this is the. syrian army's forced to capture the country's last stronghold triggers an international standoff and prompts hundreds of thousands to flee we'll hear from a civilian caught in the crossfire also on the program. for their families lost under the nazis people of german descent. creating unfair hurdles when it comes to their bikes. in south sudan a former child soldier tries to make it beautiful life after escaping the militants

who trained him to kill. time so welcome to the program. the latest advance by syrian government troops into the rebel held it live provinces ruptured relations between the key international players in the conflict the past 10 days have seen deadly clashes between turkish soldiers supporting syrian rebels and forces of the syrian regime turkey's president has it out at syria and its russian backers promising to attack a regime forces everywhere in syria if his troops are attacked meanwhile the country's humanitarian crisis continues to grow. the roads out of sarmad province in the last 2 months more people have fled the fighting here than at any other time in the syria conflict many are braving the harsh winter conditions

simply to get tight. here mohammed atta it's really sad to see people here enduring snow and most of the 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 cutoff because it's packed full of cars. and people have no idea where they're going. this is what they are leaving behind violence has flared in it live in recent weeks and strain ties between 2 of the main international players in the region russia and turkey and correct has sent more troops to the area and has warned it will strike syrian regime forces if its soldiers come under renewed just tack. 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. let's see if we can get an idea of conditions on the ground from kathy al hamdu he's a teacher in dot net as a village on the in the countryside west of aleppo a welcome to give us an idea of what daily life is like hello how are you everyone in fact these days people are facing one of the most difficult situations you know maybe in the last 9 years because now all people are fleeing from the west and countryside and it led to north to the borders of jerky and in fact just. outside my home a long line of cars maybe taking kilometer line of cars are just leaving and

fleeing a don't know they don't know where to go and all people in fact they are mentally ill psychologically ill and physically ill in fact even i did membered just now that it's 2 days my daughter's birthday nevertheless who cares we can't i can't help i can't make a party for hair i mean this is just how people think they can't think anything just to have to go what to do and they don't have in-service like me in fact it's your region is getting so closer to the borders of turkey and people don't know what do you if they've live now so what's the next step i mean they they are fleeing from day to day this is in fact the whole situation these days in fact i wanted to send a message for the hold that this is maybe the last step to take. to to to to get to take an action for this people i don't want anyone to tell the next generation that

we didn't know we didn't hear we didn't see it because yeah the last few years the last 9 years have been very horrible for syrian people by the coming it might might be the worst. you too i mean you've described very graphic of a how bad the situation there is a 10 kilometer line of cars why aren't you trying to leave. why that's right why why why are you staying for me in fact because now i'm doing i'm going to just to stay for the last you know me moment that i can i can't just hold my 2 kids and my wife to go into wild in the severe weather and just going you know under trees or anywhere no i'm staying yeah i know that the death might be coming any moment but in fact for me now it's better than to be humiliated you know in the wind for 4 days just waiting

some 100 curing aids or something that to happen to me it's very difficult decision for me for a father but it's also going to be difficult you know life if i went out into the wild so yeah i'm going to wait for the last moment after that i had no idea but to leave as i have been only the i was late already from aleppo i was in a nipple and i was displaced in the green buses at the last moment and it might be coming for me again to see the most horrible situation again and the millions if i don't have a choice is no not i understand millions of us i just want to ask you you have millions of your countrymen have fled syria and ended up in turkey do you do you see that as an option or is that something that you're waiting until you absolutely have to. in fact for now of course the borders are completely

closed and the guards are you know our quote of closing the whole turkey border is in fact but the question is why didn't you put maybe if people asking me why didn't you leave before i i didn't want to leave i want to have my freedom you but in fact syrian wishing us either to do what needs to syria or to be under control by the way all these people are in this area i mean you know syria can't go back to the region areas because most of them in fact lead to from their own areas from wolf from all the book from how many homes there is or because they don't want to be under as it's going to hold so now in fact new choices are very bad either to die under bombing either to die you know in this severe weather or die on the crossing borders of turkey be able to in fact see these orders as the pillars of hercules the end of the wall well desperate situation you describe that we wish you well

with it thank you for joining us today i'm joe a coffee out how to aleppo province thank you we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world to china has reported 97 more deaths from the covert 19 virus and about 2000 new infections it's the 2nd day in a row that the number of new cases has dropped raising hopes that the epidemic may have peaked international health experts are warning that it is still too early to say. italy sellers has cleared the way for former interior minister mattel's salvia need to be tried for charges of holding migrants hostage mr selvin he says he wants the trial to clear his name he insists he was defending italy's border when he refused to allow a rescue of migrants to disembark from a ship for several days last summer. pope francis has ruled against a proposal to allow married men in the amazon to become catholic priests bishops in the region had called for an exception to the church's celibacy rule to alleviate

