this is d.w. news live from berlin turkey's president heir to one warns that the entire world stands to pay the price of an assault on sirius is a live problem. he joins others fearful of a humanitarian catastrophe as syrian and russian forces prepare to take you live thirty thousand people have fled in this month alone and many more are taking to the road. also coming out stocking up for the storm more than a million people on the atlantic coast of the united states evacuated ahead of the

most powerful hurricane to menace the region in decades. plus the books president trump called a joke and a con. people here in this bookstore can't wait to get their hands on it but if you're trump's supporter it's quite a different story we find out what those trump supporters think obama would words tell all told. i'm married i haven't seen it's good to have you with us turkeys president. has warned that the entire world stands to pay the price of an assault on syria's is a live province joins the united nations and warning that a planned syrian russian offensive could lead to this century's worst humanitarian catastrophe tens of thousands of people have fled the province and those staying put are bracing for. for the worst presidents are making improvised gas masks and

shelters amid fears that the assad regime could deploy chemical weapons. when many of the civilians fleeing the intensifying offensive in series in the province have been heading north towards the border with turkey correspondent daniel hessler visited a refugee camp there where he met a boy who was orphaned when a barrel bomb hit his home in the city of hama. he's only fourteen but omar hussain alo already knows what suffering is three years ago he fled to this refugee camp in northern italy and disabled traumatized and off and here he found safety he now sells food and drinks from this tent and. i work here day and night and managed to earn about a euro a day it's just enough to survive but the homes are not almost family

home was hit by a barrel bomb in his hometown of hama the blast killed his parents and left him badly wounded. not go. a helicopter bombed our house people had warned us about the air raids we were taken to hospital two weeks later i woke up and had the feeling something was missing from specially or. then i fell out of bed and i couldn't get back up and that my leg had been amputated a little but i closed or a lot of the border omar remained in hospital for three months and gradually learned to walk with crutches his body is covered in scars and he's racked with pain he's blind in one eye. incredibly his youngest sister bushra survived the blast and injured they fled to live together.

she had been a model student but school stopped after the bombs fell. i hope i can go back to school one day but it will be difficult i can't leave my brother alone in the tent . eight hundred families live at the camp on the syrian turkish border among them are hundreds of children only basic necessities are available here there's no religious cation and hardly any medical supplies hope faded long ago it's been replaced by worry of what's to come. we've noticed the air raids have started up again there's a lot of fear in the camp especially among women and children everyone is scared no one knows where to go we already fled the bombs once and that was to hear. omar and bushra hussein arlo don't want to flee again the border to turkey seems

impossible and heading to a part of syria under government control is out of the question. i don't know where to go but of course i'd like to leave syria for better care. omar dreams of a better life he hopes he'll one day get a prosthetic leg and drugs to ease his pain but here such relief is unlikely. russia is conducting its biggest maneuvers since the end of the cold war hundreds of thousands of russian military personnel are taking part in drills in various parts of the country and on the pacific ocean to be joined by troops from china and mongolia and the exercises will continue for a week russia's defense ministry says they'll involve some thirty six thousand vehicles one thousand planes and eighty warships nato says russia is preparing for

what it calls a large scale conflict. well how should the world view the war games in russia a short time ago i spoke with russia expert hi todd funloving hopefully he's head of the moscow office of the liberal. foundation here's what he had to say it is the biggest exercise since the eighty one exercise in eastern europe but the big difference is that it's only in the asian pot and that would mean that there is also a possibility that it's not only appropriation to the european partners but it is more attention is. expected from the asian side so japan is very cautious you have that and for the u.s. of course it is a strategic threats in a way where if there is a massive exercise of this size happening and that was u.s. fried talk from lauren hope and from the fridge now on foundations speaking to us earlier well the white house says president donald trump has received

a letter from north korean leader kim jong un requesting a second summit they met for the first time in june the letter was described as very positive despite weeks of apparent deadlock between the two sides. and you can go look at. how my shoulder and historic handshake that raised hopes of a to taunt between north korea and the united states both sides apparently working towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula with demands on king joan to cut his nuclear arsenal but since that friendly summit in june the talks have stalled. u.s. president donald trump even canceling his secretary of state's visit to pyongyang now though relations appear to be back on track. the president has received a letter from kim jong il was a very warm very positive letter the primary purpose of the letter was to request

