this is deja vu news live from berlin and syrian forces say they split rebel forces in eastern guta government soldiers reportedly surround it begun place largest city dubai as airstrikes pound the last opposition stronghold near the capital many civilians remain trapped there we'll go online to our correspondent for the latest . and we'll see what life is like in duma as government forces tighten their grip we'll have exclusive images from inside the embattled syrian enclave. and the

winter paralympics are underway with a dazzling opening ceremony in pyongyang setting the stage for the biggest competition of its kind. by michelle henery welcome to the program. syrian forces have reportedly split weapon held eastern guta a monitoring group says they've surrounded the largest city duma the advance comes after a much too late a delivery was able to reach the area in the past few hours syrian state television showed rebel fighters and their families leaving but many are staying put saying they don't trust the government's promise of safe passage. 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

government and it's promising them safe passage to rebel held in 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 games have caused wide scale displacement more than a thousand people have been killed. that number could rise sharply if the onslaught continues. correspondent on child maura is following developments from beirut in

neighboring lebanon. as the syrian army now effectively divided eastern ghouta into parts. well these are the reports that we're getting answers a lot of people that outspoken do in damascus and. damascus that in fact has the we still are waiting for a public relations leader that's remember that abdul donald groups that control or that they'll argue in one is something back to some of the other. markets that generally that the city energy has sort of getting all our innovating in the last minute they have been in the religiously doing over the last specially is for mrs robarts lives in just the center of this and there are and a member of the city and then a former medical sadness the bird to us that over the last two three days there has been an intensive or a bit bomb struck and now you think this mine generous enough of the people who

arrived has said that it had a man head on it has been split into two by the syrian army and the militias which supported the assad regime amid all the bombing rebel still resisting. because after this alaska commission we got from there two hours ago but since this commission has come in or the regime in fact has asked that the are going to do. badly done us actually have the best our active duty have been insisting that they will not be accepting that mission leave but they want to stay on their land and if the two hundred sixty list of the most of which were. announced of the lead to the then the english them up and in that they didn't send last night and thirteen of these. past them in the length of the want there is no comment that saw party have

been saying it was assist the regime and will continue to be innocent. what is happening to the hundreds of thousands of civilians who are still in the enclave. i mean this is such a sad story that will just go left or damaged i suppose because of all our thousands of parents of two hundred ninety thousand plus to the specific us the incest civilians are still there more some of these are events and their families that a lot of these a number of those people are civilians the lavishing in the suv they're living in basements there's not enough to eat that's not enough if we think it's people who are not in some radical mosque in leeds and essentially some never want to get up in the queues that are about not letting them get up there the snipers are not met in the nice because if the civilians feed them their votes will ask another jump that we've spoken to they don't want to leave their mother have the international community even solve the crisis because they've seen the conditions are for civilians who refugees in other parts of the world or those who have the need to be

displaced in the. where they are the condition is such the bombing is so intense that people certainly would like to lead in that direction given seemed it's over for us it's do big wasn't too small last but not many people have managed to get up last either only thirteen civilians or the last two weeks managed to leave the. arch of war and beirut thank you for the update. and now to an exclusive look at the situations facing civilians in ghouta d.-w. has obtained video filmed by a resident it's a firsthand look inside the rebel held on claim that it's 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 relative in berlin who passed it on to us. so my name is our son dollars ease. i'm 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 under siege 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. eastern ghouta was home to around one and a half million people that number has fallen to less than four hundred thousand. that's kind of good over there where the pump is there were apartment buildings with hundreds of families. and. the shelling has destroyed

everything good 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 apartment. beside the residents try fifteen minutes of power so they can fill up their water tanks are 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 amounts it's been a long time since tomatoes and potatoes were lost office here. you know i'm just not the forms of have all been destroyed there's no longer any our cultural land.

most people have something to grow things in their own gardens you know. the owner of a small shop faced elderly men once just so the loss of his dishes recently his home 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 i eat just once a day. another strike on eastern ghouta hasan 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 her allstar us from our arabic service your journalist prepared that exclusive report from guta but can you tell us why girlish there on the ground aren't reporting. michelle 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 and out so the people that can report from there are normal citizens are journalists citizens that they are called in 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 hassan. who we saw in the report. is 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 instead of. my colleagues. about. i worked on this report tried for one week to contact many people and after a many efforts he agreed to. shoot this footage for us and show

the real live the real daily life and the challenges that people have there on the ground. he said that it's very hard to transport the material because they have very little electricity maybe sixty minutes a day they rely on solar panels to charge their. mobile phones they're actually we saw in the longer report that we showed this evening. we saw a 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 as material really live there their daily life there 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

go out of eastern good of a. you can never know people living 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. you can see the full length exclusive report from good reporter program you can watch it on you 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 the deal with north korea would be quote very good for the world his comments made in a tweet come 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 young young makes concrete concessions. protests against nuclear power have been taking place in the fukushima power plant in japan ahead of sunday's seven year anniversary of the tsunami that triggered a meltdown there now

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