that's raised to challenge president donald trump and the map tells the story of what's being called the new job former vice president joe biden taking a stunning 9 states as you see here in dark blue including the all important texas the only big win for bernie sanders looks to be california biden is now the clear front runner and he did it without the wealth of his rival mike bloomberg bloomberg spent half a $1000000000.00 in t.v.'s and what did it get him a one way ticket out of the race i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. biden has sort of the wind to the sails right now.

2 but we're going to weird because look people understand. sanders guess he has the advantage when it comes to organization the grassroots support. all the 3. groups president did their bit up there scott. also coming up europe's doors closed desperate migrants trying to get in most of them are fleeing the war in syria tonight you'll meet a syrian mother who used her camera to document the finding and the hate it became a declaration of love for her daughter some amid the chaos her daughter somer was born.

an amount if you come to from time to singular. one to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the race among us democrats for the white house a race with stunningly new momentum make that joe mentum that is the new term to describe former vice president joe biden's big win in super tuesday these primaries biden clenched 9 states in the northeast and southeast and that all important state texas biden surge was made possible by crucial endorsements from other democrats who dropped out of the race billionaire mike bloomberg today became the latest his deep pockets balled him watts of t.v. ads but not enough votes biden the centrist the moderate is now the front runner overtaking bernie sanders the democratic socialist but sanders is showing no sign of stopping he won 4 states on super tuesday including the biggest california so

it's now down to sanders biden and elizabeth warren warren has not won a single primary or caucus she even lost in her home state of massachusetts yesterday tonight there is no word on what warren plans to do next. super tuesday proved that joe biden's campaign for the democratic nomination is alive and well. you days ago the pressure the pundits and the credit campaign. and then. our charo you got to super tuesday if you're over well maybe over there. the former u.s. vice president can now claim to be the front runner for the democratic presidential nomination exit polls link his success to strong support from african-americans as well as older and suburban voters. i'm

a moderate myself so i think his message can reach a lot of people who are in the middle reach both left and right by then a big fan of his since the obama administration senator bernie sanders is by no means out of the race for the democratic nomination of the night hard to tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination was and we are going to the feet the most dangerous president in their history of this country was sanders went into super tuesday as the front runner he's particularly popular with younger and latino voters and i think that bernie sanders has what it takes to be at the heart of the people who i was hoping very would do better in some of the states it was a little exciting at the crossing at the same time was 2 other hopefuls senator elizabeth warren and former new york mayor michael bloomberg both performed poorly

while one's campaign is still deliberating whether or not to stay in bloomberg has decided to drop out. of super tuesday is an important date in the presidential election calendar but it only represents about one 3rd of the delegates that are up for grabs nationwide. the campaign now moves on to michigan and 5 other states holding primaries next tuesday 350 more delegates are up to be won. yet the race is far from over but what a different race it has become the talk about that i'm joined here at the big table by rachel reserves she's a fellow with robert bosch foundation here in berlin she's also a us politics analyst good to have you back on the day well so joe biden apparently he knew exactly what he was doing when he performed so poorly in those 1st primaries and caucuses and a lot of people were saying you're dead yeah i mean just last week biden's campaign was all but dead after his showing and i. new hampshire but his. race in south

carolina really brought him back from the dead right and it set him up to i mean really this was the political comeback of the century i mean if you listen to the people who have been reporting on politics for decades like they haven't seen anything like this so this is exactly what he needed this brought his campaign back and it's looking really good for joe biden right now think he would have won big yesterday on super tuesday with the endorsements that he received the night before i'm thinking of thinking of amy. i think he still would have done well yesterday but i do think that people to judge and amy clopas shar moving out of the way and you know giving what would have mostly been their vote to joe biden really cleared a path of clear victory for him the better or work and doris that entices so it was really really helpful so i think what we're seeing is you know the more moderate wing of the party sort of starting to coalesce around one candidate i mean there's

a do if they were remarkable it was like there was this giant invisible party whip . here and you're here in germany you know there as well as in the u.s. the political parties well they're in trouble right now and you've got populist politicians taking advantage of what's going on do you think that political parties here in europe can they look to the democrats in the u.s. and maybe find hope for the future well i think it really depends who you talk to in the united states if you talk to you know moderate to you know sort of center left progressives they think this is a very good thing now if you're looking at people who are bernie sanders supporters are elizabeth warren supporters a lot of people say look this this this political system the democratic party is really rigged so people like bernie sanders can't come in and win and so i think you know it really depends on who you talk to and they would give you know very different opinions on that sort about brie sanders he is not surge. in the way he

would like to now and he has no rivals indorsing him the way biden did exactly and i think this is going to be really tough for him going forward i think that you know for some people they think that you know this might be the time for say elizabeth warren to jump out of the race and dorst bernie sanders and really give him and the progressive wing of the party the boost that they need to really fight back against biden we're not sure if she's going to do that yet and could happen today could happen tomorrow she could stick in the race for another few weeks or all the way up to the convention milwaukee we're just not sure yet i mean when you know it's down to sanders biden elizabeth warren i want you to take a listen at what she said last night even though she was losing her home state of massachusetts to the list is you don't get what you dropped for i have. the danger is real our democracy are very future games

