Coming up to get guns to train teachers u. S. President donald trump suggests that could be a way to deter got attacks like last weeks florida massacre but the campaign for tighter gun control grows. Plus the students who defied hitler ons and sophie shoulder where members of an anti nazi Resistance Group and pay for it with their lives seventy five years ago today we will visit an exhibition that examines their legacy. And a movie about an art heist premieres of the Berlin Film Festival museum is the true story of a robbery that went wrong in mexico we will head down to the red carpet and. Im sara kelley welcome to the program. We begin with reports that russia is blocking a u. N. Security Council Resolution that is aimed at bringing a cease fire to eastern on the edge of the syrian capital damascus Syrian Government forces are bombarding the suburb of the u. N. Chief antonio good ted ash has called the situation hell on earth human rights monitors say that government shelling has killed more than four hundred people since sunday including children and a quick warning here our next report contains disturbing images. Difficult to deal with there the difficult even for those surrounded by day it is a crushing moment. Suppose. For a father hugs his child one last time. For city is victims there is no dignity in dying. Should shut. Down for syrias government there is no relenting every minute bombs are dropped and. Monitored groups say more than four hundred men women and children have been killed since sunday homes and hospitals obliterated leaving doctors to handle matters of life and there amid the ruins. We had to conduct one of the under the rubble we couldnt evacuate so we did it under the rubble. Because of the volcano. The Syrian Regime says rebel x. T. Misquotes who control eastern are using a human is as shields u. N. Security council has been debating a thirty day ceasefire that allow for a deliveries on the evacuation of casualties. These are not terrorists showing up in these makeshift Emergency Rooms these are civilians they are ordinary people under attack by a barbaric assad regime that is bent on leaving. Level to the ground with no regard for the four hundred thousand men women and children who live there but it was met with resistance time russia blocking the resolution. But hope still looks within the beseech concrete canyons of by the young men it comes in the shape of a hole and i slowly but surely theyre digging their way to safely. The only escape from a torrent of coal mines must be an underground one. And earlier today german chancellor Angela Merkel called on the European Union to step up pressure on russia and iran to end the violence in eastern. Both countries are allies of president assad in an address to the German Parliament merkel condemned the Syrian Governments Bombing Campaign heres what she had to say thats him on the scene were currently seeing terrible events in syria every jeem fi saying not so against terrorists but against its own people the killing of children the destruction of hospitals. All of that is a massacre that deserves to be condemned and which must be opposed by us with a clear. But it also calls upon us to play a larger role so that we can stop massacre like this. And earlier we spoke with Martin Majlis from the able can ization care in amman jordan he spoke of the desperate situation in eastern gotta. Watch on daily basis we hear from all partners and you know its basically has been desperate desperate cries for help has been really really there stating the last five days and even today at lunchtime weve already had dozens of casualties reported throughout jewelry and aerial bombardment are really really what is densely populated neighborhoods and sadly very similar to what we have seen and our level last year you know that really targeting all medical facilities that. Market is. Very infrastructure so there are roads and nobody can go out people are sheltering in their basements theyre afraid for their lives i heard this morning the door judge was year old girls were saying i dont want to die i still have dreams its really really destroyed that was martin my last from the Aid Organization care speaking from amman jordan about the situation in Eastern Syria now to some other news in the United StatesPresident Donald Trump has said that he will be strongly pushing for comprehensive background checks with an emphasis on Mental Health for anyone buying guns the statement follows an emotional meeting that he had with students and parents who had survived gun attacks and in the wake of the massacre at a school in florida last week. This is the coffin of chris. For trying to stop the shooter. He was given full military honors. The latest shooting has led to a raging debate on gun control the National Rifle association the n. R. A. Offered it solution to end violence. Stop bad guy with a gun it takes a good guy with a gun at School Districts p. T. A. Teachers unions local Law Enforcement mums and dads they all must conduct gather to implement the very best strategy harden their scrolls including of fact they have trained Armed Security that was absolutely protect every innocent child in this country. Advocates a further gun control are demanding action be taken students protesting outside the white house this week said they were angry that School Massacres have become commonplace and little has been done to stop them according to a gun control Advocacy Group there have been Eighteen School shootings since the beginning of the year. President trump match with students and parents affected by School Shootings he vowed to improve background checks and raise the minimum age for buying