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we'll make sure we can even wanted. brain surgery starting march twenty fourth on g.w. . this is the w. news live from berlin the syrian army tightens its grip on eastern guta as airstrikes palam the opposition stronghold rebel forces and their families begin to flee but as ground forces close and many don't trust the regime's offer of safe passage. and we'll see the siege of kuta from the inside detail do you brings you exclusive images sent to us from the syrian on clay. also coming up the murder of
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a journalist leads to slovakia as the biggest protest in a decade in decades rather tens of thousands take to the streets to demand an end to corruption and call for the prime minister to step down this after the brutal killing of jan could see at this final article probes links between the government and the italian mafia. on michelle henery welcome to the program syrian state television says rebel fighters and their families have begun to leave the opposition stronghold of eastern ghouta the news came on the day that much needed aid reached the besieged enclave after being delayed for days by fighting. syrian state t.v. showed these images of a small group of al nusra front fighters and their families boarding a bus in eastern guta. it said they'll be taken to areas controlled by the
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government and it's promising them safe passage to rebel held live province even though the government views them as terrorists. despite the profound devastation in ghouta most opposition groups are rejecting the government's offer to evacuate. earlier and emergency aid convoy deliver desperately needed supplies to residents this should be enough to feed twelve thousand people for one month but almost four hundred thousand people have been living under government siege in eastern guta for five years the delivery was interrupted by renewed fighting. in the past month russian backed regime forces have intensified airstrikes to clear the way for troops advancing on the ground. they've already taken over half of the enclaves territory of the syrian military gains have caused wide scale displacement. more than a thousand people have been killed. that number could rise sharply if the onslaught
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continues. and we're joined now by not at all cyrus from a desk who are the fighters that have been evacuated these are fighters from the nusra front in the store front which is called now. the liberation organization of the for the. levant. it's affiliated with al qaida and they are now they were arrested by other jihadist group the gesture of islam or the army of the slum and they were fighting with them couple of months ago and handed them over now to to the government of the syrian government the syrian government will allow them to go to adlib that's also. controlled by opposition groups is this a sign that more rebels are preparing to leave i do not think so. mr front is
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just a small fraction of the rebels who control eastern ghouta and the syrian government didn't show any intention to let the jihadist fighters or the opposition fighters to go out of the right now. we will come back to you but first to an exclusive look at the situation facing civilians in ghouta d.w. has obtained video filmed by a resident it's a firsthand look inside the rebel enclave that has been subjected to some of the worst bombing of syria's civil war. six in the morning in the town after. a few minutes ago a bomb struck by rousing residents from their sleep alarms they quickly sought safety in their basements. this footage was sent by a resident to his relatives in berlin who passed it on to us. so my name is our son of darla's ease. i'm
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a resident of the town of duma in eastern guta. i'm sitting at home and will show you my every day life and how we live our deceit in the midst of war in eastern. hasan abdel aziz us home suffered heavy damage looking at the furnishings it's clear that he must have been wealthy shipping the neighborhood is in ruins. was home to around one and a half million people that number has fallen to less than four hundred thousand. that's not. over there where the pump is there were apartment buildings with hundreds of families. and. the shelling has destroyed everything. so. the people here refuse to give up struggling every day just to survive they have to be creative. for. each one of these hoses leads to an
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apartment. or beside the residents are fifteen minutes of power there so they can fill up their water tanks during a lull in the fighting many people go into the streets children especially happy to be outdoors but that changes quickly. one just launched an air strike. at the greengrocer's hasan abdel aziz has little to choose from possibly garlic cabbage and cauliflower all in small. it's been a long time since tomatoes and potatoes were lost office here. the farms of have all been destroyed there's no longer a new yorker proper away and. most people have something to grow things in their own gardens. he says the owner of a small shop this elderly man once just so the loss of his dishes recently his home
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was bombed and now he needs the money to buy bread but then he won't have any more dishes at home how do you want to eat and drink. what should i eat and drink or eat just once a day. another asked strike on a sunday hassan abdel aziz finds shelter in his basement dozens of people hide in the town sprawling tunnel system sometimes they stay several days but no place is totally secure against the repeated shelling and air raids. not or allstar us from our arabic service your journalist prepared that exclusive report from. the can you tell us why girlish there on the ground aren't reporting. michel you have to know that was being besieged since two thousand and thirteen so nobody can go out or. into. it's very hard to get in
