darkness city's after war. starting march tenth on d. w. . this is deja news coming to you live from berlin a temporary truce for a second day in syria monitor group says there were clashes before the russian ordered seems fire missiles syrian forces advance into the rebel held on cable piece and who still don't sign of civilians using a designated humanitarian corridor to leave also coming up more next for millions

of of gone refugees living in pakistan with their right to stay severely restricted the face of mass deportations back to their country we'll go live to islamabad for the latest. and the top brigs of negotiated today on views of dr treaty that's likely to new arguments with britain and time is running out the u.k. is set to leave the bloc in less than a year. i don't welcome i'm. a temporary truce ordered by russia has taken effect for a second day in eastern huta a monitor group says a barrage of airstrikes preceded the ceasefire pushing for with the advance of syrian government troops on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold they have also been reports of ground battles in the hours since the truce began this still no

sign meanwhile of civilians evacuating or aid getting through. the skies over eastern ghouta were supposed to fall silent but a five hour humanitarian pause brought little relief to be seized residents in the rebel held enclave strikes were reported during the pause and observers say that syrian government will planes resume their bombing as soon as it ended. up 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 an aide to enter went largely on used rebels claim people are refusing to leave on buses out of fear of being captured by government forces. and i bought a family are meant to pick up the wounded from eastern guta and take them to the clinic in the suburbs of damascus on humanitarian grounds. you know machete but if they're much syria's ally russia or accuse the rebels of preventing people from

leaving and blame them for failing to uphold the truce ordered by president putin. but that's not how the u.s. state department sees it. russia is certainly not hearing to this cease fire they're not adhering to the cease fire because they continue to sponsor him back but shar all assad's 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 hate groups are still waiting to deliver desperately needed supplies so imagine. that you have aid being able to be there so that we can imagine it's really getting the first big for the people inside the residents of east and to use a brief lull in the fighting to clear the rubble and hope the next pause brings real relief. let me down draw indeed correspondent out into to in moscow

oh welcome our not quite clearly this a five hour daily choose is not working in eastern and now that even reports that militia backed by the syrian government have ended who tell and this fighting going on is this development is going from what we what would be russia's position on it . well they would be rather unlikely to condemn it into struck 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 that the rebel groups hope to use the 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 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 introduced into the u.n. peace for peace resolution but rather on cease fire deal which was passed last weekend and i didn't mean while the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has been speaking to the human rights council in and 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 in this sponsors to want the militants who continue shelling damascus looking a deliveries on 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 their. blaming the rebels for the bombing which is of the break in this cease fire and asking. the u.s. and its allies to put pressure on the rebels is usually a blame game has started between the two sides what do you think this would lead. well in the short term i doubt will see any real move on the political side and 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 military strikes are kind of used to change the facts on the ground before a general cease fire started so at least in the short term i don't see any real

motion on this issue and and are likely is that russia will at some point back this thirty day humanitarian rich voted in favor off as of the weekend in the u.n. security council as you mention. well said today that his government continues to support the resolution 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 that 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 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. ivan tilton in moscow thank you

very much for that. afghan president gunnies off a piece talks the taliban during a conference and of being stability to the region he also reached out to neighboring pakistan which has been accused of providing a safe haven for taliban militants the move comes a mystery of course that pakistani officials are preparing for the forced return of millions of fans who've sort refuge there some of them have lived in pakistan all their lives nosheen a bus has sent us this exclusive report. shavar pakistan more than a million of hundred fiji's have crowded into the city close to the afghan border many of them have fled the war plaguing the country for decades. 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 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 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 under fees is not only a drain on resources but is also a way for terrorists to infiltrate the country from across the border there of clowns who are living as aliens here in america to about thirty percent of them going to the caps seventy percent of the outside that live in suburbs of bridges

cities adult ships with guns new mechanism through which we should be able to check as to who's who owns that and the aliens they have no statistical fistula had so only the start of it that that number is a delay point for really right when pushed about done whatever methods could be used would use that afghanistan has recently seen a wave of deadly attacks even c.-span for the safety of those who return u.n. officials also see the repatch ration 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 or elsewhere will have significant military impact. there are collect challenges. in some places there are a lot of situation which is more satisfactory and there are issues like education

