shooting but can they cross lawmakers to act. as a teenager fighting cancer survival rates are improving but in her case it comes at a high cost we will look at how cancer has become more curable in recent years. and it is day twelve of the winter olympics n.p.r. chang and superstar skier lindsey vonn was eighteen for gold in her final olympics keep watching to find out whether or not she clenched and. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. no words left the united nations children's agency describes the suffering of civilians in a rebel held suburb of damascus as beyond what words are capable of expressing with airstrikes pounding eastern again today independent monitors say that more than two hundred and seventy people have been killed since sunday now it's not the first time that has come under attack back in two thousand and thirteen the government allegedly bombed it with chemical weapons we want to warn you that you may find the images in our next report upsetting the risk. for a war that's been raging for nearly seven years the images a new less shocking and no less harrowing. this boy's parents face is unknown and what's will become of him. in towns already reduced to show any hospital still standing is completely overwhelmed. since sunday the syrian government reportedly aided by russian forces has stepped up its bombardment of this rebel long place with little regard for those who inhabit it it's. a day oh. and. i hate it. i. get it right. and still the fighter jets keep coming if what happened in homs in aleppo is anything to go by they were installed there's no one left those who survived being starved in their own homes. so the situation is getting worse and people are forced to stay underground to avoid the shelling on able to go on to the streets or whatever's left of them to collect or buy food the. world leaders condemned the syrian government but that comes as little consolation to the people of eastern pizza where actions how far more facts than just words will come on the people in the movement are going on with and for more on the situation there let's bring in now says he is the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for the syria crisis and we thank you so much for joining us this evening from kuwait thank you. now how does it we've just seen images of horrific conditions there in eastern we'd like you to describe to us according to the information that you have what is happening to civilians there. the situation for civilians is really beyond imagination this humanitarian situation is barreling completely out of control. the protection of civilians has become extremely difficult basically there's been multiple attacks bombs battle bombs that all minutes apart in different locations of the ease with going claves where four hundred thousand people are living and whose life in the last few days has become impossible is what has been besieged these two thousand and thirteen we have not been able to take any convoy since the twenty eighth of november with the exception of one small i mean so very. there's no electricity there is no water markets everything is going to a complete halt we've had no multiple hospitals that have been attacked bombed where you know how facilities this is you know can constitute a war crime where houses that is. inside hundreds of deaths it's an area that has become hell on earth is really very very difficult for the people who live inside and we know that many other organizations including amnesty international have also raised the specter of war crimes in this specific incident and we also know that this area has been under government siege for a year is and has suffered an alleged chemical attack back in twenty thirteen the assad regime really seeming to be relentless hair what do you think will happen to these people. well we hope that once you know that was another resell it was another it's a place again because i think this is really i mean for for for all of us that for the protection of the civilians the military option is the one that has the most devastating impact on people's lives and on and on you know even these children who go through this plane an aerial bombardment twenty unique about. the fact that it is one of it's one of the four deescalation areas or so called the escalation saves all of that was established in atlanta and if anything really has become an escalation an area where we have seen a significant increase of hostilities from our side as united nations were asking these for a cease fire humanitarian pose for at least thirty days which would allow us to bring in food and medical supplies also the big of. cases of medical evacuations use of water is ten miles down the road from down central damascus so the moment we have hundreds of medical cases that need to be taken to a hospital and they cannot because if you like a good meeting permission to go over the hospital is just a ten miles drive this is really so so close to it. and of course to be able to be alleviated we are ready with return convoys to be able to take them in but we need the permission to do so in and i talk of the security council. and us i'm so sorry for interrupting you there and we just have have a couple of moments left on but you know you mentioned there that you're not only involved on the humanitarian side but also lead to fanatic side and so i'd like to ask you you started to talk about the security council there in new york do you think that the world will ever say enough is enough and really take resolute action to bring this campaign to an end do you see any hope on the horizon. this is the question we're not asking ourselves we have had no seven year seven years of relentless