security council they've been meeting on this issue they're calling for a thirty day ceasefire in syria russia is blocking it saying it's unrealistic what's standing in the way of an agreement. look at russia might get the good with a yes plea for time and the grief would have so-called ceasefire as long as the population thrives but as long as these buses then throws the infamous green buses in the families as soon they fight those assume this of ideas and move them thousands of them with others away from their homeland and their homes. thank you so much for talking with us this morning a d.-w. news middle east analyst who wastes a one fifteen year old who lives in eastern guta has been documenting the mass curren his home town through posts on social media but the material he's sharing hasn't been independently verified he lists his name as mohamed he claims this photo shows rubble from a bombing in which he lost a friend and he says this post shows the damage to his school and says his message to the world is not to look away from the violence in syria in this tweet he writes i'm like any k

council has voted it's to approve a resolution demanding a thirty day humanitarian cease fire in syria russia agrees to back the deal at the last minute as long as no starting date for the truce with the cease fire is aimed at allowing desperately need his aides to reach civilians in eastern goose up more than five hundred people has been killed in the rebel held area near damascus in the past week. the bombs have been raining down intensely on a sting good up for an entire wake up as smoke and ash fill the sky over this rebel held district need damascus those on the ground continue to pull victims from the rubble. they've been on the sea chief for years the casualties are now spiking shop play. survivors of being treated in a makeshift hospital. activists say this is the work of indiscriminate cluster and phosphorous bombs fired by the syrian regime. children to bear witness to the konitz. another missile landed but it was a small one thank god it was bigger the whole neighborhood would have been wiped out. and amid the bombing world powers have hesitated for days on how to find common groun

thanks us of such lee great question because if you look at general what how russia thief's syria and i think there has been a very mistaken consideration that russia has made all that bets on bashar i mean like for russia there's only one thing that matters for russia is when in syria are liable and still a stable client state that could supply this sort of foothold for its navy bases for its basis and some fluency in the middle east and doesn't really matter whether it's bashar asad or somebody else but it has to be somebody who is loyal to russia right now because that there is nobody you know or such alternative that's very pro russian in syria and i think in the coming years some of the problem of bashar streaming power and then we'll see how it goes hisham jaber what is your view of russia's endgame in this now is beyond syria what it what do you see as russia's endgame in this region right now in the middle east and who do you think is benefiting from prolonged russian involvement whether it's in syria or why there are areas in the region. and syria for the first time. to clear

that is a really big and rather open question now of course russia says it would like to see a long term ceasefire for all of syria however many of russia's international partners and security council were very critical of how they change the language of the cease fire resolution they said that russia they choose russia rather of putting in loopholes that will allow him to actively continue its military campaign against many of these rebel groups while at the same time claiming it was a hearing to the cease fire and now when it when it comes to whether or not there is the long term goal at least for moscow it seems the most important thing is what happens in the next several days basically they by employing these humanitarian cease fires they're given the assad government or wait around before a long term cease fire actually takes effect so it really seems like for moscow at the moment it's all about the short term game in syria before they go into a long term peace deal like peaceable rather peace or cease fire like we saw pass the united nations security council on saturday aaron thanks very much for that from m

it involves the united states, syria, russia. every idea of a piece settlement has to --peace settlement has to satisfy all of these international factors. that explains to a certain degree while it has been soak obligated in spite, the efforts -- two -- brent: the spd will announce the results of their votes this coming weekend. earlier today, merkel announced her picks for a new cabinet. most of the new cabinet is younger. there are also more women. >> an overwhelming majority voted in favor of a new grand coalition. only 27 of more than 900 voted against it. even so, given the skepticism of the ranks, and the merkel was at pains -- angela merkel was at pains. >> we are looking for the right answers. we are drawing conclusions from the election results. a new start for europe. reporter: michael speech drew just over -- merkel's speech drew just over four minutes of's -- of applause. many will interpret it as dissatisfaction for the chancellor. >> this result is not at all what we were hoping for. we all fought hard and were all

