this is the. no new offensive in live province in syria as russia and turkey agree on a buffer zone president putin will create a demilitarized zone in the syrian province separating rebels from the syrian government forces and hopefully preventing a massacre also coming up chinese authorities order millions to evacuated as the ferocious typhoon moves inland and in the philippines a rescue workers pulled bodies from the mud after

a massive landslide. and is president drugs choice of brett kavanaugh from the supreme court about the crash out senators are backing off a confirmation vote planned for thursday after a woman accused of an attempted rape that allegedly took place almost four decades ago. and we have a special report from a british town at the heart of a shocking child sex abuse scandal prosecutors have charged with sexually exploiting children over many years but one victim tells d.w. news that even more perpetrators remain at large which. is good to have you with us tonight russia and turkey have agreed to set up a demilitarized zone to separate rebel fighters in syria is. the province from

syrian government forces it is an attempt to prevent what the united nations warns could be a humanitarian catastrophe in the province if libya is the last stronghold of rebel fighters and the syrian government wants to clear them out but russia now says there will be no military operation there. it was a last gasp attempt to turkey's president top level action to avert the immediate risk of massive civilian casualties in atlanta and it seems to have worked. but we've decided to create it to militarized zone to separate armed opposition and governmental forces i've told her fifteenth of this year. the zone will be fifteen to twenty kilometers wide with full withdrawal of hardline militants from there including al nusra. with the. big reman came as something of a surprise since russia and turkey on opposite sides of the conflict russia once

more influence in the region and thought it could achieve by backing syrian president assad with that goal in mind russia was ready to support a large scale military offensive. turkey however was against the offensive from the start fearing an influx of tens of thousands more syrian refugees so turkey increased its military presence in the region this video was taken last friday turkey said it was setting up further observation posts. and now hope at long last for three million syrian civilians and that look russia's defense ministry insists now there will be no military offensive in that lip. well tonight in southeast asia is dealing with a deadly typhoon southern china reporting the first deaths from typhoon monk who after sweeping through hong kong on sunday the storm has lashed trying his southern coast with heavy downpours and powerful winds it's now moving inland four people

are reported dead in china so far at least sixty five people died over the weekend when the storm swept through the northern philippines rescuers there are still struggling to find survivors many of those feared dead or from a gold mining town in the north of the country they'd taken shelter in a bunk house which was then buried under a mudslide. off through a weekend searching for signs of life this is now the task facing rescue as bodies are being pulled from what was once a mountainside shelter from mine is completely consumed by one of fifteen months lies to hit this region. this area used to be for panning gold now it's a temporary morgue only. i feel really bad there's nothing you can do anymore it's too late. the local math says the

chances of finding anyone on this list alive are practically zero but the rescue operation continues after a weekend of delicately digging through the march questions are now being asked to become penny's that mine here their operations have made them rich but the mountainsides unstable and prone to tragedy. villages assumes they'd be safe in the shelter. that they were laughing even when they knew the typhoon was approaching said the structure they turned into some kind of shelter would be strong enough. but not strong enough to withstand the effects of typhoon man coats the most powerful to hit the philippines this year this was flood water. and that's what gave way to that jaitley months right here. almost two hundred thousand people had to flee their homes

when it is safe enough for them to return be confronted by a trail of destruction. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world russia's defense ministry has presented what it says is new evidence showing that the missile which shot down flight m.h. seven seem to belong to the ukrainian military the malaysian airlines flight was downed over rebel held eastern ukraine back in two thousand and fourteen killing nearly three hundred people international investigators concluded the missile came from a russian used german chancellor angela merkel is in algeria she met with the prime minister today said that the two countries they're looking at ways to speed up the repatriation of algerians living illegally in germany merkel also visited a local high school for girls where she joined in german language class or the head of germany's domestic intelligence agency could be set to lose his job a leading german newspaper says that the german chancellor has decided to fire

hans-georg mohsen now calls for muslims resignation have grown since he publicly questioned the authenticity of a video showing right wing mobs chasing foreigners only to relativize his statement later. to the u.s. now where president trump's latest nominee for the supreme court is facing sexual misconduct allegations that will not go away brett kavanaugh was set to be confirmed on thursday but now calls are mounting for the vote on his nomination to be delayed a woman is claiming that cavanaugh tried to rape her at a party thirty six years ago when they were both teenagers republicans are pushing to secure their nomination before the mid-term elections in november and this is a high stakes decision if cavanagh is confirmed many believe it will push the supreme court to the right for years to come. let's bring in our washington

