For questions or comments please call 719-473-4801 during regular business hours you can always become a member of k. Or c.c. By going to. And making your financial contributions safely on line. From the b.b.c. World Service. Morning the Syrian government says it will pause its bombing in. Damascus to let civilians leave but not everyone who lives there is convinced. The regime. By. The Russians that is. How well will the far right do in Italy's general election on Sunday. Too many illegal migrants or danger for all of Europe the problem is illegal migration. And for the whole of Europe the singer Prince is making a comeback with the song of the year. To come after this round up of world news. Hello I'm Jim Lee with the b.b.c. News Saudi Arabia has replaced its top military commanders including the chief of staff in a series of late night Royal Decrees The move comes as the war in Yemen where a Saudi led coalition is fighting rebels is nearing the end of its 3rd year the heads of the Air Force ground forces and air defenses are among those dismissed his Our security correspondent Frank Gardner This is really a continuation of the extraordinary reforms that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin salon isn't acting it's always stopped surprising people he has replaced at a stroke the top brass of the military the Saudi military is frankly not particularly competent the National Guard is but the main the mainstream military is an optical competent they've not done particularly well in Yemen they face a number of threats and he has replaced a number of older commanders with younger fresher but this is really what he's doing all across the board Russia has vetoed a u.n. Draft resolution at the Security Council that singled out he ran for violating an arms embargo on Yemen arrival Russian drafted measure extending those sanctions for another year passed unanimously. Aid organizations have given a cautious welcome to Russia's announcement of a daily pause in fighting in the Syrian rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta President Putin called for the 5 hour break in bombardment starting on Tuesday to allow civilians to leave after a week of intense shelling by pro-government forces Sebastian reports the operation to evacuate the sick and wounded would be managed by Russian and Syrian government operatives which is hardly likely to instill confidence in residents already cowering in basements from the bombardment is certainly not the 30 day nationwide cease fire demanded by the un Security Council and it may only be another strategic move to help the government gain further control of the region that the u.n. And other aid agencies have little choice but to take what they can in order to get lifesaving aid in and the wounded out South Africa's presidents are all Roma poser has announced his new cabinet hoping to signal another break from the era of his predecessor Jacob Zuma correspondent Andrew Harding has more details he's brought back some key figures who have been pushed out of government because it's widely believed they try to fight the corruption that flourished under former President Jacob Zuma So the crucial finance ministry will now be considered in safe hands under Clinton and then it elsewhere allies have been rewarded others given 2nd chances and a few key rivals in the a.n.c. Brought in President run oppose and his governing party have much to prove before elections next year if they're to convince South Africans that a reshuffle of mostly familiar faces can address the country's for medical challenges Well news from the b.b.c. . President Trump has said he would have run into the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead earlier this month even if he was not armed he also criticised the police for not confronting the gunman saying the way some officers had responded was a disgrace Mr Trump was speaking at a meeting of state governors at the White House to discuss proposals for gun control but the governor of Washington state Jay Inslee criticized Mr Trump's proposal to arm teachers I've listened to law enforcement who have said they don't want to have to train teachers as law enforcement agencies which takes about 6 months I just think this is a circumstance where we need to lessen that educators should educate and they should not be forced upon this responsibility of packing heat in 1st grade classes a groundbreaking genetic study of living and extinct elephants has confirmed the existence of 2 separate African species found that the African forest an African savannah elephants of not interbred for nearly half a 1000000 years despite living in close proximity the research found multiple instances of interbreeding or gene flow between different extinct species such as the woolly mammoth scientists say the data gives a clue as to how interbreeding helped mammoths live across varied environments for so long local officials in Papua New Guinea say more than 30 people are thought to have been killed by an earthquake that struck a remote region in the Southern Highlands on Monday phone lines have been cut and roads blocked by landslides making it difficult for rescuers to reach the area a group of 45 music festivals worldwide say their programmes will feature an equal number of men and women by 2022 they include the rock focused Iceland Airwaves festival and Canada's North by Northeast the pledge comes amid an ongoing debate over the under representation of women at some of music biggest events and awards ceremonies b.b.c. News. Thanks for that news Helen welcome to News Day with Carly Sharpe and Paul Hawkins were in Syria will also look ahead to Italy's general election on Sunday over 600000 immigrants have arrived in the country in recent years so no surprise that immigration is a big issue there question is will the far right to make big gains because of all the support bad news for Perry sent demand there a superstar strike a name has a serious injury looks like he won't be around to overturn the $31.00 deficit against dro Madrid in the Champions League next week so more details to come with the new ball in the sport also have the business news and the techs number as ever if you want to get in touch with us and we do love to hear from you plus 447-786-2050 extension 85. It's coming up to 3 o 7 am g.m.t. In London and it's 5 o 7 in the Syrian capital Damascus where in just under 4 hours time the government will pause its bombing of eastern quarter a suburb of the city to allow civilians to leave and medical aid in almost 400000 civilians are trapped in the suburb which is controlled by rebels and surrounded by