while we can talk now to martin milius from the aid organization care in amman in jordan good day. there's been so many reports of many casualties injured our medical workers the hospitals in this besieged area equipped to deal with this influx of badly hurt people. now i mean that is really beyond belief what we're witnessing out among all right martin millions from the aid organization care in amman jordan unfortunately the link has is not very well so we're going to try and check in with you in our next bulletin we're going to stay in syria because turkey has vowed to press on with its offensive and half in a spider planned alliance between kurds in the region and pro-government syrian forces turkey's presence which of tyro on claimed his country's forces were hindering the deployment of syrian forces and there are fears that damascus is involvement in the region could further complicate syria's bitter civil war. all right i believe we have we a stablished the line with them martin million from the aid organization here in amman jordan let's pick up where we left off those repor

and that was the syria director of save the children speaking to us from amman jordan all right we're going to shift gears now a top german court is hearing an appeal that could lead to a landmark ban on diesel cars in major cities the case was started by an environmental group which says the southern german city of stuttgart has not done enough to limit the harm caused by diesel emissions dozens of german cities are vocoded annual levels of nitrogen dioxide emissions above thresholds in the past twelve months toxic air pollution is linked to thousands of premature deaths every year the courts are ruling due next week were dramatically hit the value of diesel cars on germany's roads. are right and our very own are christopher spring gate is in stuttgart covering the court proceedings for so christopher the decision i understand has been respond until next week. that's correct and i think that's an indication of how much is at stake. in this case the presiding judge said that the court proceedings took considerably longer than he expected they took courage just four hours and we unders

and earlier we spoke with marchand milius from the aid organization care in amman jordan he spoke of the situation in eastern get to. some daily basis we hear from our partners and you know it's basically has been desperate desperate cries for how it has been really there stating that at last five days and even today at lunchtime we already had dozens of casualties reported throughout history and aerial bombardment are really really what is densely populated neighborhoods it's sadly very similar to what we have seen and our level last year you know that really targeting all medical facilities that bakeries market is. infrastructure so there are roads and nobody can go out people are sheltering in that basements that they're afraid for their lives i heard this morning the door judge was year old girl were saying i don't want to die i still have dreams it's really really desperate and that was my ten milius from the aid organization care speaking earlier from amman jordan and german chancellor angela merkel has called on the european union to step up pressure on russia and iran to end

all right we can talk to mark milley us now from the aid organization care in amman jordan good evening martin i understand that partners of your organization care were active in the region until roughly two days ago is that correct. that they were a kid i used to lie in touch with people in east and go to what are they telling you you noticed in the tabs on daily basis we hear from our partners and you know it's basically has been desperate desperate cries for i have it has been really really terror stating that our last high stage and even today at lunchtime we've already had dozens of casualties reported throughout jewelry and aerial bombardment are really really what is densely populated neighborhoods that they describe what buildings were being targeted you know i mean we've heard really it's. it's sadly very similar to what we had seen and our level last year you know that really targeting all medical facilities that bakeries market is. infrastructure so but the roads and nobody can go out people are sheltering in their basements that they are afraid for their lives i heard this m

of water situation we're joined now by alan mcdonald from save the children is based in amman jordan thanks for being with us this morning mr mcdonald what are you hearing from eastern guta have any civilians been able to leave the area. so they second day of the teresa's just start it now it's too early to know what's what's happened today but yesterday we saw roaming continue in many areas throughout the throughout a five hour truce one of the local partners on the ground just in the space of two hours during that truce counted more than move thirty still going on sorry most people are still afraid to leave but i'm still afraid to leave the underground shelters even in the parts of the goods that were quieter yesterday there was still planes flying overhead and people and stills too gets made most people don't want to leave they want to stay where they are but they want to be safe while they stay ok what what needs to happen for you and you are going to zation before you start trying to get supplies in are you going to wait for the ceasefire to take hold or or will you try nonethel

you'll want to see the situation from amman jordan tell us more about what your colleagues are saying about the situation in east and go down today. they have been telling is that after ten days i find president at levels of violence and aerial bombardment that then had a rather quiet night and people were emerging from their shelters in the morning at nine o'clock local time looking for their belongings or looking to get some food some water and then unfortunately around lunchtime again we got. we got the information from our partners on the ground that the aerial bombardment had to raise you and people running for their lives again and basically now we have really trouble to reestablish communication at the moment and while people on the ground able to establish where this was coming from do they think it was a sieve in government forces responsible for this because the russians are saying that in fact rebels have also been shelling and fighting militants i mean that is very difficult for us to say i mean we are. i mean we have been seeing that men in the last ten days and you know

