here of course you know the. march thirteenth t w. this is the w.'s coming to you live from berlin there reports government allied syrian forces are gaining ground in the rebel stronghold of eastern huta the reports of caches come despite a didn't find out humanitarian truce ordered by russia we talked to our moscow correspondent for the latest also coming up russian men fighting is mostly a reason syria d.w.

travels to a small town in the europe to bring you an exclusive report on the fate of local men being recruited by a private military company a story the government would like to keep under wraps. and a victory for environmentalists after a top german court ruled cities can ban heavily polluting diesel vehicles but will this mean oh a lot from this need for millions of people who own and dried such doozies gods. also coming up on the program i see winds from siberia streep across much of europe bringing subzero temperatures extreme weather warnings on place in many countries as the cold front blankets even the continent southern edges snow. other welcome. a monitor group is reporting syrian government troops and allied

militia advancing into rebel says east and reports say the fighting is taking place even as a daily cease fire plan ordered by russia and to its second day the boers insisted it seems was meant to allow aid in and civilians to evacuate there's been strong international condemnation of for russia backs as strikes that have killed more than five hundred fifty people over several days of every bombings. the skies over eastern ghouta were supposed to fall silent but a five hour humanitarian pulls brought little relief to besieged residents in the rebel held enclave strikes were reported during the pools and observers say that syrian government will planes resume the bombing as soon as it ended. up we pray to god for help what kind of ceasefire is this with eight attacks and barrel bombs. humanitarian corridors set up to allow residents to leave aides 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'm out of play and really 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 blame them for failing to uphold the truce ordered by president putin. the militants are intensively shelling the area and not a single civilian escaped other humanitarian corridors you have to do it. moscow's plan falls short of the thirty day cease fire which was passed by the united nations but has yet to take effect aid groups are still waiting to deliver desperately needed supplies so i imagine. that if you have. a business that we can't imagine it is really getting big for. the residents of

eastern are going to use a brief lull in the fighting to clear the rubble and hope the next pause brings real relief. there's me down draw indeed correspondent out into to in moscow oh welcome why kelly this is a five hour d.v.d. truce is not working in easton accrued and now that even reports that militia backed by the syrian government have ended who tell and this fighting going on if this development is confirmed what we what would be russia's position on it well they would be rather unlikely to condemn it in to strike stark terms you have to remember russia actually maintains the position that the syrian government forces aren't responsible for violating the cease fire in eastern huta they argue that it is purely islamist backed rebel groups who are responsible for on the shelling we've seen arguing that they're attempting to prevent civilians from leaving the area the russian government claims there are that the rebel groups hope to use these civilians as human shields and you also have to remember that russia

has from the get go argue that despite any cease fire attempts and agreements that the assad government should have the right to continue to move against what both assad and the kremlin say are islam is backed. terror groups that they refer to specifically as terrorists and say that they shouldn't be considered part of the typical politically motivated rebels they also fought for that type of language to be interviews into the u.n. peace for peace resolution but rather a cease fire deal which was passed last weekend and they didn't meanwhile that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has been speaking to the human rights council in geneva let's let's take a listen to what he had to say that. russia together with the syrian government has already announced the establishment of humanitarian corridors in eastern guta now it is the turn of the militants and this sponsors to want the militants who continue shelling damascus blocking

a delivery and the evacuation of those wishing to leave we call upon the members of the so-called american coalition to ensure the same humanitarian access to the areas in syria under their control. so we have a lover of the. killy blaming the rebels for the bombing which is the break in this cease fire asking. the u.s. and its allies to put pressure on the rebels is usually a blame game has started between the two sides where do you think this would lead well in the short term i dealt with see any real move on the political side as you said this is the typical blame game where russia and the forces that russia supports say that it's actually u.s. backed rebel groups who are responsible for the vast majority the lion's share of the violence and this is actually kind of a play we've seen often in the syrian conflict where before a larger cease fire actually takes and it takes in effect the syrian forces backed

by assad and also the russian based military strikes are kind of used to change the facts on the ground before a general cease fire starts so at least in the short term i doubt we'll see any real motion on this issue and and are likely is that russia will at some point back this thirty day humanitarian truce rich voted in favor off as of the weekend in the u.n. security council as you mention. well certainly lavrov said today that his government continues to support the resolution and they actually argue that they want to see the thirty day cease fire put into effect now as i said before they actually introduce language into the bill which kind of a bill but rather the resolution which kind of we consider a little bit is international allies claim that they've actually intentionally and rather cynically change the language of the resolution to basically give the assad regime the tools it needs to continue to go against the rebels but the position