an acute shortage of priests in remote rain forest regions but conservative catholics oppose the move from the from. thousands of people fled germany during the 12 years of nazi dictatorship to many were stripped of their citizenship on political racial or religious grounds the country's post-war constitution sought to amend that with a clause promising that a former german citizens and their descendants shall on application have their citizenship restored the reality however is that lots of applicants are rejected germany received about $4600.00 applications in 2018 of those only about $1400.00 were approved so most that's about 2 thirds were rejected many applicants whose claims were rejected believe they didn't receive a fair hearing now a british lawyer is taking up because he says the german government is violating

the constitution. mysel unmarked was born in sao paolo brazil thousands of kilometers away from her ancestral home in germany. my grandfather a left turn many fled actually in 1937 he was only 21 years old when he left and he fled to brazil this was thanks to his mother's foresight because she kind of knew that something was coming he was already not allowed to stay at university where he was studying at the time so in a way he wasn't anymore a full citizen under the nazi regime tens of thousands of jews were stripped of their rights and german citizenship now marcella is fighting to get it back my brother and i felt very close to the german culture since a very young age who has studied in a water school in brazil with german school and we always had this references from

germany and european coach are present in our houses article 116 of the german constitution enables germans post accused by the nazis as well as the descendants to have their citizenship are stored but marcelle is application was rejected on the grounds her grandfather left germany voluntarily and they told me that it was he had left her alone terribly it was appalling to hear something like that it was yes so we were angry but yes we we knew that we are fighting for a right cause a just cause muscle as soon learned that she wasn't alone and joined forces with a lobby group exclusions group article 116 which helps hundreds of people who have been rejected. in january the group brought the debate to the bundestag felix coachman and his wife isabelle founded the group in 2018 they want to see

a new more general law to prevent exclusions from article 116 this time the motion was narrowly rejected the mature. he of parliament believes that 2 decrees passed last august to ease restrictions are enough but some descendants are still excluded or facing bureaucratic hurdles. back in london felix coachmen isn't giving up the decrees or a discretionary. relief effectively but 116 is a fundamental basic right and people pretty can't get where they can't get back their loved ones who they lost they can go back in many cases their property because get back jobs that they've lost but they can't get back one thing and that's german citizenship must sell or has now applied a 2nd time. it's something that i have to do to honor the ones that are not here

anymore and i think by germany allowing in acknowledging us as citizens this is only going to contribute to have a more fair just and a more diverse. germany in the future almost 3 years since applying again marcella is still waiting for a reply. the last caster luci is a member of the german bundestag for the s.p. day the junior members of the country's coalition government also speak for them by gratian integration welcome to day w how did you vote on this issue. well i wouldn't know because it came from the opposition and we have a clear agreement in our coalition to stick together. but we are aware of the problem and there was a reaction last year you mentioned the decrease from late august in 2900 and we

will have to evaluate it and see whether they. are now off and whether or not we should do more and i already mentioned in part that i think we will have to have a law and the and the not only decrease but just just so i'm clear you believe that to change the law is a good thing but you opposed it because this thing that you think is a good thing was proposed by the f.d.a. is i got that right. no the a fear is not the case. it was proposed but there was issue yeah the opposition by the greens on the left party. and. ok forgive me for interrupting but my point my question still remains you think it's a good idea but because a different party you proposed it you voted against it. yeah that's what we do

every day because we have a treaty and we do things together during these 4 years and it's not just such an easy thing governing a country like germany so it's not good if a parliamentarian just does what he wants to and that's why we have a treaty and we are sticking to it as though that's the normal procedure and still 'd we hear during these discussions what is the problem what is proposed and we reacted to it as a government and i already told you that we will in terms of follow up what is happening after these decrees came into power and see you in this year whether it's enough are not so how do you then answer the charge that you as a politician the rest of your colleagues are playing politics with people's lives not says rob them of their citizenship and you have voted against methods to grant them their citizenship because it wasn't your idea we

decided to pass these decrees because these decrees are in power much faster than a law would be so we helped very fast and we did react so then i would say that media should also help us to kind of show how politics works and again it's not on everybody can do just what the ones we have to if i don't promises together and compromises are the core of democracy and that's very quickly it should be i just want to ask you about the decrees that were passed the since you mentioned them. even though they have been passed people who apply through that process still face bureaucratic hurdles german language test society tests so here's the thing though is the test for people who are not germans these people are germans they were robbed of their citizenship by

