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DW DW News - News February 23, 2018

Marine environment to get more on this first of its kind deal. Also coming up in the next sixty minutes life on Eastern Ukraine frontline a reporter visits a village called between Ukrainian Government forces and russian backed separatists after almost four years of conflict well ask a Top International monitor about the prospects for t. Pieces. And out the Berlin Film Festival the story of a kenyan girl with cancer who wants to be a superhero well talk with the films director. Hello im terry Martin Thanks for joining us. Russia is blocking a u. N. Security Council Resolution that is trying to bring a cease fire to Eastern Ghouta on the edge of the syrian capital damascus russian. Has put forward a raft of amendments and a boat has been delayed until later today syrian Government Forces are bombarding Eastern Ghouta and the un chief antonio good terrorists has called the situation hell on earth human rights monitors say government shelling has killed more than four hundred people there since sunday including many children its one of the bloodiest episodes of syrias seven year called flicked through the car with their daughter go even for those surrounded by day it is a crushing moment. So both. Talks his child one last time. For city as victims there is no dignity in dying. Should shoot. For syrias government there is no relenting every minute bombs are drawn to. Monitor 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 they amid the ruins. We had to conduct one of the sergeant hes under the rubble we couldnt evacuate so we did it under the rubble. Because of the cloth coming out. The Syrian Regime says rebel extremist groups who control eastern are using humans as shields the Un Security Council has been debating a thirty day ceasefire that allow for a deliveries and 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 Eastern Ghouta 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 still locks within the beseech concrete canyons. By these young men it comes in the shape of a hole and i slowly but surely theyre digging their way to safety. The only escape from a torrent of problems must be an underground one. Over some analysis now lets bring in middle east analyst khaled waste he joins us here in the studio good morning thank you so much for being with us khaled the Bombing Campaign in eastern guta has claimed hundreds of lives this week alone what are Syrian Forces hoping to achieve with this theyre not just only Syrian Forces the. Forces as forces with allied militia from iranian backed militia Shiite Militia they could win and if you want to whats called sign that order is you have the one side you have so their forces fighting. This is experion i dont we. With you at all and so they are facing a double from the from the seat in the genome and the the iranian backed militia forces is trying to achieve population transfers i think not dissimilar to what you have seen in europe some time ago and cleansing the sunni population that is opposed to assad and that ive been is that actually in damascus you call it use them with of what it is other than administrative leave it is the mosque is kind of a suburb of damascus Eastern Ghouta you know the area well youve served as a correspondent yourself in damascus now the Syrian Regime says there are thousands of opposition fighters in eastern go to some of them affiliated to al qaida and to Islamic State what can you tell us about that well there has been. I dont think that as many Islamic State if there are those that are but is themselves a fourth of the state and expelled from eastern with all their might be and probably is it but you have to make a distinction between affiliated with al qaida and syria which is a very seedy and phenomenon and its different than the nationalists you had just as. These are more local forces with different ideological bends including sometimes a muslim which actually is a minority and will feel that the government obviously perceives them as a fundamental existential threat. And they see the i think one of the saddam lets call it is she the seat of Prime Minister for example we just saw in the figurehead has no idea what is what forces are doing and has no control of them so its a regime not the government and this is the say switzerland this is a very complicated conflagration in syria the civil war there are many different factions involved even within the in the regime its not really clear whos in charge sometimes people on the ground in eastern due to say that russian planes are involved in the bombings do you think thats the case this is something im sure that western intelligence and the u. S. Or do you would be in the judgment villages would know exactly the british for example have a big database based in cyprus and they would know exactly who is what would be used them with what he got is russia is equipping aadmi and maintaining the seat in planes and without the Russian Support youd have over Russian Federation youd have no seat of their force flying i want to talk for a moment about the u. N. Security council theyve been meeting on this issue theyre calling for a thirty day ceasefire in syria russia is blocking it saying its unrealistic whats standing in the way of an agreement. Look at russia might get the good with say yes play for time and again before of socalled 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 lets take a look at some of the other stories making headlines this morning haiti has suspended. Great britains 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 still missing this comes after early reports suggesting that some of them had been rescued dozens of girls from state run boarding school in. State are thought to have been abducted by the extremists. Campaign a. Day or facing charges in the theyve already pleaded not guilty to indictments for Money Laundering and fraud it comes a week after a special counsel charged thirteen russians with meddling in the u. S. President ial election. While staying in the u. S. It has emerged that armed officer assigned to the Florida School was seventeen people were killed by a gunman last week waited outside the building during the shooting and did not confront the killer this news comes as president is calling for tighter background checks and for some teachers to be. Confident of chris haixun hailed a hero for trying to stop the shooter at the Florida School he worked at a u. S. Navy veteran he was given full military honors. The shooting has led to a raging debate on gun control the National Rifle association the n. R. A. Offered to ending gun 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 talk harden their schools including of affective trained Armed Security that was absolutely protect every innocent child in this country. Advocates of 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. Amid the public outcry President Trump doesnt doors to a higher minimum age for buying certain rifles and tighter background checks for purchasers he also reiterated his call for some teachers to carry guns your hat in my opinion you want to have these shoes because these people are cowards theyre not going to walk into a school if twenty percent of the teachers out there maybe ten percent or maybe forty percent and what id recommend doing is the people that do care and we give them a bonus we give them a little bit of a bonus back in florida the family of slain teacher chris hicks and like thousands of others in the u. S. Every year is coming to terms with the consequences of gun violence. European leaders are meeting in brussels today in an effort to address some big challenges including the e. U. s post regs it finances all