this is the governor's live from berlin a meeting that could decide the fate of three million syrians iran hosts russia and turkey's leaders for a summit on the meeting comes as an all out offensive against syria's last rebel stronghold threatens what could be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in the conflict also coming up in brazil's rightwing presidential frontrunner john here bowl sunday otto is staffed and seriously injured at a campaign rally could the incident turn the election in this divided nation on its head. almost two weeks after anti immigrant tensions spilled over into violence in

cabinets germany's domestic intelligence chief contradicts chancellor merkel he says there is no evidence to suggest internet footage of a hunt on foreigners is authentic. and the heavy price of patriotism as north koreans warm up for a display of synchronized pageantry a warning that goose stepping can be bad for your health. i'm sumi so much going to get to have you with us the leaders of the wrong russia and turkey are meeting at this hour to discuss the future of syria's last pocket a rebel resistance it live profits are ready and president hassan rouhani is hosting russia's president vladimir putin and turkey's head of state russia typer to walk in tehran the talks are focusing on the looming military assault on him. in

northwestern syria damascus is determined to take it live province by force eight or ten seas agencies are urging world powers to avoid what they're saying could be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's seven year war. the northwestern province of idlib is syria's last rebel stronghold tens of thousands of people were bussed here when other anti-government areas fell around half of the estimated three million residents both civilians and rebel fighters have come in from other parts of the country. the first big influx came in december twenty sixth seen after government forces took control of aleppo then in twenty seventeen the last rebel fighters left the city of homs and in march this year after fighting ended in eastern guta convoys also headed to it live. now the syrian government wants to retake the city this army video shows tanks

apparently preparing for a ground offensive. around ten thousand rebel combatants are thought to remain in it lived most of them radical islamists and members of terrorist groups they've been digging trenches and blowing up bridges to counter any assault by the syrian army and its allies. this could be their last stand they have nowhere to run he now the place is there was a solution for the fighters to move them to it live from a deliberate it is more difficult to know where the fighters will be moved so the risk of military confrontation is very high you risk of course many deaths of civilian people of innocent people which would be. terrible a humanitarian catastrophe to avoid this turkey russia and iran need to mediate a shared goal but with very different motives for. turkey more than anything wants

to prevent hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees from pouring across its border it also wants to stop the kurds from founding an independent state in syria russia and iran on the other hand are primarily concerned with expanding their influence in the region they want a unified syria under president bashar al assad. seven years of war in syria have left at least three hundred fifty thousand dead millions of refugees and a country in ruins if the offensive on if they does go ahead as many as eight hundred thousand people could be forced to move again which. is anyone's guess i. was. more on this story what now with the burra she joins us from beirut is there any chance at all that diplomacy can prevent all out military action in italy. well some experts are saying that it is

possible that russian government on the sit in government meet consider a limited strike and not an all out a strike on the problems of exhibits and as we speak there is a meeting going on a trilateral summit between turkey and russia they have on but there's no word yet no final word what the russian president vladimir putin has said is that the rebels in preparing for provocations and they have essentially what the rebels have been accused by the shell bombings base in the mediterranean so that does not really very clearly suggests whether the strike would be limited on not suggest that there would be an armed confrontation in it like turkey's president obama has said that it took you will not. have a human catastrophe which then raises the question is going to face russia will be see a confrontation between russia and turkey no clear answers yet again and has also said he's also use this black lung to talk about darkies core issue which is

essentially the kurdish secessionist forces east of the euphrates in what is now known as the euphrates she is the area and he's essentially accusing the u.s. of supporting the kurdish militants of this these are the first war says be here in a final word and whether they will be a diplomatic solution or not it does appear likely until the very complex situation of russia is an ally of bashar assad's regime and syria and russia both said they're clear goal is to push she hottest militants out of province is there a way to do that without huge civilian casualties. there actually isn't because if you look at where this group which is now known as high up there you know some in the affiliate of terrorist organizations. have links with them actually controls sixty percent are probably isn't it but they concentrated in areas where mostly all civilians these civilians are largely anti syrian government and have been busted on the seventy conciliation so even you syrian government and russia has

a limited strike and hits just the members of this group there will be heavy civilian casualties what turkey's been saying is give us more time we need to all be patient so we can weaken this. and have them split this is not happening this group is not getting in its defusing too much of a talking back factions and is essentially saying without a jihad and we will go for jihad and fight the syrian government with this prospect of having civilian casualties are there any plans for an escape route for people living in a province. well the only place they could go to is again east of the of the t's in the youth area and. in areas which are controlled by the kurds like offspring and mom and other areas but not in italy because what are they going to go it live is already full of people it is three million people he has seen its border is not adding any other and he will sit in refugees in fact he would like to have the