the nazis why should germans have to pass these tests because of political expedience yeah it's more complicated than your question assumes we do have an article in our constitution 116 that that former german citizens. who were deprived of their citizens and their descendants they have their citizens are. arrived to have that citizenship restored that's that's already a legal right so. the question is cases it doesn't work and one of the cases is somebody who fled to germany before he could be robbed of his citizenship and this is the case that our decrees. point to this special case and i'm fairly sure that. the part of the people who are applying and facing these bureaucratic burn. areas that they

have been helped by these decrees and still there might other groups be left and right we have to see what to adjust in the future we thank you sir for joining us allows the cast of the thank you very much thank you. young impressionable and trying to kill it's estimated that some 250000 child soldiers were recruited in deployed in 2018 and at least 16 countries from south america to asia but as you can see the problem is greatest in africa and that report takes us to south sudan which has one of the highest number of child soldiers in the world there the a group save the children helped a child soldier who managed to escape. a boy beside 2 guns 14 year old peter draws 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. when i left my aunt and sister i was 10 years old. 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. 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 pitas childhood he struggled on his own at 1st until a rebel group to commend. the. skilled 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 you. as soon as peta finishes his homework he takes care of his pigeons there his pride and joy he spread a good doesn't say far peta says living in safety has given him the strength to be hopeful about the future. leaked documents reportedly show the cia a german intelligence agency the behind the a bought an encryption company in the 1970 s. and used it to spy on clients for decades reports in the washington post

a german public broadcasters that the reveal that the engines relied on a swiss based company that sold the crips and devices to more than $100.00 clients worldwide. so your close look at this was doubly reported the cold rhesus been following the story welcome the cold so how did the german the secret service and the cia manage to spy on so many people in so many conscious well they managed to do that in a very scandalous and ruthless way if i may say so and where you might be looking at one of the most important missions that we have seen in history so far operation rubicon basically the b. and d. and a cia secretly bought a company in switzerland a company named crypto and that company is selling devices that encode important information so quite an interesting product for countries that want to protect sensitive information in their communications their top secret missions and so they did that in 1970 and manipulated to the decipher in machines which then was sold to

several countries more than 100 states across the globe we're talking about european asian african south american countries who all trust the business of safe technology that it is safe to buy it from a country like switzerland switzerland a neutral country so probably the safest way ever to do it but obviously they were absolutely wrong they basically paid millions and millions for technology that would later let germany and the united states spy on their top secrets and also. take money out of their pockets because there was a lot of money that's very bizarre to be on her sister but to give us some examples yeah well one example for example of going back to 973 and she may that was the time when the then socialist president. salvador allende was being deposed you dreaming of coup de tat we might remember that all and a rule become papers actually reveal that the cia and the b.m.d. knew about the preparations for the putsch they could have intervened they didn't

and then what came afterwards was a detective dictatorship under pinochet tens of thousands of people were arrested thousands were killed many. we're tortured over a 1000000 people needed to flee of a country under that dictatorship and well you might very well ask why wasn't there any intervention if everybody like these both sides knew that it was coming. and this is all happening on neutral swiss territory always neutral switch ground what sort of reactions are we getting given now that this is all comes allies of switzerland has launched an investigation to clarify questions they have also suspended export licenses for crypto successor companies so they are putting a stop on it for the moment neither the be indian nor of the c.i. a wanted to comment on it obviously top secret very few people knew about it that very many secrets to reveal still i guess the cold reese thank you very much very

interesting. the former the warm and the glamour tame ferrari have unveiled a car they hope will help them back to winning ways this season after years of failure german driver sebastian fattal and meant to be that number one the emergence of team a child has caused tensions within the team despite this they put on their best smiles the glitzy ceremony ahead of next month's opening writes. 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 won a will drivers title since 2007. germany sebastian fettle won 4 titles with previous team red bull but struggled badly at ferrari last year so he hopes several technological innovations can give him the boost he needs year 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 car and you can really spot the difference especially when it comes to packaging and the back part of the car settles main problem last season was his own teammate. clare the 22 year old from monaco outperform the german and several incidents led to speculation their rivalry was causing problems left leg 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 gasol 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 titleholder lewis hamilton

to a 7th championship equaling marc. his record called. ferrari have an epic challenge to topple them pre-season testing begins next week jamel going with the 1st race in australia on march 15th. airbuses use the singapore asho to unveil a prototype of what it believes could be the passenger jet of the future the maverick is a scale model of what's known as a blended wing body aircraft. design is still to be 20 percent more fuel efficient than passenger jets were used today both claims a cord gave travels a totally new experience one of the challenges was working out how to prevent passengers of either side being thrown about too much when the aircraft terms. i'm next here on news that asia don't forget to get the latest around the web site

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