this is the w. news live from berlin tonight clowns of a perfect storm gathering over the last rebel stronghold in syria the united nations warning of a potential bloodbath as syrian government and russian forces prepared to take it live problem is also coming up in germany thousands of people need an organ transplant but fewer and fewer are willing to donate a possible but controversial change to the wall here may be the solution. and in sports and germany's a women's us soccer team have punch their ticket to the twenty nineteen world cup

in france and in spanish eight nil and win in the favor islands capped off what has been a difficult qualifying campaign. i've heard gough it's good to have you with us we start tonight with what may be the final showdown in the seven year war in syria the united nations is mourning of a perfect storm if syrian and russian forces move in to take the last rebel held province of a blip. could be the scene of not only another humanitarian disaster the u.n. fears that it could put major powers such as turkey israel iran russia and the u.s. on a collision course. i demonstration it live against the assad regime in defiance

of the looming government offensive whether these people turned out voluntarily or were forced to by rebel fighters is unknown. propaganda is dominating the calm before the storm on all sides the syrian army displaying its hardware and saying it's ready to move in where still observing the other side but when we see something there we fire on anything that moves. for the first time in weeks russian airplanes attacked rebel positions in italy on tuesday some thirty targets were hit say the rebels russia says its patience with the anti-government forces is limited. but the rebels are also rattling their sabers as many of them a former al-qaeda fighters at least ten thousand parties are in the enclave these propaganda images give the impression these men can hardly away for the coming bloodbath. but how we will defeat any attack and destroy our

enemies we are ready for paradise. at least three million civilians including many refugees are trapped inside this suffering is already a polling. it's a daily struggle for survival it's terrible i can't give my children anything to eat. and the turkish army has been moving additional hardware to the syrian border it's supposed to block another mass influx of syrian refugees if and when the offensive goes ahead. i'm joined by correspondent. who is covering this story from beirut good evening to you i'm sure you know we heard the united nations warning of a blood bath in talk to me a little bit about why this province why it's so important and what is at stake if it falls back into government control. well this is the last remaining rebel

stronghold and the once the syrian government acquires it if it does which is what it wants to do then bashar assad would have pretty much won the war which means what would happen to the political reconciliation which the assad government it says even now is unwilling to move forward on secondly this province has about three million citizens most of these people are against the syrian government and bossed from areas like aleppo and who and that are on the seventy conciliation deals they were told that it live is going to do this if they haven't but if the syrian government as it says wants to attack in it and does that then what would happen to these people say in a sense is it that betrayal where will these people go he does not want them into the already has three million syrian refugees europe is not going to accept him also what are these three million people going to go so what we're looking at is a possible catastrophe many casualties and refugee scenario what of these people then believe that they want to go to europe obviously if the us so it's

a an all in all a pretty dangerous situation for the people and. with this you you bring up a very good point because all throughout this war in syria when we've had humanitarian disasters in other places civilians the people have usually been able to flee where they go on the go on to the province what about russia and what about march i was on forces we know that bashar al assad would not be able to have this offensive without the support of russia but does russia have the same interests in this conflict the same interest as bashar al assad. well it does and the reason is that this province is dominantly under the control of high at the lido shum which is being renamed such only recently earlier it was known as jump at the last saddam was an ally of terrorist organization al qaeda experts believe in there isn't enough evidence to suggest that it still has ties with al qaeda this is a problem for russians because several of the russian fighter had also come in and

joined this outrage and they just don't think that it's viable for them to elect this outfit continue at a time that they want in several other parts of city as if they don't want. to continue high after you know sam has also sent unmanned aerial we close to russian bases inside the us so they do see eye to eye with the sit in government when it comes to a fact that it's the province whereas if you talk about turkey and russia then there are interests do. they have similar interests because neither wants russia does not rule of want its reputation to be worse than it already is so it wants to contain casualties in its lid and turkey does not want any more refugees we need to now see what happens on saturday when these two countries including iran will be talking about it in a standoff that they're going to be talking and the united nations continues to say it believes in some type of negotiated solution do you think that's possible