three million syrians within turkey to leave and settle down in this area or another part of syria and europe is in no mood to take anymore a few days either the bombing the euphrates shiels area bombing the area east of the you forty's there is really no place where these people whether something to fiji's can go and hence we have aid organizations saying that we are basically looking at a catastrophe. according on the story for us i'm sure thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world iraq's parliament will convene an emergency session on saturday to discuss on rest in basra demonstrators there set fire to a local government building despite a curfew imposed by authorities people have been protesting for days in the city over a collapsing infrastructure power cuts and corruption officials in japan say at least sixteen people have been confirmed dead after a powerful earthquake struck the northern island of hokkaido on thursday rescue

workers are continuing to search for survivors after landslides more than twenty people are still missing. and an intense wildfire in the u.s. state of california has forced the closure of an interstate highway drivers had to flee their vehicles as the blaze raged in the shasta trinity national forest scores of homes are under threat and many residents have been ordered to evacuate. the front runner in brazil's presidential election has been stabbed at a campaign rally and taken to the hospital in a serious condition right wing candidate joe hairball sonar took the lead after former president luis ignacio lula da silva was jailed on corruption charges and disqualified from bringing in an already divided nation the incident could now turn the election upside down. the moment that could alter the course of the country the front runner in brazil's presidential race stabbed in the gut he's rushed to the hospital with a life threatening wound the crowd grabs this man

a daily. believed to be the attacker he's now under arrest police say he's mentally unstable his motive for means unclear hours later inside this hospital doctors await the results of surgery to repair the damage. and outside rage over the attack . so you get no sight below your ball so narrow as a fighter he's on his feet he's alive he's on his feet and he will be elected in the first round whatever it takes that you bear here you are still awaiting. your arcade the way. this would make both an hour withdraw from the presidential campaign a very wrong. how this attack it shakes up next month's presidential race is now the big question sixty three year old boss a narrow has shocked many across brazil with his racist and homophobic comments but the far right candidate has performed strongly in recent polls and his closest

rival has been ordered to prison that's former leftist president louisiana. lemme still overturn a ban on him running in the election after being convicted on corruption charges so now relief among both sinatras supporters as word spreads their man is expected to recover from a brutal attack that could throw the nation's sympathy and support his way. it has been almost two weeks since protests broke out in the eastern german city of camden over a fatal knife attack allegedly committed by asylum seekers but now the country's domestic intelligence chief has raised doubts about reports that far right mobs were chasing down and accosting foreigners in chemist's now in an interview with germany's build newspaper mohsen said quote i share the skepticism about media reports on right wing extremists hunting down people in chemist's he added the domestic intelligence agency has no reliable information about such taking place

a video circulated after the clashes and cabinets they appear to show a demonstrators running after people judged to be non german a fatal life attack allegedly committed by asylum seekers to thousands of protestors onto the streets including far right groups and neo nazis. remarks appear to directly contradict the german chancellor angela merkel who has spoken about targeted harassment and hate on the streets of candace here's what she said just two days ago. we saw pictures that very clearly revealed hate and also the persecution of innocent people and we have to distance ourselves from that. for more on the story now we can speak to a stake know he is the deputy leader of the social democrats the s.p.d. that's the government's junior coalition partner and he joins us from kill mr

shaker thank you very much for being on our program now on twitter today you said that the statements from hans garrett musson are scandalous why's that. well because we have read the proof for what happened then came the ads by independent journalists reporting from this place by testimonies from others by criminal reports of people getting prosecuted for our raising their right. in the. road and also by people shouting we kill you all and other things and there are many people reporting about these things and there's no proof at all that there is a fake video which should be the only proof of what has happened and i think the chief of the intelligence is there to protect our constitution against right wing extremists and not to. talk down things that have been done by a right wing extremists but mr stickler he says this is an example of

misinformation and it wouldn't be the first case in germany of misinformation being spread online on social media networks to divide and polarize he's also not the only one who says the foreigners were not targeted we saw the state premier of saxony michaud saying there were no mobs no hunting are they in the best position to know what happens. since that didn't happen somewhere in the desert at night with no witnesses but drug. normal day in the middle of germany i think than enough people who can testify what has happened there and again there's no proof at all given by the chief of the intelligence but raising doubts in the public without giving proof that's not the role the chief of intelligence community has ok so mistake not why would he be doing this why would he directly also contradict the chancellor is there something else going on here. well mr mostyn has also been