the tables a possible increase in contributions to plug a budget shortfall after britain leaves the bloc next year before that summit the e. U. Commission will be hosting high level talks on biting terrorism and stemming migration through africas hell region the e. U. Is looking to boost support for the socalled g five held joint force thats security initiatives set up by more attain ia burkina faso mali and chad those countries have been plagued by jihadist groups and criminal networks. Well for more on this lets bring in our brussels correspondent barbara basal shes standing by for us there barbara why is the e. U. Focusing so much of its Foreign Policy attention on africas hell region. Because the e. U. Has recognised terry about two years ago that not too far from its own shores there is a big political black hole and those that it is those five countries that you just showed the problem is that the region is sort of hidden by. Governments or bad governance extreme poverty and criminal networks that smuggle anything from people to drugs to weapons and also food to Food Shortages no jobs no prospects it is just sort of a political disaster zone and european leaders have seen that this is sort of influencing and its having consequences on their own fate on their own politics its having consequences for europe and so they decided to act weve seen the this summit in abidjan last november and they are now you merely pushing this agenda they feel and they know that they need to do something also sort of something that were talking about here barbara what sort of action is the e. U. Proposing to take in the song region. We are talking about two parts of something the one is the joint action force the g five that you already mentioned thats an initiative by those five states because they recognize that there are there are defenseless that they can themselves do anything against Terrorists Group for instance france is still propping up peace in mali to french soldier soldiers got killed just todays ago the situation is extremely volatile that is just one example so to bolster their own defenses that is one of the gold is going to cost money were talking about three hundred million to start something that is supposed to mount up to one hundred million a little later on a trip that is supposed to be operational to two thousand and eighteen thats a very ambitious goal because so far it is not able to operate on its own. And also were talking about development and thats the two pieces that need to be done and the two policy fields that are to be decided on the mention the french or the french they do have told around four thousand troops in the sawhill region theyre taking a leading role in this effort what about germany. Germany is there but you know germany germany always has problems with boots on the ground plus we dont have a government so there is nothing moving at the moment there and about a thousand german soldiers are engaged in mali mostly in training and they are supposed to end the german the german army will sort of stay within within that framework will keep doing its friends would like more cooperation would like more help because french soldiers soldiers are really carrying the burden off this peacekeeping mission down there but that is something that will have to be fought out between berlin and paris. Or thinks that stay that way as Barbara Fazel there in brussels. Youre watching t w news still to come street battles being billed by violence more as the latest round of soccers Europa League. Business news now from helena as bitcoins roller coaster ride continues shes back down under the ten thousand mark once again terry seems to be a bit of a psychological barrier in Bitcoin Trading but despite their detractors cryptocurrency is all still around and unlike money in calling form which has been around for at least three thousand years and is issued by banks well computer programmers of course behind crypto currency is now the best known crypto currency aes bitcoin others are available weve got a theory of recall and late call in which the big names currently there are some one and a half thousand Digital Currencies and at the beginning of february they had a total market value of around three hundred and seventy one billion euro is now because it is still the most popular people who invested in the currency a year ago get this would now be seeing a return of seven hundred percent on their investment now at times during the assets wild ride on the market they could have seen up to fifteen times that initial investment now you might of heard over the technology that makes it all possible that something called block chain the question is how exactly does it work lets take a look. You cant pay for anything with real physical tokens like these bitcoin is a Digital Currency and its value is determined just like Everything Else by supply and demand and unlike with the dollar and the euro there are no Central Banks able to influence the course of a crypto currency value. Bitcoins were first programs ten years ago the developer was known only by a pseudonym said Toshi Nakamoto to this day the programmer behind the technology has never been identified the idea that everyone who installs that Bitcoin Software on their desktop or smartphone becomes part of the Bitcoin Network the digital ledger that supposedly makes a bit coin both independent and secure is whats known as block chain a block chain is a digital chain managed by many computers in a network which keep track of records and what are called blocks each block contains information about a transaction the block is checked and verified by all the computers distributed throughout the network and contains security codes from previous blocks that practically eliminates the chances of manipulating or counterfeiting the currency. At the moment bitcoin is still on a wild roller coaster ride in the markets but one thing is fairly certain it wont fall victim to inflation the algorithm behind the Digital Technology wont allow the mining of more than twenty one million bitcoins and theyll all have been created by the year twenty one forty eight. And a chip on ditching bando from business joins me now to talk more about it to ponder one of the characteristics of cryptic arent these is that they all free from government control and yet now some government seems to be getting in on the act why what do they have to to gain from this well like a lot of people having putting money in the federal car and these like that coin a lot of the much trying to make money and thats what the venezuelan government in particular is trying to do i mean the cash try. Their economy is failing the tralee and thats the reason why the of created a Virtual Currency that they are hoping other people will invest money in its tied to the oil wealth and theyre hoping that people be putting money in that because of that so they released figures about that earlier this week saying they had raised more than seven hundred billion dollars but that was not very good so we dont really know how the petrol which is the currency that they created presale seemingly doing well but were still not sure about that were going to wait and see when the launch actually happens and some other government says well all fairly wherry of cryptic currencies weve heard from the governor of the bank of england mark carney he said that essentially they have failed why is he said that why they so wary explain that a little bit for us well i mean if you look at where bitcoin was at the end of last year round you know mid december are eighteen thousand you know dollars and some point and today were talking about it being under ten thousand d

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