this is the daily news live from brother in the syrian army's push to capture the country's last a rebel held 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 u.s. senator bernie sanders that claims victory in the new hampshire prime rate but does his wouldn't get the party any closer to a candidate who can challenge president trump. and thus china suggests that race of corona virus infection is falling a strain faces more questions about how he's dealing with critics of its time think

of the epidemic. i'm phil girl welcome to the program. the latest advance by syrian government troops into the rebel held provinces ruptured relations between the king international players in the conflict the past 10 days of seeing deadly clashes between turkish soldiers supporting syrian rebels and forces of the syrian regime turkey's president. has hit out at syria and its russian backers promising to attack regime forces everywhere in syria if his troops are attacked meanwhile the country's humanitarian crisis continues to grow. the road 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. it's really sad to see people here enduring snow and cold and most of my children what are we going to do we've got nothing left you were sleeping under all of trees. it's a terrible sight. this road is completely cut off 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 late in recent weeks and stream 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 its soldiers come under renewed attack. 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 see if we can get an idea of conditions on the ground from kathy al hamdu he's a teacher in direct as a village on the in the countryside west of aleppo a welcome to d w so 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 us and countryside and it lead 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 number 2 just now that it's 2 days my daughter's birthday never this 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 answers like me in fact it's your region is getting so closer to the borders of turkey and people don't know what to do if they've live now so what's the next step i mean they think they are fleeing from death to death 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 period the last 9 years had been very horrible 14 people by the coming 8 might might be the worst. i mean you've described very graphic about 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 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 these severe weather and just going you know under trees or anywhere no i'm staying here i know that this 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 already i i was already from aleppo i was in a little and i was displaced in the green passes at the last moment and it might be coming for me again to try to see did the most horrible situation again and the millions if i don't have a choice is no not i understand millions of thoughts i just want to ask 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 are people of closing the whole turkey borders in fact but the question is why didn't you. tell it to people asking me why didn't you leave before i i didn't want to leave i want to have my freedom years but in fact syria wishing us either to have needs to see at all or to be under its control by the way all these people who are in this area i mean you know syria can't go back to the regime areas because most of them in fact fled to from their own areas from water from all the book from how many homes there is or because they don't want to be under acid to control so now in fact many 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 built in fact see these supporters 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 don't like coffee i hummed and aleppo province thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a german conservative politician frederick met intends to run for the chairmanship of the governing christian democrats is a former leader of the cd used parliamentary group in $28.00 t.v. narrowly lost the leadership race to articulate power earlier this week she announced that she would step down from 1st. as has cleared the way for former interior minister metairie salvation is to be tried on charges of holding migrant hostage mr silva he says he wants the trial so he can clear his name he insists he was defending as least border when he refused to allow arrested migrants to disembark from a ship for several days last summer. pope francis has ruled against a proposal to allow a married man in the amazon to become catholic priests bishops in the region had

called for an exception to the church's celibacy rule to alleviate a shortage an acute shortage of priests in remote rainforest regions but conservative catholics oppose the move. from me. that's the united states where presidential hopeful bernie sanders is one of the democratic primary in the state of new hampshire the u.s. senator who describes himself as a democratic socialist working with about 26 percent of the vote he says he now has the momentum as the democratic party decides on a candidate to challenge president trump in november's election moderates insists the contest is far from over. it's the 1st clear win in the democratic party's nomination fight and new hampshire chose very moment senator bernie sanders. and let me say. that this victory. is the beginning of the end but donald trump.

sanders betov a strong challenge from p.p. to be triumphed in iowa caucus he congratulated sanders and called for unity. so many of you turned out die hard democrats independents unwilling to stay on the side on the sidelines and even some newly former republicans and we can't defeat the most divisive president in modern american history by tearing down anybody who doesn't agree with us 100 percent of the time. president trying to twist here to slam the democratic candidates describing sanders as crazy berni and mocking prestigious are named in this primary amy club a try was a surprise 3rd place with elizabeth warren and forward and former vice president joe biden in face he is adamant that the race for the nomination has barely started so i think. we just heard from the 1st 2 of the states.

all right come from us the opening bell. not the closing bell. the fight and dollars from president is just beginning our. victories behind those popular vote in iowa were in the victory here tonight we're going to nevada we're going to south carolina we're going to win those series was. the democratic contest is shaping up to be a battle between barely sanders and pete british it you say created by for decades and clashing political ideologies but united in one shared goal to iced president trump. that's a china which has recently reported 97 more deaths from the corona virus and more than 2000 new infections 94 of those 97 deaths occurred at the epicenter of the outbreak who by province however chinese health officials say these are the lowest

figures since january and they predict the epidemic could be over by april international health experts are warning that it is still too early to say well meanwhile a growing number of people in china have begun to express anger at the government's handling of the situation or sars is of move to silence criticism sensis have scrub social media posts and least to a citizen journalists have disappeared raising fears for their safety. so we get more on this from a from a human rights watch a brother welcome to g.w. so do you have fears about people who have disappeared in china absolutely so we see that china is really silencing critics. or join lists that instrumentalists report on the situation is not the coronavirus and it's not only that they are detained for example one has disappeared so we have or that the delete the blocks

are due to which reports are about the virus so this is very very concerning so your presumption is that those people who have disappeared have been taken by the states right so that's our our perception and you base that on what we base this on on sources we have in the country and also on media reports i mean in general you know that it's possible for countries who have become head threat to occur in a way to freedom but this must be in very. limits which are given international rights treaties and what china is doing is of course not within the limits so what do you think about china's efforts to control what is a global health crisis i mean we think there is of course the necessity to go against these crises and actions need to be taken but the way in which china is doing this is not according to human rights standards this is clear it's not a surprise seeing china is not to try to countries but what we see with regard to

silence and report with regard to the isolation in the in the area so all of these is very concerning and it's not just an accordance with. so in terms of what the what the chinese are reporting about the extent of the virus how much faith you have confidence do you have in the figures that they're putting out in this is another issue which is in connection with the media freedom. and freedom of information so we don't know in which way we can trust the numbers the stakes the figures and this of course puts the big problem for international health organizations who want to support china because they don't know in which way they can trust or even statistics and these figures are going a bit not from human rights watch but i didn't thank you. i was reminded of our top story in advance by syrian government ships into the rebel stronghold of the inflamed provinces rupp's relations to international players in the complex

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