this is being used live from berlin multiple fatalities in a shooting at a synagogue in the us media say a gunman has killed several people at a jewish house of worship in the city of pittsburgh police officers are among those who think shawn's a suspect is being held in custody and we'll go live to our correspondent also coming up. fresh efforts to find peace in syria turkish president trichet on post his russian french and german counterparts today's summit in istanbul aiming for political solution to the country's seven yes the cold war.

thank you for joining us but using the u.s. city of pittsburgh say there are multiple fatalities following a shooting at a synagogue local media say at least twelve people were shot and at least four were killed police with rifles quickly surrounded the tree of life synagogue in the school hill neighborhood of to report of an active shooter now the area is about ten minutes from downtown pittsburgh and one alleged gunman is in police custody and a short while ago the police spoke to reporters a short time ago we were just crash active gunfire at the tree of life synagogue and squirrel hill right now we have multiple casualties we're working the situation it is imperative that the neighbors in the community surrounding the tree of life synagogue stay in their houses and shelter in place do not come out of your home right now it is not safe. correspondent michael can he get joins us on the line or

rather joins us from washington so michael we know that this event is unfolding as we speak but what is the latest. well as you said it's still a very early to tell but what happened according to the most recent information is that that a gunman walked into the tree of life synagogue this morning in pittsburgh and opened fire and according to media reports and official reports killed at least multiple people and injured. several others the figures are still not not told the confirmed sos so we can't really talk about that but the gunman is now in custody police say and the investigation is unfolding and the neighborhood was put on lockdown earlier after this this shooting emerged and now police are investigating the shooting in the according to the reports also several police officers have also been shot by the gunman who apparently surrendered after the shooting inside the

synagogue and michael at this point to do we know anything about the victims have produced released any information about them. no not yet i mean it's could be that probably as ever as a service going on in the synagogue that you know this service goer is would be possibly among the victims but it's too early to tell exactly who who were the victims and the conditions of those victims at this time and for the benefit of all of us could you please give me an impression of squirrel hill of this neighborhood what's it like and who is likely to be living there. well it's it's apparently a kind of a leafy neighborhood in pittsburgh and lot of jewish people live there and yes and so it appears that this gunman walked into the synagogue and just

opened fire this morning and we have to really see what what what unfolds as the inmate the investigation continues right michael can you get with the very latest in that unfolding situation thank you now turkey says it's pushing for concrete steps to resolve the syrian conflict doing a four nation summit it's hosting in istanbul president. is hosting the leaders of france russia and germany and they're discussing access to humanitarian aid the drafting of a constitution and reconstruction of the war torn country the four leaders are due to give a joint press conference shortly on friday seven people were killed when syrian regime forces shelled south east and it's the deadliest attack since the deal was reached to prevent a wide scale offensive on the province which is the last rebel stronghold in syria . seven years of war in syria at least three hundred fifty thousand

killed and a country in ruins now the rebel stronghold it labe faces a scene the next humanitarian crisis is imminent. it is the last part of syria not under the control of president bashar al assad many of his opponents have fled here but it is only a question of time until his troops and his allies retake the region in northern syria. turkey and europe fear that a majority of the three million people living here will try to flee initiating another refugee crisis preventing this will be the main goal of the political summit in istanbul. the syrian conflict is dominated by foreign powers mainly russia iran and turkey they have different interests at stake and support different sides in the conflict with weapons logistics and personnel russian president vladimir putin is president assad's closest ally russia has been taking an active part in the war since two thousand and fifteen putin wants to strengthen russia's

military presence in the region syria is its sole access point to the mediterranean sea president hassan rouhani of iran is the other major assad supporter from day one to iran has supported damascus with advisors weapons and troops syria in return provides iran with a crucial route to the hezbollah militia in lebanon. turkish president richard type one would like to topple assad has supported various radical rebel groups from the start and since january turkey has had troops of its own in syria one of the one's goals is to limit kurdish influence in the region. during advance recent visit to berkley and german chancellor angela merkel agreed to this weekend's summit russia iran and turkey have used the syrian conflict to reestablish their positions as regional powers in the middle east. but reconstruction will require western money perhaps giving leaders like merkel

