you know. this is detail the news live from berlin the syrian army makes further advances in eastern guta government soldiers reportedly surrounding the own claves largest town in duma as strikes around the last opposition stronghold in the capital damascus thousands of civilians remain trapped. in the meantime life is increasingly desperate in duma as government forces tighten their grip there we have exclusive footage for you from inside the besieged syrian town.

hello my name is christopher thanks for joining us for the last three weeks the syrian army has been conducting an offensive on eastern ghouta the last major rebel stronghold in the capital damascus the fighting has claimed the lives of almost a thousand people so far according to the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights now reports coming in that syrian forces have made significant advances in the area. we're going to show you a map of the area in green showing what was rebel held territory until recently syrian state media say the army has now taken the towns and miss robin as well as a major highway that leaves the largest town in the on clay of duma surrounded but rebel forces on disputing those claims these pictures from syrian state t.v. showing tanks rolling past ruined buildings in misrata. we're

going to talk now to local journalist noor who's in the town of. eastern good to noor what is the situation where you are today. good evening situation today the warplanes as always and did not leave the sky. and in many missiles it hit. most of them that most of that down in a single done did and warplanes dug it did you must deal with the missiles and all that with it now about burma now about and that's when its international forbidden by the death of the regime and to russia. they keep using it and this simply ends it on civilians here they used a gas and they used just a bomb and it fourscore and then now not about i mean in just to see days there are more ahead more than one hundred and fifteen people killed most of them sheltering

between them if they're did thirteen women and it seventy six. and so you knew of did you understand you correctly did you just say the syrian government forces attacked the area where you were talking to is from amman eastern guta with chlorine gas. i know that i get it the how modi'in down. in the single town and cities here is very small and. all of this is next to each other i mean knew when they had sex that was city they going guess it also moria and make it in one hospital to put two hundred this suffocation in just in one hospital and there were bands that night that get this the hospital the forty hospital completely out sif is not and is not something you saw yourself or have you been talking to people who were there. no no i saw it myself i am

a work as a journalist and therefore the other with the mostest me just and when doing guess a hit this sucks but then i'm deaf and one yet down we rushed it to their tool we dismount what have been civil ends and they show drink and then one hospital more than ed one did as if occasion. and what is the beyond that what is some the state of people where you are how are they holding out against to some syrian army infantry. actually that people here is very basic because i mean it's. there were situations where the bends in the sky and that force is trying to break it and. everyone hate i mean they try to break it down three days ago and have it down and almost at the end of us to see i mean there was imports and there russia and iran a lot of them and trying to entering. many have you missiles and the

warplanes and it i mean it it's nothing and nothing in the ward like that. just briefly. the town where you are is still held by rebels how strong is their resistance in the face of this some attack from syrian army forces. their ability here is. how much how much they can't i mean when we do we have many weapons and we will try to defend in our home terrible here from there not the. syrian free army and the people and simply as we believe the name because they have us from the forces regime of us and russia and iran i mean it and there was resistance. as much as they can ok many thanks for that local journalist. talking to us there from the town of. easton.

thank you now in the meantime d.w. news has obtained exclusive footage that provides a close up look at the situation civilians in eastern guta the footage comes from resident inside the besieged town of duma which has been the target of some of the worst bombing in syria's civil war. it's 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 was 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 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 going on 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 beside the residents try fifteen minutes of power there's so they can fill up their water tanks during

a lull in the fighting many people go onto the streets children especially happy to be outdoors but that changes quickly. one just launched an air strike. at the green growth says her son of jealousies has little to choose from possibly garlic cabbage and cauliflower all in so. small amounts it's been a long time since tomatoes and potatoes were lost office here. and i'm stuck here are not the farms have been destroyed there's no longer any or cultural way. most people have something to grow things in their own gardens you know. 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. 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. ok we're going to get more on this now from. you and your colleagues at arabic have put that report. together for us have you been in touch with haasan 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 to my

he's in. on the report and he says that all the villagers from around the duma are coming to do not to the city of duma which is the main city and so they're fleeing the surrounding feeling and their streets are full of basements in the shelters or under the buildings are full people are trying to get stuff out of the basin. and to actually put. so that people can take huge under the street level but yes yes because the airstrikes have been very strong all the way he said about her in the afternoon he said about two hundred airstrikes today only on. itself and it's. very bad 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 house on a hill as he's how did he get that footage to you. my colleagues but she says that i mean who worked on that report that they tried to contact several people in eastern but they refuse because they're afraid practically to appear on 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 an internet on a mobile phone and via internet the 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

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