and livelihood challenges in afghanistan and so these are the challenges. which needs to be addressed and the international community should try provide targeted development assistance you know wonder some. of the 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 mr math fear there. being used as political pawns they have no choice but to accept their life in limbo as another deadline ticks down. and the support by congress when i'm not seeing a boss who joins me now on the line from the pakistani capital islamabad notion is there any sign that of gone refugees would return to the country voluntarily the man in your report not for that doesn't want to go back for example yeah well you know official statements both from the government and uni c.i. which is responsible for their back tradition of registered refugees which is about

one point four million they say you know we this is supposed to be voluntary this is supposed to be done in a dignified manner however when i do speak to refugees and i did the sense you get is for many of them pakistan is the only country that they've ever known they've lived there for generations that children are studying here in pakistan they have dreams and hopes that that's this country for their children and they're following generations and going back to one it's on for many is a very difficult prospect because of the security situation in some areas because of economic opportunities yes there are some who have returned but at the moment many of them would like to stay on so why is focused on stepping up efforts to send specially long term of gandhi effigies back now. you see that there are many elements in this for it this is not something new pakistan has been working on this week they've had an action plan and there's also fear that of many of the congress

just won't go back even a. thing that. is drying up and for example when national pressure on pakistan is building up the u.s. has accused pakistan of harboring networks like huck on the network and members of the up on taliban so that has played a huge role and now pakistan is stepping up and trying to be most serious about it and watching what the humanitarian i mean to send millions of people back in to specific times seems almost unrealistic so yes there is a sense of urgency there's a sense of pressure there's a sense of difficulty there is that because in the past extensions have been given for long then extensions have been constantly you know on the table in terms of negotiation but this is something that eating agencies understand that now the pressure is building up it has to be done but in terms of the time a scale it is being it's being looked at is a very big challenge noshing

a bus in islamabad thank you very much for that thank you. take a look at some other stories making news around the ones in mumbai thousands of fans have gathered to mourn the iconic bollywood actress she gave the investigators say see baby drowned accidentally in a hotel boxed up in dubai over the weekend she was fifty four years ago it. us present trump son and lord child krishna has reportedly been stripped of his top level security clearance had got interim permission to receive top secret information in his role as a white house senior adviser said to be one of the several aides whose clearance was downgraded. christian leaders have reopened the church of the holy settle in jerusalem one of christianity's most holy sites the church leaders close a sacred site for three days to protest against proposed israeli tax legislation

they say amounts to a land grab israeli officials suspended the planned measures on tuesday. the e.u. has unveiled a long awaited draft drags a treaty that threatens to trigger new arguments with britain on key issues something you negotiate or michel barnier was very very off when he presented the hundred and twenty page draft a few minutes ago in brussels he wants london the time was running out soon. so if we wish to make a success of these negotiations and i certainly do we must pick up the pace. of on the thirtieth of march twenty ninth teen in thirteen months in thirteen months the u.k. will no longer be a member state of the european union says. that is what they wanted and on that day we need to have organized its withdrawal in an orderly fashion.

so that was michel barnier speaking a short while ago in brussels joining me from there now is the don't be a correspondent barbara visit mother michelle bania said there were significant points of disagreement what are the key issues in stumbling blocks in this draft treaty. no the biggest issue indeed is time because as much money has said over and over again the clock is ticking and in london nobody seems to be listening so now they have finally agreed to meet again to negotiate to continue negotiations next week because between christmas and now nothing has really happened and it's not the fault of brussels we have to add from here and then of course there are really issues that are connected to the content off disagreement for instance the arlen question there is the question of which court is going to arbitrate which court is going to oversee the relations between the united kingdom and the european union

after breakfast at the e.u. says it has to be the european court of justice the brits say no it has to be some other body but they haven't really proposed to which body it could be or who could sit on it and so on and so forth and so we have a long list of detailed citizens' rights for instance have not been satisfactory really resolved and then we have the whole transition period the time after breaks it where we more or less have a legal status quo and there britain has sort of put some special proposals that the e.u. rejects so we're stuck on that it is fairly much a mess in legal terms and is above it what you're saying is a huge list of undeserved issues you mention ireland now back in december it was promised it would not be a hard border but that now seems to be in danger what happened. what happened is that britain didn't really make any proposals till then there are three options for

