this is news coming to you live from berlin could it be the final battle against islamic state u.s. backed kurdish an arab forces are close to ousting the distance from their last stronghold in syria but a threatened turkish intervention is putting victory in. also coming up remembering the dead we're live in marks the second anniversary of the christmas market terror attack that left twelve people dead and dozens injured in. the indian wedding season is in full swing but huge amounts of food are wasted all over group is

making sure wedding banquet left to help feed the poor. get champions buy music get an opportunity to gain ground zero lead leader dorp on the lowly dusseldorf tend to put their first defeat of the season now but the capital rises they host partly lives in. hello i'm terry march and thanks for joining us american backed forces are close to gaining control of the last syrian territory held by as so-called islamic state syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. medo of kurdish and arab fighters have captured the town of just hygiene and are now in the process of clearing out islamist fighters agin lies in the valley of the euphrates river close to the border with iraq and it's the final urban stronghold of the jihad his militia which once controlled substantial territory in syria and

iraq. but as the kurdish inches closer to victory over turkey is threatening to launch an assault against the kurds further north. this report from the frontline in syria. people have escaped the clutches of the so-called islamic state best stranded in a camp two hundred kilometers from the front line. traumatized exhausted but free after days of rain and cold weather the conditions are atrocious but it's better than being under the guns of the i.a.s. fighters locked in regard battle on the banks of the euphrates. does as human shields so the warplanes can't attack from the sky. planted mines everywhere and they don't want to let anyone escape. or.

criminals dirty thieves they took everything from us our money as well and then they left. the battle for the last bit of territory held by ass is a tough one. the militia has lost nearly all the land it held was around five thousand fighters are putting up fierce resistance their leader abu bakr al baghdadi is thought to be among them. dozens of members of the s.t.'s have been killed in recent weeks and that's despite air support from the united states and other allies. they've put booby traps and mines everywhere we were advancing but slowly and we have to take care to avoid civilian casualties. because what's left by the fighting the streets of hygiene the former terrorist stronghold most of

the people who live here have fled. the main the kurdish s.d.f. has captured the center of the town and most of the outskirts from my ass. fighting is continuing in the surrounding villages to jihadists are still managing to stay john bush is a hit and run attacks. the u.s. fighters try every day to attack our units and recapture the villages but we are pushing back with all we have or. the american backed s.d.f. is now facing a potential enemy on another front. victory over the i.r.s. in the euphrates valley is within reach. but now turkey is threatening to march into kurdish controlled areas on its southern border and percy's the kurdish fighters as terrorists. these threats help yes precisely now when we're making gains in the fight for turkey threatens an

offensive in northern syria. and that's bad news for the people still in the i ask control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket of vyas territory. for some analysis now is bring in gaiters steinberg he's a middle east expert from the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin good to see you get a so we just heard about the retaking of the stronghold in that report can we safely say now dieter that islamic state has been defeated in syria militarily it has been defeated doesn't control controlled territory anymore no towns but it did still. on the ground the coalition forces count between counted between four and six thousand fighters in iraq and syria combined before the latest events so it is still an act and forty six thousand is quite quite

a big organization it's it's it's a military act of terrorist act of two to be reckoned with in the coming years and we've heard about islamic state in syria and iraq also in afghanistan to a degree what about the leadership of islamic state do we know where they are and what they're going to do next when the iraqis tell me that the leadership especially the kayleigh if he more. he that he is in syria he has has gone on the ground he's severely injured and i believe that he will either be caught or killed in the coming months but still the organization is out there not only in iraq in syria as you have just hinted at but also in afghanistan in libya. in yemen so the network is still out there. reports suggest that turkish forces in in syria could end up attacking the kurdish forces

