this is the wu is coming to you live from berlin the syrian army's push to capture the country's last rebel stronghold triggers an international standoff and a humanitarian crisis we hear from a civilian court in the crossfire also coming up as china suggests the reach of corona virus infections is falling to more questions about how beijing is treating those who criticize its handling of the epidemic. and in south sudan a former child soldier tries to make

a new life after escaping the militants trained to him to kill. hello and welcome i'm on with a cuba an advance by syrian government troops into the rebel stronghold province has dropped of relations between the key international players involved in the conflict the past 10 days have seen deadly clashes between rebel allied turkish soldiers and syrian regime forces president. has lashed out at both syria and its russian backers vowing to retaliate against any renewed attacks meanwhile the fighting has unleashed a humanitarian crisis. the roads out of sarmad province in the last 2 months more people have fled the fighting here than it any other time in the syria conflict many are braving the harsh winter conditions simply to get

tight. it's really sad to see people here enduring snow and most of my children what are we going to do we've got nothing left we're sleeping under all of trees. it's a terrible sight. this road is completely cut off because it's part full of cars. and people have no idea where they're going. this is what they are leaving behind violence has flared in it late in recent weeks and strained ties between 2 of the main international players in the region russia and turkey ankara has sent more troops to the area and has warned it will strike syrian regime forces if it's soldiers come under attack. here hala anyone targeting turkey should know that they will pay the price for this not only at the

site of the attack but everywhere. hundreds of thousands of people have left in recent weeks but not everyone can get. those still stuck in a face an anxious wait and a worsening humanitarian crisis. and for more on the situation in syria i'm joined by abdel coffey on hand though he's a teacher in doubt it is a village on the western countryside of aleppo welcome mr tell us what is the situation like for you right dr you and your family hello how are you do all in fact today the situation is getting worse because this the regime is getting closer. hello can you hear me yes i can hear you please to go on. great ok in fact this is your resume is getting so close these days in fact yesterday and today in fact yesterday we couldn't see very well my little

daughter in fact because of the bombs came to me at. and told me i want to sleep beside you because i'm fred because i just imagine that yesterday my friends who are in the closer villages they ran away on food because no cars in fact can dare to go to these areas in fact no these more than 2 millions of people in it live at the western country side of. lift their homes and the situation and the fact they are going to nowhere these people are just yes they want to flee they want to go they want to run away from the farming by they don't know where to go and they know that the regime is going to be following them again and they might die yes just yesterday i die 7 month. son in fact died because of cold because the situation the humanitarian situation for those people

who flee who came from their houses are in very tunable situation they are in tents or even sometimes without tents either in their cars or under the trees in this cold weather it's about $60.00 and nevertheless it's to helm's the hill of cold and the hills of warplanes and rockets which are on their heads so very very little situation feel mr until a very they difficult situation from what you're seeing what i got planned i you also planning to leave the area and go on to for level. in fact look this is the question that my my wife is asking to me all the time i've been get you what should we do where should we go the most difficult question that we've fathers or the breadwinners that we don't know what we don't know where to go we don't know what to do yes i in fact i have rebelled all my things all my important things just

because any man any time any movement i'm on i might leave my home with my kids but where this is the biggest question this is the most difficult question for us. just when i see when i look at my my children's eyes and i don't know what to do for them it's a very difficult situation for me as a father and for me family really now yes to leave i've provided everything i went away to the last moment because i can't you know stand living in the wild in the cold because i might see my kids dying in front of my eyes so really this is the very difficult question for me what should you do so what if what is the situation like in the village is there enough food and water and essential supplies for people who are trapped there right now with decision troops advancing and is venice incredible courage that you talked about. yes in fact yes my village

because it's a little bit close to the border is limitless it's now close to the bombing because yeah the cedar ridge you know is getting closer to the borders of turkey and yes there is food and drinks but believe me this is now the last thing that people think of they don't think of who they don't think i'm going to because in the morning i went to the market to buy many things for my wife and i didn't buy i didn't see anyone. buying anything just i'm alone in the market this treats are just empty but the long lines of people who are fleeing from their homes because my village it's a little bit like a corridor for people who tries to move to north and the poor so yeah this is a 2 way these immaterial situation here but of course according to those people who left everything behind and only they had nothing in fact they can they can't do

nothing for themselves they can't feed their kids or they can't you know at least to have the station things and the coffee and hamdullah teacher and it live thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us and we do wish you and your family all the very best hope you stay safe. with not being updated with some other stories making news around the world in the united states bernie sanders has won the new hampshire primary where democratic voters are selecting a candidate to take on president on a tramp in november's election 2nd race is the former mayor. who won the iowa caucuses. the alleged mastermind of the 2008 mumbai terrorist attacks has been jailed for 5 years by a pakistani court hafiz saeed was convicted on 2 charges of financing terrorism he's the founder of a group blamed by india for the mumbai attacks in which 160 people were kid he has denied any involvement in those attacks. pitches of emerge of the