here in moscow is that they continue to support that resolution by the question is when will actually go into effect and right now it doesn't really seem to be any indication that that will be in the near future. are until ten in moscow thank you very much for that. but at the end of last year of russian president putin announced that he would start with drawing troops from syria russian as strikes like those have from the base in the country's north beat a major role in turning the tide in favor of bashar assad's government forces the total number of russian troops have served in syria remains unclear but in december russia's defense ministry said that forty eight thousand soldiers again to combat experience there since the beginning of the mission but the total number of russians who fought in syria is likely to be much higher than that they are thought to be many russian must memories fighting alongside pro syrian forces a chorus line emily showing travel to

a small town in the urals which reportedly saw a number of local men join a private military company. it's about as far as you can get from syria and yet here in the russian town of kid there all 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 kid 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 and the two yellow . reports of the death of dozens and hundreds of russian citizens is a classic case of dissent from ation but 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. and the list yon but i need ski thinks the russian government is using mercenary groups to keep official military losses low. which you want to stop 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. we don't know who these people are. asked who were

sent in there but. in the run up to the presidential elections news about the death of a. russian soldiers is inconvenient for the government here even from kid they're all over this small town in the year old 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 but. i think the government is behind all of this it's not like these guys just decided to go there themselves that just went someone must have sent them. it's not clear when and if the man in syria will return ticket but all there for

now the town and the government are both keeping their silence. there's something to look at some other stories making news around the u.s. president. has reportedly been stripped of his top level security clearance had got into the mission to receive top secret information in his role as a white house senior advisor said to be one of the seven aides who is clearance has been downgraded. christian it is a very open the church of the holy. jerusalem one of christianity sites the church leaders close the secret site the three days to protest against proposed tax legislation amounts to a land grab israeli officials suspended the planned measure on tuesday. you're watching the news coming up ahead backlash hits a food bank that's refused

a new german climbs why it's elective on a c. has led to a heated debate in the country. the first list of joins me to talk about germany's biggest bank in house taking another step to deal with the mistakes of the last it's rather major we're talking of course about deutsche bank which 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 libel or benchmark interest rate germany's biggest lender is the third after citi group and barclays to resolve claims by investors including the city of baltimore and yale university who denies wrongdoing but has already paid four billion dollars to resolve claims used by banks to set rates and hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions. for more let's cross over to our markets correspondent in frankfurt. pays another quarter of a billion dollars and still says it's done nothing wrong how does that go together

. sounds of search you did not do anything but at the same time you've already paid billions and now another two hundred forty million u.s. dollars investors here on my and are actually telling me that this seems to be just another case where the bank can be relieved that they were able at the end to agree on a settlement and best jurors are very sure that's what they're telling me that those accusations of concluding with competitors to manipulate the u.s. dollar on the london interbank offered rate short call it live bore and other branch market interest rates in fact could have really happened so how's the settlement going down with people on the trading floor. well one investor told me a little bit earlier that the settlement is good and bad news at the same time bad news because this again means negative p.r. for the bank it's really time that c. old jon cryer and wes been really under fire lately finally comes again with good news but he also told me that the bank might have had to pay even more without

reaching this settlement two hundred forty million u.s. dollars this time four billion us dollars in the past investors really hope that with this the libel case will be done and also handle because of this the share price of daughter bank is even slightly up at the moment that's even though the case of the markets in general here are under fire because of comments made by the had off the fad in the united states in vesta's fear and we have seen this happening also in the past that we might even see up to four more interest rate hikes happening in the u.s. this year and of course investors would not be very thrilled about that at all and you called in frankfurt thank you a landmark decision is causing a lot of uncertainty here in germany melissa paladin's 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 go 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 can 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 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

a certain and i reckon about twenty five percent. 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 i in fact 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 rivals . that's why we hope for a reasonable nationwide regulation. diesels will stay on john and streets for now whether they'll be restricted in some fashion is another matter. thing with the challenges for the automotive sector australia has ordered a mandatory recall of almost four million cars fitted with faulty airbags from to caught up the recall affects multiple manufacturers australia assistant's treasury minister michael sarkar says the government is unhappy with the progress on last year's voluntary recall making the compulsory move necessary it's a contest effect of our backs of resulted in one hundred million recalls worldwide and forced the japanese company into bankruptcy. the selective policy of a food bank here in germany has caused

