following contract killings of a journalist and his partner at their home east of the capital, bratislava. promising as are battle against the government plan to transform the national real company. that is coming up in our business update. , a widely used weed killer has been at the center of environmental concerns lately. we take an in-depth look at the debate here in france. stay tuned. you are watching "france 24." first, to our top story. a humanitarian cause has come into effect in syria's rebell held enclalave of eastern go to- eastern ghouta, but fighting and shelling continued. there are international calls for russia to convince its ally .yria to halt a momonths truce was passed on saturday. i spoke to a correspondent in beirut. what we are getting out is t the five-hour truce imposed by the russians is not playing out very well. the idea toave the fifighting ststopped from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. . in order to set of huhumanitarian c corridors thaht would alallow some aidid in ande cicivilians toto get out of easn ghouta -- but that is nott working g out. in fact, the violenc

by his colleagues days after the bodies of his fiance martina kristen over were found in their bratislava home. percent convinced that the murder is connected with his writings about a link between italian mafia and slovak in politics. could see a story name two officials who have now resigned pending an investigation one of them. a chief advisor to the prime minister another. chair of the state security department both have denied any link to the killings prime minister robert fits so saying he was told a scholar has cautioned against judging the pair without evidence he's offered a reward of one million euros for information about the murders slovakia's culture minister also resigned ashamed that something like this could happen in his country or that the us culture minister i can't deal with the fact that the journalist was killed during my term in office. in brussels european parliamentarians held a minute of silence to honor the journalists going to their me that's. the truth with determination and didn't answer to anyone. the police declared that he was almost surely killed to stop

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. —— bratislava. here's our briefing on some of the key events happening later.. it's believed he will push the uk to accept more refugees and unaccompanied minors. later in florida, students from marjory stoneman douglas will march in the state capital of tallahassee in the first organised protest of their #neveragain movement. 17 people were left dead in a shooting at the school last week. and in london, the world's top musical talent celebrate the 2018 brit awards. dua lipa leads the pack with five nominations. let's get the latest on the winter olympics in pyongchang. italy's sofia goggia won italy's first gold with a win in the women's downhill. norway's ragnhild mowinckel took silver and the american — lindsey vonn — a former champion, was pushed into 3rd place for bronze. in the ladies figure skating, russia's15—year—old alina zagitova is the favourite. the european champion faces strong competition in the short programme from her team mate evgenia medvedeva and canada's gabrielle daleman. in curling, the final rounds for a place in the semi finals are und

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joining me on the phone now from slovakia's capital bratislava is beyond to go was she is the editor in chief of the country's biggest daily newspaper there summer it's good to have you with us police we understand believe that the pair were targeted because of his reporting can we confirm that anyone else have police said. yes the police probably suspects that that he was targeted because of his reporting and obviously mr coo to cover high politic oh co-option he cover stories like that see they usually buy shady businesses i think probably because being. one of his recent reports absolutely to suspect kalyan mass. for lackey a so basically there are a lot of very highly charged tories and which is also interesting that the government actually owned for one million euro for any information which helps to bring the killers to justice so it is really obvious that. these murder makes hour for the political alley nervous because there is a lot of pressure from the journalistic community and the block as well if i can just ask you i understand that some of your colleagues worked closely

tomorrow the summit meetings debates the heads of state and government let us look back twenty sixteen bratislava we started it. with a new process partly because we realize that many decisions are simply made too slowly but also because of the u.k.'s decision to leave the european union and we decided to start a new process and i joined actually her games were developed for migrations of uni security both internal and external and not least social development these are areas where we want to convince people by offering them create our missus and then it's straight into the net europe can you do something for him and a video people in these countries. on the occasion are celebrating the anniversary with treaties of rome being signed we confirmed this once again and in october the council gave itself a novel ambitious work shed where the individual steps of the work were defined which were to be done until twenty nineteen and that is also points to one of those informal summit meeting is all about so it's not exactly my chance that the first chapter of the new coalition agreement drawn up between

gunshot wound to the head here in velka maca, a village around 65 kilometres east of the capital bratislavaont of me. this amount is for a person who takes courage and comes to the police or otherwise tells the police that he or she knows something about this crime. i will be meeting with editors—in—chiefs of the most important slovak media companies to discuss the fact that the protection of the freedom of speech and the safety of journalists is our common priority and that it is extremely important to my government. it isa it is a huge reward but people are focusing on jan it is a huge reward but people are focusing onjan kuciak‘s last final, unfinished article, published overnight by his former employer, actuality. s k, and the headline is about the italian mafia extending into politics in slovakia. other outlets have published the article ina show outlets have published the article in a show of solidarity like this one with a damning headline, you can kill a journalist but you can't kill his story. what was jan kuciak alleging? here's a bit about his article, he says italians with ties

single source at the heart of this story, the former czech spy in question, was interviewed in bratislavawas at least an informer for the stb, and you presume he was paid for that? he was very, very good source. good but there is a difference between being a very good source and being an active informer. i am telling you, he was very good source. source. so he did not really add anything at all to the allegations. labour are confident that they are now finishing this story. the archives in prague, the old secret service archives, do not say anything at all about mr corbyn being an informer at all, nor do the stasi files in germany. it feels like this story might be petering out for now. ben wright, good to talk to you. now ben wright, good to talk to you. now ben rich as the weather. more sunshine over the next few days, but towards the weekend things will feel a good deal colder. pretty chilly tonight where we have clear spells, could be fog patches across parts of east anglia, north—east england, maybe south—east scotland. should not be too widespread. temperatures in the towns and citi