war in syria with hundreds of thousands of their displays millions of people who live hobbit people are our displays sort far that hasn't been this one moment you say that was it really boy to bring everybody together into with useful solution there is that years ago solution in iraq we hoped it would last this week too previous this fire is still being discussed but this is a moment where would leaders of the world really need to be thinking of the fallen and with every pressure they concentrated change panels mum says un humanitarian coordinator for the syria crisis joining us this evening from kuwait with the very latest on these reports from eastern go to a couple hundred reported dead there we thank you so much for joining us this evening. well while elsewhere in syria turkey saying that it will press ahead with its offensive to clear kurdish fighters from a syrian enclave on its border this after forces loyal to the syrian government attempted to enter a frame in support of the kurds turkish president recha type erda one who warned that there would be serious consequences for any group trying to reinforce the currents kurdish and syrian fighters have joined forces in the enclave but a convoy of around fifty vehicles headed for offering were treated after coming under turkish fire the latest threats from on corroborates fears of direct conflict between turkish and syrian government forces. to florida now where several thousand protesters have gathered in front of the se capitol in tallahassee to demand stronger control on firearms leading the protest were students from the marjorie stoneman douglas high school the parkland florida school where a gunman killed seventeen people last week on tuesday lawmakers defeated a bill to ban assault style weapons like the one used in the parkland shooting but they are debating making it more difficult to obtain such weapons in florida. and earlier we spoke with lewis mizen a survivor of the school massacre who traveled to tallahassee today we asked him whether he thought he and his classmates would be able to get politicians to do something about the violence. i think you know you can or look around with the next generation of voters and the next generation of leaders and i think that the way we agree has really shown that we we will be a strong generation of leaders on that we're all willing to make change we have a real generation in columbine we've grown up with these mass shootings in school and that's a legacy that's been left to us and we want our legacy to be fixing the ins and changing that and i really have hope for the future that we can go on and we can make this a national issue and it's always a whole topic in american politics but i really believe that we can be the people who brings it up and makes politicians talk about it and hopefully brings change across the country. that was louis mizen speaking to us a short while ago one of the survivors of the gunman attack in florida last week well meantime in other news every year more than one hundred fifty thousand children around the world are diagnosed with cancer and research suggests that the number of reported cases is growing but the survival rate in high income countries is going up as well it's about eighty percent catarina poland says one of those struggling with the disease she was diagnosed with bone cancer seven years ago and her life is dominated by her fight for health. think oh these poor people with cancer but you never think it will be you. especially as a child it's such a slap in the face and you don't know what it means that. when she got sick she was only twelve years old the disease meant i saw her growing up very very fast . and the end of the day her childhood was stolen from her school water. weekly visits to the clinic has become a central part of family life for a mother. she sees a doctor more often than her teachers. the size of the medical file shows how long it's been. telling us expected to recover her progress is good the general condition has improved even so the emotional strain is what everyone paying to see. she's now getting medication that boosts her mood and appetite. back and she has more confidence in herself. home with. feel safe and processes what's been happening to her. in every situation no matter how bad it was we always found something to laugh about. it sometimes macabre but it becomes a kind of dark humor that not everyone understands only cancer people will get it could snatch. song therapy is her main way to relax even though she's delayed school exams and can no longer play sport days are full with cancer treatment. for the future of course i hope that i'll get better and i hope i can go back to school graduate and study something nice whether that's medicine or something else i just want to banal life. and for more on stories like that we're joined now by professor kyle hose he is the director of the comprehensive cancer center at the sherry tate hospital here in berlin thank you so much for joining us this evening thank you we're really curious to tap into your expertise especially now because we know that you have been doing research on cancer for more than thirty years what major improvements to you see when it comes to diagnosis and treatment these days the past five to ten years were really dramatic in progress because we understand cancers has much better and that has led to to novel treatment approaches on top of the classic approaches like surgery chemotherapy and radiotherapy we know have the modern in therapy and the targeted treatments that really have patients live longer and we hope to improve cure rates with these new modalities immunotherapy i mean you're hearing about this