do you remember that. this is the w.'s line from berlin a summit that could decide the fate of three million syrians iran hosts russia and turkey's leaders for a summit on it live the summit come doesn't fall out all sense of the game seriously last rebel stronghold presents what could be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in the conflict. also coming up in brazil right wing the front runner just here both are not only can stand have been seriously injured at a campaign rally could the incident turn the election in this divided nation on its head. and germany's domestic intelligence chief contradicts chancellor angela

merkel by disputing video footage reported to show meal nazi mobs chasing down foreigners in kemet the footage emerged amid anti immigrant tensions over a fatal stabbing in the eastern german city allegedly fired sonic seekers. i'm sumi so much got the good to have you with us the leaders of iran russia and turkey are meeting out this hour to discuss the future of syria's last pocket a rebel resistance it live province iranian president hassan rouhani is hosting russia's president vladimir putin and turkey's head of state. in tehran aid agencies say it could turn out to be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's a seven year war. let's

go right to our correspondent on szell bora she's following the story for us from beirut hi i'm chill is there any chance at all that diplomacy here can prevent all out military action in italy. well that's the hope the hope is that russia would listen to the voice of reason because russia wants the e.u. and the rest of the world the western world essentially to pay for the reconstruction in syria and say look we're not going to have an all out war we have a limited strike but even if it's going to be a limited strike there would still be many civilian casualties because if the problems has to be million people living there will be a lot of them there who can say is that gender based in that area and that is that you have this group active in. that province that they are preparing for probably cations but so is the russian government and the syrian government because they have moved their forces on the fringes of

a given russia has. huge largest naval contingent to the mediterranean so all in all we don't really have a final word so to say whether they will be a diplomatic solution whether it will be a limited strike on not. that scene's on likely until you mentioned a lot of your putin pointing to terrorists in it live and russia and syria have said all along they want to push jihadist militants out but is there any way to do that without huge civilian casualties. well know there isn't in other rebel how long russians and syrian government says there's a presence off of the affiliates of al qaeda then known as hell but the listener are now known as the you know tom and they do control sixty percent of its name. russians and syrians and in government in a sense about areas which did not have a huge presence of this group in our own haven't had on planes but if they did actually present so they say look we actually have a reason to this the members of this group normally control the logical ssion off

of this province but they're also mainly concentrated in areas which also have a huge population of civilians even if it's a limited strike we're bound to see many civilian casualties and that is why there is this fear that whatever you do they will be. there could be huge human cost until we've heard the u.n. repeatedly warning of a major humanitarian disaster is there any plan for some sort of escape route for those civilians in it. but there's really no plan i mean if these countries do talk and come to some sort of a solution to have gotten goals through which people could escape back into syria that's one possibility the other possibility is that they could go up to areas east of the euclides up to areas which would have voted by kurdish areas are known as kurdish areas which is bad too long would also like some of these anti syrian government backed turkey. but how many can really go that if we have this

confrontation in duckies not getting any more refugees in fact saying that of the three million syrians who are living just should also watch europe doesn't want it anymore so we could see a possible massive refugee crisis as well. reporting from beirut thank you. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world iraq's parliament will convene an emergency session on saturday to discuss unrest 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 of 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 rescuers are continuing to search for survivors after a landslide more than twenty people are still missing. and 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. and twitter is permanently banned the right wing conspiracy theorist alex jones from the site for abusive behavior it comes after it posted a video of himself parading a c.n.n. journalist the social media giant had previously suspended him for a week facebook and youtube have taken similar actions against jones. the front runner in brazil's presidential election has been stabbed at a campaign rally and taken to the hospital where he said to be in serious condition right wing candidate john harbaugh took the lead after former president louis ignacio lula da silva was jailed on corruption charges and disqualified from running 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're both 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 is 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's been almost two weeks since protests broke out in the eastern german city of chemists over a fatal knife attack allegedly committed by asylum seekers but now the country's domestic intelligence chief is raised doubts about reports the far right mobs were chasing down and accosting foreigners in chemist's in an interview with germany's

build newspaper mohsen said i share the skepticism about media reports on right wing extremists hunting down people and chemists the best intelligence agency has no reliable information about such taking place a video circulated after the clashes and cabinets appear to show demonstrators running after people judged to be non german fatal knife attack allegedly committed by asylum seekers through thousands of protestors onto the streets including far right groups and neo nazis. now mawson's remarks appear to directly contradict the german chancellor angela merkel who has spoken out about targeted harassment and a hate on the streets of chemist's 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 the 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 that spy independent journalists reporting from this place by testimonies from others by criminal reports of people getting prosecuted for our raising their right. in their head. 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 stigler 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 that 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 to raising doubts in the public without giving proof that's not the role of the chief of the 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 of the right wing party f. the. they have d. rather than controlling them and this is something which is very awkward and i don't think that this fits to their or someone has and and another point is the only praise for that and also for the minister of interior mr z. over 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 state not just want to 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 we see or seen in 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. to 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 you should step down. yes now the government i mean should do so. i just want to ask you mr second 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 enough. no 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 in and action 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 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 we have seen in cabinets 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 and 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 we want to use doing is just the

opposite all right rush taking our deputy leader of the s.p.d. thank you very much for joining us on our program. thank you if you're watching the news care had al first we'll have a roundup of the business headlines coming up in just a few minutes. we're going to unofficial estimates more than one point two million venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. already eckel the world wide return to venezuela. to visit friends i don't think i'd ever go back there to live.