A german court is set to rule on whether to allow major city well go live to stuttgart which is being sued over its air pollution. Also coming up this hour a damning report about the global stage of Human Rights International says the situation is devastating well ask them why. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us. Survivors of the Florida School shooting have appealed to us president all tromped to do more to stop gun violence in an emotionally charged meeting at the white house promised to take action even suggesting the possibility of Arming Teachers lawmakers are facing a new push for gun control after last weeks rampage that left seventeen people dead it was cold a listening session but President Trump had plenty to say. Meeting at the white house with survivors of gun violence and victims families trump suggested one solution to School Shootings could be more guns and this would only be obviously for people that are very adept at handling a gun. It would be its called concealed carry where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them theyd go for special training and they would. Be there and you would no longer have a gun free zone gun free zone to a maniac because theyre all cowards a gun free zone is lets go in and lets attack is anybody like the father of a boy killed in the two thousand and twelve sandy hook School Shooting didnt think much of the idea School Teachers have more than enough responsibilities right now then to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life. Thank you. Nobody wants to see a shoot out in a school and to arrange sociopath on his way to commit an act of. Murder in a school with the outcome knowing the outcome is going to be suicide is not going to care if theres somebody there with a gun thats their plan anyway trump also vowed to improve background checks and said he was open to raising the minimum age for buying high powered weapons. It was a meeting heavy with raw emotion just doesnt make sense fix it should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it i turned eighteen the day after or up to the news that my best friend was gone. And i dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. Listening session is unlikely to quieten the growing calls from School Students for stricter gun laws. The Student Movement to End Gun Violence continues to Gain Momentum wednesday sall demonstrations and walkouts across the u. S. Thats despite warnings from some School Districts that students would be punished for taking part we have this report now from washington. And. I thank. God they are the mass shooting generation the seventeen year olds were born into a world where School Shootings have become the norm today they skipped class to protest at the white house for more gun controls their message to politicians is clear. Were going to where the money at the midterm elections were going to vote in the forty thousand election and none of them are going to stand up was dr. Other organizations like mom steam and action have joined the coal for stricter gun laws in a country where ninety one people die from firearms every day the fear of violence is always there i feel anxious dropping my child off the next day i know that even with all of the drills that we do we do lockdown drills in our schools twice a year we ask our children to be locked inside of a cabinet or a closet and to be silent and basically rehearse their own slaughter in their schools but as we saw in parkland all of the preparation in the world cannot stand up to an error fifteen. Moms demand action i want a background check for each and every purchase in the United States they say its the only way to keep weapons out of the hands of mentally disturbed. Enter patrick is a spokesperson for the coalition to stop gun violence he sees better background checks as the absolute bare minimum patrick says President Trump should push forward with a ban on bomb stocks devices that allow weapons to fire faster hes feeling the pressure a little bit on this issue if hes serious about it he will support a ban on bomb stocks in congress and signed it when it gets voted on after congress he has not called for that yet thats the really the only thing that came make real change and accessories and we will see if you will go that far until then the socalled mass shooting generation plans to keep up the pressure many are not just fed up there are freight you know just recently in our county a student came to school with a loaded gun and it was just one day after the pardon shooting and so that really scared me and that was that was when i first that was one of the first times where i really felt unsafe going to school i was on my i was on my bus on my way there and i was like whos to say that my school is not going to be next are you afraid of a School Shooting in your own school im a completely afraid of our security at school think you need to be high incomplete. After these type of events keep reoccurring everywhere you need to make a change make a change in the gun laws make a change in security make stricter gun laws stricter security make a school a safe place not a place to be about possibly having school get shot up every day the only way to make a difference is if the kids in the school get out and make a difference and stand up where we are in our Nations Capital that thats whats going to make a difference not sitting in school and letting these things happen every year because its not its not a challenge. Today day for been sitting for hours in front of the white house to protest sent to remember the victims of gun violence victims that could have easily been their own classmates. Now lets take a look at some other stories making news around the world today an attacker has thrown a suspected grenade at the u. S. Embassy compound in montenegro and then blew himself up with another explosive device the blasts in the capital. Occurred in the early hours of thursday morning to see is warning u. S. Citizens to stay away until further notice. Officials in nigeria say the military there has rescued seventy six schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others they were thought to have been kidnapped by boko haram militants during an attack on the village of cheat in the Northeastern State of. About one hundred children were originally thought to be missing. An explosion on a ferry has injured as many as twenty five people in the mexican beach city of Playa Del Carmen the ferry was docked when the blast occurred Authorities Say none of the injuries are life threatening and the calls of the explosion is on. The head of the United Nations has described the death and devastation in the rebel held suburb of damascus as quote hell on earth despite calls for an immediate ceasefire Syrian Government strikes are again pounding eastern today the Syrian Military says its targeting terrorists but independent monitors say more than three hundred people have been killed since sunday most of them civilians we want to warn you that you may find the images in this next report upsetting. For a war thats been raging for nearly seven years the images a new less shocking and no less harrowing. This boys parents face is unknown and will become of him. In towns already reduced to any hospital Still Standing is completely overwhelmed. Since sunday the Syrian Governments reportedly aided by Russian Forces has stepped up its bombardment of this rebel. With little regard for those who inhabit it. And still the fighter jets keep coming if what happened in homs in aleppo is anything to go by they wont stop until theres no one left to survive there being starved in their own homes. So the situation is getting worse and people are forced to stay on their