the crash the investment bank lehman brothers start september thirteenth on do you w. yeah. i am. this is you don't reduce life from berlin all out assault on islam the syrian government and russian forces prepared to take the lancet rebel stronghold in the united nations warns of potential bloodbath is also coming up a powerful typhoon batters japan the strongest storm in more than twenty five years unleashes wind gusts of more than two hundred kilometers an hour more than

a million people evacuated plus a former congo new world order some jammed up is banned by the nation's top court from running in the upcoming presidential election we will courts on people's hopes for democracy in this war torn country and from a plucky start up to get in a giant google turns twenty how did we ever live without it all haven't conquered the world well look at the tech titans search for the next big idea. on leyla hocked thanks for your company everyone. we start our broadcast with what some are calling the final showdown in syria and millions of lives are at risk the united nations is calling on military powers involved in that country. a

humanitarian catastrophe and it led the u.s. envoy to syria so often the mystery said ongoing talks between russia and turkey hold the key to resolving the fate of italy it's the last major rebel held region in syria the area saw several airstrikes today that rebels and an independent monitor said were russian russia and syria are said to be considering a deadline next week to launch attacks on the enclave meanwhile u.s. president donald trump appealed to the syrian president to avoid hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and it led. d.w. news spoke to mark lowcock head of the un office for the quarter nation is humanitarian affairs now there previous rebel enclaves in aleppo and is so to have fallen we asked him what makes the situation is that so explosive the way that the. siege is and the conflict in aleppo and has to go to ultimately were

a result was by large numbers of fighters being bussed out of aleppo and. being taken to it there are thousands of fighters many of them very extreme many of the members of prescribed terrorist organizations and there's no lid for those people to move to we are doing everything we can straining every sinew to avoid a great big bloody battle because if it happens in the way some people are talking about it could be the biggest humanitarian catastrophe we've seen for decades certainly the biggest in the twenty first century. let's get you the latest developments on this developing story i want to bring interest and syria analyst race he joins me from the jordanian capital amman so good to see you always so why does the battle for it live matter what's at stake. i mean let's take of

course is the drive by iraq russia and with the with the creation is. to finish of the sunni opposition to bashar assad to finish off the popular opposition to bashar assad which ended up once and being concentrated and because the assad regime aided by iran and by you know russian bombardment was he seen president leaders in aleppo for example to finish off the opposition whether it's are with a civilian whether it's so-called terrorists and so forth it's just dissent against the secretary and rule the other white security rule of a sudden this is what the state said to be asserting this of oddity there is you assert exult already with the help of his allies who are now caught up in turkey emissaries let's let's talk about the people who are who are stuck in the this cross caught in this crossfire we're hurting your representative before you came on

basically saying you know we we worry that a bloodbath is about to be unfolded in me but do you share his assessment. i mean come on the un is trying to. look i mean i've known burke said it is three hundred years ago when good people do nothing evil will try and this is exactly what the settlement from the us is the way to nothing and the same nothing he say nothing when you say cross fire or when you see all terrorists or what have you and for getting that even damascus which is a regime that willfully bar its population to submission box they started cities of the ancient word of a local of homs of eastern syria the cradle of civilization bought it with the help of russia in chechnya life and serviceable bartman and you have the un guys saying nothing this i mean it is a again it is the united nations trying to coddle or trying to be so-called neutral

and ignoring this. monstrous assist damascus mr way some just going to i'm just going to jump in there because of course the un doesn't have the means to to get involved in this because stephan in the store has appealed specifically to some of the parties who are involved on the ground russia and turkey to help find a solution but these two countries who can actually do something and make a difference they have very well rival ambitions for for syria. well not this early i mean the addendum at the end of the day interest matter and everyone found their interests at the expense of three c.d.'s what threat to aleppo i mean these guys are not. caught in the crossfire the they were uploaded from the cities uprooted from the asian cities of aleppo from homs from eastern syria from the suburbs of damascus they're not good to the cause they were pushed by us are

there to finish them off now they are the hardcore let's say opponents of i said whether civilian or military or so-called terrorists so what next mr always i mean are you fearful about what is going to unfold in the next twenty four forty eight hours look it's not it's not being cute i mean if you get more fearful of course you can in a way but look what happened in the last seven years six years you know says the peaceful protests against was. not it all the time you have the preceding and being done being let down at one point at the one turkey supposedly their friend said look you know we're going to stop from committing more massacres like it's father did in eighty two he did but he had no and then he found his interests converging with russia and you know and i mean if you put off what the the civilian toll and nobody gives a damn nobody cares i mean if the u.n.