who have played an instrumental role in defeating islamic state in syria why would turkey do that when turkey has an interest in defeating islamic state to well turkey has a priority in syria and that is fighting the p.k. k. and the turkish government assumes that there is no difference between the ruling p y d the big the united states and the p.k. k. and that is why they fight the kurds and not isis but that has been one of the one of the standards of middle east politics in recent years turkey doesn't fight isis fight the islamic state as it should it doesn't take the organization seriously it concentrates on the kurds and i think that's a major mistake threatening all security as well give thank you so much for your announcer's good or steinberg for the middle east middle east expert from the german institute for international insecurity affairs their release. now to some of

the other stories making headlines around the world today u.s. president donald trump has banned the bump stalk a fire arm attachment that enables a semiautomatic weapon to fire sustained rapid bursts the gunman who massacred fifty eight people in las vegas and twenty seventeen was using a pop stop. european union has agreed on a plan to ban single use plastics the ban is expected to come into effect in two years' time it intends to reduce the amount of public plastic waste on land in the world's oceans the measure must still be approved but you member states and the european. belgium's prime minister sharon michelle has resigned after a failed attempt to lead a minority government he decided to quit after he was unable to get enough support for united nations agreement on international migration. well it has

marked the second anniversary of the terror attack that left twelve people dead and dozens wounded in the german capital family and friends of victims joined berlin's mayor and other officials at a ceremony at the site of the a time exactly two years ago a radicalized tunisian refugee named. hijacked a truck killed its driver and then plowed it into a crowded christmas market armory escaped but was shot dead by police in italy a few days later. we met a survivor of the attackers life has not been the same since. i think. as i turned around i saw the truck just in the nick of time it was already in the square coming towards me it passed by me within half a meter of call and it was a horrific sight. straight after the attack there was a deathly silence you could have heard a pin drop out of it and it was a brief moment of total silence. two years ago under the asphalt

survived to have referred go deal islamic extremist on his arm replant a heavy truck into a christmas market in berlin plats killing twelve people shots was able to jump out of the way severely injuring himself in the process it was this middle east i witnessed a lift but i didn't see all twelve people die but i did see four or five die that was intense seeing people lying there injured on the ground and i was injured myself the next morning i woke up in my bed in my clothes in my jacket and my shoes everything was smeared with blood. now two years later police and heavy barriers protect the christmas market. and memorial pays tribute to the dead. but it's rarely comes here any more he still struggles daily with memories of the attack and his and trauma counselling shots are searching for answers to many

unresolved questions he doesn't miss a single meeting of the committee investigating the attack. if it's all he has i want clarification i'm still looking for answers and that's important to me and to the other relatives and victims who aren't here who don't have the energy to come so that we can at least answer their questions or if you give up now there's a danger that the subject gets forgotten and it definitely shouldn't be forgotten shots blames the authorities saying they could have prevented the attack by keeping close tabs on memory of putting him under arrest. he no longer works in his former job as a truck driver he received nine thousand euros in compensation and now lives off unemployment benefits. the attack has become part of his daily life. i'm not one of them had to come i'm still struggling with there's this it's always there at the back of my mind. i'd like to know why i had to experience something

like that to offer me that even with what went wrong by. chance move keep on doing what he's doing criticizing the authorities and raising awareness so that the twelve people who died on brideshead plots will not be forgotten. the cabinet to german chancellor angela merkel is set to approved approved draft legislation that should help skilled workers from outside the european union find jobs here in germany the country urgently needs people to fill more than a million job vacancies the proposed law would simplify the process for recognizing professional or vocational training degrees that have been earned abroad it would eliminate the requirement that employers check whether german nationals are also available to fill the vacancy and it would allow qualified non e.u. nationals who speak german to live in the country while they look for work so with

the package of new rules for attracting skilled labor on its way out. but what was wrong with the old rules well the old rules in effect said that it was only people with a university qualification who had a chance of actually finding a job in germany and getting a visa from outside the european union and all this possibility is to be extended to people with occasional training below the level of university education other with skilled technicians out as these kinds of people people involved in engineering jobs for instance all people involved in things such as age old age care and hospitals and so on so it's this level of people that is going to be needed in germany in recent knowledge radiant in coming years as well and we have to say that germany has had some experience obviously in the last couple of years because hundreds of thousands of people from outside that you have entered the country as migrants as refugees recently and several many of those have in fact

