this is due to the news line from burma clouds of a perfect storm gathering over the last rebel stronghold in syria the united nations warns of a bloodbath the syrian brushing forces ramp up the final assault on its little progress these images could be just the first glimpse of the destruction to come. also coming up searchers sift through the ashes after a massive fire guts brazil's national museum but some promise it finds him that all may not be lost and. because it's so bad that we have to leave iraq i'll be on

a jump on a motorbike did he find a way to get through this massive traffic jam outside the nigerian court and we look at why truck drivers are having to wait for weeks to unload their goods. i'm sumi so much common good to have you with us it may be the final showdown in the seven year war in syria the united nations is warning of a bloodbath if syrian and russian forces move in to take the last rebel held province of idlib which is home to around three million people many of them fled to from elsewhere in syria the first the big influx came in december twenty sixth teen after government forces took control of aleppo then twenty seven t. the last rebel fighters left the city of homes and in march of this year after fighting ended in eastern guta convoys also headed to its lip the u.n. has called for diplomacy between the major players to avoid

a bloodbath the leaders of a wrong russia and turkey are set to meet on friday in tehran for a summit that could determine the course for an awful. dark clouds warn of an impending catastrophe the first strikes on its lib region were reported on tuesday these images posted by activists show bombings in villages close to ellipse city several civilians have reportedly been killed the syrian observatory for human rights says russian warplanes carried out the attacks on behalf of its ally syrian president bashar al assad his regime is preparing its forces ready to close in on one of the last enclaves of rebel resistance. the united nations wants the assault to stop before it reaches the city of it live and its three million residence. we cannot at war and it because it's filled to the brim with the internally displaced which have been yes we have been for sanity know at the end

hopefully of this but worse for one generation civilians hoping to flee to the nearby border with turkey may be met with force turkey has moved military hardware to block another mass influx of refugees. meanwhile in it live a lesson in patience schools of carrying on with classes half full some parents keeping their children close as they await the unthinkable. such scenes of normality could be erased after friday when regional powers are due to hold a summit which may decide the fate of the people of it live rebels and children alike. did abuse until vora is following the story for us from beirut hi i'm sure this is the battle that everyone has been fearing the un is warning of a bloodbath nearly three million people are in this area what is going to happen to it will of and its people. well that's

a very important question i mean there are three million people there and these people are against the city and regime most of these people were rushed from several of the rebel held onto lives under seventy conciliation deals from. now we will most likely see an armed conflict there between the russian civilians and the opposition groups on the ground and there will be casualties because of the magnitude here because of the number of people present there but sixty percent of the total unit level spent all by extremists. and it is refusing to disband all merge with other groups that turkey is sponsoring or turkey's healthy even if the russians and the syrian forces act just these are just the members of this group there will still be casualties so we are looking at a pretty dangerous situation in the in the problems of the if regime troops with the support of russia with love does that mean that the war is affectively over.

it absolutely doesn't mean that and it would then mean that. a lot with russia have won this war which would then mean that we're going to be conciliation with other groups which is already high m i may actually not come out adorning in any constructive form and that's the big fear so they're with me here which is something that they had been planning for very long a good part of the offensive the they've been planning her wedding i'd interviewed the advisor to bashar al assad a few months ago and she told me that i got the it will be going put it lives it is going as the syrian government planned but the question now is what we do because russia and the other deciding powers. the u.n. is very concerned about civilians in it live they have appealed specifically to russia and turkey to help find a solution but do ancora and moscow have the same priorities and syria. well they do and they don't russia has been backing bashar al assad and he's been backing several rebel factions so they're not united why but they did come together in the

estimate for says the u.s. is next take the lead and essentially has given this theater to russia to handle so bush can also be playing now russia's concerns i does not want to go in it's repetition more than it already has people into doing so in conflict because it is asking the e.u. and other followers to be able to reconstruction because it wants to lead the political reconciliation process that happens after the war is over whereas turkey what turkey saying is look we don't want any more refugees to these already home to three million people a few million refugees ever get on and what duckie saying is give us more time so we can we can this extremist other school have them in a fight among each other and so we can contain the conflict now when the meeting happens and friday the two powers of essentially expected to hopefully come up with a solution of the conflict and it's. not an entirely without already. reporting on the story for us from beirut thank you and. germany and turkey kick

off a series of high level visits today relations between the two countries have soured in recent years over human rights and other issues germany's foreign minister will meet turkish president ever to one in uncorrelated today i am the agenda for the german government is the release of seven german citizens from turkish jail they're being held on political charges after the failed coup two years ago turkey will be looking for support for its weakened economy the lira has tanked and recent weeks. now some other stories making headlines around the world british prosecutors have accused two russian men with a nerve agent attack on former russian spy circus cripple and his daughter in the u.k. the suspects are being charged in absentia with attempted murder and other crimes police say traces of nova truck were found in a london hotel where the men stayed in march. u.s. secretary of state by pop pale is in pakistan where he is due to meet pakistan's new prime minister imran khan and the country's military chief on