considering we are talking tonight about a perfect storm and a possible bloodbath in. well we've seen in the past that turkey and russia have cooperated when it was about offering a friend is turkey score issue because it's dominated by the p.k. which is a success in this kurdish militant group so russia in a way according to experts that had would often do turkey that's where they have to get and they also cooperate on is live export see if turkey can which it has actually been trying to do to get this higher group to either merge with the islamists all moderate rebel groups backed by turkey or disband then possibly the scale of this back to can be contained but i personally spoken to people from the steadiest organization from this extreme as yahoo's organization and there are no mood to give up to say that they have a job and they will be going ahead with it so in that is what will happen in a santa is a discussion over what are the possible exchanges over the core interest of russia

iran syria and of course to provide correspondent on or on the story for us tonight in beirut thank you. and we're just getting word now that the u.n. security council will meet on friday this coming friday to debate the looming crisis in the province in syria but here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world at least eight people have died as a typhoon gebbie board through central and western japan the strongest typhoon in twenty five years caused extensive damage and widespread travel disruption authorities have urged a million people to leave their homes and to move to temporary shelters a highway overpass has collapsed in the indian city of kolkata officials say at least one person was killed local media report about twenty others were injured police and firefighters are searching for people who may have been under the bridge

when it fell. over former arizona senator jon kyl has been chosen to replace the late john mccain in the u.s. senate the appointment comes at a critical juncture since kyle will participate in the confirmation vote on the controversial republican choice for supreme court judge brett kavanaugh. well here in germany thousands of people urgently need a replacement organ like a heart or a kidney but fewer and fewer people apparently are registering as organ donors currently organ donation is allowed only if permission has been given by the donor or if close relatives allow it but that could change if the country's health minister sean gets his way he's proposed that organ donation should be made all the magic unless people explicitly declare that they do not want their organs harvested eighteen european countries have these so-called opt out systems in place spain is one of them and last year it had the most organ donations in all of europe some two

thousand one hundred eighty three organ donor nations have germany with a much larger population didn't even manage eight hundred donors last year. so the hope is that my changing from off in to off out organ donations in germany moron. york philip had a good life with a family and a solid career that's until an infection destroyed his heart when he was in his late forty's and the hospital the tormenting wait for a new organ began in c. and it killing one of i'm going to die in a hospital bed and suddenly you hear someone rushing down the coastal pushing an emergency resuscitation car and then you has the presence relatives who raw if there's something because the person is dying and you go through all that with the family and the medical stuff it's the worst thing you'll schedule so that you could be next to this when anyone else and couldn't. philip had to wait seven months for

a new heart that's not uncommon because the number of organ donors in germany is falling with more than ten thousand patients on waiting lists donations have dropped to just eight hundred a year if you can you need and many clinics organ donations and so rarely that the concept of all the donation is quite foreign so when it does happen the staff often don't know the proper procedures and can be quite overwhelmed fallouts and it's not that people are unwilling to donate experts say but rather that they fail to give written consent before they die and so often leaves grieving relatives facing a momentous choice. even follow those for. the moment when a loved one dies these relatives are not in a strong position to make clear decisions of its side in the business for so easy if they know exactly what their family member wanted and this is large but otherwise it can be very difficult to decide on their own country. that's why germany's health ministry and spawn wants to change how organ donation works in

germany currently people voluntarily opt in to donate but under the new proposal they would have to opt out if they didn't want him. and if. lawmakers declare everyone an organ donor it is an infringement on people's individual liberty but i still think it's necessary. some call the proposal an ethical. i believe it disregards the fundamental concept of organ donation it's no longer a donation donations of voluntary and this initiative is forced which is against the very nature of organ donation. spenda but for organ recipient york philip the decision is clear especially if the horrible waiting time experience could be shortened substantially and people in this situation would be happy if the circumstances were improved in my view that wouldn't be hard to do this when philip has been living with someone else's heart for three years he is grateful for every

new day it gives him well let's talk more on this i'm joined tonight by andrew goldman he is a member of the german parliament's committee on healthy is a member of the f.d.p. party also known as the liberals he joins me tonight from munich mr orme is good to have you on the show you are a medical doctor by training you've worked at several hospitals here in germany what have you experienced when it comes to organ donations. well there's there are certain things that you do experience as a physician there's a frightening situation there a patient is brain dead and then you have to talk with relatives if they are willing to donate or not if you do not have one of those donation cards and i think the the importance is that we in the hospitals have to look at the patient more closely and be aware that there is a potential donor in front of us there was a report that came out earlier this summer this past summer claiming that the

