this is the w. news live from but the turkish led forces it seized freedom in northern syria the turkish flag has been hoisted over the town and this is often a rapid advance against kurdish militia overnight more than one hundred fifty thousand people have been forced to flee their homes we have the latest from the region force there coming up russians go to the polls to pick a new president levy refuted is expected to easily win a full time in office but can he mobilize voters turned off by the predictability

of the contest. and by i mean it will have to wait another week to grandpa that when disney get title that soft of their closest rival shaka overcame foes fuck a royal blues loss could have put the variance just three points away from that six successive championship will have all the action from getting. the. five hundred the home free good to have you with us turkish led forces have taken control of the said to offer a free in town in northern syria statements by the turkish army confirmed by and observe a group. according to those statements and based force it is said to show syrian rebels facts by turkey entry after three minutes you want to have been trying to take the town as part of a two month offenses. against kurdish fighters that i'm chris says

a link to terrorists and techie more than fifteen hundred kurdish fighters are reported to have been killed in the operation and over one hundred fifty thousand civilians have been forced to flee their lives. while journalist of that an event of air combat is monitoring the situation for us from the kurdish city of erbil in northern iraq let me explain just exactly what is happening in africa right now. well over there has bragged robles that they have entered the city of i'm through and they seem to have taken control of the through the center has no official spokesman get out of kurdish fighters but it seems that the city is in control of turkish practice lumbers and as a current situation and so what can we expect to happen in the months days to come well the big question is what's going to happen with thousands of civilians that are flat are free until now their intuition of villagers close to our three and

a lot of them they are afraid to return back because they're afraid of repercussions because one o'clock started on our screen there were huge broadcasts in support of the kurdish fighters so a lot of those that their supporters kurdish fighters are now afraid of repercussions from the turkish backed rebels. and of that i mean we know that a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced in the fighting what could happen to those that are staying behind. well there are some people that did stay behind and they're trying to stay in their houses so it has to be seen what's happened with them because that we have seen many videos of their has backed rebels violating hauser's the story and things so it's remains to be seen what's going to happen because turkey will try to create a new administration in after a while they also didn't bobby-jo bills so we have to see what is going to happen if there is going to allow also for the remaining civilians to come dark and what

has been rather concerning is that shelling that we've seen in recent days has that subsided now and how indiscriminate was that shot and we did see the air hospital was hit on friday you know according to this two months operations around the horn of thrifty to carry on their civilians died and also without being unperformed reports that the civilians that tried to go back to generous which is also on the surface control was shelled. by the turkish backed rebels on approach army so there has been a lot of civilian casualties injury and death. but now the fighting are mostly stopped but it doesn't it's not necessary means that the fighting is completely over yet but it seems that's the case the fighting isn't completely over yet and turkey has certainly up the specter of vespa track to the conflict in syria with that in mind is there any end in sight to this conflict. well look

that remains to be seen because. the turkish president so they're going to take all the areas all the way to direct the border so that the kurds control so if the americans don't stop the turks from attacking number which then the violence will continue. but until now there are negotiations with the in america but the kurds hope that the market i will not give up the kurds in northern syria but there's a market doesn't protect the first part will happen in our free in more violence has to be expected all right gentlemen is to that image monitoring the situation in a free for us and syria from the kurdish city of edible in northern iraq thank you for your insights. to russian our voting is under way in the country's presidential election eight candidates are in the running but president vladimir putin is expected to secure a victory and his fourth term in office now pushing himself has already cost his ballot in moscow none of his seven challenges all considered

a serious threat opinion polls suggesting putin could win around seventy percent of the vote a russian election and one string group says a growing number of workers have complained that their employees are pressuring them to vote. so let's bring in our correspondent in moscow now emily showing good to see you say you are there in the heart of the capital polls are open but is there any excitement bearing in mind that many expect to easily with a force. well there is a lot of excitement where i am i met is vista hall where observers political observers journalists commentators everyone who's watching the vote has gathered today in the center of moscow this is actually a live broadcast about the vote that's going on behind me that's being broadcast on channel one so on state t.v. and they certainly are trying to push this kind of holiday atmosphere that the

authorities of want to show on voting day and they're trying to vote motivate people to vote but not everyone is excited i spoke to a lot of people ahead of the votes who said you know we we know what's going to happen anyway we know who's going to win so why vote what's the point ok so you mentioning that some people see this vote as a foregone conclusion which leads to the question what is this election really about. well putin is currently polling at around seventy percent so it does seem like this election really is as you said somewhat of a foregone conclusion now the main goal for the kremlin in this election will be to show that it's really a legitimate vote despite the fact that putin looks likely to win of his fourth term in office and they're doing that by trying to push as much of to get the turnout to be as high as possible so they're doing that here by pushing this