while our earlier i talked with martin millions from the aid organization care in amman in jordan and i asked him given the reports of so many casualties are hospital in hospitals an eastern ghouta quick to deal with this influx of badly hurt people. yeah absolutely not i mean what we're witnessing is is this situation and he's told that had been already difficult before it to some area that was besieged by the government forces since almost four years and the last years and has even intense the far right. we were hardly able to bring in any medication no food so the area we're struggling the four hundred thousand people inside the war would be an extremely serious situation before and now with that military escalation really broad and not only are suffering for the people and the areas by no means a great way to deal with that make this very concrete for us describe the situation of the civilians on the ground are there shelters where they can hide what do families do when bombs start raining down on them. they have basically nowhere to go this area is besieged you consciously anywhe

ellen mcdonald there middle east spokesperson for save the children he was talking to us from amman jordan. you're watching the news still to come an activist in guinea risks arrest to expose problems in the that the country's traditional media won't address and the internet is his best tool for an even playing field with authorities. well there's been more trouble on wall street shares have dropped dramatically again go up as one to terry the dow jones index plunged more than four percent last night and combined with monday's losses the slide of more than ten percent officially puts the drop into market correction territory and asian markets followed shanghai is down four percent the sharpest drop in that region. after the global market rout earlier this week investors were warned of increased and more frequent volatility in the next weeks and that's what they're getting as seen by the dallas plunge on thursday some analysts say that algorithm based trading in preprogramed sell orders are to blame others point to market based indicators first u.s. investors fretted over a potential rise i

cnn's jomana karadsheh is joining us live from amman, jordan. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ryan. by all accounts sunday was a day of escalation with activists reporting air strikes and artillery shelling pounding almost every part of eastern ghouta. they reported the regime was trying to push into the area on several fronts in what they described as ground offensive. overnight, we received disturbing reports coming from activists and medical groups, including the syrian-american medical society about a suspected chlorine gas attack. the group says one of the hospitals it supports in eastern ghouta received 16 patients. including six children saying quote suffering symptoms indicative of exposure to chemical compounds. the health director is reporting the same and saying the symptoms they showed were consistent to toxic chlorine gas. we have heard this in the past and both sides have accused each other of using chlorine as a weapon. it is the vvill vicivilians whoe brunt of the heartbreak. >> thank you, jomana. >>> and the search for

joining me now is annan mcdonald from save the children based in amman jordan not only what are you hearing about the situation on the ground in eastern huta. well we have reports this morning but it's it's too easy to be able to very private moments but we will we have heard from families today is that most of the families are still in shelters on the ground people. really thought her in that case the bombing starts again i think in this general lack of trust that. any cease fire will actually hold in coming to a correct a couple of days ago where the u.n. security council announced a cease fire. people came out of their shell to try and find a family or check on the houses and then. very short time later the building starts up again and more people were killed at the moment people are still very very scared very afraid. to really come out and. and so and so it's clear that the cease fire is holding exactly what your colleagues telling you what is their assessment about whether this five a day's ceasefire is enough telling how many attempts civilians at least in hotel. it's definitely not

words will come on the journey now is sonia who she's the syria director of save the children in amman jordan welcome to our program so no pictures we're seeing coming up from eastern guta on devastating give us a sense of the magnitude of the tragedy unfolding there. share well you know our partners that are currently working in essentially to describe the situation in which there is so much fear on families especially on children you know they've been living under siege since december twenty twelve so they already had very volatile situations in recent months we had seen levels of malnutrition rai's we had seen no medical supplies getting into the area and so now dismemberment is really compounding the suffering of the people there one of our partners said you're behind eastern good times underground now and that means they're seeking shelter in basements in tunnels we've even heard that people are digging holes which. shuttles in order to have somewhere to hide from the bombing of the security council is news if you do it on a humanitarian ceasefire for fighting in syria what do you have t

kind of humanitarian situation the grisly scene martin milius from the it organization care in amman jordan thank you. and staying in syria turkey has vowed to press on with its offensive in academe spite a planned alliance between kurds in the region and pro-government syrian forces turkey's president's watch attired one claimed his country's forces were hindering the deployment of syrian troops in africa and there are fears that damascus is involvement in the region could further complicate syria's bitter civil war. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. billy graham the man described the most widely heard christian even even jealous in history has died at the each of ninety nine the us preacher was to fame in the one nine hundred forty s. holding fuge rival meetings of revival meetings excuse me across the country served as a spiritual adviser to twelve u.s. presidents and traveled to north korea on a peace mission in one thousand nine hundred ninety two. and beheading a court has sentenced a human rights activist to another five years in jail or job has criticize