problem was actually with hospitals not informing the foundation that handles organ donations do you agree is that the problem are we talking about red tape problems here. i don't i'm not sure if that's really a red tape situation but if you look at the data that was presented in the doj shots to be just a couple of months ago it actually depict a very interesting situation that the potential donors were actually increasing over five years of to thirteen point five percent at the same time the actual donors dropped by thirty two point three percent i think that's a significant number and these are the study actually stated structural deficit deficiencies in the hospitals that have to be coped with and the situation is basically this one person was responsible. sides in the hospital taking care of that situation contacting the d.s.o. the is the central registration and if they are having

a lot of things to do that sometimes talls apart and they don't have time to take care of those patients you know that i mean it's amazing that it could be in a time where work overload is you i understand that your i guess the suggestion that has been made by the german health minister to change the system why. well first of all i think your interview partners prior actually placed a very nicely i think. liberal society we feel our responsibility and opt in if you want to do a voluntary donation prior to our death and if you look at the data and talk to talk about evidence based politics you could see that the potential donors are increasing over time and that the population over three quarters of the population are positive who are donation of their organs ok so people are open to the idea they're willing to to be a donor but that's not happening and so you don't want to have this this opt out opt in dilemma what would you suggest then to improve the situation well this opt

out situation is a really anti liberal approach to my opinion i think we should take it step by step we have to actually improve the structural deficiencies in the hospitals that we have at least one dedicated person full time responsible to identify potential donors and get the actual donation start i think that's the first step and the other set that's not even in the discussion yet is the living organ donors they had we have a law situation you could do this to your relatives like donating your one of your kidneys or partial of your of your liver but i think that's that could be further done with with friends of course it has to be a stick approach meaning that you do not get money for donating one of your organs there's also a lot of variations of living organ donation there are possible i think these discussions should be started first before we and that would be one way to improve

the actual transportation rates their explanation rates over time. then we could still to start off the general discussion. all right andrew omen a member of the german parliament above the stars committee on health joining us tonight from munich mr omer thank you very much thank you for having me. are the german chancellor angela merkel she was in for today trying to boost the german financial capitals chances of becoming europe's financial hotspot in a post breaks it world we're talking bros breaks the brand and i got a medical seldomly makes personal appearances in frankfurt which is to finance what berlin is to politics but she made her way there today to support the city's bid to take over from london as the e.u.'s top financial center when britain leaves the european union next year the chancellor underscored the importance of frankfurt's financial sector to germany's export dependent economy frankfurt is vying with paris and dublin to attract banks leaving leaving london after so they can continue

to do business in the european union. earlier i asked our financial correspondent only bards how the chancellor made the case for frankfurt besides pointing out that many other banks and supervisory bodies were already located in the city. she made three interesting points as well she was ready to go without tax hikes and that didn't wasn't clear whether that referred just to the financial industry or to germany as a whole but she wanted to rule out tax hikes and she wanted to make labor law more flexible that is only in the financial sector to accommodate the anglo-saxon kind of culture where you have hire and fire and she wanted to introduce less stringent standards for firing people and of course then being able to hire interesting point and she made a strong case for supporting the doj it goes this plea to locate your own clearing right here in frankfurt that's big business and if it's euro denominated stuff

angela merkel says it's logical it should not be in a third state outside of the e.u. but right here in frankfurt now frankfurt is facing stiff competition by paris and dublin how likely is it then that i go americans lobby work will be successful in the end. well she says that she has some practice in working to the good of the companies but also in the days was minister president folk above here of the c.d.u. and he poured a little bit of water into the wine himself and he said that it would be illusionary to expect that countless thousands of people from london would come over and indeed the financial market professionals are also looking at other places like paris some at milan and madrid but many banks have said that they're going to move staff here and one hears from several dozen to a couple of hundred but the financial district in frankfurt is not that big to

begin with and a couple of thousand more people would already be a great step forward believe art's reporting from frankfurt only thank you so much it's the market valuation of online retailer amazon surpassed one trillion dollars on tuesday if only briefly now amazon stock rose during tuesday's trade. session sending it beyond the mark before falling back a little later the company is the second u.s. company to hit the threshold and measure of outstanding shares multiple by their value apple surpassed the one trillion dollars mark last month's for more let's cross over to our wall street's correspondence quarter yes amazon started as an online book retailer now it's a trillion dollar company obviously something worked here how do people on wall street view amazon's business model these days. well it's basically a data machine and we do see this with other companies as well that's the name of