holiday atmosphere we've seen stars motivating people to come out to the ballot boxes on state t.v. and also that's happening at the polling stations as well there are raffles where you can win a car you can win i phones and my colleague who is out on. the feel in the field in cousin said that they were selling potatoes for around twenty euro cents outside the polling station so they're really trying to pull people who people people into the into the polling stations to show that this vote is legitimate and we've already seen the central electoral commission say that the turnout so far is higher than in the last presidential elections course uprooting remaining popular as you point out that emanate many internationally maybe also what the reason is for this continued popularity and russian media certainly play a huge role in that way of putting a period on a president during the election campaign as this report shows that take a watch. he's the incumbent he's leading in the polls and for weeks he's constantly

been on t.v. since the kremlin controls all of the relevant broadcasters the daily news is little more than campaign ads he is everywhere seemingly immune from criticism though he's refused to debate his political opponents. the growing t.v. plays a huge role in showing how powerful he is how smart and wonderful the years and how much he cares about his citizens. because there are the three of them will call my knees up would. even people in the far east republic six time zones away are seeing the same things here horsemeat is a delicacy available at every tiny corner store it's minus thirty celsius out so it's no problem storing it properly we ask people here if they know who putin's opponents are in the election sub check or gruden and. of course we know the candidates mass media still reaches us here but not everyone

knows putin's opponents who does he think he'll vote for well then for putin. but whether he'll even go to vote he doesn't know yet why bother when no one here doubts what the results will be. the cold also helps those at the fish market but prices are falling the vendor say and people have little money. that's going to get them to have to vote for putin. that there's no alternative of course we hope for a change for the better we've been hoping for fifteen years. but i don't see any improvement. there's little enthusiasm but few speak openly about putin like elsewhere in the country people are afraid. i don't talk about politics i'm afraid of politics i know who the candidates but i will say silent. the media portray putin as

a patriotic father figure he shows off new weapons he says can penetrate western defenses strong feelings of national pride quickly overcome doubts one might have about putin's policies. thank god putin's head now he's helped bring back a dying russia from its nice since the year two thousand who. has a following like no other candidate the recent friction with the west. is likely to help bring his voters home. now all the candidates are available that all seven of them to any of them even have the slightest chance against bush and. it doesn't look like it if you look at the recent polls everyone else apart from your putin is polling in the low single digits there are two candidates to watch and they're both

new. in the political scene one of them is positive he's from the communist party is currently polling at seven percent so not very high but he is the runner up in the polls and it's also. important to know that he's been very critical of the government even on state t.v. and there's also seen yes that chuck was also new on the scene she's considered to be the only real opposition candidate running she's a former opposition journalist as well but some people say point out her close ties to the kremlin and say that she's actually just took a part of the kremlin who's who's running to also legitimize these votes and all the candidates are polling really low so it doesn't look like anyone but which in really stands a chance all right every show in moscow for us thank you very much. to the. fans are watching closely as shall catch a converse book on saturday defeats the royal blues would help the variances they

seek sure wrap up the bundesliga title this weekend the winds have been hard to come by for this season because they finally turned their season around well here's what happened. for those folk were a force to be reckoned with where now though was wearing their colors now with the royal blues the defender is hungrier than ever for goals he's already scored five times this season. both spoke on the other hand are having a torrid time of it they were without a win in three games under coach bruno love india. his team got the first real chance of the game no maximillian arnold with this shot after ten minutes of opportunities like this were few and far between. chunk in particular were in no hurry to threaten the vosburgh goal their first chance came just before half time that's not good enough to be a champions league contender. with sixty minutes in and shonky were beginning to

get their act together breland bolo got as close as you can get without scoring five only some super goalkeeping from countries dales kept the ball out. of those big responded after some desperate play in the books the referee pointed to the spots. the replay clearly showing the tie in a stance which taking down recently visited the of the hard took the shot stopped by rather than on it was the third penalty he saved this season joking made another push in the dying moments of the game the vosburgh defense was caught napping and bowler with the cross and the ball touched in a close range five agony for rubbing konopka he turned the ball into his own net by chelsea with their fifth win in a row they keep their champions league hopes alive and tonight by a new nick the chance of an early bundling a title even more cause for celebration. faces d.w.

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