additional clouds. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world turkey has called on saudi arabia to extradite suspects in the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi but the saudi government has said it would punish those involved itself and says it was a rogue operation he was killed after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second. many of the central american migrants traveling through south and mexico have rejected a proposal from that country's president to apply for refugee status and obtain benefits there the group of several thousand central americans vowed to continue heading north to the u.s. border. brazilians head to the polls on sunday in the country's most divisive presidential election in decades far right candidates show you both a narrow b. to the left just hopeful for nanda had daddy in in the first round and he's still the favorite to win also now as opponents say he poses

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and has been supporting radical candidates across latin america. also not as derogatory statements about black people and women aren't taken too seriously here . no never they didn't offend you know he didn't make sexist or racist comments i'm using the media misunderstand him and want to denigrate his image it would be a search through means he's a very kind of nice guy who wants to change things for people. whether black gay or a woman everyone at the. club rescore goal is a social sciences professor at the federal university of the state of rio de janeiro she's been studying the political behavior of minorities during this election. it seems strange that here in brazil the minorities in the poor sector of society that is

black gay and female minorities support a candidate who actually goes against their interests. they do this because they're deeply disappointed their disappointment fits both scenarios discourse this is she defends individual struggle and transforms the for mcmahon well so of ourselves drinks in front of the social security center he's unemployed he was a strong supporter of former president lula da silva and his workers party but now he's disappointed. with all the problems that have risen i don't know if i would fulfill. all of them seem to be wearing a mask. but it's a fact that brazil was doing well back in jail. for most of. my. many issues i think he would be the best candidate. but at the moment i wouldn't

vote for him. even if he is tempted to vote for zaire bosso not oh he says this time around he will probably submit a blank ballot. here in germany thousands are demonstrating in the country's rhineland region for an end to open cast coal mining the protest is the latest of the activist battle to protect forest from just from destruction the forest owner's energy company have been trying to clear the sites to make way for expansions to local my large numbers of police at the scene where protesters have been attempting to bring operations of the mine to a standstill. did report. from the forest where those protests are taking place a saloon is give us an impression of how big the protesters.

earlier today there were about some seven thousand protesters that showed up to fight against clearing the humbucker forest for this coal mine at the moment you can see behind me there's about there's a couple hundred that have blocked the railway in which that company uses to kind of bring out the coal mine and to and from out of the mine and at the moment it's quite calm and police have told some of the protesters that if they don't want to participate in the action in march they're allowed to leave and there won't be any further action however at the moment they're planning to stay here for the evening all right anubis can you just give us the backgrounds to these demonstrations. yes basically these there protesters have been on this just piece of property this humbucker forest which they claim is twelve thousand years old and some of them

have been there for a verse around six seven years and they're basically saying if germany is hoping to phase out coal in the near future why would our job you keep expanding coal mines now he is basically saying that these these coal mine by digging by mining in the humbucker for as they will be able to provide a percentage necessary energy to the region and to germany. all right i can hear the demonstrators chanting in the background perhaps you can tell us what they're saying and also tell me what they hope to achieve at the end of the day today. absolutely well at the moment they're just they're just cheering the comedy and just calling for a call to action same no we need to continue the action here. and essentially what they would like to see is is just likely

a statement from the company saying. they're not doing news for that basically that there would not be an expansion of the open coal mine now that's not looking likely a moment are dubious issued a statement saying rights we're in this for the long run and we're not worried about the situation you report to us thank you. and i remind all of the top story we're following for you he say a gunman has killed at least four people at a jewish house of worship in the city of pittsburgh police officers are among those who've been shocked a suspect has been taken into custody. this is deducting news live from the back of an update of the top of the allen thank you for joining us.

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