devastation caused by last week's deadly violence and passive ston reports say ethnic conflicts clashed with members of the dong gun's a muslim group at least 10 people were killed the violence broke out in the south and jumbled region many the guns fled across the border into the neighboring republic of kyrgyzstan china has reported 97 more deaths from the coronavirus and more than 2000 new infections or almost all the new deaths $94.00 while in the who by province the epicenter of the outbreak but chinese have the fisher said these are the loosest figures since january and they predict the epidemic could be over by april international health experts warn it's too early to make that assumption. of move to silence criticism of the handling of the crisis at least to citizens trying to expose the reality of what they're seeing

have disappeared real fears for their safety earlier i spoke to correspondent mathias billing and beijing about their cases. they were among very few people who uncovered what was happening as the state media do not dare to report many things that are happening in there and that these 2 have disappeared is of course a sign that the government is trying to control information even tighter than they have before i spoke to which until sure about 2 weeks ago he told me that he did expect something like this to have more he was aware that it could happen and now he has disappeared he disappeared the same day when he went on the doctor who 1st uncovered information about the virus disappeared and of course this has angered people

a lot people do not trust the information they get from the government they do not trust the figures nobody knows whether the figures we are seeing are accurate that is in part because. testing kits are lacking and not everybody can be diagnosed we are getting a lot of reports from one about people who are not yet tested but people also do suspect their government is trying to cover up certain facts as they have before and as they have admitted that they had before and let us all do this propaganda says anybody who tries to convert the extent of the outbreak will be punished the opposite seems to be happening. it is not the opposite the opposite was happening before the state said it now we are seeing more numbers we are seeing more information but what we are not seeing

is an independent verification of that information so it is very hard to judge now what we can believe and what we cannot believe there are no independent giorno lists who can report from the ground and their experts are also very limited international experts are also very limited in what they can do it is this control of information that the government is exercising that is making people here very wary of what you're hearing right mathias berlin in beijing thank you very much for that update young impressionable and trained to wage war it's estimated that some 250000 child soldiers were recruited and deployed in 2018 in at least 16 countries one why from south america to asia but as you can see the problem is most grave in africa an extra 40 access to south sudan which has not the highest numbers

of child soldiers in the world there the age group save the children head to child soldier who managed to escape a boy beside 2 guns the 14 year old peter drools himself in order to protect him we can't reveal his identity or use his real name peter is still trying to come to terms with what he experienced in south sudan's civil war. was when i left my hands and sister i was 10 years old who will i fled because of the war i had never heard the sound of gunshots before i was afraid that i might be shot so i ran to. a civil war broke out in south sudan after the country gained independence since then different groups have been fighting for power some 400000 people have died so far millions have been forced to flee the violence abruptly ended peter's childhood he struggled on his own at 1st until a rebel group took

a man. and they told us kill us how to hide ourselves and run. they trained you on how to load a gun. and how to shoot. peter was in the militia for 2 years he was then able to flee to uganda he likes being able to go to school there with help from save the children his life is slowly returning to normal. my heart was happy when i arrived in uganda. i saw schools and hospitals and i was excited and said this is a place where you can at least study and get medication whenever your surname. as soon as peter finishes his homework he takes care of his pigeons they're his pride and joy he spread a good does and so far peter says living in safety has given him the strength to be

hopeful about the future. now pope francis is not to endorse a proposal to allow madmen in the amazon to become catholic priests in a long awaited document francis didn't even just fudge the recommendations i'm a zillion bishops to consider the ordination of mad men and women deacons the bishops had called for an exception to the celibacy due to make up for a huge lack of priests in remote rain forest regions and conservative catholics have bitterly opposed to the move. john i mean honest to is on religious affairs correspondent martin doc martin welcome now it was highly anticipated that the pope would address this issue and allow perhaps mad men to become priests based on a request by bishops in the alice and fuss but he didn't even visit the issue in the

document that was released why did he keep away from it well i mean there was no we say that there was. a major change. actually in the. brief to be ordinated i mean a married man to be originated or actually suspension of the celibacy that being said there is a study a school that studies school was respected studies courses ensure that in areas where there isa dearth of clergy where there are no priest or we found in the particular areas is one of the most affected but there are spots in africa the rest of latin america and so on what happens is that the sacraments are usually the spends by delighted to many of those are actually married men sometimes married women etc etc are women i mean married or not married the fact is that the way that the document was approach means. sort of started school days in place and what we

have is essentially a position of don't ask don't tell so in a way it is for everybody's discontent but at the same time it does not take the position of for. beating this which would have put the church in those spots in a very difficult position this is this document clickety to amazonia there was a specific document that the priests had made a specific request because the acute shortage of things not just in the amazon is but as you mentioned other parts of the blunt as that so how does the catholic church make up for this is it the same policy following don't tell don't ask don't tell well i mean they should that you have precisely this when they said the very center of the problem and nobody really has come up with a solution i mean the solution or at least the police a position that sort of the more conservative sides of the church are essentially putting forth which is a thorough prohibition on the sacraments essentially being dispensed by the law married men or men that have been the boers or men that are really just part of the

