this is deja vu news live from berlin two of syria's power brokers look to settle back country's fate russian president vladimir putin says turkish counterpart for talks on the conflict said this guys who should hold sway in syria's contested north. also coming up rescuers prepared to resume their search for football player a million dollars solid he and at least one other person are missing after their plane disappeared over the english. plus the litter left behind in space we look at

why there's so much junk orbiting our planet and what on earth to do about. the thing. if you know. the holograms bringing history to life at a chicago museum and how new technology makes sure memories of the holocaust never afraid. i brought thomas welcome to the show today two of the major players in the syrian conflict are set to meet for talks that could have broad implications for that country russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart russia terror on our meeting today in topping their agenda is the future of syria's kurdish controlled areas now kurdish militias control much of northern syria that of course after. pushing out so-called islamic state has lost almost all of its territory

inside syria and that's led president traub to withdraw the two thousand or so american troops supporting the kurds president heir to one regards the kurdish militias as terrorists he sees their presence along turkey's southern border of the north of syria as a threat to national security and a phone call with president trump has proposed a turkish controlled safe zone along that border area now turkey is also seeking control of man beach that's a city the kurds captured from my ass back in twenty sixteen while with the u.s. poised to was draw from syria the kurds are trying to avoid a full on turkish military assault and in turn to russia or diplomatic help well the kurds have long dreamed of one day establishing an autonomous region in northern syria but strategically the position of kurdish forces has become

precarious in the wake of washington's planned withdrawal. this was the scene in northeast syria two days ago when a convoy of u.s. and kurdish led troops was bombed in an attack claimed by islamic state. and exactly one week ago in kurdish held man bitch near the turkish border. another apparent i.a.f. attack that killed four americans. despite the ongoing fighting washington remains committed to withdrawing its troops meaning syria's kurds are about to lose a powerful ally then there's the issue of a safe zone along the border with turkey a u.s. proposal. but who should create it and who should police it for russia which backs syria's government forces the answer is clear.

we are convinced of the best and only solution is the transfer of these territories to the control of the syrian government the syrian security forces and the ministers of functions. but turkey equally wants control of this buffer zone to protect against what it sees as the kurdish threat. good liberal good proposal for a safe comes with the goal of keeping terrorists and terror organizations away from our borders. ancora insists syrian kurdish fighters are linked to the kurdish rebel group the p.k. k. widely branded a terrorist organization it doesn't want syrian kurdish militia gaining power on its borders fearing that might encourage the kurdish insurgency inside turkey. this time last year turkey launched its military operation on the former kurdish

enclave of a freen in northern syria kurds marked the anniversary with protests they have reason to fear that turkey will strike again that's why kurdish fighters are now reaching out to syrian government troops for protection. so what's in store for northern our correspondent. in a. safe zone in northern syria what does he have in mind what would it look like. well first of all president add on his trying to secure his interests in syria before the u.s. pull out their troops trying to make sure he has a say as well in any post-war order last year he managed to establish turkey as one of the key players in the syria conflict alongside russia iran and the u.s. and this year he wants to console a date or even maybe extend his influence his main goal and you pointed that out in

in your report is to push back the coder's show y p g militia these kurdish fighters are allied with the u.s. they've held washington fight islamic state terrorists but for president add on these fighters to all terrorists so he wants them and i quote him here cleared off the map and this is why he wants to discuss plans for this safe zone today with president putin as zone that should extend about thirty kill. his deep into syrian territory along the turkish border controlled by turkey free of y p g fighters he's discussing these plans with washington and now he wants to see what putin has to say about this ok those are very ambitious goals what about. how is the proposed security zone. in russia's interest. well that's a difficult to say right now as we know president putin is the most important ally

of syria's president bashar al assad and he once as such to regain control over the entire country sooner or later so i don't thing that it's interesting to have a strong turkish military presence in north and syria or a strong kurdish army over there but on the other hand out on imputing have a much closer politically and economically in recent months so it's not out of the question they'll come up with some kind of agreement or deal ok now the background . is that turkish forces remain massed on syria's northern border what's the likelihood that. the kurds inside syria. well turkish officials keep emphasizing that they're ready to launch a new military offensive there in recent weeks the turkish military has reinforced troops and equipment some say this is also present and on trying to appeal to

