we are we are not suppose for what we are we're family on believe. me a sun media phenomenon starting october fifteenth on d w. this is d w news live from berlin iraq faces a possible break up as ninety two percent of kurds call for independence as a result of monday's referendum which baghdad says it will not recognize the way the country go now also on the program the european commission offers new proposals

to fix the a use migration crisis but the block is as divided as ever. the war against jihad just takes a heavy toll on the people of somalia we bring you a special reason with. i'm still gal welcome to the program an overwhelming majority of iraqi kurds have voted in favor of independence from iraq and i'm seeing the results of monday's referendum the kurdish election commissions that more than ninety percent of voters voted to secede and they took place that referendum took place in iraq so totemist kurdistan region as well as disputed areas of northern iraq they were celebrations in the city of sort of money as the results were announced the central government in baghdad has opposed the referendum since its inception. let's get more on this

from burkett's france and russia joins us on the line from kirkuk one of the disputed parts of iraq where these folks were sat held welcome to g.w. so ninety two percent in favor of independence i was the result being viewed where you are well this is a dream result of confirmation and people out ready joke in camp who would be going back to the old saddam days because when saddam hussein asked the people to go to the polls we always had over ninety percent there as well so they are not joking about the results then they think it's serious. i think of them and has refused to recognize this referendum and the results tell us what the prime minister has been saying today but there was a special session in the parliament today and the prime minister but he wasn't very far on his position he said we will have no dialogue without cancellation of the results he doesn't recognize the surf around them and he holds fast to the will to

match them he gave to the kurdish government to the goodish regional government in air be able to hand over all the airport controls and the border controls to back that until friday six p.m. so this is a deadline and let's see what's happened there's been lots of opposition criticism of this vote not just from a body but also international criticism from the u.s. and turkey elsewhere given all that's what is the kurdish leadership hoping to achieve. well first of all that was a lot of fraud as well in this voting process and before halting it was that the organizations ennobled campaign was threatened was turned down there were reps side being blocked there were t.v. station being forbidden there was a facebook campaign saying that if you are not with us in this referendum if you

don't will work independently quote is that you have to leave what is done so a lot of people i know who are arabs for example who live in quote is done now didn't left good is done so it was a massive influence on the people according to the to the referendum. as i say iraq's neighbors are concerned about this very idea that it could inflame kurdish nationalism especially turkey tell us about ankara's reaction well this is seen very obviously in kirkuk because in kirkuk a lot of people all groups of you react is live together arabs turkmen current of course as well and they are like one third of the population so in. everything is cooking up mourad and it's above kid cooked everything was cooking up and it's going to cook being a big problem and what is happening now is for example just months to rely very

much on the un turkey and they hope that turkey will help them that kid cook will not be under conditions. that spence and co cork thank you but the european commission has put forward new plans to address europe's migration crisis it wants to settle fifty thousand more refugees and to deport more migrants was asylum applications fail or who reach the e.u. for economic reasons the issue of immigration has divided a new member state since the mass influx of twenty fifty. scenes like this have become familiar over the past two years and the e.u. wants to put a stop to them on wednesday it launched another attempt to tackle the migrant crisis european migration commissioner dimitris adam up to last night's a new scheme to recycle refugees directly from crisis owns and neighboring countries of its main focus is on north africa the idea is to dissuade migrants from attempting a journey themselves with more than sixty five million displaced around the

world. stop showing solidarity towards this desperate people and the country is hosting that. this is why we are proposing to support a further fifty thousand resettlement places with half a billion euro and really count on member states to make shoes like. that member states generosity is far from guaranteed and the scheme is only voluntary it follows a compulsory plan to redistribute migrants who have already arrived in europe a scheme that met with sharp resistance after my last made clear that he still expected countries like hungary and slovakia to comply with quotas imposed by parcels but he also stressed that the e.u. has to significantly increase the number of people it sends back mainly economic migrants with no right to asylum we have to be. clear and brutally honest