so often now tell us your work there at the sherry to hospital in berlin and how do you see that impacting worldwide research developments internationally so i was always was fascinated by the moon system that takes care of certain things in your body but it never was possible to really attack cans and we strive to stimulate them one therapy the immune system has various methods since decades and we never understood why this would not work very well and now we know that the immune system has very important breaks in order to stop from overreacting and those breaks we can take the pot for some time in order to allow the immune system to attack cancer and we found out that this works tremendously well in a variety of cancers with a highly motivational load you sound very hopeful to have that correctly it's fascinating and we also see really patients who we can treat with subject disease for whom we did not have a good treatment before and we see that we can do. live with this kind of treatment and the patient live long with very few side effects but that's not the ultimate goal the ultimate goal is to move this early in the treatment paradigm in order to improve the cure rates when a kansas diagnosed and that is exactly the age where we are working on right now with drugs of the drugs we have developed in patients with metastatic disease you hear that so often from doctors that early detection is really key when it comes to cancer but i just want to ask you just briefly before we go do you feel as if there is enough funding available for to continue this research to really push it to the next step to potentially have a cure one day and this fund there is to funding that we can continue the work we always ask for more but we can continue the work as long as we don't get dramatic cuts and spread in germany the funding has increased that is not so in other countries like you know did states but it's not to complain about too little funding but want to thank you so much for joining us this evening to tell us a lot about your important work over kyle holtz is the director of comprehensive cancer center at charity hospital here and berlin and as we mentioned you have more than thirty years of cancer research experience thank you thank you. the european central bank has remained silent i mean accusations of money laundering at lot vs a third biggest bank now it left and president for your niece has weighed in saying his country must improve its efforts to tackle money laundering and corruption bankers in the country are calling on the e.c.b. to step in and sort out the unfolding banking scandal. the european central bank governing council met today with a new double absentees central bank president bill maher's from savages still embroiled in a corruption scandal and pressure is mounting on the e.c.b. to formulate a response for his part rimshot has maintained his innocence he's called allegations that he solicited one hundred thousand euros a month in bribes a smear campaign leveled against him by banks angered by tougher financial regulations he can't work while the probe is ongoing but he can't be fired either he's ignoring calls to resign. surely this isn't president decision not to resign today because i'm not guilty because it's the aim of mud slingers for me to resign and to prevent me from being able to defend myself i'm afraid that the legal proceedings would last for many years and i would not have a quick and fair judgment or stop the e.c.b. is also being called upon to respond to a crisis snowballing out not in london or in. it's facing money laundering allegations the lab and commercial banking association urge the e.c.b. to help mitigate the chaos but so far the eurozone central banking authority has been quiet. the european commission sas serious about fighting cartels is just announced fine stopping half a billion euros in three anti-trust cases the company saw that it included maritime kept car carriers spot block supply us on break system supply as they fix prices on the exchange market sensitive information over years thanks to people the e.u. competition commission and market rate of a stronger wanted to send a message that the european commission will not tolerate at a competitive behavior. today the commission has decided to find seven companies a total of five hundred sixty four million euros for taking part in fort different ag cartels relating to cars. and three others. companies involved in these cartels well they excrete us getting a fine because they came to us to reveal the cartels in the shipping industry the fines affected chilean car shipping carrier three japanese carriers as well as a norwegian swedish carrier together they formed a deep sea vehicle transport cartel for almost six years. in the automotive parts industry germany's bosch and two japanese companies ran a cartel supplying spark plugs to european car makers bosch was also involved in running another cartel fixing brake system prices. companies can escape fines through the e.u. commission's leniency policy which encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels a system which in the cases announced wednesday proved to be effective and exchange commission senses. it is lights camera action here in berlin where the international film festival is still in full swing and his charlotte telson pale and scott roxborough are as always down on the red carpet for us welcome to both of you we know guys that were rolling out like it showcases movies from around the world a mainstay and a berlin alah classic are usually iranian films and turns out tell us a little bit more about this year's entry. hi there yes that's right it is an iranian film on show you tonight we just