high powered weapons trump also toyed with the idea of Arming Teachers and school stuff which was criticized by opponents to gun violence he later clarified his comments on twitter saying he never said give teachers guns but instead said he was looking at the possibility of giving concealed guns to gun adept teachers. Back in florida the family of chris hicks and like thousands of others in the United States every year is coming to terms with the consequences of gun violence in their society. Nigerian Authorities Say that the schoolgirls who were unaccounted for following a vocal harami attack on monday are still missing this comes after earlier reports suggested that some of them had been rescued dozens of girls from a state run boarding school in. The state are thought to have been abducted by the extremists the disappearance has sparked fears of a repeat of the two thousand and fourteen mass kidnapping of more than two hundred schoolgirls from chip book and the west africa correspondent adrienne krishna followed this report filed this report from yogi state capital dhamma tour. Although the attack on the school already happened on monday evening now theres still a lot of Unanswered Questions on wednesday the Nigerian Military claims that some of the girls were rescued but today the governor of the state went to deputy to the village and he visited the school as well to meet the parents but he told them that he did not hear any news of students being rescued so of course some of the parents became very angry they booted the governor first the time when they left the place with their convoy some even started to smash some of the car windows to them which turned quite violence but to some people here this anger is understandable because there has been not an appropriate reaction so far even the number of the students who are missing us its not yet clear up till now we have had numbers from fifty five to one hundred eleven students who are missing different all thirtys give different numbers today the parents gave the governor a list with one hundred one names of missing students so that is the number we got from the parents site so far but the key question is right now still where are those girls are they indeed as the authorities try to explain still on the run after they take they apparently try to seek shelter try to look for safer places and they might still be in the bush adding somewhere or are they indeed in the hands of the terrorist off book but what we know so far is that the terrorist group has not yet declared any responsibility for the attack. That was creation short while ago in nigeria youre watching news still to come on the program. Bev nod is on the verge lins red carpet for the premiere of his latest film museum its about a real art heist in mexico that went horribly wrong we will have a preview with our correspondents who are standing by. And in the meantime our very own funny charice standing by on our business desk and we have an update on the diesel gate scandal in the sara thank you so much german prosecutors have raided the home so if two former Board Members plus a third person involved the folks like a subsidiary and the rates are part of the ongoing diesel gate investigation they are suspected of complicity in bringing car sick with that many plated Diesel Engines onto the market stands accused of selling over two hundred thousand cars the Software Designed to cheat exhaust testing. Meanwhile germanys Administrative Court has pushed back a ruling on the zone driving bass in cities to next week to stave earlier he spoke to arent adding wars from banking and wiser court asking him if diesel is on its way out well a i continue to be firmly a believer that diesel will disappear from the European Market its only a European Technology we are used to fifty percent penetration of Diesel Engines in europe its dropped to just about thirty percent so its not just a small death of these its actually a pretty quick death of the Diesel Engine the German Court Decision it was postponed to the date of the twenty seventh of february i can well see driving bans in cities becoming a legal action to protect the air quality in cities and that will only accelerate the transition away from diesel power trains to electrified power train specially hybrids. Then one of those cases which will be affected by the verdict next week environmental activists have taken the Southern City of stuttgart to court or for its failure to respect legal limits for toxic air pollution linked to thousands of premature deaths every year here is our environmental correspondent Christopher Spring gate with more. Its the busiest time of day at this family run bakery and. Dozens of customers throughout the city are waiting for their morning deliveries. Like many Small Businesses in germany its invested in diesel powered delivery vehicles which are cheaper to run due to years of tax breaks for diesel a ban on day use would hit the company. If the ban on diesel powered vehicles covers the whole city then we have a problem in principle that wed have to shut down and we cant deliver our products by public transport so wed have nowhere to go so. This. Design of blames the sheer volume of traffic in german cities has some of the countrys worst its in a city absorbs over four hundred thousand commuters every day this busy stretch of road in central stuttgart is called the nec at talk crossing and its become something of a household name in germany thats because with an average of almost seventy thousand vehicles passing through in both directions every single day its now one of the countrys absolute hotspots for air pollution. Last year the monitoring