this is the w. news live from berlin the u.n. human rights chief warns of all out destruction in syria's eastern ghouta and beyond next month for the month after it will be somewhere else where people first time apocalypse and a prescription turn good around them executed by individuals within the government . but can the united nations do anything more to stop the brutal conflict besides praising the alarming plus britain and russia trade accusations and denials as the

former russian spy fights for his life after being exposed to a mystery substance we take a look at the international fallout and more white house may have donald trump's top economic advisor barry cullen resigns over the president's threat to ignore the dangers of a trade war and impose tariffs on steel and aluminum. i'm sorry kelly welcome thanks for joining us amounting threat of further devastation in syria of the u.n. human rights chief warns the syrian government and its foreign allies are planning more destruction to follow the siege of eastern ghouta here's more of what he had to say in his annual report to the human rights council. this month it is eastern water which is in the words of the sector general hell on earth next month or the

month after it will be somewhere else were people first and apocalypse an apocalypse intended planned and executed by individuals within the government apparently with the full backing of some of the foreign supporters and that was. same they're presenting the us annual human rights report in geneva and meanwhile syrian state t.v. says that government troops have advanced into eastern ghouta in an effort to slice the besieged enclave into two the brutal air and ground assaults has become one of the fiercest battles of the civil war more than eight hundred civilians have been killed in the regime's attempt to seize the rebel held enclave. in eastern guta death lurks at every corner. the struggle for survival here is ceaseless sustained shelling on the city has led to the u.n.

calling this the deadliest week for the syrian town since a cease fire was brokered at the end of last month and even after. the. children have been the worst affected by. this camera man stops to rescue a severely injured infant the image too graphic to show. the u.n. children's fund says the situation is desperate. the first two months of this year have been especially bloody for children we have received reports of over one thousand should one who were killed and seriously injured in the whole syria only since the year began. monday brought some reprieve aid trucks reached the embattled area for the first time since the offensive began. despite the excitement the world food program once it's far from enough. up to four hundred

thousand people trapped on the inside of these people are living under siege and by that we mean there are serious shortages medical assistance of food food insecurity is very high the u.n. security council will hold urgent talks later today on the failure of the thirty day cease fire but with no end to the war in sight the people of east and go to remain in agony. and ahead of those u.n. talks today i spoke earlier with the u.n. human rights office spokeswoman. sonnie from geneva i asked her who's to blame for the humanitarian crisis in syria the syrian government first and foremost is to blame but the international community shares this thing it's been seven years now since the conflict in syria up again and there has been not one step taken by the security council to show that it is resolute and concerted in bringing this

conflict to an end and in bringing the perpetrators of these created by and actions of human rights and humanitarian law to account we're looking at pictures of destruction there hey you know syrians they have endured violence on a huge scale for years now how would you assess the threats to the population how have they changed over the last year. you know when it when it really struck me about your coverage and here was that you said that images of children syria were too graphic to be shown on television let's think about that for a second when images of children are too graphic to be shown on television that tells you that something is seriously wrong these attacks that the syrian government and its allies are cleaning up to root out terrorist groups when you cannot show pictures of children on television these attacks are clearly not getting the targets they are hitting civilians and we know that the u.n.

that you have been involved in efforts to broker a cease fire we know that the last u.n. back cease fire failed to take hold in eastern go to what in your assessment needs to change for any truce to hold going forward well the security council i understand they're holding an ocean meeting today they need to talk about a cease fire that can actually hold to put concrete measures into the cease fire for it to hold and they need to hold all the parties to the conflict to account to ensure that it's there's an urgent need for humanitarian aid to be able to go in and as we saw that the convoy that did finally manage to go in up to such an all time only partially succeeded at turnaround there needs to be very complete action and one of the things that we've been calling folk of any years now is for the security council to take action towards accountability when the security council shows that it is so reluctant to push for syria to be reproached to the national court that sends a message to the parties to the conflict that they can carry on with business as

