this is news live from berlin the syrian army makes further advances in eastern kentucky government soldiers have reportedly surrounded the wrong place launches tell me too much as strikes around the last opposition stronghold near the capital damascus thousands of civilians remain shrugs. meanwhile life is increasingly desperate to new duma its government forces tightening their grip there we have exclusive footage for you from inside the besieged syrian town. and some tough action in germany goodness we know for you will bring up to speed with

a cracking goal last night in the shall come months game and we look ahead to tonight's big clash between partly because new grosser mentions a grudge match that usually delivers plenty of go sit. alone welcome my name is christopher spring thanks for joining us reports are coming in that syrian regime forces are making significant advances into eastern ghouta that is the last major rebel stronghold near the capital damascus a monitoring group says syrian army soldiers have taken control of the main highway effectively dividing into three parts state media reporting the launch his town duma has been surrounded the regime says it has also taken the towns of mud and mess that. the area in green is known rebel controlled territory. well the rebel

forces are disputing the regime's claims and this comes as syrian state t.v. showed a group of rebel fighters evacuating on a government controlled bus but most of the population is staying put in the heavily besieged city they say they don't trust the guarantee 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's said to be taken to areas controlled by the 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 and most opposition groups are rejecting the government's offer to evacuate. earlier and emergency aid convoy delivered 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 ghouta 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. he's following developments for us from beirut to neighboring lebanon she's been giving us more on how significant the syrian army but their particular juror if you look at the map of what ensued under that looks like then it was all sides were actually on all sides there was a big team that had had a very hearts are only small since it is late last year but just to clarify

the syrian of the ticket is the rights which is they want to be used in the u.k. has given this information that the review has matched up of other men are willing to do but there are some going commissions that are state of the syrian regime of course saying so but jesness there was one other group which controls the central part of their auntie and mrs robert downey was there was enough lead has taken a stance. that's not a good bargain you're not says that has to be just a couple of minutes ago that they are in fact resisting the regime and have her put a really are absolutely its orders are big here in the fact. as you say they've been under fierce siege for for weeks and months now do we know how fierce their resistance is how fierce the resistance is that the rebels are still putting up well but there is no obvious a word as far as the situation on the ground by constance and from that suggests

that the jesuits nonstate that they are assisting in an act are defeating the tsunami he had not said that there were about the it has nothing to do day at this is overly certain they will continue to eat or that it would not leave it. correspondent angela bora speaking to us. we're going to stay with the situation of civilians in eastern guta that's because g.w. news has obtained exclusive footage filmed by a resident of that besieged district just outside damascus it's a close up look at conditions inside the rebel enclave that has been of course the target of some of the worst bombing in 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 our dollars these. 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 is 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 apartment. or residence or part 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. just launched an airstrike. at the greengrocer's hassan abdel aziz has little to choose from the past week garlic cabbage and cauliflower all in small amounts it's been a long time since tomatoes and potatoes were lost office here. now you know i'm studying right now the farms have been destroyed there's no longer and. most people have something to grow things in their own gardens you know this. is

the owner of a small shop this elderly man 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. 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. ok we're going to get more on this now from did. you and your colleagues at arabic put that report. together for us have you been in touch with haasan abilities today you know i mean the the syrian

army surrounding duma which is where he lives have you been in touch with him yes actually we just talked to him by a what's up he sends all the messages and he said that the bombing and their strikes were the strongest since the beginning of this campaign on and on do my he's in. on the reports and he says that all the villagers from around the duma are coming to do it on to the city of duma which is the main city in eastern so they're fleeing this around they're leaving and the streets are full the basements in the shelters or under the buildings are full people are trying to get stuff out of the basement to actually. so the people can tape. yes the street level yes yes because the air strikes have been very strong all the way he said about it in the afternoon he said about two hundred airstrikes today

only on. itself and it's. very that situation but he's still ok. you don't know how long will this stay like that and the images that you put together in that report that we just saw how difficult you know they came from hassan as he's how did he get that footage to you. my colleagues but she and sami who worked on that report they tried to contact several people in eastern but they refused because they're afraid practically to appear in t.v. so mr abdul aziz was. agreed and he sent us all these this footage via whatsapp we see that the quality of the footage is not very good because it's of internet on a mobile phone and via internet loses quality but it was very hard because the internet connection is not good and it's expensive for people to buy those internet

units units and to charge a mobile phone they have a solar panel on their devastated building and they can't recharge or charge their mobile phone with this way ok you and your colleagues will keep tabs on what's happening there forest is not out on the situation in eastern. and if you want to see the full length version of that exclusive report from we are broadcasting it throughout the day on the w's reporter program you can also find it on our website w dot com. we're going to catch up on some of the other stories making news around the world trade chiefs from the european union and japan have been holding talks amid fears the planned u.s. tariffs could trigger a trade war cecilia miles from you know she gets sick or want to know if the exporters will be facing higher levies on steel and. they've also been meeting the

u.s. counterpart in brussels. to german journalists have been arrested close to the greek border with turkey they were reporting on migrants in the region for joan public t.v. which said they accidentally entered restricted military area greek prosecutors have been questioning the past since they were taken into custody on friday. sports news now this weekend's bonus legal action got on the way last night with a moment of brilliance from shockers daniel kelly judy that moment of brilliance settled matters against mine the royal blue midfielder dribbling past five miles per hour in off an arms shot in the fifty fifth minute one victory in shell can sit back and enjoy the rest of the weekend's action in second place so much so the defeat there is still in deep trouble a struggle to avoid. him while in today's action struggling

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