cared they would have done something in the last seven years to see just need to see that civilian single the to need a single the flowers of syria what is the jails of the u.n. did not the states that actually did anything to save a single life nothing i mean if you for a part the civilian law doesn't. turn list and syria analyst how do you always thank you for sharing your perspectives with us. when i had to japan now which is being battered by the strongest typhoon to hit the country in a quarter of a century authorities have urged a million people in the western and central regions of the country to leave their homes and move to temporary shelters while typhoon gebbie is hitting the cities of kobe osaka and kyoto with terentia will rains and violent gusts. as typhoon jeppe roared ashore near osaka some structures were tossed through the air as if made of paper. for heavy rains and winds of over two hundred

kilometers per hour shredded homes flooded streets and put countless lives in danger. in kyoto high winds caused part of the city's train stations roof to collapse injuring several people. and in osaka bay the powerful winds blew a fuel tanker into a bridge causing serious damage to both. that bridge is the only link to come site international airport japan's third busiest airport is built on an artificial island in the bay with the airport forced to shut down thousands of travelers were stranded it's just a slice of the travel misery caused by the storm over seven hundred flights across the country were canceled rail and road travel was also destructed. typhoon chappie is now moving north over the sea of japan but authorities say the country is not

out of the woods high winds mudslides and flooding remain a serious threat. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. a highway overpass says collapsed in the indian city of kolkata but there is no confirmation on the number of deaths or injuries that happen in these cities affluent. neighborhood police and firefighters are using cutting tools to free people stuck underneath the wreckage. the wife of one of two reporters jailed in me and martin has called on the country's leader aung san suu kyi to free her husband for the sake of their daughter while lone and soon were convicted on charges related to their reporting on army attacks on me in mars' were hinge on minority their lawyers are considering an appeal. mali's president.

kato has been sworn in for his second term in office this ceremony and by marco went ahead after the constitutional court confirmed he won last month's runoff election and dismissed fraud accusations from the opposition candidate cato has vowed to strengthen national security against extremist violence. also in africa the former democratic republic of congo warlord. has announced a long delayed december presidential election as a quote parity after the country's top court banned him from contesting it bumba was one of six presidential hopefuls excluded by the election commission from the vote he appealed but the constitutional court has upheld the balancing it was because of his conviction by the international criminal court the i.c.c. for bribing witnesses at his crimes trial. well the term of

office in the fall or term of office of the d r c's incumbent president joseph kabila and a two years ago but he refused to step down in the violent unrest that followed the roman catholic church to lead negotiations to agree conditions for a new election after more protests rocked the country at the beginning of this year could be left finally agreed to stand down and not to stand for office again salonika went to find out how those who participated in the protests are doing today. here they stand together the activist the church members who live in hiding and those who lost their loved ones during pro-democracy protests earlier this year together they've won a small victory president joseph kabila who's ruled the country for seventeen years want to run for a third term in december he said. the lord was always there for us in our fight.

it's he fought for and gave us the small the three. gatherings like this one a rare since the protests those who organized the live in fear. one activist agreed to me to set his heart on eric has been agitating against could be ten years this is where he and his wife have been forced to live since their last home was raided by intelligence services army's eighty second my house was ransacked because of my activism. by city these days take your voices will be for these flash drives they contain photos of friends who were arrested during our sit ins are protests. sitting is and yet it is one of sitting in the marsh. eric hopes that one day these images will serve as evidence many of the photos are already in the public domain even a video of his friend being shot. eric's