government forces which have been pounding it with bombs supported by the Russians more than 560 people have been killed in 8 days while this humanitarian pause engineered by the Russians is different from the un resolution which called for 30 day cease fire that one was across the entire country which has largely been ignored so will this pause in the fighting work lives in eastern Guta my friend. My position to you Do you trust your killers do you trust the regime that is killing you 5 years maybe 7 now you trust do you trust him on your family and your wife your the Russian that is being gone chilling from the big . Think of this brutal war it's really a big decision for a father to make it's really how can I trust my kids my 3 year old son that my one year old daughter to this dictators or this murders I'm sorry I don't want to talk heavy talk but that's what I feel now last week Newsday spoke to a mother she lives in eastern with her husband and 2 daughters just a few kilometers away from the affluent central neighborhoods of Damascus the capital of Syria she's been telling news is Nikki jacks she's struggling to feed her family every month thank God that's the 1st thing. In the morning. I think it. Didn't do anything. That we're living in. Iraq. So what do you do when there's not enough food to go around my God. I got back I couldn't write and give me my more and then we even read and then I don't. And maybe you know that it kind of make things right right right to connect. Can I. Do anything to my daughter like grandchildren here. And they are in need who are. Many. Are a crying. Need They are angry and very very sad for that. So that's one mom who's struggling to feed her family in eastern Guta how will the stately 5 hour pause in the bombing by Syrian government forces work Aaron Lundy's a Middle East expert on Cease fires do not tell do work in Syria unfortunately best case scenario it might save lives but I don't think it will end the fighting p.r. Work to in the way that was intended now on the face of it sounds like quite a good idea pole was in the government bombardments of the area the medically injured can leave medicine can go in aid can go in and then you know and then after that 5 hour window everything was is what you're saying that only the Russian government pro Syrian government side will stick to it and at this point no I'm sticking to it the Russian government has said that they view all of the groups inside that area as the general targets they're not covered by the cease fire and instead of they proposed this idea of having tried our 4 hour truce is during a salute to lots of civilians leave in circles and that's or you know that's a good thing of course but it's not what was called for in the cease fire at least not according to the other countries it's possible that cease fire you know it stays in the United Kingdom and France and others it's good that they're listening to Vladimir Putin because it's come from Vladimir Putin the Bashar al Assad will listen to it we'll see if you listen to them and I will see how that works it's not entirely obvious to me that any civilians or many civilians that these will be able to use these exits if they are opened and how long that will work because we saw that pretty much the exact same scenario play out in Aleppo if you remember that a year ago that just went on and you had to go see Asians and you had cease fire as a truce as a safe exits that weren't really safe exit so people that couldn't move because rebels blocked them or the regime blocked them in the end you had this very chaotic and violent and to really Aleppo and I'm sure you can you can have the same scenario here just for those who don't understand because are quite often we talk about the rebels as. As one group in eastern gate say is it possible FISA simply explain for us that actually there are lots of different factions they don't always get on that and all agree and they don't want the same thing this area this occupied sort of Damascus had lots of rebel groups historically over the past few years but now I would say that basically 4 groups a lot of 2 big ones into smaller ones and one of the smaller ones is listed as a terrorist faction or at least most parties to the war agree that it is terrorist factions to spawn off from what used to be serious al Qaeda wing so that's the group that the Russians and the Syrian government are now pointing to and saying we're fighting jihad easily other groups are allied to this group and to be fair some of them are some of them are not so that's you know depending on where you stand on that that's either a lie or at least a simplification but you know the Syrian government seems to have one goal here and that is to retake the entire enclave and kick out the rebels and civilians can stay under us as root but those civilians who are with the rebels they can leave with the rebels and if they can do that peacefully I'm sure they'll just you know sign whatever paper they have to do and they'll do that peacefully but they're also prepared to do it with as much violence as it takes and that's what they're doing right there can you see a way outs of this other than a bloody into this and eventually Assad takes over the whole of the area I think realistically that is what is what is going to happen they think that's what happened in the in Aleppo as well that's was there happen here unless your answers are really very unlikely they're not intervening I mean there are different ways in that which sakit happen you can sort of structured in a response and I don't doubt as well that if used see that as the sort of the inevitable conclusion to this then maybe you can find a way to that end and doesn't kill as many civilians as as will die if this is just allowed to continue into a complete mayhem is trying to avoid that completely hopeless No I mean. I think if you don't want us to retake the Enclave I guess the United States getting a kingdom in many governments don't then you know you can either do the something to stop it from being military I guess and they don't want to do that or you can accept the fact that he's stronger than the rebels that's the case I think it's that simple Ira London a Middle East expert about humanitarian pause due to starts at. $700.00 g.m.t. 9 am local time in a sting and once it starts will it be just to see whether holes will be across later on the b.b.c. World Service. You're listening to news day with Karl Kani and poor Still to come the sing of princes making a digital come back more on that to follow Let's look ahead to Sunday's general election in Italy where one of the