that syrian government troops and allied militias have gained more ground in rebel held eastern ghouta the fighting appears to be raging on as a cease fire plan ordered by russia fails to take hold for a second day now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says that rebels are blocking aid and evacuations for this embattled on klav but a top american general is accusing russia of quote behaving like an arsonist and

a fire fighter at the same time in syria now about five hundred people have died in the region over the past week under fierce bombardment by russian backed airstrike strikes. 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 reported during the pause and observers say that syrian government war planes resumed their bombing as soon as it ended. but 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 my bottom and we're 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 a not a single civilian escape to the humanitarian corridor or to get into 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 still waiting to deliver desperately needed supplies so imagine. that you have. a business that we can't imagine it's really getting. the residents of eastern can do little but clear up the rubble and hope the next hole is brings real relief. of water 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 they second day of the teresa's just start it now it's too early to know what's what's happened 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 just in the space of two hours during that truce counted more than move thirty still going on sorry most people are still afraid to leave but i'm still afraid to leave the underground shelters even in the parts of the goods that were quieter yesterday there was still planes flying overhead and people and stills too gets made 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 are 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 that and local syrian aid agencies who are based in eastern goods or. they are delivering some aid at the moment 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 yesterday you know they were planning to use the five additional five outreach period to do much bigger 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 to speed. 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 serving that every time there's a new announcements of a cease fire or truce they people actually get scared because a lot of the times things get worse before meaning creases before and immediately after the trees period. they're hopeful because the situation is certain to a cease fire is urgently needed but they are skeptical that it's that we're going to see any improvements in the coming days i'll only gone 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 now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour u.s. president trump son in law jared kushner has reportedly been stripped of his top level security clearance kirshner have received interim permission to receive top secret information in his role as a white house senior adviser he said to be one of several top ranking aides who's clearly was down. in mumbai thousands of grieving fans have gathered outside the home of iconic bollywood actress treat every couple or. an estimated safe drowned accidentally in a hotel bathtub the dubai over the weekend she's due to be cremated at a private ceremony later today christian leaders have reopened the church of the holy several ter in jerusalem one of christianity's holiest sites the church

leaders close the sacred site for three days to protest proposed israeli tax legislation they say amounts to a land grab israeli officials suspended the planned measures on tuesday. well afghan refugees in pakistan are facing the prospect of deportation after islam a bad place a new cut off on the amount of time they're permitted to remain in the country the 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. shavar pakistan more than a million of hundred few days have crowded into the city close to the afghan border many of them have fled the war plaguing the country for decades nasir loved it 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 from what he says i'm up 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 one and a half million registered afghan refugees in pakistan and many more living here in the city. 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 a fund of fiji's is not only a dream on resources but is also a way for terrorists to infiltrate the country from across the border there of living as aliens here in america to about thirty percent of that of the caps seventy percent of the outside that live in suburbs of bridges cities adult ships

with good as new mechanism through which we should be able to check as to who is. the aliens the noise to disprove history behind so you start over that that number is a bullet point for really right when pushed about and done whatever but the good news would lose that i've learned stone has recently seen a wave of deadly attacks even sees fear for the safety of those returning un officials also see the repatriation of so many refugees is an unrealistic cost 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 imitated impact. our economic challenges. in some places the. situation reaches more satisfactory and there are issues because education and livelihood are challenges you know what is the and so these are the challenges.

which needs to be addressed and the international community should try broad targeted doing them an assistance you know wonder some betting that 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 now fear they are being used as political pawns they have no choice but to accept their life in limbo as another deadline ticks down. while here in germany a landmark court decision is causing a lot of uncertainty in the country in this apologies commuters and companies are all grappling right now with a ruling of one of the country's top courts that diesel powered cars can be banned from certain cities this move comes in a bit of course to combat air pollution among those hoping for an exemption the small businesses using diesel powered utility vehicles to keep their operations

right. the idea of small normally conjures up notions of bustling capitals but her lin is just one of seventy 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 marcel del are 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 an american it prize or 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 of 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 when all's that's and for i 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 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 drivers . that's why we hope for a reasonable nationwide regulation. diesels

will stay on jump in the streets for now whether they'll be restricted in some fashion is another matter. a well done to tennis legend roger federer who 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 twenty sixteen he also won the comeback of the year award what a comeback it was the swiss won his fifth australian open is eighth wimbledon title and twenty's of the 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 humbled by the motivated by. let's get you a reminder now of our top story at this hour a monitor group says forces allied with the syrian government of advance farther into the rebel held stronghold of eastern ghouta this fighting comes despite

a russian plan for a daily cease fire creating a humanitarian corridor. i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. we make up over a week what does afaik. we are. focusing. on want to shape the continent's future to be part of it and join us as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seventy seven percent platform for africa.