grounds to avoid the shelling on able to go on to the streets or whatevers left of them to collect or buy food. Condemned the Syrian Government but that comes as little consolation to the people of eastern. Actions have far more facts than just whats. Going on. And the Un Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution demanding a thirty day cease fire in syria to allow for humanitarian aid and medical evacuations that vote could come as soon as today. Well here in germany chancellor Angela Merkel is due to give a key policy speech in Parliament Today it will be her first major address to the bonus talk since the general election pov months ago and will focus on the e. U. Summit starting on friday the talks are expected to focus on how to plug the brigs the budget hole for the remaining twenty Seven Members of the britains departure and twenty nine team could leave a twelve billion euro annual short fall short haul medical admits will be very challenging. More of the chancellors speech lets bring in the w. Political correspondent Thomas Sparrow good morning told us morning terry chancellor merkel regularly addresses Parliament Thomas what makes todays speech so significant thats correct she does address parliament to regular basis but as you mentioned this is the first time that she will do precisely that before the parliament after the election in september so it will also be the very first time that she will be confronted directly in the parliament to for example her most vocal opponents the elected members of the alternative for germany the anti immigrant populist party so thats one reason why it will be particularly important but its also important because it will happen against a backdrop of uncertainty here in germany the fact that germany still doesnt have a new governing coalition and also uncertainty at a european level when you talk about for example breck state and that will be one of the topics that will be discussed at the European Union summit namely that long. Way to them of the budget or the long term composition of the parliament in other words issues that go well beyond. The membership of the u. K. In the e. U. So uncertainty at home uncertainty over the European Union so the chancellor is Briefing Parliament just ahead of that e. U. Summit coming up to morrow im going to go still hasnt formed a new government since september election as you noticed. She take charge in any european Decision Making given that shes essentially a caretaker chancellor or she is a caretaker johnson and the fact that we have uncertainty here in germany is also the fact that we have uncertainty to european level germanys European Partners are rather concerned about the fact that germany has been now for more than four months without a new stable coalition it is probable that academical will also address this today in a speech before parliament she will also be talking about what role. Europe plays in that Coalition Deal that was signed on that she says and he hopes the members of the social Democratic Party will vote in favor of so obviously the uncertainty here in germany the fact that there is still no government after so long will play a role in what im going to michael says parliament under discussion that will fall off thomas thank you so much from. Thomas sparrow there from our political desk. And we will be covering chancellor merkel speech live you can also stream it off line w dot com thats coming up in just about two hours from now saying here in germany in just a few hours a federal court in life is set to hand down a landmark ruling that could clear the way for a ban on diesel cars in major cities the case was started by an Environmental Group which says the city of stood has not done enough to limit the harm caused by diesel a mission. Well for more that expected court ruling lets bring in Christopher Spring gate he is in today how did we get to this point that the countrys Top Administrative Court has to deal with the issue of these deliberations. Well terry the crossing you see behind me here the nica tour crossing is crucial for this process basically the russias getting underway here in stuttgart and thousands of commuters coming into the center of the city and the emissions that they are causing mean that the readings of a. Quality monitoring station which is just to my right very high and they have been quite high for some years now especially the readings for nitrogen dioxide which is a fairly noxious substance caused by diesel cause and as you mentioned a leading german Environmental Group took short got to court they won that case last july the court suggested that diesel bans on diesel powered vehicles. Should be imposed thats when the state to vote and back took over they worried about the legality of such bans so they appealed to that ruling at the Administrative Court here in stuttgart they took it to the top court in germany the federal Administrative Court in light station thats the court ruling that were waiting on later today ok chris if there is a diesel ban who would be affected the most. Well of course the owners of diesel powered vehicles will be directly affected if there is a ban they wont be able to drive into central stuttgart for instance and theres another group that is very very warry thats the Large Community here in germany of Small Businesses tradesmen handy craftsman theyve invested heavily in diesel powered vehicles and as i say they are very very worried about the possibility of a diesel ban as ive been finding out. 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 hard. With a ban on diesel powered vehicles covers the whole city then we have a problem in principle wed have to shut down. We cant deliver our products by public transport so wed have nowhere to go. Zinah blames the sheer volume of traffic in german cities and 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 neck of 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 it and thats why we urgently need to diesel back here it would have an immediate effects. 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 progressively reducing the cost of public transport. And the city is also hosting this pioneering project using a wall of morse to suck cum pollution out of the atmosphere the walls about one hundred metres long three metres high whether it works though isnt fully clear yet. Germanys powerful car makers are also firmly against driving bans but in the wake of the emissions cheating scandal the tight lipped at the moment. The quest for you know there are. Other ironic that would be considering a diesel cars given that basically germanys motor city. What are carmakers saying about all this now. Well some of the bosses are talking about expropriation. Essentially if there is a diesel ban even the prospect of a diesel ban has already begun to affect their Business Model which you know they do sell a lot of diesel vehicles i think thirty three percent of the new registrations in january were diesel vehicles although that is down from forty five percent at the same time last year so this is affecting their Business Model and the other thing is the resale value of diesel vehicles is plummeting a lot of candelo sitting on the sold secondhand diesels that nobody wants to buy at the moment chris thank you so much theyd always Christopher Spring day there in stock on. Their welcome. Well how to clean up the air its a big question and people in the Business World of course are giving it a hard think theyre going to have to be ready on day with those days the bands on the table terry of course that verdict that were waiting for could have a nationwide impact here in germany and it should hopefully fuel the debate over how to improve quality in