security council they've been meeting on this issue they're calling for a thirty day ceasefire in syria russia is blocking it saying it's on realistic what's standing in the way of an agreement look russia might get the good with say yes play for time and it could be floated so-called cease fire as long as the population thrives for as long as these green poses the influence the infamous green buses in the families as sunni fighters assume is the videos and move them thousands of kilometers away from their homeland and their homes. thank you so much for talking with us this morning a d.-w. news middle east analyst who wastes well one fifteen year old who lives in eastern has been documenting the massacre in his hometown through posts on social media his name is mohammed not jen and he's been sharing photos and videos of the destruction he claims this photo shows a raw shows the rubble from the bombing in which he lost a friend and he says this post shows the damage to his school mohammad says his message to the world is not to look away from the bidens in syria and to speak out against it in o

vote unanimously to approve a ceasefire and syria's eastern ghouta russia finally giving its backing after having blocks the resolution for days of the vote came as warplanes pounded the rebel held area near damascus broad powers are still to agree to the terms of the deal also coming up. a growing number of u.s. companies bound to pressure from anti-gun activists and cut ties with the national rifle association we take a look at the social media movement driving the change of attitude towards the gun lobby after last week's deadly school shooting. and we are live at the sixtieth brilliant international film festival we'll tell you schemes this year top prizes. and welcome to the program the u.n. security council has voted to approve a resolution demanding a thirty day humanitarian cease fire in syria russia agreed to back the deal at the last minute on the condition that there be no specification of when the truce would start the cease fire is aimed at allowing desperately needed aid to reach civilians in eastern guta more than five hundred people have been killed in the rebel held

also coming up russia orders a daily break in the bombing of eastern time syria to allow civilians to leave but for now the horror goes on with more than five hundred syrian killed in the last week including many children. conservatives have voted overwhelmingly in favor of entering a coalition government with the center left social democrats the s.p.d. will announce the results of their vote taken among its members next weekend earlier merkel announced her picks for the new cabinet most of the candidates are younger and there are more women. it has become a tradition at c.d.u. conventions to applaud party leader and chancellor angela merkel after his speech as long as possible this time the delegates managed to clap for little more than four minutes considerably shorter than in recent years this reflects the growing dissatisfaction with merkel's policy and the disappointing result of the last national elections and she's aware of that i think it is and this result is not at all but we were hoping for we all fought hard and we were all disappointed we need to do better the next time.

and for once was been established with and mean in lebanon syria up to the sea it actual fact now russia need iran. on especially on tactical level they have differences on a strategic. but the going to be as an axis in the future. i think both russia and iran support us to remain. stand i was try to i stand eyes sushi and are going to sign eyes also geneva in the future but i could see that. a solution may maybe come up like federal of syria north kurds that's what so high there american also weaken the is there if that's will not work out for the american. and the center part of the new syria but i think i said will lose power or he should not control these federal state in the future that's the way i see as a solution but i said we'll stay there for a while till we got might be because there is no political framework really now where it's going to have the right solution. i mean the syrian government has managed to take over an area which is about thirty kilometer from mount hermon and over the past few months the whole narrative was about what is going to happen in places like egypt

cease fire in syria is not working is it now welcome to russia to put the fighting in eastern huta. moscow has ordered a twenty four hour humanitarian pause tomorrow to allow civilians to leave the rebel on klav side of damascus this amid new claims that forces backed by russia have used chemical weapons on children also coming up germany moves one step closer to having a new government conservatives voting yes to a coalition with the center left social democrats also making some surprising picks for her new cabinet and a nation in shock after a twenty seven year old investigative journalist and his fiance are found a shot dead in their home in slovakia. i burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with the conflict in syria where russia has called for a daily pause in airstrikes on eastern huta president putin says the aim is to help civilians leave the rebel held on click of the move comes after the you when germany and france appealed to putin to use his influence with the syrian regime to enforce the truce agreed to by the u.n. security council over the weekend and

security council they've been meeting on this issue they're calling for a thirty day ceasefire in syria russia is blocking it saying it's on realistic what's standing in the way of an agreement. look at asho might get the good with the us plea for time and the grief would have so-called ceasefire as long as the population but as long as these. the infamous green buses cody's from their families as soon they fight those assume this video and move them thousands of people we thought is away from their homeland and their homes kind of thank you so much for talking with us this morning a d.-w. news middle east analyst who wastes to australia now where the deputy prime minister barnaby joyce says he will resign he will also step back as leader of his party and move to the back benches or weeks of pressure over an extramarital affair with his former media secretary joyce a practicing catholic has been married for twenty four years and has campaigned on family values but he has been under sustained pressure to resign over an affair with his former staff member who is now carrying his child choice and