usual i want to drill down and talk a little bit more about one of the partners in this conflict. and ask for your assessment on their claims because we know that the un human rights chief also dismissed syrian government claims about its campaign in eastern good to as being ridiculous what is the government saying and where do its claims breakdown in your view. the government is saying that this is. a targeted you know very targeted cappie against terrorist groups now we do not deny that there are groups that are extremist and there are there are jihadist groups but if you're talking about a few hundred scientists this is an area that is utilize an area with possibly four hundred thousand these who have been under siege for many years now they haven't had access to their basic necessities there's been a shortage of food medicine and we now have reports of thousands of injured civilians and these injured severely and still not that says to medical care and

they don't know where they can go there is no evacuation possible they didn't even want to leave so these claims that this is you know a targeted attack against terrorist groups as the high commissioner said it is ridiculous or if you're not from the signing we would like to thank you this morning for joining us to share that message as we mentioned you are the spokesperson for the u.n. human rights office we appreciate it thank you. and let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world the united states has announced more sanctions on north korea this after washington formally concluded that the country used chemical weapons to assassinate the half brother of leader kim jong naan at kuala lumpur airport last year kim jong naam died after a nerve agent was sprayed in his face. tree lanka has declared a state of emergency after anti muslim violence bombs made up of the majority buddhist population attacked muslim owned shops and homes and at least two people

have been killed the government has deployed soldiers to riot areas and imposed a curfew. this winter has been the arctic's warmest ever with sea ice levels at record lows scientists say the unusually warm temperatures there are part of a global warming driven cycle that as likely played a role in the icy winter storms that have recently have europe and the united states. the war of words is as collating after these suspected poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. sergei st paul and ex russian intelligence officer was struck down alongside his daughter by a mystery substance the pair were taken critically ill on sunday in the southern city of salisbury this security camera footage is of keen interest to british counterterror thirty's it could show a couple merely taking

a nonchalant stroll but police are investigating anyone who was in the area around the time former russian spy said and his daughter yulia collapsed near a shopping center on sunday this alleyway connects salisbury's restaurant where the couple are reported to have dined and the park bench where they were found unconscious. days later large areas remain cordoned off investigators have extensively decontaminated several locations including the nearby hospital where they were taken police have moved to reassure the public calling the measure of routine yet the incident is anything but that. scry paul was a colonel in russia's military intelligence service he was arrested in russia in two thousand and four and convicted of spying for britain two years later in two thousand and ten he was freed as part of a high level spy exchange now screwball on his thirty three year old daughter yulia are fighting for their lives british foreign minister boris johnson says the case

echoes the death by poisoning of former russian agent alexander litvinenko and is promising a tough response of investigators do find evidence of foreign involvement though i'm not pointing fingers because we care is because your standpoint features i say to governments around the world. that no attempt to take innocent life on u.k. soil will go either unsanctioned or unpunished. others are pointing fingers directly at the kremlin. and there are men with hazmat suits walking around solsbury on the edge of terrorist police and so the obvious conclusion or the obvious theory i should say is that this was a russian. organized assassination attempt. russia is strongly denying any involvement in the case. just in the way out it's difficult to evaluate the story as anything other than provocative media allegations intended to further exacerbate

relations between our countries. toxicologists are still working to identify the unknown substance that caused and his daughter to fall so violently ill. and for more let's bring in his very own emily sure one who is standing by with the latest from moscow and emily as we just heard there russia stands accused of being behind this is it certain that they are and how has the reaction been there in moscow. well the reaction has been a definite denial this morning the foreign ministry spokeswoman has the heart of a said again that these allegations look designed to worsen u.k. russian relations and she also called this a u.k. anti russian campaign yesterday she also strongly denied any of these accusations and called boris johnson's words why old now you have to understand that here in

russia as well well first of all the foreign minister is right in the sense that there haven't been any conclusions from the investigation which the spokeswoman pointed out as well she said that this was you know a bit too early to be making political conclusions and she also you have to understand that this is part of a narrative here in russia that's popular among politicians as well as people here on the streets people very much believe that there is a an anti russian western campaign going on which includes the western sanctions as well as these doping accusations and now of course these new accusations. against russia as well but not everyone buys into that story emily and i'd like to just play a sound bite now for our viewers to highlight one of those views we spoke with bill brower a kremlin critic and author this is what he had to say i want to play it and then get your reaction there after. putin has to create these vicious circumstances for