a brief tour of the region ties between washington and islamabad have plummeted in recent years over u.s. accusations of pakistan is doing too little to fight terrorism. a new report from the world health organization says that more than a quarter of the world's adults don't exercise enough it says one point four billion people were reaching the recommended levels of physical activity and that's putting them at a higher risk of illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. brazilians are hoping to recover some priceless treasures from the ashes of a huge fire that gutted brazil's national museum it's thought that as much as ninety percent of latin america's largest collection of historic artifacts may have been destroyed in the blaze firefighters combing through the charred remains have already made some promising finds. all that's left of brazil's national museum. millions of historic items

now turn to ash destroyed by a fire that is rich through brazil's history and its culture but its hopes that all is not lost among items firefighters have already found of fragments of bone it's hoped to skull one of the oldest fossils ever found in the americas maybe among them. bones were found but we still don't know if it's the skull of loot c.-o. we're waiting researches also managed to rescue some items. and there was great excitement when a security guard found this document across the street. but nothing can replace what's been destroyed and although the government has promised money to shore up what's left of the museum many feel successive governments have simply neglected this brazilian treasure house. to nigeria now in the

port in the mega city of lagos is one of the most important in west africa and one of the most chaotic one month ago nigeria's vice president ordered a seventy two hour security operation to clear up the traffic jams around the port but very little progress appears to have been made thousands of trucks still wait up to four weeks to get into the facility our correspondent chris reports from lagos. breakfast on the side of the road is nothing new for this truck driver. segment is stuck in yet another traffic jam near the port in lagos. that's five days we've been stuck here for five days nothing's moving it's very stressful it's the only thing we can do is eat sleep and wait. is well known for its traffic jams but in the past few weeks the situation has

worsened you to strike at the port truck drivers often have to wait for a month to get in and the entry cost of a port for their vehicles has quadrupled. businessman kevin and burn oil has come to have a look at the situation for himself he exports goods from nigeria. normally to three years ago we could do two three containers a month i mean a week now we're down to if you're lucky one in two three weeks sometimes four weeks so the clients are complaining and you can't get as much product out of the country and it's just it's just a disaster aid by noise says the bad state of the roads the lack of ports in nigeria and mismanagement are to blame for the situation. that mcinerney is you and from my assumption is some people probably benefit or maybe in the way the travel gets so bad that we had to leave iraq i'll be i'm and jump on a motorbike many of those jack trailers told us that it was

a securely open secret that if you're bright some of the security forces who are in charge of a range of the traffic you can jump the line. several institutions are responsible for traffic traffic police union representatives regular police even the military but they don't consider themselves part of the problem. there are just too many containers and the port authority isn't opening up the port to let them in. so every day there are more and more. the major issue is the road so we have begun the government to help to reduce the traffic. we wanted to talk to the relevant ministry in the capital abuja but no one would answer our questions. so things it'll be three weeks before he sees his family again that's the earliest he'll be able to deliver his goods he's hopeful though in two thousand and twenty lagos is set to get

a brand new port. to tennis now and rafael nadal has queens sent to the semifinals of the us open after a five set test against dominic team of austria the defending champion got off to a dreadful start but managed to outlast a teen in a match that ended at two in the morning and lasted nearly five hours. dominic team couldn't have asked for a better start the austrian punishment doll in the first set to hand the defending champ what's known as a bagel a six nil thrashing butts in the sweaty rainer of flushing meadows no doubt fall back in a topsy turvy encounter an adult took the next two sets to pave the way for a victory only for team to once again cause him serious problems in the fifth and final set team doggedly survived five break points before he went along with

a routine smash to hand adult victory in the tie break just after two am it was game over in the epic confrontation. and the double made argentinian one martin that porto in the semifinals on the women's side left vs anastasio save us to knock the defending champion sloane stephens out of the tournament save us over actually retired in two thousand and thirteen because of injuries but she came back and will outcompete in her first ever u.s. open semifinal. now visitors to the tiger on safari park in crimea got more than they bargained for when one of the lions decided to literally get on board now this footage shows a lion known as soon climbed on to the open side bus and over the driver. before turning to the other passengers which are about to see here. this clip of course has gone viral and shows that cats can get in the mood for

a couple. more you're watching t.v. news still to come a wake up call for germany's banks a new player has just bumped some big named lenders off the blue chip dax we'll find out more. comprehensive story coming right up and just as. we speak different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all speak up for freedom freedom of speech freedom of press. giving freedom for global news that matters. made for minds.