the storm started to pull something on d. w. . this is d. w. news live from berlin years of fighting in serious eastern goods a region may be drawing to a close reports say a deal has been reached to evacuate fighters and civilians from eastern guta as of last rebel held town syrian state media say is the first fighters have already begun leaving duma. also coming up. another hint of

a conciliatory gesture on the korean peninsula north korean leader kim jong un welcome south korean pop stars to pyongyang as the north and south gear up for a political summit. pope francis addresses the faithful on easter sunday one of the most important days on the christian calendar as he urges an end to the world's conflicts and there's a special appeal on behalf of those suffering in syria. i'm irish waiter thanks for joining us opposition fighters have started evacuating the town of duma the last rebel held stronghold in the suburbs of damascus pro assad forces say they've reached an agreement with the largest rebel group to pull out of the territory and sources have told the w.'s that fighters from a smaller rebel group are also participating in the. evacuation the syrian

government and its allies have surrounded do most as the beginning of january and have retaken most of eastern good top. correspondent is following the developments in go to from beirut in neighboring lebanon and shall start by bringing us up to date on the rubble of accusations from eastern is there now an agreement between the government and all the rebel groups in duma. well east in guk our century has been controlled by three large rebel groups hamas was under the control of turkey backed they have already evacuated and want to live. around mom was backed by qatar and they were controlling your body in one thousand right next to the old city of damascus the struck a deal with the regime and its backers russia have evacuated and some of us who are grandma who were in goma have also evacuated today but the biggest group in dumas which is the largest town in eastern will die is josel islam which has these the

beginning the back by saudi arabia they have not yet officially said whether it has been struck with me in them or the regime yet bought assad's state television some martini and his well as media center has confirmed to journalists now that in fact a deal has been struck with gesture under which the fighters and their families would be going to gerard balloons and not do it and i was also here very important to mention that has already led to the wounded people from the want to leave but they would only be able to leave. if when they do finally give a confirmation that this deal has been struck with them they would only be allowed to leave once the release of prisoners that they have had kept now what does a four rebel pullout from duma mean for the syrian conflict. it's a huge victory for bashar al assad seconds to the one he had gained in december two

thousand and sixteen after the regime regained aleppo all the financial center off a city or so this is huge but this was coming in the rebels to the last moment kept hoping for their backers like saudi arabia qatar and america to sort of help them that did not happen it was known that there would be there was a siege it was known that there would be air warfare and there would be bombardment on the ground offensive and then the rebels would have to go back we need to nonetheless nothing was sort of being an actor we don't support them the cease fire also did not quite work together advantage because. it's and if eugene kept wandering about in a few hours even over those thirty days or so if this is a huge big leap for us are the knocked up cleared essentially assad would have to just sort of tackle a pocket and how marketing that are and italy which is which has a strong rebel presence but outside of that all of syria sort of comes under control of course excluding the goddess dominated areas but the kurds in the review

have a different understanding. for her for us in beirut monitoring the fast changing situation for us in syria and eastern good i thank you very much. now on to some of the other stories making news around the world anti india demonstrations erupted in india held kashmir after government forces carried out raids into villages looking for rebels at least twelve people including three civilians were killed and at least seventy people people were also reported wounded. in tel aviv israeli peace activists and members of arab israeli political parties demonstrated against friday's deadly clashes at the gaza border israeli forces killed fifteen palestinians and more than seven hundred during mass protests there israel has rejected calls for an investigation into the violence in. iraq has turned over the bodies of thirty eight indian construction workers killed

by the so-called islamic state in two thousand and fourteen the remains were put on an indian air force transport plane in baghdad iraqi forces found the bodies in a mass grave last year after recapturing the city of mosul. a defunct chinese space station is hurdling towards the earth the country's space agency says the craft is expected to reenter the earth's atmosphere sometime monday morning but experts say much of the station will burn up during re-entry and hope it won't pose a risk to the humans below. in another sign of improving relations between the two koreas pop musicians from the south have given a rare concert in pyongyang north korean leader kim jong un and his wife made a surprise appearance in the audience they applauded the performance the first of its kind in more than a decade. south

korea's k. pop girl bands red velvet and girls' generation and others play the kind of music that has been taboo in the north. but now north korean leader kim jong un was in the audience in the capital pyongyang and feeling the groove. over one hundred south korean musical artists came to perform in north korea for the first time in thirteen years a possible thaw in what has mainly been a chilly relationship between the two koreas things got really interesting at the east killing young grand theater when south korean performers sang about reunification the crowd certainly didn't seem to mind. meanwhile a south korean team on sunday gave its first performance in pyongyang since two thousand and two. on the political stage south korea's leader