nationalist voters ahead of the local elections coming up here in turkey in march but in the end i think it strongly depends on what the u.s. is doing next let's remember when president trump announced the withdrawal in december quite surprisingly he said it would be swift now a few weeks later you know we know that this pullout will probably take much longer so they won't just leave this space this territory to the turks and i think president out it has to take this into consideration and he'll not you know just act without having any kind of agreement with both washington and moscow. reporting from thanks very much for. some of the other stories making. tens of thousands of young people are gathering in panama city ahead of the pope's arrival for the catholic world this day during the event the pontiff is expected to highlight how faith relates to issues like poverty immigration and human rights.

french police have released the american singer chris brown while the investigation into rape allegations continues he was detained in paris monday and held for questioning over accusations that he and two other men assaulted a woman in a paris hotel brown has strongly denied the accusations. efforts to reach a spanish toddler who fell into a bore hole nine days ago have run into new technical problems the two year old fell down a well as his family walked through a private estate near mollica there's been no signs of life from absence. will search for the missing football player million no solace a plane will resume later today in the english channel authorities say there's little hope of finding anyone alive saul was on his way to join kart of city when that plane disappeared and his last message to friends of frightened solace of the plane looked like it was about to fall apart. a millionaire seller only signed as a cardiff player from norm's on saturday he said he couldn't wait to get started

now his new clothes are in shock i mean words cannot just describe how the look on his face room very. rare he met us and we walked him around the grounds and. he was absolutely ready to give you the. renewal. when you're here. we really feel so. sellers goals in the french league made him a favorite with non-fans joining in two thousand and fifteen he quickly established himself as one of the team's most reliable players. just gomery was like a friend because we used to see him at the training pitch a stadium from time to time a little to do so that i would really would congratulate him for his performances because he was one of the players who for the most. supported of. seller had returned to france to say farewell to his teammates. he posted this photo on

twitter with the message. the final goodbye the aircraft of sal and a pilot on board took off from now on time monday evening headed for cardiff it disappeared from radar close to the channel islands the search is ongoing but what's up messages from salah show the plane was in trouble and he feared for his life rescuers say they're not optimistic or doubt very much whether they were wearing survival gear in the water temperatures just above ten degrees at the moment so that doesn't give you very long before you start to to freeze up salary is the most expensive play a cardiff ever bought friend said it has been his dream to step out in the english premier league. it's still a vast expanse of space now and the looming haven made crisis space is increasingly littered with junk debris orbiting our planet is

a menace to space craft and can be a hazard when it tumbles back to earth researchers are looking for ways to clean up the mess. this space debris dangerous perth. earth is enveloped in a cloud of manmade debris more than seven hundred thousand pieces of it are orbiting the planet most are only a few centimeters in size but they're also fuel tanks rocket components and decommissioned satellites they travel at phenomenal speeds and just one piece could cause serious damage. that's why space junk is monitored using radar and laser systems they can detect object the smallest ten centimeters in size and pinpoint where the debris is in its orbit if need be satellites and even the i.r.s. air space station can be steered out of the way. still

there have been collisions which released even more space debris into orbit. when russian rockets take off from their baikonur launch pad debris often rains down over siberia and kazakhstan but not just their. large pieces of space junk have been found in regions far away from launch sites. this came from america's sky lab space station increased solar activity destabilized skylab orbit and sent it tumbling. around midnight on the night of july the eleventh one nine hundred seventy nine parts of it came down in western australia reportedly killing a cow. in january of one thousand nine hundred seventy seven in tulsa oklahoma lottie williams was struck in the shoulder but wasn't hurt she's the only human so

far to be hit by space junk. research as want to find ways to clean up the earth's orbital junkyard the technology is still in the development phase though until that's done the planets cloak of space waste will just keep on growing and with it the danger. so what do we do about that or a bottle junkyard with me now to talk about that is that of you science editor and a psycho good morning i mean how do you go about cleaning up space well there are a lot of ideas involving robotic arms folksong follow lasers but the most promising one maybe is the one with the involved and that we saw it in the report just now you can picture it like a fishing net basically we shoot a sub light up into orbit and decide one will deploy in that catching bigger parts of space debris tracking them down slowing them down to process and a one day every end to the earth's atmosphere that will basically burn up in the in