congregation are women essentially would mean that those communities for all extents and purposes those that stand beyond the reach of prisons on would be essentially resolved and those are spaces that the church that got the church have seen as initially occupied by alternative religious groups be evangelicals in a new age kind of religious organizations so essentially the predicament of this pope the predicament of this vatican to relation to this is clearly the church is retreating clearly they have a serious from recruiting priests at the very same time east the center of financially community life so they're not a lot of options debbie i think of leaving things essentially as they stand is precisely allowing sort of god to lead life to continue even though there are no priests in those areas is the pope didn't draw is the question of women deacons is this an indication that the actually catholic church is dominated by conservative

forces at the moment look it can be read in one of 2 ways i mean one of the ways in which you can read the silence is by saying look what we have is a conservative structure that essentially is just not introducing the changes necessary to really bring women into the fold. no other way to read this is to say the ground level i mean on the ground women are actually taking positions of both. administrate of power of sword special in these communities and not actually pronouncing himself against it essentially gives leeway zapara more benign neglect or as we said a minute ago no not ask don't tell. religious affairs correspondent thank you very much you're very welcome you're watching the news still to come suiting up to do a dirty job the must man on a mission to rid indonesia city's off rubbish. but 1st some of the news bulletin in president mahmoud abbas has rejected the u.s. president on a middle east plan saying it destroyed the concept of

a 2 state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict speaking of the united nations abbas said he was ready to resume peace negotiations under an international umbrella. dutch police say it's torsion is the motive for 2 letter bombs that exploded early on wednesday one went off in the mailroom of the dutch bank a.b.n. amro in amsterdam the other the offices of the japanese company ricoh in the city of karate no injuries were reported in either blast. self-proclaimed venezuelan president by those says he has the backing of the free world in his bid to overthrow president nicolas maduro why there was speaking on his return from the 3 week global tour he was received as venezuela's head of state in the u.s. france and in britain. a new surfing event in portugal has been marred by a serious accident so far alex of the tell you it was being towed to shore on the

back of a jet ski when huge waves flipped it he was rushed onto the beach unconscious and was rushed to hospital the good news is he's in a stable condition now the central coast of portugal has some of the biggest waves in the. formula one has announced that the chinese growth of 3 has been postponed because of the coronavirus the risk was due to take place in shanghai in april the governing body of the world motor sports series says no new date has been set for the end of event or consultations about when or whether it can take place later this year the shanghai race was said to be the 4th round of this year's calendar and is the biggest sports event so far to be affected by the corona virus outbreak . staying with formula one and javelin team for dani have unveiled the call they hope will help them get back to their winning ways this season after years of failure gentlemen drive us to boston fettle is meant to be their number one but the

emergence of teammate shot in the click has close tension in the team however ahead of the opening race next month the pair put on their best smiles i think glitzy ceremony. a grandiose theater in northern italy was chosen as the venue for the unveiling of ferrari's 2020 formula one car the most successful team in the sport have however not one of will drivers title since 2007. germany sebastian fettle one for titles with previous team red bull but struggled badly at ferrari last year as he hopes several technological innovations can give him the boost he needs. i think. it's an incredible achievement obviously a lot of hours that go into the car i like it a lot so i think we had the opportunity to obviously see it a little bit before and to have also a direct comparison with last year's con you can really spot the difference

especially when it comes to packaging and the back part of the car fattal's main problem last season was his own teammates. the 22 year old from monaco outperformed the german and several incidents led to speculation their rivalry was causing problems. believes he can do even better this year the approach is a little bit different just because now i know the team i know more as the cow. but it's still an improvement of last year's gaza we've been working all together to make it better and to be more ready for for the shia will champions miss avies revealed then you look on monday they hope it will power a title. lewis hamilton to a 7th championship equaling michael schumacher his record. ferrari have an epic challenge to topple them pre-season testing begins next week for the

1st race in australia on march 15th. finally indonesia has a trash problem the country generates more than 3000000 tonnes a year and half of it ends up in rivers and the sea many cities have little by way of public services to deal with the mess piling up on the coast sounds like a job for a superhero. it is said that with great power comes great responsibility and one man is using it to rid his hometown of an evil that could destroy the planet. his nemesis is garbage. now my name is rudy harto know i'm 36 years old and i am the spider man of character my mission is to encourage and to provide an example to the society through the famous character of spider-man to protect the environment because environmental cleanliness creates healthy

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revenue stronghold of. has dropship relations between the key international plans and the conflict meanwhile fighting in the region has prompted hundreds of thousands to flee. china is reporting $97.00 more deaths from the coronavirus and more than 2000 new infections it predicts the epidemic could be over by april. but there was had the organization was formed the outbreak remains a global threat. coming up next on new news. as a grownup virus continues to spread citizen journalist reporting on it disappearing is the chinese government suppressing information and doesn't want to get out. and live the more these b. g.o.p. has decisively lost in local elections in delhi what does that mean for the party

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