this is it every news live from berlin to workers reporters serving a seven year sentence remain in jail in me and mark after a court rejects their appeal to reporters were investigating the alleged ethnic cleansing of muslim were injured in mark uses them of trying to undermine national security they say they were set up by police also coming up heavy snow sweeps into the balkans after burying much of southern germany and austria impacting thousands of people many struggling to clear record amounts of snow emergency workers warning

of avalanches. and athletes training in st peter's square yeah you heard there right tiny vatican city has launched a national eclectic steve and all that stands between them and success is a giant leap of faith. thanks so much for your company everyone to reuters reporters remain locked up in myanmar after a court dismissed their appeal against seven year sentences for breaking the official secrets act all the journalists were investigating alleges trost cities against revenge of muslims during a brutal crackdown by me and mars army the journalist lawyers argued they were framed by the police. not giving up while loading quasi whose wives came out of the courthouse to. aren't we still believe in their release today. i'll settle for

we'll discuss with our lawyer what to do next i mean you know you're going to want you know it's just the latest setback for the two journalists they were jailed in december two thousand and seventeen for violating the official secrets act but human rights activists say they were being punished for reporting on a massacre in iraqi and state both insisted they had followed international norms in reporting on the killing of ten rodin's are men and boys. but. how did we work according to media ethics. we try to tell the truth based on the real situation. we were arrested unfairly and barred from revealing true information. you know that you know we don't know the government later admitted their reporting was accurate but the court refused to revoke their sentence saying lawyers had not presented evidence of the reporter's innocence but the case isn't over. if there

is a potential appeal that's available but the government importantly that the government of myanmar has the has the power to stop this injustice right to do the right thing here the only thing that the it should do and to free them and and we want we want to see that happen we want to continue to work for their release because until they're free men mars commitment to a free press and so the rule of law remains in question journalism is not a crime but while lone and quasi who are living reminders of how dangerous it can be to report the facts. and earlier we spoke with journalist and young gone who was in the courtroom for the ruling as the judge started going through that he said that the reuters lawyers did not prove this in his mind they did not prove that in this mine did not prove any of their case according to the judge you got a sense of this was going on this decision that this was not going to go the way that the reporters are hoping for not the that basically anybody who believes in

press freedom and democracy would want this to go of course you know outside the courtroom their wives of the two journalists broke into tears. i'm certainly i was not surprised by what happened today i don't know anybody who was surprised but this prosecution in this conviction it's certainly been a huge setback for press freedom and this country's transition to democracy help us understand if you will what it's like to work and me and mark and if at all it's possible to work toward on the situation of the range of muslims. yes so where the security counterinsurgency campaign has been going on it's in a rakhine state which is a western state here and it's going on in the northern part of rakhine state near the border with bangladesh that area is a secured zone your it's a restricted area you do not get access to that area you are on a government supervised trip as a foreigner or any journalist you go on

a government supervised trip and the only see what they let you see you only get access to people that they simply let you have access to so it makes it certainly much more challenging that said news organizations are aggressively pursuing the story i mean it doesn't close down all avenues you still have contacts in those areas that you can still reach out to you can obviously reach your mobile phone you still have satellite photos you can obviously still access the refugees who fled in the bangladesh so there are certainly a number of ways to still pursue what's happening not only to the right hindu community there but to all communities in rakhine state nor the rakhine state so there's still a lot of ways to aggressively pursue this but certainly the restricted access makes it much more difficult in the twenty seconds that we still have left it together what other options can these workers journalists now explore well short of getting a pardon by the president who operates out of the state really of the state council

on some suchi short of that the only other option is to go to appeal to the country's supreme court the highest court in this country i asked one of the fence attorneys moments after reheard today's decision if they plan to go that route he told me he wanted to talk things over with the families and then they would make a decision are a journalist day for going about reporting for me and more thank you when i have to speak now with some of the other stories making news around the world. the u.s. led coalition against so-called islamic state has started the process of we're drawing from syria a pentagon spokesperson confirmed the move on those just a day after the u.s. secretary of state said in a major speech in the egyptian capital cairo that when america retreats chaos often follows. tie him a gratian officials say the saudi teenager who fled to bangkok over fears her

family would kill her has been granted asylum in canada they say to have a new one is now on route from thailand to canada kind of as foreign ministry has yet to confirm her asylum status as. a former nazi concentration camp guard deported by the united states has died at a care home in germany yukky of polies spent decades living in the us hiding his past he was expelled last august after a long legal battle but did not face prosecution he was ninety five. greece has made a new demand for war reparations from germany says it has grounds to pursue a legal claim for nearly three hundred billion euros in compensation for the nazi occupation of the country in world war two when the demand came as german shells on the american met with the president of cory's in athens. to greet president.