station at the nec atoll crossing measured an average of seventy three micrograms with nitrogen dioxide a cubic metre thats almost double the legal limit which is why activists are calling for tough measures. A lot of people here suffer from respiratory diseases old people in particular and. People move out of this area as soon as they can afford to and thats why we urgently need to diesel ban here it would have an immediate effect. Is keen to avoid diesel bans so its introduced traffic reduction schemes and Public Awareness campaigns encouraging people to cycle to work or use public transport policy makers are also progressing. Reducing the cost of public transport. And the cities also hosting this pioneering project using a wall of morse to suck cum pollution out of the atmosphere the walls about one hundred meters long three meters high whether it works though isnt fully clear yet. Germanys powerful come make his own to firmly against driving bans but in the wake of the emissions cheating scandal to the moment. Europes top court says full and has failed to implement regulations curbing air pollution the open court of justice ruling that the amount of harmful pollutants in the air went over legal limits in most parts of poland there recently european authorities have been cracking down on countries exceeding air pollution target levels. To take nine other countries to court including germany and the u. K. And speaking of polluted air dutch prosecutors on thursday rejected calls to open a criminal investigation into four major Tobacco Companies on charges including attempted murder or manslaughter saying such a case would be unlikely to lead to a conviction. In two thousand and sixteen two former smokers in the netherlands fired what they called a row at first carmen a complaint seeking a prosecution hospital doctors and other groups later joined the call but thats prosecutors say they see no prospect of a conviction within current laws. Have occurred people have the choice to buy cigarettes people have the choice to start smoking cigarettes and that means with regards to addiction or serious bodily harm it cannot be blamed solely on cigarette manufacturers award. To fabric and the decision is a blow to docs antismoking organizations they had hoped to form a new legal front in the fight against the top back industry smoking has declined dramatically in many large western markets since the one nine hundred ninety s. And the industry responded with consultation today the few major talkback Live Companies left ever ace prices to compensate for lower states volumes so their shares are still rising. And im sad im hospital was among those calling for the prosecution. After the decision it would not to give up the legal fight and might ask for an appeal. For it back to sarah and a very important and a verse story absolutely were going back in time back in history now funny because seventy five years ago today germanys nazi regime executed hans and sophie schol the siblings were members of the socalled white rose one of the country is a very few Resistance Groups the shawls and four other members of the group paid with their lives for standing up against a brutal regime our reporter went to munich to see whether their legacy lives on. Big macs a Million University today looks like a fairly typical campus with students hurrying to libraries and lectures but look a little closer and you see that this is one of those places where germanys Twentieth Century history resonates and gives us a glimpse of a different path it might have taken. For a few months in one thousand nine hundred two in one nine hundred forty three students of this university were the core of the white rose one of the very few Resistance Groups inside nazi germany which managed to organize and actually do something against the regime its best known members a hands shaw and his sisters of both students in their early twentys they were intellectuals interested in philosophy and religion but as they learned more about the nazis crimes they decided it was time to act they type defiant appeals to their fellow germans printed them on a secret press and distributed them around the country in these leaflets the shoals and the other white rose activists called on germans to recognize their moral duty and overthrow the system by passive resistance and then my sabotage spreading ideas like those at the height of the Second World War was a very dangerous and courageous thing to do. On the eighteenth of february nine hundred forty three hansens of feet came here to the Main UniversityBuilding Armed with copies of their latest flyer. What happened next was one of the tensest scenes in the movie zulfi shoal the final days which made the white rose better known internationally. Filmed partly of the original locations it showed how determined the shells were to wake others up to the evil of the nazis. They left piles of leaflets in the hallways knowing they would be found when students came out of their lectures. In germany almost every young person has heard this story. Today are probably different circumstances but if Something Like this would happen again people would stand up against such a reason regime what ive done if i were in that situation i dont know actually i think its. Very good what they did it end. And there should be a role model but. If im honest. I dont think i would have. I would be scared to get in trouble. Did get into trouble they were arrested by hitlers secret police the gestapo and along with another student whod helped write the pamphlets given a show trial before the infamous peoples court. On the twenty second of february they were executed. More than six