more on the story now with martin milius from the aid organization care in amman jordan mark and thank you for joining us we saw such horrifying pictures there in that report we're hearing also reports that civilians are collapsing from hunger that the medical situation is extremely dire how much has the situation deteriorated in the last few days. we have seen the deterioration off the besiegement in the last few months. old basically this area as you mentioned in the report is already besieged since for use or ever since a number of months and all the tunnels were closed all the checkpoints were closed so the situation before the military escalation of the last two days was already very dire we have seen the mom attrition rates soaring we've seen shortage of essential items drugs and medication and now we are witnessing in the last few days is military of elation own thoughts on that in a place which basically made many care and how they didn't seize to. suspend operations just because of. the duration much of what are the most pressing needs on the ground right now. and now it's rea

care international's middle east a regional coordinator is martin media see joins us from amman jordan welcome to d.w. what are you hearing about the situation in eastern tutor. so basically after nine days of unprecedented level of facilities people are tired they're hungry they're free and we have seen hundreds of people that have perished in the bombing campaign . and we know off around twenty four have facilities that have been bombed deliberately. and basically we had seen after that announcement of the u.n. security council we had seen like a brief lull there was a calmer night or partners were telling us in the morning that people were emerging from the shelters they were cleaning the roads to give space for the ambulances to go through there are trying to get food and water but then late in the day around lunchtime the borning started again and then people went on the ground and into the business again. it's important to remember that this was not a cease fire that was that was agreed but the series of five causes what kind of humanitarian groups achieve during five. i mean one

in amman, jordan, the head of the arab league warned thursday that the trump administration's decision to withhold tens of millions of dollars in aid to palestinian refugees threatens the stability of the entire middle east. the comments came after the state department said it would withhold $65 million of $125 million for the u.n. relief and works agency known as unrwa. this is unrwa commissioner-general pierre karhenbuhl, speaking to arab league leaders. >> what is at stake excellencies is the dignity of palestine refugees and regional stability. if 525,000 students no longer have access to education, if 3 million patients cannot access 1.5 million if people can no longer receive emergency assistance, we will undoubtedly witness and see a catastrophic rise in insecurity. in cuba, the eldest son of fidel castro commited suicide on thursday after a long struggle with depression. fidel castro diaz-balart, who was known affectionately as "fidelito" or "little fidel" for his resemblance to his father, was 68 years old. castro diaz-balart was a nuclear physicist who studied in the former s

white — he‘s the norwegian refugee council‘s response director for syria and he is in amman in neighbouring jordanearly terrible suffering there. what are your people on the ground telling your people on the ground telling you about the way in which people can be looked after in one sense medically, we‘ve seen many children suffering as well. what is the assessment? over recent months there has been significant fighting in eastern ghouta and i have seen aid organisations providing basic assistance to people. it is becoming untenable to provide that aid. there isa untenable to provide that aid. there is a lack of supply, people cannot be medically evacuated out of the territory. the reality is the aid workers are now being hit with the same ordnance that is affecting the rest of the population. so the m essa 9 es rest of the population. so the messages that humanitarian response in eastern ghouta now is exceptionally strained. for us were also looking ahead and we are very concerned that if this conflict in eastern territory escalates into a major ground offensive we‘re talking about two sides figh

in jordan's capital, amman, the vising turkish foreign minister warned that syria is risking an armed>> ( translated ): i have also seen the reports this morning. the aim of our afrin operation, is obvious: to eliminate the terrorists that carry out attacks against us and pose a threat against turkey. however, if the syrian regime comes in to defend them, then nothing and nobody can stop us or the turkish soldiers. >> woodruff: by nightfall, no syrian-backed troops had entered afrin. turkey has also demanded that the united states stop supporting the syrian kurdish fighters.at the parole board in louisiana has denied parole an inmate whose case led to a landmark court decision. henry montgomery was just 17 years old when he killed a sheriff's deputy. he's now 71. in 2016, the u.s. supreme court ruled that sentencing juvenile murder defendants to life without parole is unconstitutional. and, at the winter olympics in south korea, the day highlights included a win for american women. the u.s. women's hockey team beat finland and will play canada for the gold medal later this week. and o