people who have lost the right to stay in europe must be added to this scheme is set to run for the next two years as the e.u. seeks to boast a cooperation on a deeply divisive issue. from the double cross on a bad riggers has been following today's press conference and joins us from brussels welcome back is this plan they answer to your migration process. no this plan is only part of the answer if you look at the numbers only twenty five thousand refugees pay a year. on the list and i'm talking about real refugees certified so to say by the united nations it's not about migrants it's not about migrants coming from africa through libya it's only about refugees from syria and they will be picked up in transit countries like turkey or lebanon so this new initiative is not about the

people who actually entering europe are trying to end europe by boat and that's it's only a part of the solution and it's only a small drop in the sea of refugees we have rolled wide twenty five thousand a year is more or less nothing compared to the inhabitants of the european union so add to those drawbacks that you've outlined that way we throw in the fact that this game is voluntary what have the reactions been to this plan. the reactions on the one side that's a good approach and this reaction come from those countries who were against mandatory schemes like poland and hungary the czech republic and also austria and they say it's good that we now have this one terry bases and the other side the countries who are the usual suspects i would say like germany sweden france who take in these refugees. this new skin they say it's not good that the solidarity is

not among all the twenty eight member states but only thirteen of the twenty eight states taking part in this voluntary scheme so far so this is not the solution for the sort of dirty problem in the in the union and there's also another solution for the mandatory scheme which is also running is still there ten thousand people waiting in italy and greece for relocation to other e.u. countries in this is not happening then rigorous in brussels thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world pope francis has launched a campaign to tackle growing worldwide anti immigrant sentiment a two year campaign will attempt to raise awareness of the migrants plight and change people's view of the many migrants and refugees turned out to hear the announcements in hopes weekly address in something to square. sources within germany's conservative saying evolve is to step down from his post as finance

minister to become president of the german parliament a move that would help but chancellor merkel actually seems to negotiate a new coalition following sunday's a federal election. thailand's top court has sentenced former prime minister yingluck shinawatra five years in jail for negligence in the management of a rice subsidy program it was not present for the hearing she's believed to of fled the country in august when the verdict was originally. saudi arabia says it's going to allow women to drive this is a big leap forward for the ultra conservative nation only one of the world with such a bad in place a royal decree says the battle will be lifted in june meaning that women will be able to apply for licenses without the permission of a male relative the streets of saudi arabia have long been a battleground on one hand women wanting to drive on the other the religious conservatives who've called them too stupid their mobility

a threat to society now it is the women who have won. the say the most i'm so happy i actually haven't slept since the news broke because i'm so happy i'm twenty seven years old and i've been dreaming about this for my entire life and now it's finally coming true i can hardly wait another nine months and telescopes into a fact. that the first one of the. king solomon has issued a decree giving them the right to apply for driving licenses and the freedom of the roads that will be implemented by june next year it's a huge step for saudi arabia enough to warrant a special announcement at the united nations you may be interested to know that a few minutes ago our oil decree has been issued in saudi arabia giving women the right to drive. this is

a historic day for saudi society for men and women. for years some saudi women have gone behind the wheel as part of a campaign with global support on social media. this activist lost her job when she was caught others have gone to jail now celebrating their victory. saudi law and forces a strict form of islam known as well business women have to obey strict dress codes they can't associate with unrelated men if they want to work travel access health care they need the consent or accompaniment of a male guardian but slowly things are changing on saturday women were allowed for the first time into a national stadium for celebrations marking the kingdom's anniversary the movie is part of a program headed by the crown prince to modernize society and saudi women are

already wealthy well educated and ambitious and. women are at all levels there in the government advisory council that doctors why women are in big positions so why shouldn't we join the men that matter most to our nation. that boldness would suggest that saudi women will carry on the fight for greater rights. so how important is this change in me is a german saudi business woman is also a former journalist over to the arab news she joins us from dubai welcome to day what will this change mean for the country and perhaps for you personally. it's a huge economic relief for saudi households and for the economy there are about two million missing drivers who make up about five percent of the population they