correspondent now stefan good evening to you. how credible are these accusations which have been made against brett kavanaugh by christine for. all credible and let's not forget public enough so that the justice leader or a senator who leads the company chuck grassley has said he will have a phone call with mr cavanaugh as well as with the accuser ms fort and even the white house just moments ago seemed to indicate that the president is fine with a. delay if you want in the in the confirmation process to clear this all up so ms for herself came with this letter and this accusation with great detail and mr cavanaugh in all fairness and many many others who. worked and function as witnesses to his character said that this is of course not

true of the sexes so yeah credibility is there and it has so far stalled at least the process of his confirmation stalling the process and it leads we do the next question how dangerous is this accusation for kevin knows nomination to the u.s. supreme court. well it is if if. if this is a case that will be determined as true or just possibly true that this accusation is true in any way or form that is a major risk for the republican party they can ignore this now and say ok they talked to both parties cavanaugh and the accused accuser misfortune and go on with the world for sir thirst and that would be of course in the interest on first sight on second side though it is a huge risk if there is something coming out after mr cavanaugh is confirmed as

a supreme court judge for the rest of his life so this is not a little job this is a big job the republicans play a high risk of getting. well having paying the bill for this for this misjudgment and this decision in the midterms elections yeah i mean that's what the big fear is right is that we're going to see the republicans being punished not only if they lose this nomination but also in the vendor when voters go to the polls right. yeah absolutely and here it's very important to see also female voters female voters are flocking to the democrats or seem to be flocking slease that's what the polls and most polls suggest towards democrats so yeah the republicans are in a tight spot the senate majority leader republican mcduck mcconnell said just last week that he's very concerned about many many races regarding the senate in the

house it doesn't look much better in in the house of representatives for republicans so they're in a tight spot or corresponded to fund the most on the story boards tonight in washington john thank you. a talent in the north of england is at the heart of a huge sexual abuse scandal that divided residents and scarred communities a police estimate that fifteen hundred girls were abused in rather i'm over a period of about sixteen years of the min who did it are mostly of pakistani descent the scandal first came to light about five years ago but despite fresh charges just last week victims say many abusers remain at large. it was one of the worst moments of her life it was near here that the man who semi would have loved threatened to kill her it happened somewhere in the hills above a hometown of rather her when she was just fifteen. and he took me to the edge

and said he was going to tear me off it and i thought he was going to kill her and i was that scared i weighed myself and then he placed me to the back the car and had sex for me is not saying you know toilet happened and i remember just laying there crying and after a dead body. it took several years before sammi could break away from her tormentor today she helps other victims over one and a half thousand girls here rather and are believed to have been the victims of child sexual exploitation some proper traitors are still being brought to justice and it's only recently that more and more victims have been speaking openly about what happened to them. sammy woodhouse thinks the authorities looked the other way because the perpetrators were mostly of pakistani muslim origin nobody wanted to be accused of being racist it wasn't her tormentor but some yourself who was arrested by the police. because he took her with him on his burglaries and during

a raid they found his baton and her handbag people viewed as his little slags you know we were seeing to be child prostitutes is the calders which of course is in a wrong turn to you we was children being abused rather and council asserted in the statement that such a thing would never happen today but in the pakistani community the discussion continues critics from within the community are sometimes on the receiving end of hostilities that's what mohammed shafique experienced when he spoke out about the lack of respect for white women and girls. people didn't want to talk about these issues as i said they said i was you know cheerleading for the far right but i see now people because there's been so many historical cases that come to trial and people have been convicted people that recognize that this is a problem that we've got to confront. sammy woodhouse doesn't want to live in the

past but she wishes that the problem had he called out soon on. the fact that people have to die to incorporate deliberately because he didn't want to be called me that's just part of the fire in sammy's case the pappa treacherous now in prison but there are. still at large. well in just a few hours from l.-space transportation company space x. says it will reveal who will become the world's first pain passenger to fly around the moon our company founder is calling it an important step towards enabling access for all who dream of traveling to space the as yet and i didn't hide individual will travel in the giant space x. rocket known as the b f r but it's not clear when the mission will be ready for liftoff the last trip to the moon by the way was forty six years ago in one thousand seven hundred. you're watching. from berlin for all of us here in berlin

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