she joins us live on webcam from neighbouring jordan from the capital, amman.veral years but what we are seeing now has not been seen before. i am talking on a daily basis to organisations that give support in eastern ghouta, they are reporting ona eastern ghouta, they are reporting on a lack of everything. food, medical aid, what. there is no power. it is winter. people are called. air strikes are leading to a big death toll. today i was talking toa big death toll. today i was talking to a partner who is working in one of the hospitals. it was hit by air strikes yesterday. they lost one of their staff. it is very sad obviously for everyone there. the medical worker was walking into the hospital with a wounded woman when the air strike hit the building. they both passed away. along with other people in the area. we are counting civilian death on a daily basis now. it is a horrific situation, there has been an international outcry, but nothing will change, will it? the syrian government forces will not stop what they are doing just because there is international

balancing act to cultivate relations separately and that's why modi traveled through jordan on his trip he flew from amman to ramallah in a helicopter which was provided by the the jordanian government. now gotten a saber as that despite a logistical difficulty the important message from india is that close it ties to israel a not at the expense of traditional palestinian ties and modi also announced that this is the first ever prime minister ariel visit to palestine from india and this is caused some confusion online with many people refuting this particular claim now gora of who is associated with the indian congress says that joe hardly know who this is india's first prime minister was actually the first to visit palestine and he shows a photo of never who in one thousand nine hundred sixty to make his point and this tweet was shared of eight hundred times today and we did some background fact checking and did find that narrow did visit the gaza strip in one thousand nine hundred sixty but this was not actually an official visit he was actually on his way back from london ofter attending a commonwealth

jordan, i saw. neil: this winter, we will be into a month -- into amman and aqaba.anus: the original idea was 100 planes. lucy: we have a 210 aircraft order with boeing. the 77.on top of another 29 next year. we are well on track to have a better fleet of just under 600 aircraft and 200 million customers per annum by march 2024. anna: in terms of alitalia, you would be open to feeding some of their operations. would you be interested in taking on any of their roots at all? -- routes at all? neil: we are the largest carrier in italy with 30% market share, so we are -- manus: do you not need to buy alitalia? is that the message? neil: we don't necessarily need to buy anybody. we are good with our own organic growth. we have specific opportunities where we can buy some of these things. anna: you had some comments on the conversation at pilots union. how confident are you that things will be sorted out? this must have been a big culture change from ryanair, both on the pilot's side and the management side. juggling a whole new process and power dynamic. neil: we had alw

protests have broken out in jordan over an increase in taxes and the price of everyday items young people burn tires a lot streets in the city of us northwest of the capital amman and first a opposition parties called for an open sitting in front of parliament to protest against price hikes. parliament in the mall this is now under military control the president says it will be closed indefinitely opposition members wanted to go inside to file impeachment motions against four government figures including the attorney general and defense minister blamed them for not following a supreme court order to release nine opposition politicians. from all these former attorney general has done so told al jazeera he believes the political deadlock will continue until president here mean resigned. parliament from yesterday in the parliament is under the under the control of the imagery and we. find that removing. the parliament members going to go in. to normal business so any effort to impeach the president a lot by the military and the only source. we i don't going to function and the supreme court cannot function at the moment by moment starts functioning then. question

jordan's a key partner in the international coalition to defeat isis and has flown air strikes right alongside us. just last week the u.s. finished delivery of blackhawk helicopters to amman that are used to take terrorists off the battlefield, helping to keep our nations, both of our nations, safer. the bill before us today ensures that jordan continues to get this critical military assistance, but it does more than that. it also ensures that jordan gets the economic support it needs to care for over a million syrian refugees now living in jordan as a result of the war next door. this influx has take an huge toll on jordan's resources. today we are helping ease that burden with emergency services, education, and access to clean water. in fact, chairman ros-lehtinen and i had an opportunity just a few years ago to see firsthand a usaid project or waste water treatment facility that today is providing access to clean water for millions of jordanians. this is the right thing to do. both for american strategic interests, and for american values. jordan's stability is vital to regional stability. our commitment to an enduring strategic partnership with jordan is critical to o

been protests in jordan over an increase in taxes on the price of everyday items young people burned tires and blocked streets in the city of assault northwest of the capital amman on thursday opposition parties also called for an open sit in in front of parliament to protest the price hikes. pictures obtained by the media in the philippines appear to show further chinese development of some of the disputed spratly islands in the south china sea photos released by the philippine inquiry show beijing has built naval docks runways wind turbines and several multi-story buildings china has previously said the construction is intended to improve peace and maritime security russia's capital moscow is buried under record snow falls after more than a month's worth of snow came down in just two days flights have been delayed surrounding areas have experienced power cuts and one person was killed by a falling power line the army has been called in to help clear the snow covered streets moscow's mare has closed schools a highly unusual occurrence in a city used to bad weather and it could get worse with more snow forecast. i had. the philadelphia eagles. flying high for th