this is the end of the news live from berlin and turkey says it's now in full control of syria's offer and region but as the tanks roll in kurds around the world are irate saying i'm koreans real goal is and make land think of a life to iraq for the next us all to. march on washington to call for tougher restrictions on guns there lead point survivors of last month's school shooting in florida. famous monuments around the world go dark for earth hour we'll see how switching off lights is connected to protecting the

planet. and in sports the formula one season kicks off with a surprise out called the australian grand prix in melbourne prairie sebastian vettel picks the world champion lewis hamilton to a dramatic victory the findings heaviest. amount i was on a welcome to the program well the turkish military says it now has full control of the ethnically kurdish offor and region in northern syria that's led to protests by kurdish groups around the world who accuse turkey of ethnic cleansing but i'm curious says it's only targeting the u.s. backed kurdish y p g militia which it calls a terrorist group. turkish and free syrian army flags fly side by side enough

taken on sunday talk ino claims the two allies have rested complete control of the way to a free region from kurdish forces. no those lucky enough to be left alive on the streets. many of them formed queues desperate for the aid provided by the turkish red crescent. to mark his job we think one hundred thousand people are present and on the road to free in tone center he will step up humanitarian aid efforts to reach these people. some locals pronounce the relief at what they saw as a liberation. we were treated unjustly that way. but thank god a group of fighters came in there and we thank them. but no we are suffering because of a lack of food and water. and our women are out in the mountains and they're not being allowed to come home. yet they live here we hope that our women and children will come home at night a unit right now i don't know. but not everyone agrees with turkey's presence in

a free and kurdish groups across europe gather to protest what they see as the an exception of territory that is rightfully kurdish and frankfurt demonstrators criticize germany's delivery of arms to turkey. must finally stop with the export of weapons and arms. must. be acceptance of the must murder in a three and raja in syria needs to cease all of the the the propaganda of the turkish media in germany media and and of supporters of the arab one regime must be stopped. and have been. in paris kurdish groups to know what they see as ethnic cleansing. it's just people around the world know what's going on. and they do not accept. these repeated attacks this genocide has all this ethnic deep and intense discussions about syria in the coming days.

and they joined by god to me i found vogue and boy journalists monitoring the situation and a friend who has spent time on the ground in the kurdish parts of syria thought to me or what is turkey's next step and after and there are rumors that are to one wants to send a governor to africa what exactly would that mean. i don't listen to say a few days ago that they're going to start ministration are saying they did this before us in other areas that they're captured from isis in both senses involved and lose so now they want to do the same in spain but the kurds are worried that this council will not be consists of people of the last three but will be dominated by the rebels turkey brought into i think. and we've also heard in the previous are poor that kurdish groups are calling this ethnic cleansing are there

any indications that this is actually happening well. first of all there's like more than one hundred sixty thousand people that were displaced from the thing they're not losing sight of the last thing that's out of a lot of support and there are rumors that fighters will be brought from two to us three and also the fighters they're bringing there are some of these like are fighters bringing their families to us and so that's what the course are very devout but we still have to see in the coming months what it will what the democrats feel thought stream will look like until now it's not very good also out on himself so that is not the majority kurdish region although in reality reason is are over ninety percent kurds. how serious is the humanitarian crisis in africa right now what are you hearing. well the problem is especially there are

still thousands of people inside asking that solve their turkey shade organizations working there but the situation especially very dire for those people that last us three there is like over one hundred sixty thousand people they're losing without any there's no come sort of there's not a lot of support also the syrian government is sort of blocking not to they don't allow all aid to go in so the situation is very bad for those people that are displaced because there are no places to sleep but they're lucky that it's at least it's spring so it's not very cold but there's a lot of need there for humanitarian support and that's why you see countries like france and other counties now calling on the on the on the syrian government turkey to allow aid for those displaced people. and how bad takis increased presence in syria and how is that impacting the at wider conflict would you say well it's not the first time to turkey enter syria the first time was in august two thousand and sixteen when they took large parts of more than aleppo but it's

definitely made a huge impact because this is the first time the course were in the past getting support from the u.s. against isis well now they're the first time that they're being really pushed out from the city by turkey despite of their second fight in the fight against isis so this changes the whole situation and turkey also struggling to attack other towns were the curse of a presence so this creates like a new kurdish turkish conflict or even our kurdish conflict in order to syria. sodomy and fun visit in that thank you very much for speaking to us welcome. meanwhile hundreds of members of a rebel group are pulling out of a besieged and eastern ghouta near the syrian capital damascus both those have been lined up to transport those leaving along a corridor which has been cleared of barricades and explosives as part of an agreement to landings like the armed forces to departure rebel enclaves say televisions days that the syrian army is advancing into areas previously held by