a national uproar i'm read as more in the story that's right christoph the decision by a local food bank to stop serving new clients who do not have a german passport has sparked a national debate the private charity in the reston city of essen says it took the stand off to increasing numbers of foreign nationals began turning up to claim its groceries on the child he had rejects claims it's discriminating saying that refugees and migrants are now receiving resources earmarked for the aged the single mothers living below the poverty line. the message is clear graffiti on the entrance of this food bank in essen and the work nazis sprayed on to the charity's vehicles the organizers decision to temporarily stop serving new clients do not hold a german passport has angered many what began as a local scandal snow drawing the attention of the chancellor. this is not good but it also shows the pressure that exists and how many people feel this need and

that's why i hope that people can find good solutions that do not exclude certain groups. about six thousand needy people regularly get groceries from the food bank in the city of essen organizers say more and more foreigners have been coming about two thirds of the food banks visitors were known jeremy and they see elderly visitors and single mothers especially felt increasingly uncomfortable around the many young men and felt they were gradually being pinched i that's the reason the head of the fifth bank gave for this decision. should also this has nothing to do with xenophobia or with foreigners being more or less needy than german people we just want to distribute what we have fairly and redress the imbalance. for the moment essence food bank wants to keep restricting aid for foreigners that's the outcome of an american seaboard meeting and choose those in charge say that single mothers senior citizens and families with children should remain the focus. of the

s. and food bank is one of a number facing similar problems in germany for more details political correspondent simon young joins me silence of the food bank in essence has decided to go ahead with a decision which many view as controversial what's been the reaction. well i mean there's been a lot of negative reaction since the charity announced this move was it became public last week and as you've heard you know chancellor merkel saying it's not good a lot of other people have said it's divisive it smacks of anti foreigner sentiment even of racism and as you've seen in that report you know these charity workers have been called nazis by some people which i think is frankly absurd because these are people who devote their time to feeding the poor and needy there's been an interesting reaction today from the left party the poem entry leader of that party's or of argan connect has said that criticism of the food bank by the

government is hypocritical because it's the government that's to blame for the fact that you've got elderly people and single parents and so on in germany turning to food banks to get the support they need that is then i'm going to make it as read into this debate some criticize her for saying she's out of touch with everyday germans and their problems but she is calling for good solutions what she mean by that. yeah the chancellor didn't say what her suggestion was for how this charity should solve the problem that you know some of its clients feel uncomfortable when queuing for food perhaps because of the presence of large groups of young men and you know that that's perhaps a difficult problem to solve elsewhere in germany some of these food banks have got systems in place to stop intimidation or key jumping of any kinds of perhaps that's

what the chance that was thinking about but i think more fundamentally she's woken up to the fact that her open door migration policy has meant a lot of pressure on public services locally in places in germany anyway and that's on her agenda now she wants to do something about it she was arguing that european funding should be directed more to countries that have taken in a lot of migrants and that's something she's been pushing not successfully so far but this problem of pressure on public services is certainly on her list of things to get sorted out right simon young tough on i'm interested in this thank you. a risk in cold front still much of europe in its icy clutches it sends temperatures plunging across the continent and triggered extreme weather warnings for several regions snow fall has disrupted travel plans have look and caused hardship in many communities. the beast from the east continues to stalk its way across europe

freezing rivers blocking roads and causing general disruption 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 caused huge snow drifts burying houses and roads and forcing rescue services to evacuate the stranded locals. for them it has been quite a shock. to see 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 or. further east saffir 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. now for some sports and tennis legend roger federer is still the show at the laureus 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 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 and eighth wimbledon title in two thousand and seventeen bringing is total of grand slam titles to twenty already the most successful male in history the thirty six year old said

he's humbled by the op now. on the second day of formula one testing familiarize his ferrari and mitzi disposed to the two fosters times in unseasonably cold weather in barcelona ferrari sebastian fettle came out on top after a far stronger on soft tires in the afternoon the german was also the day's mileage leader right behind him a voluntary borders of might see this finish the day's second in both time and mileage reading champion this hamilton had the day off. to sailing and team asco nobel has won the sixteenth of the ocean race in a nail biting finish an auckland new zealand asco will finish the six thousand three hundred mile stage from hong kong with just a two minute lead over rival son home receiver or leader free finish this stage

in third after a grueling voyage on the high seas cruise more than happy to see friends and loved ones but the sailing will continue the volatile ocean race the last eight months takes in all oceans and will finish in the netherlands later this year. finally the funeral of bollywood legend she davie has begun in a hometown of mumbai investigators say the fifty year old actress drowned accidentally in a hotel bar in dubai over the weekend thousands of grieving fans have been lining up the streets to pay their final respects to three the head of a commission later today dubbed by some as the queen of bollywood she cared some three hundred movies and is considered a national icon of the film industry. that's a premium is that she money. the

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