fellow activists were arrested distributing flyers in the protest that followed several people were killed one of those shops was rusty candy. eric takes us to the place where he was killed he says rossy had been trying to shut the church gate to keep the police away. from the. parish sent. it was here that russell was shot when you're in his right side. but to do what they're really of look to he wanted to protect the church members and other activists who were also in the church. the protesters tried to help him eric says but the police had surrounded the place when they finally got rossi to hospital it was too late. six months after his death rossi's family a still fighting for justice for them the government's response has been hard to

handle. the government made an official declaration on t.v. they said the person who died on the twenty fifth of february was a troublemaker he was a criminal or you he was a thug. rossi was a father of two a university student he wrote books he was not a thug insists his sister his family was always concerned about his activism but his sister understood anything. that is going to the street to reclaim the rights of the congolese people because manny have congo that's what he used to say. that fight is still an everyday reality for erik whose friend's death has only hardened his resolve. olson's of the russia he left us with the juicy he used to say that the people always win and i believe that the people will

win the paper get them. you're watching you don't use we still have a lot more to tell you about including. taking sides over taking the knee course where giant nike puts american football player collin capper nick at the center of its new ad campaign and ignites a new controversy and we hear from a spanish man who doesn't let his visual impairment get in the way of his greatest passion surfing the waves. now it's one of the most valuable companies in the world and it turned twenty say yes congratulations to google it's a name that became a verb and a very valuable company twenty years ago today a pair of ph d. students working out of the proverbial garage wanted to make internet searches better so google was born and the excitement of the young democratic internet it's

even more courageous delivering the world's information to anyone with internet access but the company its business practices its aim and scope and also its uses have changed over the past twenty years. google's business model is simple users searching the internet tell google about themselves allowing google to sell targeted advertising to businesses the firm i.p.o. did eighty five dollars a share in two thousand and four and quickly rose in value. new products like google mail and acquisitions like you tube expanded google from a search engine into an online network where users could shop or find news. as the mobile internet and apps began to rise google moved to make up ground to pioneer apple releasing the android operating system and app store. today google employs more than eighty five thousand people worldwide and is worth more than seven hundred billion dollars it has fifteen data centers around the world and

that's part of the problem information is increasingly seen as something to protect tech firms are being held to new standards of social responsibility. and inside google there are pushes for gender diversity and against collaboration with governments like the u.s. or china. so a lot of transformation in only twenty years. i want to talk about google a bit with the journalists covering the tech industry it's motherboard that's a part of vice media welcome to is a. google just in the right place at the right time what has made it so successful . yes ma'am the the first is the algorithmic ranking off web sites previously search engines were around in one thousand nine hundred eighty five there was fraud in portals which to leverage basically lucky results of that and the idea that google brought into it was ranking websites why considering how

often they have been linked to it's an idea that comes from science how many referrals to your paper get means your paper is probably and. a little more relevant and that was what made it so successful the second idea was the turning that edward that business aspect of it around so the search was connected with edwards and that still provides most of google's profits up until today to talk about google's profits very successful company. the company's motto is do no evil google living up to that well google is a monopoly in many sense so you can organize your and tired a around with google products. and that comes with complications. also the sprawling. outlook that the company alpha but the holding company has

turned into problems recently for example example for example project maven was something that was recently talked about very much visit which is a computer vision program in connection with the pentagon which would essentially help draw drones analyze footage better and separates moving from still images a lot of employers though have turned against google and three thousand employees have signed a letter saying please pull out of this this is not what the company should stand for and it actually were to do with employees of this village famous for having you know everything's free cafeterias in the house massages and they really do with the employees still have that much pollard's well it depends like this is this was only three thousand employees which makes up three percent of all google earth and their initiative made google turn around even though the current c.e.o.

is very much invested in the defense business because he's also on the defense board so i think that might be some power very big and unique let's hope it stays that way for another twenty years thank you very much sure is a locker thank you. venezuela has more oil reserves than any other country in the world maybe that's why until now gasoline in costs cost next to nothing for venezuelan drivers and businesses just one us dollar can buy hundreds of thousands of liters of no longer president nicolas maduro has now put a stop to the heavy fuel subsidies as venezuela lurches ever closer to economic collapse moore a socialist government is looking anywhere it can for sources of revenue. venezuela's gasoline is the cheapest in the world but that also lures people across the border to fill their tanks so last month president nicolas maduro said he'd raise prices and give some venezuelans