this is news coming to you live from berlin no ceasefire for syria russia blocks a thirty day humanitarian truce of the u.n. security council this of hundreds of civilians are dying under heavy bombing in eastern guta also coming up another victim of last week's storage is leaked to rest president dollar trump appears to give some ground and gun control laws the film says that teaches to be armed. and the latest from a building on the mexican acting icon of gaiety garcia ben ali delights fans by his appearance at the international film festival. with a screening of his latest movie museo inspired by the most famous heist in mexican history. russia's blocking a u.n. security council resolution that's calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in eastern guta close to the syrian capital damascus russians put forward several amendments delaying the vote until later today meanwhile this been more bombing by a sit in forces in eastern guta human rights monitors say government shelling has killed more than four hundred people since sunday including many children it's one of the bloodiest episodes of s

we have now for key players as far as the conflict in syria is concerned iran. russia so three key players iran russia and israel do you think that russia could step in and try to broker a deal well i think that that's what the netanyahu government is hoping that russia steps in and restrains its syrian and iranian allies i would just say as far as context goes that after the last real direct israel syria war in one thousand nine hundred three for about forty years the syrian israeli border was israel's quietest border and only in recent years with the onset of the syrian civil war and hezbollah and iran involvement in that war a real bloody involvement targeting innocent men women and men women and children in many cases bombing hospitals and bakeries and so on israel actually stepped in to take care of its own strategic interests and that those interests should be taken into account in any future actions. what is it that mr bundy. russia has intervened in two thousand and fourteen tilt to the ground in favor of president bashar assad has implemented the four hundred

political reality in syria a weakened president bashar assad but with the backing from iran and syria russia is bad as you know to reverse some of the gains made by the made by the rebels the americans into was in the region is waning so we're left with two key players inside syria iran and russia. is this going to have any kind of impact in the near future about president bashar al assad are we going to see him likely sergei more ground or no i think iran is going to stay in syria. and for once was been established with and mean in lebanon syria up to the sea it actual fact now brush i need you ron. on especially on tactical level there have differences on the strategic. but the going to be as an axis in the future. i think both russia and iran support us to remain. stand i was try to i stand eyes sushi and they're going to stun eyes also geneve in the future but i could see that. a solution may maybe come up like federal of syria north it's that's what so why the american also we can the is the if that's will not work out for the american. and the center part of the new syria but i think i

now some observers say talk here is essentially an al-qaeda in syria russia moved quickly to take action carrying out a number of strikes in the province its defense ministry says more than thirty militants were killed using high precision weapons. now friday saw the release of a contested u.s. republican memo alleging the f.b.i. and justice department abused their powers to secure a warrant to spy on a former trump campaign aide in two thousand and sixteen some in the party have suggested it casts doubt on the whole federal investigation into the claims of collusion between the president's team and moscow documents publication has led to two impassioned debate in the media as well. put your watch there is north koreans goosestepping in line with the republican party is so much like that people need to start taking to the streets this is a dictator this is a tipping point for our democracy declassify this memo for fundamentally a political purpose. the specifically the memo alleges that the application for a warrant to surveil the former trump aide relied on the highly controversial stee

is claiming it was behind the downing of a russian jet over italy province in syria russia's defense ministry is confirming the plane's pilot managed to eject himself but was killed in a subsequent ground fight russian syrian government planes have been targeting rebel fighters since december with more than thirty killed on saturday alone the u.n. says some one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced by the violence stephanie decker reports from the turkey syria border. oh. this is a russian fighter jet shot down by opposition forces. i mean remember the pilot manages to eject but he didn't survive. there are. these syrian fighters it's a huge symbolic victory. russian the syrian government have intensified their bombardment it province over the last two months government forces a slowly capturing territory in the south what is the last remaining syrian province under full rebel control. they're inching closer to the city of socketed which lies on a strategic road linking the northwest all the way to the capital damascus territory that is now almost fully under government cont

russia had said years ago that it would help but help syria get rid of its chemical weapons russia failed to do that the syrian regime was back on its heels years ago who came in and prop them up or russia dead so without russian support syria we believe the united states government believes would not be in the position to attack people the misery that the syrian people are feeling right now is because of its own people its government the government of bashar al assad and also russia. well hillary mann leverett the chief executive of strategic it's a political risk consultancy she's joining us by skype from mclean in virginia thank you very much indeed for being with us we did our expectations stay too high given the fact that this truce was only going to last for five hours. well we we should always have hope but expectations i think are very high too high that the syrian government with the assistance of russia is going to retake eastern and other parts of syria in. a bloodless way it is going to continue to be a very bloody conflict in till