a controlled manner ok there's not only is threat to the international space station and our space explorers out there but also to to how we live our lives to the telecommunication satellites we depend on how much risk are we from space junk well experts say is down about seven hundred fifty thousand objects larger than one centimeter in size in space or putting the right now so one sentiment of doesn't sound like much it's like a coffee bean basically you know but it's just coffee been hit you with an average speed of four the thousand kilometers per hour i would want to test the same effect then a hand grenade basically so it would do real damage like our active satellites folks some could break down g.p.s. would break down it would have effects on wilt trades on financial markets where the full cost wouldn't be possible anymore and even people out there wouldn't be able to see live broadcast like this anymore that would be terrible now there are

seven hundred fifty five thousand pieces of space junk you set out there and it's getting ever more crowded india and china are now joining the u.s. and russia europe has announced its own increased space program are you concerned this problem could could spin out of control at some point well i'm already concerned that it is out of control because of the amount. space debris it's not only india and china they are also like private companies like space x. or planet one where they want to shoot up like thousands of satellites in order to bring internet to every corner of the world so one thing has to be clear that whoever wants to shoot stuff up there has to have a plan how to deal with space waste afterwards ok so one solution could be for all those private companies are there shooting satellites into space that they are responsible before they shoot those rockets and satellites up there that they have a plan for dealing with the debris when they're done definitely that sounds

fantastic and thanks very much thanks then us and a psycho from our science department. for the dwindling number of survivors of the holocaust sharing their experiences an important part of making sure the world never forgets the horrors and its lessons now a museum in chicago has found a new way of doing just that even long after those survivors are gone whose real here fritzy future meets her hologram. which one is the real me. i felt it was important i felt it was an important story it was difficult because they took me back into the past and it's something that i didn't wish to relive. is the president of the illinois holocaust museum in chicago the museum has long considered how to keep the holocaust memory alive. for a chill was thirteen when the nazis deported her and her mother to auschwitz they

were crammed into a cattle car like this one she says she has five hundred ninety nine women to thank for her survival. when they all gave me crumbs it was the size of a marble but it saved my life and maybe took away from theirs in turn i made a promise that if i survived. i would be the messengers preaching all wants to tell their stories to young people in the future even when she's no longer alive. maybe thirty i'd be happy to answer any questions you hear a girl asks how she felt about religion after the war. what's god doing today. but she lets people suffer. and so i was aware of this there were.

no. at some point i actually just sort of forgot that she was a hologram it felt so natural in it gets real it was really touching to i don't know like eve you felt like you were with her like like you saw how much like you know how much of her which was going to be. producing the holograms was challenging. pretty sad for five days in a green screen studio in los angeles countless cameras were pointed at her. she was asked thousands of questions she never knew what would come next. with the help of key words the holograms are programmed in such a way that they can give spontaneous answers for every question there are several responses. the part that's the most important is the interactivity so that our visitors feel that they are having an intimate conversation with

a survivor in real time and they can drive the content as we're all used to now. the message from survivors new generations must learn from the past. their stories live on is holograms there already twelve of them the chicago museum hopes to persuade other museums to use this new form of memorial. for the first. ok let's get our business crystal down there's an opportunity for the e.u. in davos that's right brian after brazil's newly elected ride when president also narrow tried to sell his new brazil on day one of the world economic forum the focus will now shift to europe on wednesday numerous european leaders are to make an appearance in davos including the german chancellor and there's certainly enough for the continent to chew on at the moment. he's added again part of

a promotion for a scottish company in davos but it's hard not to hear a melancholic tune after all by next year's world economic forum britain should officially be out of the e.u. it's still not clear how so the british prime minister cancelled her visit to you might see prince william cross your path he probably won't be commenting on briggs it though but others like this top german economist are speaking their minds. is the terrible thing is that the e.u. is trying to find a way to make britain an offer for leaving that doesn't make sense we want them to stay in the e.u. we want them to be part of it we have a historic opportunity to turn the situation around the e.u. should be making britain an offer to stay it breaks it were off the table europe could finally concentrate on the future again it would do well to act now so that it's not left behind in competition with china and the us. it it's time to talk