usually send their money home don't spend it in saudi arabia this has drained to saudi economy for me personally i'm very happy i will have more nine nine hundred euro's more a month in my pocket and some driving to do i why do you think i can sell my made this decision now this is this decision was made when suicides us ready ten years ago women were restricted in working on on the few fields today they practically can work in any field they want and usually deadstick case with making decisions in saudi arabia. now you've been quoted as saying that women have bigger problems in saudi arabia than driving rights what did you mean by that i meant that it would be better for this except for women to close to solve the problems from their roots because this helps in gaining a much wider effect we still have the travel ban we still have legal affairs that

have can't be stopped so easily so this is a great step but so doing it from the root with with to have a greater effect in my personal opinion with all those other problems how easy do you think it is going to be for women to actually exercise this right to drive while they have to deal with restrictions of. male guardians and leaving the house for instance when thank god roy decree yesterday said no there won't be any permission needed not so any woman who want to drive will be able to drive a committee has been set up there will give the guidelines in thirty days and hopefully past only just skylines and nothing more will come up that. i thank you so much for joining to. thank you. now with news of a tariff disputes the ridges blowed up between us and the cattle here's ben

physical canadian aircraft make a bomb is vowing to fight what he calls an absurd two hundred twenty percent tariff on it c. series jets to the united states the u.s. commerce department says the levy is in response to the canadian government support of the aircraft that compete with products from u.s. jet make a boeing the move puts a new strain on already tense trade relations between the u.s. and its northern neighbor contributions tracking this story for us from frankfurt conrad who's right and who's wrong in all of this because bombardier is been rescued by the canadian state and supported by the state and here we have the u.s. charming in trump and his tariffs yes it's very difficult to see through all this but obviously the u.s. commerce department or somebody there pulled out a really big gun this punitive tariff of two hundred twenty percent is

unprecedented not even boeing demanded that the tariff be that high and who's really right and wrong and how much should be determined by article nineteen of nafta the north american free trade agreement which provides the tracing procedures for cases like this the problem for bombards is that the trump administration has argued against this article nineteen in the current ongoing renegotiation of nafta so it's a bit in limbo at the moment whether or not the americans will play by the rules and whether they will do it quickly enough or bombards because the company is really in financial trouble and this really gets interesting because it involves europe because the british prime minister told trump to try putting a stop to this because of the factory of bombard years in northern ireland but he didn't listen. no he didn't listen and of course this raises the question whether we whether he would have listened whether he might have listened if he didn't only

have to cope with the u.k.'s prime minister a bit with the whole european union and its weight when it comes to protecting business in the union of course. we are in the process of getting a divorce from the u.k. or the european union is and it's quite doubtful whether you know protecting a factory of northern ireland is really on the top of the agenda of the european union right now it's a very tough battle colorados and thank you. bitter rivals for decades now they're teaming up to defend europe's royal sector germany's zeman zone france is also a merging savings of four hundred seventy million years playing down that that means job cuts they say the chinese are hot on the heels the merger between siemens and alstom is on track to create a new european giant in the train building business in the near future the german

i.c.e. and french t.g.v. will come from a single manufacturer siemens wants to bring its entire train division in return for a fifty percent cut of the. siemens kayser praised the merger at a press conference in paris on wednesday the message of. european spirit is alive to struggle european companies leading the way. by joining forces and come together in a meaningful way and that's a powerful message. machine times which are matched by populism by nationalism. their social and political rights even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens had considered canadian company bomb but the deal was reportedly de railed by a bomb body is shaky finances now the competition or storage fees need to approve

the deal. back to feel well and an exclusive report from somalia i thank you ben yes the government has been struggling with the jihadist insurgency for years with international support efforts to defeat the al shabaab militia have picked up this year but the fighting is also there to more hardship for civilians there were reports of sandra pets as well and young for the shots and this exclusive report about people already devastated by almost three decades of civil war. but battle means to survive in somali it's a fitting name for this refugee camp on the outskirts of mogadishu where life is a struggle for the next meal the next bucket of water. fatty mind her daughter found refuge here two weeks ago they're still waiting for official assistance. but that's preferable to