traders and they did that with alexander litvinenko the man who was murdered in london with polonium. back ten years ago and more than ten years ago and and they've done that with other people all over the world there that this is that this is that for anybody who is a trader is it made out the most harsh punishment and it doesn't matter whether they're a foreign country or russia this is the kind of thing that happens to traders and really what are we to make of that is it fair to make this in france says. well there are those are definitely strong words there from bill browder you have to point out of course that there have been some high profile deaths of opponents of the russian government over the years however there are often in most cases hasn't been any direct evidence linking the kremlin to those deaths and russia has

always denied denied being linked and in this case bill browder is pointing out the case of exxon that he'd been yankel in particular. russian spy who died in two thousand and six after his tea was poisoned. and there are a lot of parallels in that case as well russia denies being linked but you have to remember that city hall was actually part of voluntary spy swap that took place in two thousand and ten so russia gave him up voluntarily and also relations with the west are already pretty bad between the west and russia and between the u.k. and russia things were just getting better. johnson made his first state visit to russia just a few months ago after five years after relations worsened after this yankel case in particular so it wouldn't really be in russia's interest to worsen those relations particularly ahead of the presidential elections and ahead of the world

cup that's coming up this year. sure when in moscow thank you. you're watching news still to come on the program a dresden court could have down the harshest verdict against right wing extremists in germany since the end of the second world war who are the accused the so-called tell group. but in the meantime over in the united states the trumpet ministration in the headlines again a change up that the white house once again a people are also going with this tariff dispute whether a trade war has already begun to begin the e.u. trade commission has put peanut butter orange juice and bourbon on the anti trump tower if it's known and looks a lot like the scenario that economists had been warning about including the white house economic adviser gary code and now he has resigned becoming the latest high ranking official leaving the trumpet administration. writers about the how wall

street journal called him an economic policy powerhouse gary cohn was a key architect of trump's tax cut it may have been framed as economic populism but to the former head of investment bank goldman sachs it was common sense but his boss ignored coincide advice on another key issue we are excited about our tax plan as well we will be imposing tariffs on steel imports and tariffs on ports and you can see a lot of good things happening and that was apparently too much for conan who reportedly spent weeks warning the president that protectionist policies would only harm u.s. interests and anger key allies of the mine there is literally nothing to be guy ends. up in the united states at all from imposing tariffs on a stride in steel exports so that's so we've made a very strong case and. we're continuing to mike attention

now turns to who will take place at the podium where the president is denying rumors of a shortage of top flight candidates individuals so many people want to come in i have a choice of anybody i could take any position in the white house and i'll have a choice of the ten top people having to do with that position everybody wants to be there and they love this white house because we have energy like rarely before the other really as gary cohn prepares to leave the white house markets are once again on edge amid fears the president could now be free to launch a full scale trade war. and surely announce that my colleague max hoffman spoke to band along at the chairman of the e.u.'s trade commission who provided some background on the stance in the face of protective tariffs from the u.s. . so like it wouldn't it be counterproductive now to retaliate to the measures that the u.s. will probably install on steel and aluminum i'm talking about the tariffs of course

you know we should to make it clear you opinion statement against this. announced by the united states because it's not related to dumping or subsidies cases is really to close a market of the united states and this is another man's ruling of a double kyoto and therefore we need to reaction from the of insight but isn't that looking at how trump has governed how you react isn't that the spark that really would start a trade war i would not say to a dog but stick to the real sticking to the rule of. also in our countermeasures. i think the united states have to learn that this is an international would based system and they should stick to this as well but do you think this is going to work because trump doesn't dislike smalltime lateral institutions he dislikes the trade system and all that it doesn't appear that this will have much success we talked a lot to him. without any success you're quite right this is really the top

of a lot of measures he made and at the end of the day we have to reflect if there is a need for a plan b. . was all a human understates so the e.u.'s the last guardian of the free trade system as we've known it in the last years not a really free tade let's say very system of course also safeguards and other possibilities but we need a predictable system and this is a would based system thank you very much for talking to us it's not just. well it's good night here how investors are reacting to the resignation of trump's top economic adviser is it frank that stock exchange for us really was the what that. well it's certainly clear to the people here the trade war is not just looming it's moving closer and we just heard the statement that you would be well