already found some sort of work in germany. talking to me a little earlier there in india the winter wedding season is in full swing celebrations of all hundreds of guests but there's often a huge amount of food left over and usually it's just thrown away that's where the robin hood army comes in a network of more than twenty thousand volunteers across india is trying to stamp out food and food waste and hunger are india correspondent sonia followed them on the outskirts of delhi. this is how spends most of her free time ever since she joined the robin hood two years ago. the group leftover food from restaurants and distributes it to those who need it like in this slum on the outskirts of davie. the volunteers at

a mix of students and professionals they call themselves. there you know obviously you're going to want to be on auditing is who you are so i didn't want people to come and join our in serving and order nor does the fact that there are a lot of things in this world what's nice to do and hunger is you. know it's prayer are you know it's the believe. they deserve it all. the groups busy spirit is doing india's hectic wedding season with. venues around daily booked out months in advance for extravagant parties and. the guest list can run into seven hundred people and they has to be enough food for them almost always vast quantities. and a simply thrown away often that ablations. tonight was

a marketing professional might be an offended robbins are invited to the wedding reception of another wanted to. if four hundred. five hundred of these anonymous crosses in india since i'm part of i know the would be mr we have decided that it's been distributed in the dark. for nitty and a fellow robbins it's going to be a long night but if this food left over the going to make sure it gets to the hundred. it's midnight and the party's over. the robin stick stock of the situation. it's bad. to estimate this food left over for about five hundred people around eight hundred people were invited to the wedding. that means all hands on board the are achieved special nineteen pitches in. the food needs to be distributed before it goes stale. it's

past one am the auditor is driving to night shelters in delhi where many people sleep hungry. to wake them up for the for the men at this night shelter don't seem to mind being pulled out of bed into the cold some are drug addicts and alcoholics others are ill or disabled mostly profit the streets in summer. it. is a lifeline for many who go to sleep hungry. there are many here who are too ill to work. this food is much more filling than the cheap street food that i can afford. for the robins this late night food tripe has been well worth the effort but they acknowledge more needs to be done. to

find people it is not i think the number oh. i wish it was not. me nothing because that is a problem with me just wish this problem was not. until then the robin hood army is staying true to its motto taking from the rich and redistributing it to the poor. you're watching news still to come high speed underground travel by car tech entrepreneur must build his hyperloop a vision of commuting. sports news and football bonus legal leaders borussia dortmund have suffered their first defeat of the season and a shock two one loss. result throws the title race open and give still sealed off another big boost in their battle to avoid relegation. it was pats on the back all round a tween these players with dusseldorf and don't mind on good form going into this

one marco roy's thought he got the visitors off to a bang after just fifteen minutes but christian poor sick was interfering with play from offside to leave the referee with no choice but to rule it out. sparked into last soon after kevin struggle with the defense splitting pass back here with the coolest of finishes one nil to the hosts three goals against boy and now one against dortmund. certainly isn't scared of the big boys. on the home side double day late in style early in the second half was john zuma unleashing a for russia strike to make it two nil with the clock ticking it was time for adult men to send on the big guns and it paid off in sanchez with the pull to lukas piss check. with the finish in the i.c.'s minutes teslin footwork from the english one

the kid before dortmund super sub struck his twelfth goal of the ses in. but it was too little too late is still so dull held on to record a famous victory back to back bonus late a win for the promoted side for china flying high. with her set up and losing that overnight defending champions but munich have a chance to get their title challenge back on track they face life's a hit later this evening a victory would bring them to within six points of dortmund at the top of the table . haven't lost their thirst to retain the bonus they get title this season yet they have had some hiccups against some unusual suspects one match day twelve promoted side door for managed a three three draw in munich which gave the defending champions a serious wake up call. in byron's following home match the defending champions