in the balance and so this is a decision each and every one of you is going to have to make when there is this much danger do you decide. to kind of get a little timid back up crouch down a little or do you decide to fight back in this fight. she's funny but i mean she's got the fighting spirit you've got to give that to or but does she have a fighting chance you know i mean listening to her words that really is powerful she does have a powerful message she's a scary you know it is and you know she's run a great campaign she has great supporters great organizers i don't know if she has a fighting chance left i mean if you just look at the numbers there is no clear path for her to gain the number of delegates that would propel her to the democratic nomination i think she views herself as maybe

a center approach between bernie and between joe biden now if we get to a convention in milwaukee and it's maybe a brokered convention i think that might be her game play right now but like i said before we could be seeing in the next day or so maybe in the next week or so her kind of you know pulling out of the razor but a brokered convention i mean to do you foresee. on a collision course the party convention this summer i do i mean i think that you know what's clear now is that you know there are 2 you know clear wings of the democratic party and you know there's a lot of hoopla that goes along for the 1st you know the 1st few months of the primary but you know the majority of delegates have not been awarded yet we have a way to go and so we could see by then really really start to pull ahead we could see bernie really really start to pull ahead and if that happens i think we'll have a clear answer going forward but you know i think come july if the 2 candidates are

neck and neck we could see we could see that happen and that wouldn't be great i think for them and i mean marty that would probably be a nightmare scenario for sure it would be what do you make of the reaction from the u.s. president donald trump today he sent a can grow. angela toward tweet. i mean is this the new mr manners mr nice guy drone you know of course not i mean i think you know if i were trump you know i would be i would be nervous about this you know i think that he you can see his tweets you know crazy bernie sanders you know using talk about sanders a lot he does and but i think that he realizes that if the democratic party starts to gather around bitin and biden can kind of pull some of the progressive supporters from bernie and sam and warren and really start to get some serious momentum i think he understands that his presidency is in trouble and so no i think that this is just trumping trump there's some you know mark mocking and sarcasm

behind all of his tweets we're going to see it i think get pretty ugly going forward to he referred to elizabeth warren today again as or were modern day pocahontas for example the the investigation in ukraine into. do you expect a resurrection of their. chances of winning the nomination of increased dramatically absolutely i mean i think that you know going forward the republicans are going to you know play the hunter biden card a lot they're going to try to point to corruption and try to you know undermined by the his candidacy and potentially his nomination so you know i think we're going to see a resurrection of a lot of the same debates a lot of the same issues that we saw earlier this year it's going to be a hot summer it will be very short reserves always good to get your insights thank you. well tonight it's estimated that more than 12000 migrants are now waiting on the turkish side of the border with greece

today there were reports that greek police used tear gas to push back migrants trying to cross the european union standing behind greece mindful of the political fallout created after more than a 1000000 refugees were allowed to enter germany back in 2015 or 2 important things have not changed in the last 5 years the board syria is still on and most refugees at europe's gates they come from syria. shots and tear gas at the greek turkish border tensions are rising here as a new chapter in the migrant crisis unfolds turkey accused greece of killing a migrant and wounding others on wednesday athens says the allegations are fake news people desperate to reach the european union are stuck in limbo on wanted by both countries with no safe place to return to. live in monte home i don't have

a home i have nothing to go back to if i ever turned i would have to start from the beginning so going forward is the only option for me and my son. said i want to. go to good as we've been here for 4 days there's no food nothing then they didn't open the border i need to go back it's been days. he you council president shall michel met with turkish president wretch of tayyip erdogan in ankara for crisis talks europe has now offered an additional $170000000.00 euros for vulnerable groups within syria but he will fishel say that at obama's decision to open turkey's borders has not increased trust between the 2 sides. it live but province in northwestern syria is the last stronghold of anti assad forces and it live is where the fighting is still fierce is the loss of life greatest more than a 1000000 people have fled their homes in the round it lived in this latest surge of attacks by president assad's troops in

a moment i'll speak with wide al-khateeb about her award winning oscar nominated documentary in time for some a film that started as a love letter for her daughter and has now become a syrian plea for help to the world. should he can nominate engine. yes quad al-khateeb was a university student you know. and. in 2012 she joined the uprising against syrian president bashar al assad. she became a citizen journalist documenting the resistance. and the crackdown the let her go for the love of the. songs along the.

kardashian i'm coming on to. have the macondo you forgot. to say something in chattanooga i look at it she captured scenes of suffering. i. financed flow months of joy. amid the chaos her daughter somer was born. so there's less. fur. that's for. you know.