advised to condor react or to react and then perhaps provoke another counter measure and then more and more countries perhaps drawing and it's hard to control process once it gets underway and that's what people are fearing and especially for the car industry there are more concrete fears even though north tariffs have been levied yet or even decided upon but it sure looks that way that's what investors think in-car shares here are among the few losers a dime learned v.w. the biggest losers in a market that has generally caught its breath and is now on the way up here in germany at least it looks like more share price losses for wall street asia was down the dollar is down and so was oil over worries that this could spill over into the world economy negatively partly choking off that call make is enough unease seems that they had o.p.'s a pleasure city plan is news impatience when it comes to break that. he finally wants clarity on the how the brics it is going to look because he needs

to make decisions now he makes clear on the future of the ellesmere port factory for example for vauxhall which p.s.a. push rossa trun has taken over along with opel and they need to make that decision soon he warns and a major trade union representative said mr tavares is right in the way that he's worried but he should use this basically as a stick to talk about the closure of the plant but i think that's exactly what the executive wants he wants to make clear once what is that stake here and that the politicians do their homework quickly eight hundred eight hundred jobs in ellesmere port. city thoughts press in frankfurt thank you very much. over to sara now and all eyes on a german court absolutely this is a really big case here helena a verdict in fact in one of the most notorious cases of right wing extremism is expected to be announced today eight defendants have stood trial and he dressed in

court on charges of attacking refugee housing and political opponents and of having founded a terrorist organization the so-called. in twenty fifteen protests like this one gave voice to discontent in parts of germany over the arrival of nearly a million refugees at one protest in the eastern town of seven men and one woman became acquainted there after the so-called fight on group met regularly that a gas station where they allegedly planned attacks five attacks followed group members allegedly targeted refugee accommodation left party offices and a housing project for refugee aid workers all confined to. the defendants have been on trial for a year on accusations of forming

a terrorist organization and carrying out the attempted murder authorities say only by chance where the victims not killed or seriously injured the group's two ringleaders face up to eleven years in prison and the other six members could be jailed from five to nine years. while in sports related news four time olympic champion both farah is claiming that he was racially harassed by security staff at a german airport he posted on instagram in the aftermath of what he said was undue touching as he went through security and as he spoke of his camera phone farah was approached by another security officer check this out. pure pure wrestling. oh yes it was in reality there's a there's a gate you don't need to put me as we look he's pushing your theory pushing we don't need to push it over that again you don't need to push me your life you can

touch me. you can touch me i can touch you go they stop pushing to push me good you should. let me turn you to grab me leave me alone we were going to get your business you're on the ground live. here you're pushing me so as you're seeing there the huge is your dialogue of low fare out a new see the reaction of the police there the thirty four year old britain was travelling from munich to ethiopia at the time and in a later statement farah said that he felt that the incidents were racially motivated eunuch airport officials say that they are investigating ferrous allegations. well now to one lawmaker's quest here in germany to push the patriarchy and any traces of naziism out of the national anthem the tune praises among other things the fatherland but she faces a public that is divided over whether to tinker with this tradition.

germany's national soccer team players know the words of the national anthem by heart as do the members of the german buddhist talk. but in the future will they be singing another tune. this is the ministry of family affairs equal opportunities officer christine nicholls the moving of the s.p.d. she wants to rewrite the anthem sneer extern make them gender neutral. then it would no longer be for the german fatherland but instead for the german homeland and instead of brotherly with heart in hand courageously with heart and hand. ok but how would it sound. as though it's. just they haven't.

no i don't know why should we change the anthem or the lyrics i wonder and i would not agree with that. and for standing them it i like it the way it is it's traditional that's so this is twenty eighteen it's ok to question these things and start these kinds of debates and i'm totally for it but if you put a few and what about the chancellor of german government spokesman says fundamental is very happy with the anthem as it is. and with that you are up to date now on news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thank you so much for joining us.

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