big issues is immigration in recent years more than 600000 migrants have arrived there many have left but some have stayed in their presence as Italy correspondent James Reynolds Reports has divided the country and provoked a rise in the far right the was. The Rome is built on so many layers of history that nothing really happens here for the 1st time anymore instead the population of this city and the wider country argues about repeating particular phases of its posture with. The Saudis more than 7 decades after Italy's fascist regime fell thousands of Romans marched to show their opposition to the recent re-emergence of the far right student and at some bone came with her sister Martha number one from. Our family has told us what happened Fascism isn't that far in the past and grandparents on the one side had to flee on the other side of the family here in Milan they had to fight fascism it's a. Living reality so we can't be indifferent in the face of the new fashions and 20172018 meanwhile. That. Italy's far right has risen in response both to at least stagnation its consistently high unemployment and also to change the rise in migration. Migrants themselves are wary of being at the center of this election campaign but at the anti fascist rally in Rome I found several who were willing to talk what's your name who said yeah are you from. How long have you been here in Italy. 2 years why did you come here to Italy. What do you study what subjects. Media So where where you going to live the rest of your life which country had the noise got to us where do you want to live our lives. You know what's your name my name. And where you from I'm from Gambia you know that the fact that you and many people from Africa are here it's causing a lot of arguments in Italy how does that make you feel it's making me feel but sometimes I come because I come down here because it's. The demonstrators are heading through the center of Rome many of them a waving Italian flags and some of them have got on red baseball caps this too in front of me because of other legit employees going to read from the cup make Italian anti fascist again the caps. Guy and he will be pushy so they take in the Trump idea make America great again and just. For their own words. The demonstration reached Rome's Piazza del Popolo the country's prime minister Tony. A short visit I tried to get a word with him this is being a dangerous and angry campaign what's your response. He waved a rather ours to cross-check no as he dates to every other reporter his center left Democratic Party is now fighting to stay in power many Italians blame this administration for allowing unchecked Migration at the rally I put this to Sandra Goard see the government's European Affairs Minister we cannot then there is a possibility for migratory crises there which is the president mean that we can reason he did in Syria recently originated the No 6 on the Africa we have bad there was most immediately that we carried out to manage such a man a huge phenomenon and I do believe that. Managing the situation in respect of for you my ride then the security. Was But many of us including thousands demonstrating in Milan on Saturday disagree the country's growing anti migrant movement is led by the league party once a regional pressure group it now commands a national voice and a. Very clear. Leader 44 year olds meto Salvini has promised the mass deportation of illegal migrants earlier in the week in Rome I waited for him at an event some politicians stand out immediately but in his green winter jackets dark beer and keenness to find a place to smoke Salvini blended in with his security guards. Why do you consider migrants dangerous I asked him. But they were illegal migrants too many illegal migrants so a danger for Italy and for all of Europe foreign fighters from I as we come back to Italy and Europe this is a real danger I don't differ. On the basis of race or ethnicity people of good will are welcome the problem is illegal migration for Italy and for the whole of Europe but Italian. He shook hands and was driven away in several days' time Italy will decide whether or not it agrees with Matosi Albini or with those who warn of the dangers of repeating phases of Italy's past. That socially correspondent James Reynolds looking ahead to the country's general election which is on Sunday results of which are doing late on Sunday the Monday let's go vote sport now with Andy good morning well parasangs your man start Neymar suffered a sprained ankle and a fractured metatarsal where he was stretchered off in Sunday's win over more say in the French league the present instructor who signed for p.s.g. In a world record move last year is now a serious injury doubt when they try to overturn a 3 want deficit against Real Madrid in the Champions League Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he will always wear a yellow ribbon in support of imprisoned politicians in Catalonia despite being charged by the Football Association in England with displaying a political message Napoli went 4 points clear at the top of the Italian league thanks to a 5 nil victory away at calorie and McLaren had a difficult start to Formula one pre-season testing when the 2 time champion Fernando Alonso has called Lost a whale after only 6 laps in Spain redpolls Daniel Ricardo set the quickest time on day one. Now this headline from The Washington Post the Olympic flame has been extinguished the u.s. Should be next what's it about well Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins who wrote that article says the entire u.s. And unpick committee should be overhauled a new member is reinstated as you go she says executives are taking home 6 figure sums in Sally salary whilst athletes being paid next to nothing she also told me that the u.s.o.c. Should be a not for profit organization athlete should be paid more I spoke to her on the u.s.o.c. Has a real issue we've got all these cases of sexual abuse in this country with our Olympic athletes and the u.s. O.c. Essentially has pursued a policy of no responsibility for them at the same time that they've been paying themselves you know 6 figure salaries cut Blackmon the head of the u.s.o.c. Makes $1000000.00 a year you know we're really not treating our gold medalists the way we should be perfect example our u.s. Women's ice hockey team that won the gold medal right up until last spring were making $6000.00 every 4 years. That's not a lot of money and how does that compare then to the chief executives of the u.s. O.c. Ok so the chief executive makes a $1000000.00 a year but the llama Russa's Toure's who were so brill