about a new european economic policy in the u.s. consumer sector there is the digital platform economy in china we see how industry is rapidly digitizing and one of the big issues here is what is the future digital infrastructure for european industry and davros is of course a forum where all that's being discussed. that. europe will try to set the tone in davos this year even though everything is being overshadowed by briggs it. all right then let's cross over to davos and our senior business editor ben ben the brakes a conundrum is on many people's minds at the forum despite the current political deadlock there seems to be some progress though tell us more. yeah i'd say baby steps liam fox the trade minister of the u.k. is going to be here for two days and within those two days he's basically going to strike up trade deals with every single country in the world so i don't know how

he's going to do it he's already done a straight and you zealand he's still got south korea hong kong canada colombia and israel on his list so he's making progress i guess you could say but he's also going to be hosting a roundtable of c.e.o.'s here and talking to investors and trying to convince the mole and show them that exports are going to run smoothly once breaks it does happen as the fox and the chance and challenges of new technologies are one of the key issues in davos every year what's on the agenda in twenty nineteen. yeah big question is if autonomous vehicles are going to be running smoothly i've got michelle lavery here with me she is head of autonomous and mobility for the world economic forum yes thank you create the opportunity to be here to speak with you and your viewers today so what sort of progress that we making how far are we getting with autonomous vehicles considering that the autonomous systems are still

having trouble working out what is a cop right perception is one of the bigger challenges that we need to fix right now with the time the mystical technologies but equally we also need to look at what impact is it going to have on society how are we going to harness the technology to make sure that they're safer cleaner and more accessible. artificial intelligence how is that changing autonomous vehicles and our cities of the future well they're based on our artificial intelligence so it's definitely a part of it having the conversation to make sure that we're choosing to develop and deliver on the quality of the life that we want is an important dialogue we need to have talking about quality of life is this for everyone because when i think about autonomous driving i think about you know people who can afford it perhaps rich people what about the poor well we look at autonomy is physical technology is being deployed as a fleet mobility is a service which should actually not only make it safer but more fordable really dropping the price point down from maybe

a dollar twenty five per mile driven as low as six cents per mile driven which would be amazing and make it a lot more accessible i guess the regulator is still a huge challenge for you right there's a lot of regulation that needs to change not just in the form factor does the car need a steering wheel anymore can we have eradicate that the headlights can change all the form factors can change but also the operational license how do you tane one when it's a robot it's not a person those all need to be addressed what are we going to see all this happen do you think well it's happening already we have way mo one is operational in phoenix arizona and then in my home city of san francisco crews automation which is owned by general motors will begin operations in the city as well you mentioned general motors what about all these cock companies there they're always stock rivals are they working together and how are they managing these because there are so many of them trying to do the same thing yeah the investments are very huge and as we just

saw with bolts wagon and ford have announced a partnership to collaborate on a ton of his vehicles i expect to see a lot more of that but the auto industry does have a history of working well together and things like power train and batteries so we can expect that also was a time in this vehicle technologies michelle avery from the world economic forum thank you very much for the inside thank you very much. reporting from davos there and of course we'll have more coverage of the world economic forum throughout the day including the appearance of the german chancellor angela merkel will address the form in a key note speech later today. now it has turned out chilly here in berlin and recent days but not quite as silly as in the north east of the united states a winter storm there has taken temperatures down to minus twenty five degrees celsius and transformed the niagara falls into an icy spectacle just a waterfalls partially frozen providing a stunning sight for visitors. and those look really cold and is

a reminder of the top story we're following for you have this our russian leader vladimir putin is hosting. time for talks in moscow the pair are expected to discuss the fate of kurdish fighters in the north of syria. and rescuers are set to resume their search for a soccer player and. he and at least one other person have been missing since the plane carrying them disappeared over the english channel use of a cell phone was on his way to join premier league side. you're watching news coming to you live from berlin we have a fresh bulletin coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime thanks for watching.

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