not having a hard border in ireland the one is that if things simply stay as they are that means northern ireland has to remain within the customs union and the common market britain screams and says no that is impossible that is meddling in our constitutional affairs ok so that would be off the table however you wrote that down industry in this agreement because there is nothing else the other way would be written stays within the customs union for instance which in and says no we don't want that we want out and the third possibility would be that britain proposes the solution but it hasn't done so so far so we are sort of stuck was number three was the was the one proposal it says ok northern ireland has to stay in the e.u. and then in the e.u. regulations so we are sort of turning in circles there and it seems really intractable the solution is nowhere to be seen another you mention time was the

biggest problem so what are the chances that this deadline for a final treaty will be made to be if you can. the deadline the first deadline was supposed to be the next summit at the end of march now that will that is off the table michel barnier has now said we're looking at october november probably to get to a transition agreement and to get to a divorce agreement so we have a few more months when are we going to talk about the future nobody knows it looks more and more as if the negotiations are really running up against a wall dr dubrow visit in brussels always a pleasure to talk to you. ok christiane joins me now on the multi billion dollar a deal between chemicals john's buy and months until i couldn't get the get go ahead that's right i'm reading there are unconfirmed sources saying the european commission is likely to approve the deal under certain conditions that's according to the news agency reuters now the takeover was announced in late twenty sixteen

and initially buyer had wanted to complete the sixty two point five billion dollars runs action by the beginning of the year but irregulars extended the review period into april as a deal of such massive proportions has made competition watchdogs quite nervous. the u.s. food and drug administration has threatened to take buyer products off the market there the regulator says production processes of buyers older medications have been substandard since january two thousand and seventeen c.e.o. vanno polman is tackling the problem but by or has had to set aside several hundred million euros to cushion the effects of any sales or production shortfalls the company is also spending a fortune buying up u.s. herbicide and seed manufacturer monsanto the deal came with a price tag of fifty five billion euros to be funded largely from equity and bond issues buyer is also having to shed assets from its crop science division such as

seed production to allay competition authority fears and thirty countries all of them have to give their blessing to the deal the european commission's verdict is expected in april. right now by its biggest project is the monsanto takeover. though it's also under pressure from the f.d.a. to modernize. and franks it has its own potential challenges. after britain leaves the e.u. it will become harder to license medications in the e.u. and in britain but by can at least fall back on bulging tougher as and it performed well in two thousand and seventeen like most of germany's chemical and pharmaceutical companies two thousand and eighteen is also expected to be a good year and that would be good for buyers hundred thousand global employees as well who all benefit from the company's profit sharing scheme well for more let's

cross over to our markets correspondent daniel daniel now this long awaited takeover could finally be approved what's the market's word on that. yes you're right it could be approved but investors are still not very satisfied that all of this has been taking very very long the c.e.o. of bio pointed out that two thousand and seventeen was a year with apps and downs but investors are also not very optimistic about this here and yes it seems now that the european union is. thinking about this and that it most likely is going to prove this one of course is extremely crucial and important because of all of this by a has announced at the merger the biggest we have had so far in the german corporate history will be pushed back and into the second quarter of this year the original sound remember was at the beginning of two thousand and eighteen and we're

hearing that the latest review for a death line of the european union is going to be in april but do all these concerns justify the buyer shares being traded three percent lower today. yeah exactly there are a couple of reasons at first the outlook for two thousand and eighteen is not that promising it's supposed to be pretty much at the same level as two thousand and seventeen and investors are not very satisfied because the dividend they will receive is just ten cents higher compared to two thousand and seventeen so yeah that's what they are also not that much happy about the new pope in frankfurt thank you. now 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 cords that a diesel powered cars can be banned from certain cities the move comes in a bid to combat air pollution but small businesses particular are hoping for exemptions. the idea of small can normally conjures up notions of bustling

capitals but lynn is just one of seventy german cities notorious for breaking legal at 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 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. that's and i in fact stop it. carmakers

marketed diesels as the environmentally friendly choice they burn less fuel per mile and amid 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 f 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 confuse trifles . that's why we hope for a reasonable nationwide regulation. diesels will stay your job in streets from now whether they'll be restricted in some

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