someone a lot of the come to finish on the stage with. their children she brought all this . on to conclude a year from august. wad hard to decide whether to stay and hope for peace. or flee the bombs and bring her daughter to safety. for someone has won dozens of prizes including best documentary at the british film awards and an oscar nomination. some. had some pain in. a story made for one child now affecting audiences around the world. where the world may be trying to ignore the inhumanity that's taking place in syria but no one can ever claim that

they weren't able to see what was happening there we can think a syrian mother and her camera for that today the director of for salo wat al-khateeb sat down with me here in berlin one it's good to have you here on the show here in berlin you say that your film is a love letter on your daughter but it's become much more than that what has it become. i would say like it's become so many things but the main things for me was like an evidence about all the crimes that was happening and also an evidence for the resilience that we have as syrian people and all that like propaganda and all of that at around us are you hoping that your film because it has gotten a lot of awards a lot of attention that it's going to prompt the west to take action in the war in syria i need only hope that i like there's so many like difficulties and confusion

between what's happening on the whole world now but i really wish like this. as some people to take action and think about this so that they are their children think about all this woman and i and my dream is that we have a syrian as they are on life and if you had any indications that that's going to happen i really don't know unfortunately every time is going to like this direction is going more towards as we all know now and thuggish more there and in the case for the now distortion everything is like became more worse and want to see your film is set in the aleppo would you say that it is mel the new aleppo yes they have now is like a new i think paul and the new walt on the new it's like the friends of theirs and so you have facing the same like again and again and i don't know like what's next but i do hope to see another ending scenario for this place you know the turkish president has said that he's going to do it millions of mostly syrian refugees

cross turkey trying to get into europe the gates to europe are closed what do you say to. the migrants who were going towards that border area one knows that now that they can't get through i really can't say anything for these people because like now safe with my family in the u.k. and i really wish them want to have like a safe life they still shouldn't talk is not good at all like it's not even like they don't have like immigrants or like asylum process and to me so all of this people who are paid my parlous they have a country they can be a school legally so like they are looking for a better life for them so they don't do that see no one as a friend of the syrian refugees i can fortunately through this 9 years we learn and we should like to be aware of this like there's no friends for the syrian people

and so you know i thought we saw friends for of the syrian regime like russia and iran and hezbollah but we didn't see any government taking great responsibility to have the same things for the regime of bashar al assad has support from the russians what do you what would you like to see help in there because no one wants a war with russia i don't wish widely if the government's going to take some responsibility too and the national debt and sort of when you see it which governments are there so absolutely everyone because this ward now is like just you know like what's happening that's very obvious for everyone in the usa so take a sponsibility of the u.k. they have their new and even lead to this. now and trade like they sat down should be like everyone who committed the crimes in syria from russia to the assad regime and should like be accountable and very like and you know like the court for everyone to know what's happened in syria you know you're a mother would you ask mothers here in europe the united states to send their

children to syria knowing that their children could die in order to end what's going on there i don't think they need to do something like this it's more of putting pressure on their governments and to do to act for support and. i would just let them think about what you have chosen and in my like she was on my positions thing that if someone was your child what what what should you do to protect your charge what you just said what you do to protect the future of this like the holy war you know now like deborah think at that point of hospitals inside syria it's been like mean that's this is what happened here and the like in europe this is what they have been in the usa and the u.k. like this is not just about syria it's about the whole future of this want your film you say that this is a love letter to your daughter but you also ask your daughter to forgive you. while i was sad like i've told her that sometimes when we were inside

a hospital in the basement and that was around the house all the time and when i was pregnant with her 2nd sister and i didn't know if we would make it out or not and i wanted her to forgive me about this is wrong that i faked as i dozed like i will mine was syria and wants to stay in her country and once i got a life for her children for. all her life i wanted her to forgive me for anything cap and for like about their life and i know what i've done was that i think to do but at the same time i wish for her you know the best life. what was it like you thought that you were pregnant and you see in the film that you didn't think that you're going to survive it what was it like being you know an expecting mother thinking that you're but you know you're about to bring life into the world but your own life is about to. be extinguished i would say something that is kind of

weird but it was one of the most likes things that i have ever heard in my life when i was like like feeling some and to my tummy or like trying to like me in some places where there's. at that happening or an aircraft around i was feeling that i'm more stronger than all of this weapons and all the spotted bombs around us and there is he was trying to use everything to make. a point to destroy the whole cities even like. syria i felt that me with my camera with my baby inside me it's more stunned by that all of this thank you use of in london and some of course is growing up do you hope one day to be able to return to syria and you hope that she can call syria home one day yes of course and she knows now she's from syria and not just me i'm going to take on behalf of all of our like 6 many of the war syrians we are all like sleep and wake up on the day off like looking at

the news and say like and have it over and now that like breaking a new was. something. one thinks very much is nice to me thank you so much thank you. well that was syrian filmmaker walt al-khateeb her documentary for some has won awards and global attention she told me that she still hopes the world will soon give her this year we get the attention so desperately needs before even more people have to die when the day is almost done as always the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either you can follow me at brit golf t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag that every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that.

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