starving in the village where the islamist militant group is in control and. they would rather let us die than accept any aid from infidels. who are. not all somalis are feeling hunger and up a few kilometers away in another refugee camp we meet not a young man who was from barrier about sixty kilometers south of the capital at least ten civilians were killed there in an attack by somali and u.s. forces almost a month ago marianne's husband was among the dead. we are used to the fighting but this was by far the worst we've ever seen. in march the u.s. president on a trump ordered the u.s. military to intensify the war against al shabab bringing in special forces the

militant group killed more than four thousand two hundred people last year its leaders and agents with al qaeda want to establish a theocracy. and you government has been in place in mogadishu since february and it's getting a lot of international support but the drones and raids employed to combat terrorism are endangering the local population. and this is being exploited by al shabab one former member of the militant group tells us that the people in disputed . areas feel the government backed soldiers just as much as the militants. but. the people here don't trust the government in the areas controlled by al-shabaab people fear the military will loot and rape them and al-shabaab has become skilled at tapping into those fears. peacekeeping troops from the african union also

serving in somalia under the un the un special representative is convinced the conflict cannot be solved only through military means. while he welcomes u.s. involvement he wants the main objective should be strengthening the new government and state institutions. too many civilians are being killed protected by insurgents particularly here in mogadishu because they're soft targets . yes if you are fighting an insurgency being very careful not to kill civilians is incredibly important because if you do you you lose the support of the population. internally displaced somalis arrive in the capital every day almost seven million are dependent on emergency eight that's about half the country's population these women and children will likely have to wait years before they can live in a state that can keep them safe. well you saw sandra person in that reporter she's

here now welcome to the studio sandra i'm a sort of pick up on that point about civilian deaths caused by somali soldiers and u.s. forces as they chase al shabaab so does that mean that there is sort of widespread distrust against them while the people feel given that they're killing their own people as well of course it's very easy to be caught up in crossfire if you deal with a metric war and here i mean we look at areas where these rates take place which are essentially controlled by al shabaab i mean they were driven out of the cities but they're still very much there in the south and the center of somalia in the countryside and if rates do take place there you know they might affect civilians too because if we talk about nitrates it might not always be able to distinguish between who is a civilian here in whose to fight or you might also get caught up in clan violence where one clan blames the other over and linked to al shabaab and then arrayed

takes place maybe you hit the wrong people or complicated know that you went to a number of refugee camps in the country tell us about some of the biggest challenges people are facing really it's water it's food it's the daily survival and a lot of people if in very cramped and unhygienic conditions so you do find especially the children and the elderly being affected by infectious diseases like upper respiratory infections and watch me diarrhea and if that spreads of course through it there's always the threat of cholera for instance as well as flying bullets. those dangerous conditions might mean it's rather journalist can actually travel through the country give us an idea of your time where we were basically in the capital in mogadishu which is under government control but still terrorists are able to strike and there are criminal gangs you know on the streets and of course being a western journalist sticking out in the streets we have very much

a valuable target so we. they are under kidnapping for kidnapping for instance for ransom and we were very much there under close protection usually there was a private security team accompanying us this is very much the norm for journalists that's why only so little reports are coming out of somalia these days. so moderate . a new government installed early this this year and you've met political times that so far it seems only to be able to control mogadishu. how. how much is the country moving towards stability well it looks if you're in somalia in mogadishu it looks good because you can see construction going on we didn't have the chance to check on the countryside so there we rely on the things that other people tell us like the refugees for instance we met in the refugee camps and they don't yet perceive the government as an alternative if you know so my i didn't really have a national government for close to three decades so the government needs to regain

trust what has happened in the past three decades is that strong men warlords shocks felt the voice you know they felt the vacuum and the elected representatives well kind of elected because it wasn't really a national election that took place but better than what we saw before they have to regain the trust of the people and they have to fight corruption as well and you know give the people a sense of justice so that they can be trusted son president very interesting thank you. and you can see a longer version of sandra's report in the african section of line a day w. dot com just time to remind her of our top stories at this hour iraqi kurds have voted overwhelmingly for independence kurdish authorities said more than ninety two percent back of the move in a referendum held on monday iraq central government in baghdad says it will not recognize a result to strike in the kurds with sections. that are true up to date of morphine at the top of the the of.

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