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and out so people that can report from there are normal citizens are journalist citizens that they call them and those are the people that we rely on when we need footage and we need exclusive material or. footage from from the ground and what can you tell us about his son. who we saw in the report a son of that as an electrician he's an mit in his mid sixty's and it was a hard time for us to convince and we contacted many people. my colleagues moon and about and worked on this report tried for one week to contact many people and after a many efforts he agreed to. shoot this footage from us and show the real life the real daily life and the challenges that people have the day on the ground. he said that it's very hard to transport the material because they
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have very little electricity maybe fifteen minutes a day they rely on solar panels to charge their. mobile phones they're actually we saw in the longer report that we show this evening. we saw small solar panels for charging the phone the internet is very expensive and it's very poor very weak so it was very expensive for him to send us the material they send as per via what's app so that's why the material is very poor quality but it's a send take and we now know how people really live their their daily life they're under shelling and under these concerts conditions and do you think that he'll be able to send you a bit more in the days ahead i hope so i hope that we will stay in contact with him and that maybe he's lucky that the bombing will stop and maybe he's lucky to
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go out of eastern good of a. you can never know people live there it's like some some colleague said it's like russian roulette you never know when the next bomb comes and if you can if you will survive it not at all cyrus thank you very much. and you can see the full length exclusive report from good news reporter program you can watch it on today or stream it online at d w dot com now some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump says a deal with north korea would be very good for the world his comments made in a tweet came after criticism of his pledge to meet face to face with the country's leader kim jong un the white house says the meeting will only go ahead if pyongyang makes concrete concessions. protests against nuclear power have been taking place near the fukushima power plant in japan ahead of sunday seven year anniversary of
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the tsunami that triggered a meltdown there now a barrier meant to contain radiation is failing which could jeopardize efforts to decamp temin at the site. french president emanuel back wrong says he wants his country to be india's best partner in europe he's begun a four day visit to india but strengthening trading climate and security ties the two nations plan to boost their military cooperation in the indian ocean where china has been flexing its muscles. mass protests have taken place across the as the country reels from last month's murder of investigative reporter yan could see ike and his fiance tens of thousands of people packed brought us all of a central square demanding a full investigation and a change of government. it's been decades since slovakia has seen such large protests people nationwide are outraged by the double murder of the young journalist and his fiance twenty seven year old yuan coote siac had published
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research about connections between italy's mafia and slovakian politicians there's now a tremendous mistrust of the government. we need new elections were people can freely waltz be their own new government which they can trust again. and e.u. delegation visited slovakia for two days met with prime minister robert feet so opposition politicians and journalists they wanted to learn more about the investigation into the murder of this london spot as the country is deeply divided there's a great deal of mistrust enormous mistrust of the government of state employees of the police state prosecutors who in a large part are no longer trusted to carry out the investigations. the e.u. delegation also travelled to the small village of dhaka much of fifty kilometers east of the capital there they visited the scene of the couple's murder. this terrible and criminal tragedy will be investigated as quickly as possible and those
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responsible will be held accountable. it's the double murder has thrown slovakia into a deep political crisis in parliament the opposition has now submitted a vote of no confidence against the government. the winter paralympics are underway in south korea more than five hundred sixty athletes will only fifty countries will compete in the biggest went her paralympics in history but before the sporting action got underway athletes and fans were treated to an inspirational opening ceremony on friday night. there was something for everyone at the paralympics opening ceremony traditional. k. pop. and displays of visual perfection. that stealing the spotlight was the highly anticipated torch lighting if that wasn't enough to get the athletes pumped the president of the international
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paralympic committee also had a motivational message. guaranteeing the ends. you are here in record numbers keep fighting play fair have fun and keep pushing your limits but above though keep dreaming. unlike at the olympics south and north korea did not march at the opening ceremony under a unified flag the reason a disagreement over which version of the unified flag to use still cannot korea defers ever paralympics. games may not be able to change the world but for the athletes taking part it can change their life's. germany's bundesliga is underway again and it took just one moment of brilliance from shock as daniel caligiuri to settle matters against mines on friday night the royal blue
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midfielder outfoxed five months players before firing off unstoppable shot in the fifty fifth minute to one nil victory shaka can sit back and enjoy the rest of the weekend's action in second place minds meanwhile remain deep in the struggle to avoid relegation. you're watching d.w. news from berlin more coming at the top of the hour thanks for joining us. my first vice like most sewing machine. where i come from women are almost by the social tools even something as simple as learning how to write a by side posies and. since i was in the good i wanted to have both by saved a lot of my home and it took me years to them but there's. finally they gave up an
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