and look to schedule another meeting with the president which we are open to and are already in the process of course noting that. on sunday north korea marked its seventieth anniversary. although military to the core there were no intercontinental ballistic missiles on display at this year's founding day parade and that seen a significant. south korean president moving jay in the has urged both p.r. yang and washington to be bold. in order for us to move towards the next level of dismantling north korea's existing nuclear weapons the leaders of north korea and the united states once again most of big ideas and take bold decisions. but much of that rests on these two men and whether a second summit will result in the denuclearization much of the world is desperate

to see. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world at least forty five people were killed including several children after a bus carrying. pilgrims plunged into a valley in southern india witnesses say the driver lost control of the bus which was transporting passengers from a hindu temple the country has one of the highest number of traffic fatalities worldwide. japan has proposed lifting a decades long ban on commercial whaling on species it says are abundant and the bid was put forward at an international conference in brazil countries favoring the ban say well watching should be the only commercial use of the mammals after an estimated three million whales were killed in the twentieth century. her room is marking the return of an ancient gold mask from germany after a twenty year legal battle for a century funeral mass was unveiled in peru's presidential palace after it was

handed over to the peruvian embassy here in berlin it was seized from an art dealer in germany in one thousand nine hundred nine. no mass evacuations have been ordered along the atlantic coast of the united states ahead of the most powerful storm to menace the region in decades more than a million people in virginia and south carolina are expected to flee from coastal areas in the face of hurricane florence. this is quite literally the calm before the storm measure time is usual for the residents of this north carolina seaside town since two days' time this stretch of coastline could be hit by winds of more than two hundred kilometers per hour. we do have a plan. to perhaps evacuated we want to watch it through today and see what's happening. others here are not taking any chances.

protecting their possessions and clearing supermarket shelves supplies are already running low they're stocking up and filling up while they still can. coming any i want to make sure my car's full of gas but i also want to make sure i have enough for a generator. residents are being warned not to underestimate what is currently a category four storm as it heads towards the coast it's growing in strength due to hit land thursday morning in the u.s. . with the storm cloud circling more than a million people have been told they must evacuate. today let me be clear north carolina is taking hurricane florence seriously and you should to get ready. today i've asked the president for a disaster declaration on behalf of north carolina so we can get federal help as

soon as possible. president donald trump accepted that request and on twitter warns of one of the worst storms to hit the east coast in many years. it's not just the storm that will this picturesque calm on it's had heavy rains also for cost causing possible flash floods and mudslides. the tell all book about life behind the scenes on president trump the white house has hit the bookstores after a week long buildup of reviews leaks and interviews here was written by bob woodward one of the reporters who exposed the watergate scandal trump has dismissed the book as a joke and economy. waiter as a gathering of trump supporters what they thought of the book and its author. the trump international hotel is an island of refuge for this meeting of truck supporters in the otherwise extremely democratic lucy of washington d.c.

people here can bask in their mutual love of the president and ignore negative media like say a certain book by a certain legendary journalist as bob woodward's book hits the shelves it's already created waves among the president's detractors but for trump supporters this is simply a more negative media coverage and the other day of fake news for a president that they still very staunchly supports it's a left wing attack getting ready for the elections to try to energize that side of the of the populace there's been so many books out but that's not going to stop donald trump supporters we're very loyal to him because at the end of the day you know what we get if we don't get down a track we get that wing snowflake that says he's not your average politician he's trying to fix things he's coming in from the outside and the establishment is not like that on both sides of the aisle especially on the left so i don't even i don't even bother to america to bother reading that garbage even members of congress are

jumping on the bandwagon to discredit the two time pulitzer prize winner and his reporting. he's a lifelong liberal he is he may be a journalist but he has a bias he has an approach if you look at his his four decades of work you're going to find that he picks somebody he picks somebody to attack there was a republican and not a democrat and you know if you have four decades you should have some of both he doesn't to. allegations of a morality cronyism and lying contained in woodward's book i mean nothing here is from supporters of only good words for their president. and you're watching t w news still to come. ten years ago this week the collapse of lehman brothers triggered a global financial crisis. but have we learned anything from those dark times on wall street monica jones has more on vance coming up on the business program.

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