facebook for example that this is the currency of our time selling data so that's a big chunk of amazon's business they're also strong when it comes for example to cloud computing online advertising becomes also a bigger part and it's pretty amazing what's happened also to the stock price of amazon in the past couple of months just a good year ago. for the first time surpassed the one thousand dollars mark person talk then last week we got to two thousand dollars a share and now we have this market valuation of one trillion dollars at least at some point during trading here on tuesday yes thank you for the moment of a come back to you in just a minute because we have this other item here a new advertising campaign by a sports equipment maker nike features american football player calling capper nick as its figurehead and their love lit up an already racially charged debate in the united states captain nick is the quarterback who protested police violence against

unarmed people of color by kneeling during the national anthem dozens of other players joined mike in caprona continue to face a backlash on social media hashtags boycott nike and just burn it show fans discarding nike products but many others support the company's campaign. now back to unions in new york calling company is a controversial figure do investors think it is wise of nike to build a marketing campaign around. well to some of the reactions here on wall street a lot of analysts saying this decision might cause short term pain but could lead to long term again so there is no such thing at tibet advertisement that people say it will be discussed them highly and the move actually could go well with a millennial well for the day there was this pain the stock of the nikkei lost

a good three percent in value and was the biggest loser in the dow jones industrial average but as mentioned a lot of analysts believe it could lead to long term gain. in the quarter importing from the new york stock exchange yes thank you so much. and inspector brett now the story of a woman that's trying to show kids in afghanistan all the wonders that can be hidden between two book covers exactly right christoph as she's doing it with sad statistic in the background one in three children in afghanistan cannot read or write the country has one of the highest rates of illiteracy in the world well now one afghan woman has set up a mobile library in the capital kabul to try to give some children a chance to discover the world of books. this is no ordinary bus it offers hope to children in capital every day it tears the afghan capital's residential neighborhoods for two to three hours children can discover worlds otherwise little known to them and get lost in

a good big. books with stories about princes and beggars best. dragons too. i read books in two languages here in past two and dari. french to careen started the more by library with the help of donations she studied at oaks for tonight wants to encourage critical thinking among children back home the boss is in a safe space in an otherwise dangerous city. explosions are a problem and that can happen at any time but then we are we are trying to park a car inside the communities where it is far better it is much more secure but i think overall the security problem in the country is less than that get exists for any project so we cannot stop our work just because it is probably life sunday on security issues that. nine year old shot eagerly waits for the bus to come by each

day i haven't heard of it yet i enjoy coming here because there's so many exciting things to eat i like stories about best i don't have any pics at home like. shut nuns father always picks his daughter up from the bus the family fled to kabila from can do is ignore the never gonna stand thinking they'd be safer in the capital but explosions rocked the city nearly every week recently a car bomb exploded near their home panicking shutdowns parents went out to look for her. but. after the blast we finally found shot at the mobile library we were relieved but except to go to the bus we don't let the children out of the house or that. afghanistan has one of the highest a letter. see rates in the world at more than sixty percent one in three children cannot read or write so fresh the cream also reads to the children a lot keeping hold of for me is highly important because if i'm all for these children it will feel that together with it and we can make something happen within

this country so i'm i'm hopeful fresh to karim has started collecting donations again in the hope of renting another bus and bringing more pics to more children. germany's women's soccer team are heading to the twenty one thousand world cup in france the two time world champions they had some difficulties in qualifying but an eight nil victory did the trick. the germans knew only a win would guarantee qualification an interim coach paul struve was quickly put the teams by layers show that messing up just great many of the fair ones defense offered little resistance and the pattern was set for the match even the unusual artificial turf in toll shot up to the germans leave them a goal making it so. soon after the only my after the surgery before the half time whistle. goal to move the side in kelso march but i will stop now beckons

carlene see mundell in a free kick. and it felt like a training game from there on my golden cmon covering their second goal germany was storing up. to the sound of pumps double completed the now routes. germany head to the finals on a high well through bash now heads off into retirement. you're watching t w news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that. close.

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