this is live from 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 from a civilian court in the crossfire. also on the program china delusional quarantine to crack down on. you what i'm not even scared of death you think i'm a communist party. of course in china indicate that critics who are shadow thrives the images of the coronavirus response being to dissipate.

i'm filled to hell welcome to the program. pledges advanced by syrian government troops into the rebel held 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 turkish president has hit out at syria and its russian backus promising to attack regime forces everywhere in the country if his troops are attacked meanwhile a serious humanitarian crisis continues to grow. the roads out of sarmad and it looked 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 it's really sad to see people here enduring snow and most of them are children what are we going to do we've got nothing left we're sleeping under all of trees. so it's a terrible sight but. 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 live in recent weeks and strain 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 just tack do you follow any one targeting turkey should know that they will pay the price for this not only have the sought 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 direct 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 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 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 where 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 do you if they've live now so what's the next step i mean they think 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 do it to take it 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 yet the last period the last 9 years had been very horrible 14 people by the coming might might be the worst this wanted 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 oh 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 put maybe if people asking me why didn't you leave before i i didn't want to leave i want to have my feet in here but in fact syria wishing us either to do what needs to syria 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 region areas because

most of them in fact lead to from their own areas from the from all the book from how many homes iraq out there is or because they don't want to be under absent going told 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 if people 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. now we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world it's really sad this is cleared the way for former interior minister mattel's salvia need to be tried on charges of holding migrants hostage is the salvation he says he wants the trial so he can clear his name he insists he was defending its this border when he refused to allow rescued migrants to disempower from

a ship for several days last summer. police in northern ireland have charged a 52 year old man for the murder of the journalist that lyra mckee and she was killed in april last year during a riot in london during the dissident republican group new ira later said it shot ricky by accident the 15 year old charged as one of the 4 suspects arrested on tuesday. pope francis is 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 an acute shortage of priests in remote rain forest regions but conservative catholics oppose the move. that china has reported in 97 more deaths from the corona virus and more than 2000 new infections almost all of the deaths were in who by province the epicenter of the outbreak the chinese health officials say these are the lowest

figure since january and they predict the epidemic could be a who by april international health experts have a warning that it is too early to make that assumption. meanwhile a growing number of people in china have begun to express the government's handling of the situation both artists have moved to send security system to silence criticism sensis have scrub social media post and at least 2 outspoken citizens trying to expose the reality of what they're seeing have disappeared raising fears for their safety. these are images the chinese government doesn't want you to see a medical center in the epicenter of the coronavirus are break under stress short on supplies overwhelmed with patients the video is from. a lawyer who made the risky choice to become a citizen journalist and defy government efforts to control information in front of me is the virus and behind me is the legal and administrative power of china as

long as i live in the city i will continue to report i only report what i see what i hear. you what i'm not even scared of death you think i'm afraid of the communist party. trainers gone he disappeared last week and has not responded to messages so far authorities will only say he has called under control the sea international say he's been forcibly quarantined. and he's not the only one to pay the price for defying state authority the blogger been took this video from a hospital. it seems to show body by victims of the virus then he received a menacing knock on his door. well if you want to know. what do you. do you will know you'll be you know what do you want to. know what do you like the other night that. you would you go by.

e-mail. flying had been posting videos daily proof that he was free those upload stopped on monday and he's been on reachable by phone fueling speculation over the rest. of the virus in december authorities accused him and several others of severely disturbing the social order he's dead one of the more than 1000 people in china to succumb to corona virus so far mourning and i have marked his passing online and off in defiance of the state's threats pressure is mounting on chinese authorities to come clean on what's happening in. and that includes wanting to know what's happened to people like to intro and find bin. german media reporting that conservative politician friedrich matzoh plans to run for the leadership of i'm going to machall the christian democrats the moves widely expected back in 28 to

you he narrowly lost the race for the leadership to undergrad cantata on monday she announced that she was stepping down spot another leadership race. we can go latest from database chief political correspondent belinda crime welcome melinda friedrich interesting character he going to medical have rarely seen eye to eye so if he became leader might she rethink her current strategy of staying on until next year. quite possible it's not only her strategy she is the elected chancellor and her term expires with the next election in the autumn of 2021 but many observers say that because uncle americal is in a way a nemesis for math he actually stepped down from politics years ago because of a power struggle with her which he had lost because they simply see things very

very differently that if they were to try to work side by side with him as party leader and she serving out her term as chancellor it could become quite quite difficult which is why some people think that if he does in fact become the party leader we could very well see her step down early and new elections following and so if again we're in the early stages but if he became party leader the presumably would mean that he would then succeed angela merkel and try to run for chancellor. well there are a whole lot of ifs in that statement when on the great crime con boulware who was designated successor who was party leader when she stepped down as a result of a crisis that has been prompted by a regional election in the eastern german state of the regina in which the

conservative party uggla machall c.d.u. voted side by side with the right wing a.f.d. party to annoyed a new regional premier when all of that happened the and the great kept from power and bar the designated successor of the chancellor step down and said that she believes that the next leader of the party must also be the chancellor candidate the candidate to be the successor but the fact is others in the party question that and there's a feeling that the timetable is simply too extended for that to work very well also even if he did become party leader and the chancellor candidate to succeed merkel it is by no means a given that the c.d.u. will be in a position to run the next government so i think there are way too many ifs at this point to be sure of where all this is leading what we certainly can and must say is german politics are in an exceeding degree of disarray at the moment she's

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