known for talking to friendly talking to the leadership right wing party of the. a f d rather than controlling them and this is something which is very awkward and i don't think that this fits to their own someone has and and then the other point is the only praise for that and also for the minister of interior mr z. hova comes from the right wing populists and there you can see what's the effect is if if you go forward like this so mr stewart just wanna get this straight are you saying that the domestic intelligence chief is essentially too close to the right wing that's at least how it seems given the things recently are seen the last days and weeks and therefore he will have to prove what he says and otherwise and a lot of things we have seen. lead us to the point to say that he's not the right

person to lead the intelligence service to protect our constitution so you think he should step down. yes now the government if he should do so. i just want to ask you mr speaker because the government has been criticized for not being tough enough on right wing extremism your party is part of the government have you failed to do not. know in fact we have talked a lot about these things and that we have to fight right wing extremism rather than helping them out but as we could see in the last days the minister of the interior mr zero four was an. election campaign in bavaria with his see as you are against the. populist has done a lot to raise doubts in public he has talked that's the migration issue would be the mother of all problems in germany which offends twenty million people who have

roots in foreign countries and doesn't do anything to protect security but rather steer up the fire which is bad enough because all the things you have seen in candidates and that's where. the danger to our democracy the danger comes from the right side and nowhere else in michigan we're just we're just seeing that the interior minister what they hope for is actually said she has full confidence in the domestic intelligence chief have scared mohsen what do you make of that but i'm not surprised since it fits into the model i've just talked about this years your doesn't fight the right wing populist but helps them. with things like the ones we're seeing in the last days and this is the over should do his job with the treaty we have made for the grand coalition but what he's doing is just the opposite all right rush taking a deputy leader of the s.p.d. thank you very much for joining us on our program thank you.

now as north korea gears up to markets seventieth anniversary this weekend defectors are speaking out about the health risks involved in goosestepping participation in north korea's huge parades are seen by many in the military as a ticket to promotion but exiled north koreans say that the tough training regime aimed at perfecting the marching style left some military officers in physical agony. a military display to warm the heart of a dictator north korea's leader kim jong un is likely to see much more such synchronized just stepping as the hermit kingdom gears up to celebrate its seventieth anniversary but all this pomp and pageantry comes with a human cost. this is north korean defector seven he's lived in south korea for decades he recalls a female officer he rests her life in a parade. you wrote her appendix

burst after the march she was taken to a hospital and i do not know whether she survived if i continue. she trained through the pain knowing that if they found out about her condition they would pull her out of the parade she enjoyed the pain and fell after she marched in front of the north korean leader's. good. another defector now living in seoul. came during gosh it was the technique she perfected. but her body has paid the price she claims the grilling exercise left her injured and was a violation of her human rights. the one that the doctor did not even touch me and diagnosed me with say attica. i asked him about the cure and he said there was none he said if i were lucky it would heal itself but if not it would leave me paralyzed waist down i fainted after hearing that for three months i had to crawl

on the floor. here in pyongyang some of the thousands of north koreans who've been practicing for the upcoming celebration for months the price of privilege in this is to tell the tyrian states. how and us here now with business and a crisis looming in developing economies absolutely soon the whizzing emerging markets essentially having a meltdown when it comes to. currencies of course those emerging markets were once a beacon of hope that and now their currencies and losing of value dramatically the turkish lira the argentine peso south africa's rand indonesia's prepare to name but a few well currency trade is a having and tested but of course it's far worse for the people actually living in the affected countries. a supermarket in the turkish city of dia but here things used to be a lot busier here but rising prices hitting sales is that you have done this with

force to increase the prices of the new products we buy him we raise the prices in accordance with the profit margin of course our people no longer have as much purchasing power they used to be able to fill a shopping cart for two hundred lire but now it costs them three hundred to three hundred twenty five percent of the. price as a climbing because the turkish lira has lost so much value against the dollar in the first half of this year it plummeted by a stunning seventy two percent. south africa's economy is also stuttering that country's currency the rand has lost a full thirty percent against the dollar south africa is now considered as being in recession following two quarters of falling g.d.p. . india is also not fairing too well right now the rupee has lost ten percent against the dollar since march this year. but argentina's been the worst hit so far austerity measures have unleashed wave upon wave of anti-government demonstrations that unions take to the streets of pointers ariz on an almost daily basis