have a common destabilizing factor and that is the government of russia russia had said years ago that it would help but help syria get rid of its chemical weapons russia failed to do that. the syrian regime was back on its heels years ago who came in and prop them up but russia dead so without russian support syria we believe the united states government believes would not be in the position to attack people of the misery that the syrian people are feeling right now is because of its own people its government the government of bashar al assad and also russia well hillary mann leverett his chief executive of strategy say political risk consultancy she says russia's truce is being used to deflect international criticism. from the russian perspective to make this work and from the syrian government perspective to make this work is to enable those syrian government with russians of port to retake eastern so how do they do that how do they do that most effectively they have to they have to in a sense mute international criticism they have to give the international community away to feel good about itself as russia and

security council has voted to approve a resolution demanding a thirty day humanitarian ceasefire in syria russia agreed to back the deal at the last minute on condition that they have been knows the sophistication of when the truce woodstock's now the ceasefire is aimed at allowing desperately needed aid to reach civilians in eastern guta more than five hundred people have been killed in the rebel held area near damascus in the past week. the bombs have been raining down on eastern ghouta for an entire week as smoke and ash filled the sky over this rebel held district near damascus those on the ground continue to pull victims from the rubble they've been under siege here for years but casualties are now spiking sharply. the survivors are being treated in a makeshift hospital near damascus activists say this is the work of indiscriminate cluster and phosphorous bombs fired by the syrian regime children to bear witness to the carnage. in another missile landed but it was a small one thank god it was bigger the whole neighborhood would have been wiped out. amid the bombing world powers have hesitat

moscow that holds many of the cards now israel has been attacking targets inside syria for several years now and generally russia looks the other way it controls much of the airspace in syria bartz russia's position is that as long as as israeli jets are not threatening this devival of the acid regime too much and as long as they are not threatening russian personnel that's something that moscow has stressed very clearly in the last day or so then it is going to look the other way and not do anything to stop israel's jets now israel would like russia to take essentially a stronger hand in the south of the country and basically prevent iranian backed militias from getting too close to the israeli border but at the moment russia seems reluctant to do that because iranian backed militias are very useful to the asad regime and also to russia's objectives in syria so israel is going to have to be quite careful now it's obviously not going to stop flying sorties into syria but although russia is not directly going to shoot those out of the sky themselves it doesn't seem like they're willing to prevent acids and aircra

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the un has welcomed russia's plan but as reiterated its call for a thirty day ceasefire across syria which was passed a resolution on saturday the u.k. criticized president putin's move and accused russia of playing games twenty six people were killed on monday nearly five hundred people have died in intense bombing by syrian and russian forces over the past week i was here as a solid job that has the latest it is not yet clear what the details of this proposed russian ceasefire between nine am to two in the afternoon are going to be so far what we've seen is that this humanitarian ceasefire will mean that a car door will be opened and people will be allowed to exit people inside eastern huta do not want to exit from their homes they have been seeing what has been happening to people in aleppo they've been seeing what have been happening to people in the riot and they do not want to exit their own homes to places there where they don't know what are the conditions going to be like if it is going to be in the south near the border with jordan are they going to be moving west the words

india's horrendous wait as the outrage grows over the bloodbath in syria's eastern russia calls for an emergency un security council meeting. what are we going to have a stop to this four years after over two hundred girls were kidnapped by boko haram in nigeria dozens more are feared to have been abducted from a school plus. from the pacific to the arctic indigenous filmmakers find a voice at the film festival. there's been an outpouring of anger and frustration at the meeting between the u.s. president and students and families affected by last week's deadly florida school shooting donald trump has heard stories and pleas to tighten gun laws he's vowing to take ocean steps to check gun violence including arming teachers hear some of the things that was said. in here. because my daughter has no voice she was murdered last week she was taken from shot nine times on the third floor. we as a country failed our children this should happen. i'm very angry that this happened because it keeps happening nine eleven happened once and they fixed everything how many schools how many children hav

russia to ensure that this violence stalks. cattle or affect the whites. in iraq and in syria people are much more accepting that because it's their city being liberated they understand what they were suffering civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price but unavoidable part of war and commanders have to press on despite that responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis we are the good guys and the unison people on the battlefield.