gave the german chancellor an exceptionally warm welcome after years of frosty relations between the two countries on the lamentable appeared to appreciate the friendly reception but tensions linger over the question of reparations public pool who said his country has not forgotten its call for germany to pay compensation. remember were moved by you if this is true you know greece's position regarding the occupation loan and reparations for crimes during the nazi occupation we consider these. mance to still be legally active and they must be brought to a conclusion in the appropriate form is true for which it is your greece has demanded compensation worth billions of euros for crimes committed by nazi germany but berlin views the matter as nonsense resolved. to all and all you can be certain is that we recognize our historical responsibility we also know how much suffering we as germany during the nazi era brought to greece that's why it's our duty to do

everything we can to maintain good relations with greece and to lend each other mutual support for the benefit of both greece and germany some who live in the nation on sunday that. this was chancellor merkel's first visit to greece since two thousand and fourteen back then she was vilified for germany's demands that greece commit to austerity measures during the euro crisis well that conflict has not been forgotten the mood between the two countries seems to be on the mend. and our correspondent chemical fair sent us this object from athens. so this time i go america came to athens and there were very few protests indeed very different scenes from five years ago when she was seen as the face of all sterrett well she's still regarded as not in greece at the same time she stressed that she did indeed understand that many greek people have been through very difficult times the fact

that the greek president once again put the issue of reparations for the second world war damage suffered here by the nazis on the table an issue that germany considers legally resolved so that relations are still tense on those very thorny issues at the same time uncle americal is trying to strengthen the effort of prime minister alexis tsipras in forging a majority in parliament here for the dispute settlement over the issue. of macedonia a name shared by a region here in greece but also the name or even former yugoslav republic this is that merkel and see eye to eye on strategic issues both in the western balkans but also that overarching european issue of migration because i prefer their reporting from athens all the heavy snow that's wrought to have it to southern germany and austria has now moved into the balkans and southeastern europe authorities involved

area c. two snowboarders have died in an avalanche in the mountainous southwest and the rest of europe at least seventeen people have died in some of the heaviest snow falls in two decades and forecasters are warning of even more snow on the way. my view although it's become a military operation german soldiers called in to help back to scotland where a state of emergency has been declared the bavarian town hasn't seen snow like this for years and the danger is all too real. untreated so we have many requests to help clear the roofs of buildings in the town of thirteen years ago fifteen people died many of them children when a roof collapsed it's important to keep a close eye on the roofs and secure any that pose a danger. heavy snowfall has completely cops off the southern german town of yacking now it may look like a perfect picture postcard but there are increasing concerns that food supplies are

running low. in switzerland guests were lucky to survive an avalanche that came crashing through their hotel photos on social media show the devastation as the three hundred metre avalanche swept into the building at this fucked up mountain pass injuring three people. in the mountains around innsbruck in austria they too are on avalanche standby there are concerns that if the weather improves people may take unnecessary risks here so people who told us from philadelphia is that people will say well there is a lot of snow the weather is better. and our experience from the last thirty years has shown that the first day of improved weather is really dangerous it's where most avalanche accidents happen but as you know most of you know for. more than four metres of snow has already fallen in this region for those living here the

hard work looks set to last some time yet. now or to some soccer news two for boss asian cup the second round of the group stage last continued on friday australia got their campaign back on track by beating palestine three nil the socceroos have suffered a shock loss to jordan in their opener and china stayed on top of group c. by easily downing the philippines we scored twice in the three no success now when you think about the sport of athletics vatican city probably doesn't come to mind but the chinese state has just launched its own international track and field team so will it be god speed for the vatican on a route to the olympics let's right now. a rare sight in st peter's square. this is part of the vatican city's new athletics team and they are ready to take on

the world the vatican may be the smallest state on earth but the team has lofty ambitions. with regards to the olympics the dream we have is to be carrying the vatican flag during the opening ceremony of the games. a marathon running priest and a half marathon loving none are among the team members. for me when i began running it gave me the chance to rediscover inner peace to find a balance we're going to need we need we would have time for silence. for. the vatican competing at the olympics may still be a way off but a leap of faith is all they need. good luck to them you're watching you do reviews was of a lot more to tell you about including as japanese prosecutors found more charges against the no c.e.o.

carmakers says it finds no evidence of wrongdoing and another senior executive a tech giant huawei detained on spying charges. oh and just over a month after the high profile arrest of its chief financial officer in canada ben oh well how about a whole lot more for you coming right up and i'll see again at the top of the hour . sleep. carefully. don't seem to be. too difficult.