a fuel discount card instead he blamed foreigners for the move. it didn't also damage you know this new system aims to cut the hands off colombians good jews who steal our gasoline and steal billions of dollars of gasoline along to venezuela and i mean israel. duro claims venezuela loses eighteen billion dollars a year to gasoline smuggling but analysts say the real problem is political favoritism and corruption venezuela's once proud all industry is only a shadow of its former self output has dropped to its lowest level in more than fifty years thanks to decades of under-investment by the state owned oil company the country with the world's largest oil reserves is now barely able to pump it out of the ground venezuela is in the grip of hyper inflation the i.m.f. expects the inflation rate to exceed one million percent this year g.d.p.

could fall by one fifth higher gasoline prices for foreigners are unlikely to change that either. as another big controversy in american sports lead you can say that again it has led up to everybody's said time lines on their social media sports giant nike has thrown is weight behind polarizing american football player call and capper nick all by using his image to headline their new ad campaign kaplan it is the quarterback who caused a division protesting police violence against an armed people of color by making a point of kneeling during the american national anthem while that protest started more than two years ago president trump took sides criticizing the player protest movement that capper he started not he's new campaign pulls no punches believe in something even if it means secor fussing everything that's exactly what colin kaepernick has done over the past two years after starting his protests in

august twenty sixth saying company has not been offered a new contract by any n.f.l. club. his decision to protest racial injustice specifically police brutality against african-americans caused a vision as fellow n.f.l. players joined the movement. u.s. president donald trump was among the most vociferous critics. when you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now out of the sky. fired. in may n.f.l. owners ratified opposed seawitch directed protesting players to remain in the locker room during the anthem bald faced punishment we want people to be respectful to nationally if we want people to stand that's all personnel and make sure that

they treat this moment in a respectful fashion. that policy is yet to be implemented and the new nike campaign has now intensified the divisive issue nike and cap the make face of backlash on social media hashtags boycott nike and just burn it showed fans discarding nike products with just days before the start of the new season not he has added fire to an already fiery debate. and now to the world of surfing big waves sandy beaches blue skies and the sun it's easy to picture right well now imagine if you were unable to see any of it if you were blind well this is a story of a blind surfer and surfing coach who more than makes do with his other senses on his favorite waves off spain's bass coast. as i tore frank a sun warms up on the shoreline his four senses are tangling being blind is no

obstacle to doing what he loves most surfing. the taste touch smell and sounds of the ocean guide he will want the waves of the well known surf brick. and if that's not enough frank assent to still runs his own coaching school. stuck at oak is the fuel that everybody says it's not possible to teach when you're blind but there are many forms of coaching i'm trying and i'm working with people who have great results it's clear we're doing something right now those into this is start local stuff i wish that. frank asuna was born with congenital glaucoma and lost sight in his left eye when he was fourteen despite initial concerns from his parents he took up surfing and flourished he's now a well known and respected surf guru in surats. i grew up in the

countryside and at first i wasn't allowed to serve but now it's my life. in two thousand and eleven frank asuna became one hundred percent blind after a surfing accident it didn't stop him getting back on the ocean two years ago he won gold in the visually impaired world championships a friend made a photo album to remember his exploits. that beautiful pictures i can't see them but everyone says they're beautiful. whether instructing from the shore or chasing the swells himself i too are frank a son to his show nothing will stop him enjoying his life passion. and that does it for us i lock and roll and the news continues at the top of the hour seat.

the boy. missing the main victory over a neighbor was a. tough day for frank in the final seconds of claiming the stunt some drama. i. think.

is really venting itself egypt is pouring some forty billion euros into the construction of a new capital in the middle of the desert this is because of old car rolled his bursting at the seams for government offices in some parts of the population the move is already planned but many from the slums are set to fall by the wayside. three thousand and sixty minutes. nineteen sixty s l cross and. people vote against their homes just. demanded nothing. than a whole society. wide maelstrom of violence what

remains of those events today. the seeds of civil rights the peace movement the women's movement were planned this pier. ninety six to the global level. this week on. why is life sometimes so painful. why do we lose our minds when we're excess.