i will say and what russia and want to read and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace i will tell you that we're there for one reason with it to get isis and get rid of isis and go home. we're not there for any other reason and we've largely accomplished our goal but what those three countries have done to people over the last short period of time is a disgrace. now we have heard from russian officials regarding the situation there and they have talked about concerns for civilian life not wanting people to be harmed but also pointing out that this is a fight against terrorists and that these terrorists are essentially using the civilians in the area as human shields and that this is taking place that civilians are essentially being used by these terrorists as human shields so we've also heard russian officials point out that it's very interesting to hear such harsh criticism coming from the people who recently leveled the cities of raka and mosul well let's review what happened in those two cities. we all pooled by the estimation of strikes me humanitarian disaster sys

russia sponsored humanitarian force in syria. the u.s. state department. and the syrian government. russia is certainly not if hearing to the cease fire they're not adhering to the cease fire because they continue to sponsor and back but. government violence in the rubble and terrorists held damascus suburb escalated earlier this month with both sides accusing each other of targeting civilians the u.n. security council unanimously adopted a month long resolution across the country additionally russia has also sponsored a five day lead truce to help civilians skate violence in eastern. however terrorists show the humanitarian corridor that's according to russia's defense ministry which had helped to set up the route before it was a time just minutes later not a single civilian was able to leave the enclave on tuesday the u.s. state department though accuses russia are paying too much attention to one of the last terrorist hotbeds in syria. i find it ironic when russia calls for a humanitarian road a humanitarian zone you know what humanitarian zone is it's the entirety of syria not ju

apparently the result of lobbying by syria's ally, russia.including at least 130 children, have been killed since this latest assault began last week. pictures released over the weekend by syrian activists show patients including children, apparently suffering from symptoms consistent with a chlorine attack. the 16 patients were being treated by syrian american medical society operating inside the rebel held damascus suburb. the syrian government has always denied using chemical weapons and their russian al liz haes h accused them of using toxic materials to blame the government. eastern ghouta described as hell on earth. it is estimated 400,000 are surrounded by let's see. if this pack, and this pack, have the same number of bladder leak pads, i bet you think the bigger one is better, right? actually, it's bulkier. always discreet doesnneed all that bulk to protect. because it's made differently . the super absorbent core quickly turns liquid to gel, for drier protection that's a lot less bulky than poise. looks like good things really do co

security council they've been meeting on this issue they're calling for a thirty day ceasefire in syria russia is blocking it saying it's unrealistic what's standing in the way of an agreement. look at russia might get the good with say yes play for time and again before of so-called cease fire as long as the population transfer as long as these green buses that influence the infamous green buses carry sunni families as sunni fighters assume this of ideas and move them thousands of kilometers away from their homeland and their homes cut it thank you so much for talking with us this morning a d.-w. news middle east analyst wastes. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines this morning haiti has suspended. great britain's operations in the country for two months pending an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct the move follows reports that staff held sex parties with prostitutes during relief efforts for a devastating earthquake in two thousand and ten. nigerian authorities say the schoolgirls who were unaccounted for following a boko haram attack on monday are s

don't mess up syria got security interests that's russia's security interest ok not just a thought we want a stable syria and we want a stable lebanon and you can't just send in planes every week to bomb the country and disrupt the political process in this way it's unacceptable. this is charlie munger has approached economics. from wells fargo wells fargo. charlie munger i want buffett. most of the money from the spurs to the history of us and most of the snowboarder the one of the. beautiful yes couldn't get a bushel see you put him over the i'm close but then this month i do you know of the all my money friends of the star you know comes. from jim you know will some day and some as a woman you can split the. dog you'll see yes it's a little. too close to the thing you put yellow with some openings for your commitment showed cynical bulls to the police and you should be busting the most of them so just to think oh well what you could say yeah. that would usually be the nation as we see would you do you see each of us knows tell me of something good. you told me most of. the. united