were wide awake eighteen through nuremberg no problem they say they're in for an ace robert levin don't ski despite their current momentum byron sneak okotoks knows rb live sick are a viable opponent had to shut off even for a lot of sick basically play the same way as us quickly when they're attacking which they have struck has capable of causing problems when they find space behind the defense and that he could become an r.p. life six front line scoring duo use of postmen and t.-mo vanna each scored a brace last time out the tandem will be gunning to help life seek leak frog buyer in the table. is this nuclear here in maine as we've seen already this season it is possible to earn points in munich. if we could take all three points not be very happy. if

byron failed to take advantage of dortmund slip by beating leipsic even more pressure will now tony koch over each. is a stone of law and a crisis of virtue in the euro zone yes and now it's official terry the european union has accepted italy's revised budget proposal meaning the country will avoid paying a fine for breaking the block's fiscal rules the details of the new spending plans are not yet known but they're likely to include measures to lower the country's budget deficit targets to just over two percent next year italy's governing coalition has pledged to lower the retirement age and decrease taxes now some of those promises are now likely to be scrutinized. for some odd reaction let's go straight to really bad so a man of the front foot stuck xchange ok now the deal is sealed doesn't mean the

eurozone is far far away from a possible crisis. no it doesn't mean that i think from the point of view of the people economists or people here in the markets who know the italian situation none of the fundamental problems will have been solved with the budget neither the economical economic nor financial or political ones but the market is breathing at least a small sign of relief if you look at the curve behind me that's representative of the german market the dax were all the major shares are represented went up a tick more than it had even before this news came so welcome reception there and italian bonds are also going up a little that is the yield is going down and that's also a good sign that yields still way above what the germans have to pay for debt so the investors are still very alert as to the risk involved in the italian financial

situation now both easily and the e.u. to some extent by tosh about the details of this revised budget do you know any anything more than we've heard so far. i don't know much more i've seen of major headlines the two point zero four percent is now the deficit figure for two thousand and nineteen yes that's confirmed and that's well below the three percent that the italians were looking at but it's way above what the e.u. commission was gunning for and this is a compromise number also i think that's also very important the e.u. commission says that italy has come down with its growth forecast for the next year to a more realistic one percent and that's an important number and the e.u. commission makes very clear in first statements that it wants these measures implemented it will watch the process in parliament and if they're not implemented and it's back to square one. thinking about

a fine and punishing italy for not conforming ok but that'll happen if it's all off to christmas i should think. that's what it was in frankfurt thank you so much. pharmaceutical giants pfizer and glaxo smith kline forging an alliance that will be worth billions the two pharma companies plan on joining their over the counter products to vision's last year they had a combined turnover of almost thirteen billion dollars pfizer will hold on to thirty two percent of the plant's joint venture luxo to sixty eight percent the next step then will be to flow to the new company on the stock exchange. another few things are more frustrating than being stuck in traffic especially when you are on the way to an important appointment and most of us just complain about it and get on with our lives well tech entrepreneur the long musk started digging

and the result of his endeavors has just been unveiled. electric cars whizzing autonomous lee underground this is ilan musk the lucian to what he once called soul destroying traffic in los angeles now with the unveiling of a three kilometer tunnel and whole flooring just outside l.a. his vision is a step closer to reality so you can have as many channels as you want and i'm pretty sure everyone in the united states is not going to move to l.a. but you could literally have tunnels to transport everyone in the united states in a way there is no limits. no limit to his ambition at any race this promotional video shows how musk invasions the future of transport. you to park your electric car in a pod and take the elevator down to the tunnel. from there you'd be transported at breakneck speed to your destination. the

idea of high speed underground travel has already attracted the attention of urban planners need united states. earlier this year musk signed a deal with the city of chicago to build an underground transit system linking the city center with the airport but progress has been sluggish and the project is still waiting to be granted final regulatory approval. but those kinds of stumbling blocks don't appear to be pushing musk off the entrepreneur describes the transit system of his dreams as more like an underground highway than a subway in car loving america it's a concept that might just catch on. you're watching d.w. news life from berlin and more coming up at the top of the hour here that.

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