this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin a temporary truce for a second day in syria monitored groups say there were clashes before the russian ordered cease fire which saw syrian forces advance into the rebel held on cable. but still no sign of civilians using a designated humanitarian corridor to leave also coming up the top briggs if they go see that today on the beaches of draft treaty that's likely to trigger new arguments with britain and time is running up the u.k. is set to leave the bloc in just

a radio. also in the program honestly when some signed me to speak across much of europe being subzero temperatures extreme weather warnings are in place in many countries as the cold front blankets even the continent's south an edge is good snow. i don't welcome i'm. for the second day a temporary truce ordered by russia failed to create a window for humanitarian relief in syria's eastern cruta amounted to a group says a barrage of airstrikes preceded the cease fire pushing for with the advance of syrian government troops on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold they've also been reports of ground battles during riaz the truce was supposed to be still in effect and still no signs 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 besieged residents in the rebel held enclave strikes were reported during the pause and observers say that syrian government warplanes resumed 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 unused rebels claim people are refusing to leave on buses out of fear of being captured by government forces. and i bought a movie and really 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 you must 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. but that's not how the u.s. state department sees it. russia is certainly not hearing to the cease fire they're not adhering to the cease fire because they continue to sponsor him back to 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 aid groups are still waiting to deliver desperately needed supplies so imagine. that if you have aid being able to be there that we can imagine it's really getting got most of it for the people inside the residence of eastern are going to use a brief lull in the fighting to clear the rubble and hope the next pause brings real relief. me down draw indeed obvious correspondent out into to in moscow oh welcome our not quite clearly this is

a five hour. did he choose is not working in easton 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 that 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 they refer to them 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 un peace or a peace resolution but rather on the cease fire deal which was passed last weekend and i didn't meanwhile that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has been speaking to the human rights council in geneva let's just 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 which is the turn of the militants in this sponsors to want the militants who continue shelling damascus looking a delivery 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 day. quite clearly blaming the rebels for the bombing which is at the break in this season 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 will lead well in the short term i don't will 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 ceasefire 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 turkey 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 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 the question is when will actually go into effect and right now it doesn't really seem to be an indication that that will be in the near future. ivan tilton in moscow thank you very much for that. they started look at some other stories making news around the

wise afghan president of ghani has offered a truce to the taliban at a peace conference in kabul gunnies says a deal could include recognizing the extremist group as a political party if the taliban accepts peace and the afghan constitution more than ten thousand of gone civilians were killed or injured last year amid conflict with the taliban us president donald trump's son in law in charge couche now has reportedly been stripped of his top level security clearance had got into them permission to receive top secret information in his role as a white house senior advisor but now krishna said to be one of several aides whose clearance was downgraded christian leaders have reopened the church of the holy settler in jerusalem one of christianity's most holy sites the church leaders closed the sacred site for three days to protest against proposed israeli tax

legislation this is a amounts to a land grab israeli officials suspended the planned measures on tuesday. the e.u. has unveiled a long awaited draft bragg's a treaty that threatens to trigger new arguments with britain on key issues something the e.u. negotiated by the year was rarely wear off when presenting the hundred and twenty page draft a short while ago in brussels he wants london the time was running out. soon you will see 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 nine 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

speaking a short while ago in brussels joining me from there now is the don't be a correspondent bob modern mission bania said there was significant points of disagreement what are the key issues in sounding blocks in the draft. no the biggest issue indeed is time because as michel barnier 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 of this agreement 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 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 break that 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 a better fit 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 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 in 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 that says ok northern ireland has to stay in the e.u. and then in the e.u. regulations and 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 briefly 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 rudd dumba visit in brussels always a pleasure to talk to you. siberian cold fronts to her with much of europe in its icy clutches it sent temperatures plunging across the continent and triggered extreme weather warnings for several regions. that beast from the east continues to stalk its way across europe freezing rivers blocking roads and causing general destruction across the continent and britain heavy snowfall in parts of the country

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