had the red carpet for that family was very exciting here behind us we had all the stars and the director walking into the world crime yet if that film now starts and i were lucky enough to get a preview of that film today as i will give you a very brief synopsis basically is about the radian director he's blacklisted and it's about a serial killer and surprisingly he's gradually oh one by one killing all this starts its friends and fellow directs is surprisingly they it's a comedy yeah it's not all you'd expect when you hear the words a rainy in the movie you probably think of something very political very very dark and very troubling this isn't that at all very very funny movie and visually really spectacular this director is sort of a magic realist secrets really fantasy images and uses amazing cinematic tricks as i say something very different than what maybe we're used to seeing from iran we have a small piece to introduce you to the film we take a look. who we heard a. pig is the story of how a nurse assistant film director furious that he's been blacklisted from iran's movie industry. also furious that there's a serial killer decapitation iran's top filmmakers only because he isn't one of them. but it amounts. to. legit. laughs film aficionados won't forget that some of iran's top directors really are banned from the country cinemas but pick director money huggy insists that his black comedy a contender for this year's golden bear is only parody. and i understand that you guys actually have the opportunity to speak with the director what did he have to say. we were at the press conference there a very funny film not so funny press conference well yeah i've been saying this is very different than maybe what we expect from around or what maybe the western audiences think iran is like and the director was quite annoyed that all the questions about the film seemed to be about the public is sort of iran and not about his movie itself that's where it said was it actually got quite heated he said he didn't want to he wasn't that it betray iran as a country victims were his exact words he was also honest about the trial of women in the film there are some very strong very charismatic women that have a listen to what he had to say about. what has been bothering me for a long time of a state of iranian cinema as it is seen outside. is that it. sometimes it conforms to the specific image that audiences have in iran which is usually go through used media things like this again you seem to be asking me how come there are these strong women in your film well because they're strong women and you know and i chose to show them. as opposed to conforming to this usual image that. that is presented to you of iranian women as victims you know that's not how it is. and it wouldn't be the birla knowledge if it didn't get a little political right guys d.w. charlotte tells them pale and borrow with the latest sound out there on the red carpet thank you so much to both of you. and it has been an action packed day twelve of the winter olympics not her minutes following all the details from date up use for staff get max and matt excuse me let me start with the cross-country yet cross-country ski was history was made on wednesday even forty two years since the united states would want to medal of any kind in cross-country skiing and they had never won a gold medal you know all that changed on wednesday when he can randal and jesse dickens crossed the line first in the sprint relay. this was a huge surprise though both have been sort of knocking on the door of this kind of success for quite some time this is actually rattles fifth olympics and had finished in the top six in all four events that she had entered in these games so you know perhaps they were just too good for them and there were also some happenings in the bobsled but you know you had this was actually very nearly another gold medal success for the united states but this time they were picked at just the last moment by the german pair of marianna the monka and because it's the germans have made up some ground each time they went down the track with some really great steering and they've actually won by seven hundred ths of a second that just briefly before we go you have to explain who the garlic girls are though i can't wait the girl of course are the korean national women's curling team they are the roaring success of these games they've won eight out of nine round robin games they're facing japan i'm sorry finals on thursday and they have won the hearts of all of korea koreans are posting to social media they're trying to imitate the success of their heroes the garlic girls that are named that because they are from the province of song which is where garlic is grown in korea and everybody wants to get in on the act ok i was wondering where the garlic batter and that does make sense though it definitely does make that matter of a. and from did obvious parts that that desk thank you. and with that you're up to date guaranteed of you news i'm sorry kelly in berlin and thanks for watching i hope to see you again fan. move. from the. center of the conflict zone. after seven years to new zealand remains the one country to emerge from the so-called arab spring as a functioning democracy does it mark your spiritual munich security conference to skim a schedule mowing the country's foreign minister has to shun finally come off the revolution and which is the hope of a better future for. the folks in sixty minutes g.w. . can be one my name is made by you as nelly. was speedily used during channeling. our old scorsese and stories. days tournaments and the next show 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