moonshee in is scheduled to meet with his north korean counterpart on may twenty seventh to discuss the north's possible denuclearization from the us president donald trump is also planning to meet in the near future with the north's kim jong il and to glucose hugo. trump has also scaled back military exercises between the u.s. and the south korean military. sunday's concert was held under the title spring is coming but many koreans both in the south and north hope this means pieces coming. voters in the central american nation of coaster reka are going to the polls to choose a new president for the next four years he election has split the country of five million people between an ultra conservative evangelical preacher who slammed same sex marriage and a thirty eight year old former minister from the governing center left party. is in the throes of a highly polarized debate on same sex marriage. here in berlin supporters of ex

council on regional president carlos pushed him up took to the streets today is being held in germany on an international arrest warrant and the case has attracted international scrutiny. hundreds of supporters of catalan independence from spain marched in berlin they were demanding the release of x. regional president carlos puts them all who is now in a german prison. he was taken into custody last week while traveling in germany after spain issued a european arrest warrant spain now wants germany to extradite him to more faces a number of charges including rebellion. huge tomorrow is currently being held at a prison in the town of noise monster which is where german politician dame visited him earlier on sunday he's concerned about germany's role in the affair but if the government is honest they should know that it's very clear that if someone

is. three by his political convention it's not possible to put him out it's not it's for britain and germany to put him. at brandenburg gate in berlin demonstrators made their feelings known about the dispute back in catalonia that they support catalonian independence and are also upset that germany has now cooperated with spain. as man who by first of all spain needs to talk if they don't want to they won't be a solution that's obvious and i hope europe will do something we are europeans as well europe abandoned us and that's very bad. doesn't the decisive thing is europe i am polish of this european team as we all are and there's no democracy in spain since the last conflicts we had we definitely need a political solution. but end up with. german judges have up to sixty days to

make a decision on spain's extradition request the charge of rebuilding is not a crime under german law but other charges facing pushed him are like sedition and misuse of public funds. christians around the world are marking easter sunday the day they believe that jesus christ rose from the dead pope francis has led celebrations in the vatican in his traditional easter message he urged an end to the carnage in syria calling for better access to humanitarian aid. the pope's doring trout eager to hear his traditional easter message in it pope francis called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict. he boys tope for the korean peninsula discussed parts of africa affected by hunger and demick conflicts and terrorism and spoke of the wounds of ongoing conflict in the middle east who.

today we beg for the fruits of peace for the entire world beginning with the beloved and long suffering land of syria whose people are worn down by a seemingly endless war. more than eight hundred kilometers away in the south of germany easter sunday is all about traditions and spending time with a family. and even if the first day of spring is long gone children in the very end alps can still go on an easter egg hunt in the snow. storm came. in sunny jerusalem hundreds of christians gathered in the city's church of the holy settlers to mark the recent action of jesus christ. it is belief that he was crucified and buried where the church now stands in his east to address the pontiff called for we come silly ation in the holy land two days after more than

a dozen palestinians were killed by israeli troops during protests in gaza but these. hate. hate speech was the he also implored politicians all over the world to always respect human dignity and devote themselves to the common good. and onwards to sports news now in bundesliga football life's ish wanted to clinch a winner when they travel to hanover and they got off to a great start and took an early lead in the sixteenth minute when forsberg converted t.-mo bene's cross under impulse and started home in the seventy sixth minute but were cruising at three to one but hanover had other ideas nick glass full kook cut down much they should lead to a single goal with this header. moments later it looked like he had tie things up with another goal but it was ruled offside types of survivor winning three two but

it was a heart stopper. germany's top flight continued on sunday as minds and gladbach played to a zero zero draw to wrap up match day twenty eight earlier on sunday red hot bremen took on frankfurt side looking to tighten their grip on a top four spot the two teams were deadlocked heading into the final quarter of the hour before and talked only goal tipped the scale toward the host fremens when lifts them to the eleventh place and let's take a look now at the results in full here's minds and glove box with that score less draw bremen took down frankfurt shaka defeated freiburg live a close in an hour out a goal a strong one that thriller against hanover haven't had time spanked cologne for six stuttgart and hamburg share the points byron of course ran riot over dog and there was another goalless draw between spark. and just

a reminder of the top stories we're following here for you syrian state t.v. says fighters from a rebel group have begun leaving the town of duma in eastern go top the assad regime is allowing them to evacuate to the rebel held province of live in the north of the country. you're watching news from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's t w dot com thanks for watching. my first by sake of mosul sewing machine. where i come from women are bones by the social influence in something as simple as learning how to write them by side poses and. since i was a little good i wanted to have them buys a lot of my home and it took me years to understand. finally the game been

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