the insurgents. especially roman catholic mass has been held in the french town of tab to commemorate the four victims of friday's deadly as the most attack the bishop said the police officer who died after trading places with a hostage helped save the nation the standoff the markets ended twenty leagues shocks and kills the suspected gunman two arrests have also been made in connection with the attack. protests in favor of ties or restrictions on gun ownership have been taking place across the u.s. hundreds of thousands attended the main demonstration in washington called march for our lives the protest was organized and led by students who survived the mass shooting at the marjory stoneman douglas high school in park on florida. they've come from all over the country descending on the capitol to demand an end to gun violence protesters that march for our lives want stricter laws to regulate the

sale of guns especially semiautomatic rifles like the one used at the most recent mass school shooting in hartland florida. i was stronger background checks and i want to make it harder for people to take it away to me like an eighteen year old can just walk in my marriage fifteen like that's not ok they say that this time they're not going to let the issue fade away. the seeing that kids are actually wanting to see change i think will finally wake up people in congress so i think that's a really good it's going to. this is only the beginning there's another march coming in april and these kids are not going to stop until they get what they want we need to let the politicians know that it's important to us that we are going to pay attention and specially the ballot boxes were prepared to. go to.

the n.r.a. or national rifle association drew particular ire for its role in opposing tighter regulations on guns. but many of the people here say they're ready to vote out of existence to take campaign donations from his groups trying to block gun before he was five people like us the more of the robots the more support we have and the more support we have i think we'll have a shot in making our gun laws a lot tighter. a showgirl force from hundreds of thousands asking their lawmakers to help make america safer. as well as more than eight hundred demonstrations in the u.s. can control drugs took place around the world in cities as far afield as london paris stockholm and city hundreds marched through the center of hong kong in an event organized by a group of mothers carrying placards calling for. these are restrictions on weapons and held a minute's silence in memory of victims of gun violence. many of the world's iconic

sights and attractions have been marking earth hour by switching off their lights from the city off of the empire state building in new york side lines have been a little darker as the event moves through the time zones is aimed at sparking global awareness about environmental issues of. light site in most schools rate square. as the eiffel tyra disappears from the paris. at eight thirty pm local time cities around the world stopped eliminating their landmarks and turned out the lights for air thyra it's part of a call for international unity for action on climate change and last just sixty minutes taking place each year for more than a decade it all started in sydney which was also one of the first cities to go black the world wide fund for nature created the events to urge people to think about their energy use as a symbol of their commitment to the planet organizers hope the people leaving gage

this year don't switch off to claim a change and that no one remains in the dark about it said packed on the world or out of the. former one now and there has been a surprise in the opening race of the season in australia with ferrari's a german driver sebastian fattal assailing a victory mark webber was found to have a sports ask joins me here is time you were asked and mark weren't really expecting that were a no no everyone thought lewis hamilton would win so it's good for the rest of the series makes it more exciting absolutely well let's take a look at some of the action from melbourne that fassel managed in front of world champion with how well ten minutes raced after a pit stop under safety car conditions battled then managed to hold off how most wins charging in the briton to finish second. set of races his forty eighth career win and ferrari's good starts into the season was rounded off by came the right

conan who finished and there's. so marquis actually explain to us how it was that ethel managed to sneak in that victory in the end sneak is the right word because basically a virtual safety car phase for no less. one fans is when a car has stopped on the track it's broken down so all the cars have to slow down to avoid an accident but look a late or maybe very cleverly we're not sure who's a bastion but who is in the pits at this point getting new tires and in the pits those speed restrictions don't apply so they felt the need to carry ome and came out in front of lewis hamilton so save these of said hey something went wrong then maybe hamilton was going too slowly enough look at the data that was admitted yes that was very lucky but i'll take the win this is one hundred podium in his two hundredth race so good job either gratefully or are a great plan one of the other here i mean what sort of milliseconds or who knows now disappointment of course for hamilton county bounced back here and yes he can i

mean he was the quickest driver all weekend he was on pole i don't think saviors fans need to worry so much she's still pretty much on course for a fifth world championship if we can say that after just one race but they might be a little bit that he didn't actually managed to overtake vettel once vettel had say the lead that maybe suggests the mercedes lacked a little bit of power and the ferrari is definitely quicker than it was last season what would you say the future now holds after this result well it makes the season more competitive even after one race another probable fluke and also in the long term it's good for the sport because ferrari were actually frightening to break away because they were worried about new plans that would make all the teams have the same engine to try and make it much more competitive even this week the mercedes boss said a breakaway is a real possibility but now if we're having a competitive season anyway there's no need for a breakaway in the future they can just carry on the way they are ok oh mark meadows from the sports s. thank you very much for joining us here in studio. and that was your news or after

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