syria. four days of clashes have killed scores of civilians. russia'sosal as unrealistic. allahu akbar. it's been called "syria's 96 hours of hell". bringing four days of bombing and bloodshed rarely seen before, even in syria's brutal civil war. more than 200 dead since monday in scenes like this. the rush by rescue workers to help, always with the threat that more bombs might fall. just outside the capital, damascus, eastern ghouta is home to 400,000 people, now under siege. jisreen, to the east, attacked too. 58 civilians killed — it's thought — on thursday alone. supplies are short, medicine exhausted, doctors few. this week, the un called for a month—long ceasefire, but the un security council has not backed that appeal — seen by some as impossible. we want to make sure that there is a cessation of hostilities in key parts of the country, so that we can better gain access for humanitarian aid, and so that we can evacuate people who are in desperate need of medical help. meanwhile, the syrian regime has accused america of war crimes after dozens of

this progress at risk with their activities which are not focused on defeating an isis russia's interests in syriaare russia's interests of a shirtless governing body do most of its image will confirm this some human rights council members are not ready meaningfully to condemn international terrorism in all its forms it's all acceptable to separate terrorists into good and bad cats agrees especially when the divisions based on that because goals were in their financial backers. russia will continue to oppose double standards and will assist the syrian army in its final push to eliminate the terrorist threat. comparisons are now being drawn between the ongoing situation in eastern guta and the former militant district of aleppo in twenty sixteen you're done of takes a closer look at the tangle of violence in east ghouta is morphing into lippold two point zero watching the mainstream media's coverage is almost like traveling in a time machine back to twenty sixteen president and his russian are like a accused of unleashing all out war against the people of ghouta russia and the syrian government are

to more talks between russia and turkey to to find a solution for is it lip but most likely violence will continue there is just so many different parties involved in the war in syria was exactly is russia trying to achieve in a province well one of the main goals of russia and syria is to support a government of bashar al assad so what they want to achieve in italy opposed to the treaty the rebels there or at least a large part of them so that's why the conflict this increasing there at this moment because russia is supporting assad to try to take over most of the areas back to the syrian government ok thank you very much fatima fun they'll come back for talking to us initially at least six people have been injured in a drive by shooting in the city of my karata all of the victims were foreigners a twenty eight year old italian man is now in custody the country's interior minister says that the suspect had neo nazi and fascist ties and was motivated by racial hatred. a victim of the drive by shooting on his way to hospital. he's one of six african immigrants who police believe was targeted in a racist attack that shocked italy the suspect opened fire in eight area

syria from the terrorists. well meanwhile the u.s. state department has also chimed in claiming russia isn't sticking to the un backed cease fire in syria and she says press briefing they also play moscow for continuing to support syrian president bashar al assad russia is certainly not hearing to the cease fire they are not adhering to the cease fire because they continue to sponsor and back to charlotte sides government. auntie's washington correspondents american husband. russia has assured that the syrian army is following the ceasefire but militants are not even though foreign minister lavrov has called upon armed opposition groups to comply with the cease fire russia also set up a humanitarian corridor in eastern gooda tuesday morning to allow civilians to leave the district but moscow says that civilians can't leave the district because militants are shelling humanitarian corridors now are also spoke about this particular topic she thinks that all of syria should be a humanitarian so not just some corridors i find it ironic when russia calls for a humanitarian road a humanitaria

now eight am this is your world news first the tough talking on syria that's been taking place over the past twenty four. it was also russia's ambassador to the united nations is calling on all parties to the conflict in syria's rebel held region of eastern go to cease hostilities addressing the security council and he also criticized the way the international media and foreign powers have been representing the situation. there is a must have so it could he says in the mainstream media which is. day after day doesn't help that it's not even situations. but who would like to do it as their only hope so it's a little reason which the tsunami was once again it is good that what we just heard was the russian ambassador to the united nations responding to what he characterized as a smear campaign now the meeting was called in response to the situation in eastern guta that was a suburb of damascus located to the east of damascus at this point it's an enclave of rebels and terrorist forces now there's been increasing hostilities in eastern guta as the syrian government is fighting to retake the city from terrorist russia was respon