hundred streets and squares all over germany and named for the shoals and other members of the white rose reminders that only a few people were willing to risk their lives for freedom. Seventy five years on the sacrifice of these young people still seems extraordinary and has the power to inspire as the white rose wrote if we dont have the courage to demand what is right we will deserve to be scattered like dust on the wind. The Berlin InternationalFilm Festival is in its final days ahead of the bears being awarded this weekend that is the top honors we have to mention and my colleagues melanie corridor and are calling to the movies for us thank you so much guys what would we do without you what has been coming on down there at the red carpet. Well sarah right behind us in the belly not of the last is the premier for the movie museum happening right now its a movie by. Us and its based on true events set in mexico its about two young friends who break into the National Museum they break they break in they steal a lot of artifacts theyre what has a lot of money and what they do not expect is that the whole nation turns against them they are being seen as and patriotic enemies of the state something they do not expect and they really struggle with that have a bad conscious somewhat surprising is no surprise that we had today was given out of the star of the film actually showed up at the press conference we were not expecting him there and we got a lot of really interesting insights into the film during the press conference the director himself said that when he approached the families of the real people who were involved in the real heist back in the mid eightys the family said they wanted nothing to do with the film and please dont make this film and the director said that this really freedom up to tell the story that he wanted to tell and one thing that he said that was very funny was while at the truth get in the way of a good story oh ok well what to make about that one but in the meantime i mean that wasnt the only film that was being shown today what else have you guys seen. So one film that we saw this morning was the new documentary by the legendary swiss documentarian Marcos Imhoff called el dorado and it is about basically the process of becoming a refugee in europe and in what really got some unprecedented if not very impressive access to every single step of the bureaucratic process that it takes to become a refugee from being dragged out of the waters of the mediterranean to sitting in an office waiting to be rejected essentially for your asylum claim and he was telling us in the press Conference Today that his main aim was really to show the critical look in a very very critical way why there is this the machinery of the aid machinery and he wanted to have a critical look at that and really show that the refugees are being exploited in the country and in europe as a whole so he feels very very passionate passionately about that and the main reason why he does this because of his own past no history and his family it took in a refugee and during the Second World War we have a little bit more on that take a look. And work with. Swiss director marcos in hopes First Experience with refugees was as a child and world war two. Has come. To obama in whose memory of him to examine the plight of todays refugees. His film eldorado texas on a rescue mission in the mediterranean. The documentary takes a critical view of european asylum policies and the organizations the try to help my friends as well as the industries that exploit the. But before i got the sense i was from cuba. Its a quiet film about dashed hopes and a brutal reminder of the lives that for most europeans go unseen. So now the film that we saw today was a film called touch me not by the bulgarian director i didnt it aside the romanian director excuse me adding it. This is a film that was very close emotional and very it was the word im looking for explicit look at human sexuality that is true there is a lot of nudity in the movie and a lot of explicit sex scenes as well what makes it really interesting that its not just about the intimacy of heterosexual couples and there are also other couples and transgender people surveyed as able people speaking out about intimacy and intimacy problems and so thats really really interesting take but there are blood lines between a documentary and fiction and what we should mention is that betty is one of only four women directors whose films are in the competition section of the ballet now the other sections of the bailing out i have about forty percent female directors but the competitions actually has a reason got a little bit worse on that so were pulling for a woman to at least win best director here area and four out of nineteen in that competition i understand better thank you so much and also Melanie Cora Deval both of you there at the red carpet we appreciate it. 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Where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship and just want to be a shadow and if you just pay for us when official information as attorneys i have to walk off the streets like many can trust and their problems are always the same fourteen social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we got on the fourth to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. My name is jenny paris and i work again. Death toll on the rise citizens of eastern good to have no place to hide amid day five of aerial bombardment from the assad regime shelling reaches a new level of intensity as the United NationsSecurity Council debates calls for action im sara kelly in berlin this is the day