argentina's paizo has lost eighty six percent in value against the dollar over the last six months. well i meet it casualty off that crisis in a much more. tina and specifically its construction sector right now is set to cost forty thousand jobs in the coming months as high interest rates have financing and the government scales back projects to cut it. budget deficit well the government announced a raft of austerity measures this week as it seeks to slash the deficit restore confidence in the peso which we just saw has lost more than haul over its value so far this year but those measures well they won't come in quick enough for those working in construction. it's large public infrastructure projects like this railway line in berlin osiris that will take the biggest hit argentina's central bank is holding interest rates at a punishing sixty percent to try to curb high inflation and halt the pesos slide

that's making it difficult for local contractors to secure financing for projects or to buy imported materials and that means that after several years of growth in the sector jobs will have to go. after months of this sector was taking on people creating jobs through twenty seventeen and into the first months of this year then in the crisis in may things changed that's when the employment started to change it was negative and now every month jobs are being lost between may and june about five thousand six thousand people a month lost work. it's estimated that forty thousand construction jobs will get the axe to allow for government spending cuts as well in a cyrus tries to balance its primary budget that will have a knock on effect on other sectors president mauricio mockery is pushing the tough new measures as he seeks to convince the international monetary fund to speed up the payment of loans under

a fifty billion dollars financing deal reached in june but a sharp slowdown in construction would deal a heavy blow to an economy already tumbling into recession it will also be a hurdle to mockeries bid for reelection next year. a financial correspondent overseas boss at the frankfurt stock exchange we can speak to him and now in iraq a great deal of oil in a march emerging markets has that concerns for a different. well it's affecting the share prices here it's affecting share prices in europe it's a concern basically all over the world the trade dispute with the u.s. is still the major risk people see but the emerging current. merging market crisis that is emerging as on people's minds here unless warned though that you shouldn't throw everyone into the same pot differentiate the asians are much less at risk than for example turkey or argentina the agents have sound trading ties with the

u.s. with china and the e.u. and really what is the remedy here. i think there's not just one remedy but there are a number of things people can do mainly i think the central central banks the biggest ones like the fed in the e.c.b. they can set some symbolic move and perhaps actually do something but the international monetary fund is there it was founded just for crises like these to help out and the i.m.f. is in talks with argentina probably the best method is to get one country's crisis solved convincingly turkey would have an opportunity to next week when its central bank meets raise rates drastically for example. for us in frankfurt thanks a lot. and some city street food is all the rage right now but if you add it to florence and you're hoping to grab a slice of pizza with a view of the product so they care you might have to think again if this is joining raymond venice in restricting where or when tourists can eat false food on the

street. it's a beautiful day in florence masterpieces of renaissance architecture everywhere and everywhere tourists munching fast food anywhere they can find a seat the locals say they're a nuisance the tourists say they have no choice there's not a lot of place to have a lot of seats in play both sitting on the three to three only solution. but that may soon come to an end the city will now issue fines of up to five hundred euros to people eating on the streets of the city's historic center. many restauranteurs say it's high time that santee has long objected to tourists eating fast food in front of his restaurant. i like this new law and i think said everything that's done by retailers institutions citizens in order to improve the streets receives our support. but restaurant owners

are losing income is only one of the problems brought in by florence's plague of fast food tourists they also leave a mountain of rubbish in their wake roman venice have already taken action. for until we think these rules are not practical for tourists we can't eat at a restaurant every day we get a sandwich to save time. the new rules are posted prominently in florence's tourist areas but the city will soon see if its hard line will learn to restore a suspect. this is. all coming up at the top of the hour you can always get the latest news and information and around the clock on our website dot com thanks to a company. montrealers

international talk show for journalists to discuss the topic of the week a series of angry sometimes violent demonstrations by far right protesters has prompted soul searching here in germany come should politicians and civil society respond can germany defeat its demons that's the topic on country got china's. quadriga. art d w.

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remains of those lives today. seems to. civil rights to peace movement and women's movement hormone planet earth disappear. nine hundred sixty a little. this week to double. welcome to quadriga a recent string of violent rightwing protests in the eastern german city of kevin that's some involving intimidation of foreigners hitler salutes and mob violence has prompted consternation worldwide and soul searching here at home but this week it was other images that made headlines as sixty five thousand people assembled in templates for a concert get it dedicated to taking a stand.