news live from berlin russia orders a daily break in the bombing of eastern syria to allow civilians to leave but for now the horror goes on with more than five hundred feared killed in the last week and allegations that the forces backed by russia has used chemical weapons on children. also coming up germany moves one step closer to having a new government conservatives vote yes to a coalition deal with the central left social democrats michael also makes some surprising picks for her new cabinet. children in northern nigeria are too afraid to go to school after more than one hundred girls are kidnapped from a school by suspected boko haram extremists didn't you speak to one family trying to find their daughter. they seem to come out of nowhere but now the thirty one year old politician and his anti-establishment five star movement are the front runners in the action on sunday what does this mean for italy and the rest of europe. and lifting the veil a new film shows women in saudi arabia as few have seen them before. me so much going to thank you for joining us we start with the war

cease fire in syria is not working to russia to put the fighting in eastern. moscow has ordered a twenty four hour stop in fighting tomorrow billions to leave the rebel side of damascus this amid new claims that forces backed by russia have used chemical weapons on children also coming up germany moves one step closer to having a new government a chance conservatives voting yes to a coalition deal with the center left social democrats and also making some surprising picks for her new cabinet. and a nation tonight in shock twenty seven year old investigative journalist and his fiance shot dead in their home in slovakia. plus they are calling it the beast from the east temperatures in europe have plunged to record lows killing more than eleven people in poland and lithuania but also bringing scenes and snow to the capital in rome. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with the conflict in syria where russia has called for a daily stop in airstrikes in eastern. president putin saying the aim is to help civilians leave the rebel held on clay and it comes

state department accuses russia of paying too much attention to one of the last terrorist hotbeds in syria. i find it ironic when russia calls for a humanitarian road a humanitarian zone you know what humanitarian zone is it's the entirety of syria not just one little area that russia acutely tries to carve out it should be the entire country because that is what russia and those fifteen other countries agreed to in the u.n. security council resolution united states has actually made very specific failure in syria and gaining the ground there and we've lost a lot of the ability to speak about that and so now it's just become on whoever's whoever's in charge or whoever might have something into playing the blame on russia but then saying it was their fault because russia had the power they should have known it to tell us to put its forces out or to have militants stop doing that they're basically saying that russia is now in charge of syria rather than trying to find a solution as to why this five hour or any any hour seven hour any amount of cease fire won't work this is not up to russia t

apparently the result of lobbying by syria's ally, russia.is estimated more than 500 people including at least 130 children, have been killed since this latest assault began last week. pictures released over the weekend by syrian activists show patients including children, apparently suffering from symptoms consistent with a chlorine attack. the 16 patients were being treated by syrian american medical society operating inside the rebel held damascus suburb. the syrian government has always denied using chemical weapons and their russian al lies have accused them of using toxic materials to blame the government. eastern ghouta described as hell on earth. it is estimated 400,000 are surrounded by government forces and the cease-fire designed to allow for humanitarian aid to be delivered and medical evacuations. try degree ultraclear black + white ♪ saves your white clothes from yellow stains and black clothes from white marks still with 48 hour sweat protection. try degree ultraclear black + white it won't let you down fredget in, fred!thing f

seems to be a truce in place at the moment what about over in russia emily what does this incident mean for the russian involvement in syria well question the russian side this is somewhat of a setback at the end of the year russia announced several times sensually victory in syria for example in december president vladimir putin went to syria one of them to the russian airbase there and he said they treated it she was against most of the terrorists and that russia would now pull out a significant part of its troops so now this dramatic incident happened and of course that's likely to send well not a victorious message to say the least so it's not sending a good message to russians looking on at the situation and how is it how would you say it's being viewed and in russia. well it's also likely to be a setback in terms of public perception of this whole conflict and russia's role in it after all this news of the essentially end of the operation in syria was everywhere at the end of last year we spoke to people in moscow and on the streets and they said that in fact the end of those operations in syria was basically one of

this progress at risk with their activities which are not focused on defeating an isis russia's interests and syria are russia's interests. but russian foreign minister sergey lavrov replied to that saying that you know this was this was unacceptable coming from a coalition member he said that some partners are not ready to condemn terrorists regardless of who they're working for who's paying them to condemn radicals and extremists the so you said terrorists cannot be divided into good and bad categories depending if they are working in your interests or not he says the terrorists much be treated equally and he added that the russians will help the syrian military as it pushes at the last strongholds of terrorists to eliminate them and that russia will not falter in its duty to free syria from their influence. ok thanks miranda mrs arty's marie ghastly affair but we're joined live now it's a political science professor not university and. with more on this story anthony good evening t. thanks for your time thanks for waiting on the line for us moscow as we're hearing there has been a key to being b