this is c w news live from berlin the u.s. pulls its troops from northern syria to pave the way for a turkish attack as turkey prepares to sweep away critics' fighters from its border with syria kurdish groups say washington is abandoning are also coming up environmental activists page drastic actions to draw attention to climate change in cities around the world members of the group extinction verbally are aiming to paralyze traffic and occupied buildings to get their message across. plus a trio of cell researchers and win the nobel prize for medicine that william taylor

and gregson men sat and peter radcliffe i'm one of the sciences most prestigious awards for their groundbreaking work. i'm so muskaan that it's good to have you with us turkey is set to launch its long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria the u.s. has reportedly started withdrawing troops from the area clearing the way for the incursion to go ahead and u.s. troops were stationed close to the border with turkey where they were supporting kurdish forces in the fight against so-called islamic state turkey sees these kurdish militias as terrorists on sunday kurdish groups in the region held a mass demonstration against the turkish offensive they feel abandoned by their u.s. backers now washington says it will not get involved in turkey's plans. and let's get the latest on the story that is really

a han that is in istanbul for us hi yulia why is this happening now. well this is basically u.s. president donald trump suddenly making way for turkey's military operation in the north and syria this definitely comes as a surprise and it follows developments late last night a phone call between trump and turkey's president. to which the white house published a statement saying that turkey will soon move forward with its long planned military operation in north east syria and that u.s. forces will not support or be involved in it and what we're seeing on the ground is that u.s. troops have started in the morning withdrawing from areas in the north and syria areas that are so far controlled by syrian kurdish militia and this is actually you know a major shift a stunning reversal of u.s. policy in syria because washington had so far significantly supported these syrian

kurdish militia and considered them the most effective group in the fight against the so-called islamic state while turkey actually considered as them terrorists and that was the the reason for major disagreement between washington and in the past months and now it seems ankara god what it wanted what will happen now uli or are we going to see turkish forces move into the area. there are actually many many on questions right now concerning the scale and the timeframe of this turkish military operation the turkish military has reinforced troops it has pulled together and pull over more military equipment so they say they are basically ready and they're just awaiting orders but it also remains to be seen what's coming next from washington because it's safe to assume that president

trump doesn't have full support on this from the administration from some very high ranking and important people within the pentagon it's safe to assume that this is basically president trump coming up with a decision that needs further talking in washington so it's going to be interesting what we'll hear next from washington and you'll hear just quickly here the kurds say they feel like they're being abandoned tell us more about their reaction. well they have condemned the u.s. is moved they're saying that and i quote them here it will have a great negative impact on the fight against the so-called islamic state they are not the only ones a very concerned the u.n. the u.n. few minutes hereon coordinator in syria has also warned parties of causing a major displacement all civilians in the area he said we don't know what's going to happen next but we are prepared for the worst so many concerns you many open

questions all right our correspondent reporting for us from istanbul thank you. well turkey's find offensive has put residents of northern syria on the edge people there preparing for the worst but many are determined to stay even if it means risking death. every time one mohamed goes up to his roof he feels uneasy the border to turkey is less than 100 meters away from their people watch him occasionally gunshots fired but the 19 year old kurd says it doesn't intimidate him. we won't leave our land even if they. would rather die. as a border town with a turbulent history 350000 people live here 60 percent of the population are kurds the rest are ribs it is considered the birthplace of the kurdish militia group. in

2011 they rose up against syrian president bashar al assad driving his troops out of the city a year later they defeated the jihadist al nusra front hundreds of kurdish fighters died the people here are proud of the independence they gained but we're happy and content more than ever before without the kurdish forces keeping order here. but their independence is under threat once more turkish president retch up type at all one has moved troops and weaponry to the border he sees the why p.g. as a terrorist organization that needs to be wiped out. at a party meeting on saturday he left no doubt about his intentions. the operation is imminent maybe today maybe tomorrow the road going to peace efforts.

the kurds had tried to appease a safe zone was established along the border spanning 100 kilometers an agreement was reached between turkey. the usa and the kurds in september but the y.p. jeep withdrew from that agreement now turkish and u.s. troops patrolling the safe zone. lies in the middle of it. mohammad muslim is assembling metal parts for his neighbors the kurds has seen assad's troops withdraw jihad his fighters defeated now the 35 year old fears an invasion by turkish troops. more than an enema put them in a safe zone should be safe but this one isn't it's a recipe for chaos. also worrying residents the ones plans to resettle 1000000 syrian refugees from turkey to reza line there is talk of relocating kurds elsewhere to accommodate them. not an amount of money mouton money we haven't left

our homeland since the war began we were shot at by rockets and by grenades but we stayed and we will stay even if we have to die on one. the people of russell and refused to bow down after all they have been through even if they would barely stand a chance against bad ones army. let's check in now on some other stories from around the world at least 12 anti-government demonstrators were killed on sunday in ongoing protests in baghdad taking the death toll above $100.00 since clashes began on tuesday iraq's prime minister matti has announced social measures designed to appease the protesters including new housing and job training schemes hong kong police have arrested and charged 2 protesters for defying the ban on wearing face masks during demonstrations the protestors are the 1st 2 people to be charged under the new law the ban has helped fuel days of violent protests in the semi autonomous

chinese territory. portugal socialists have claimed victory in sunday's parliamentary election but they fell short of an outright majority prime minister antonis said he would start talks with other parties to form a coalition he has benefited from solid economic growth following years of austerity. the climate activist group extension rebellion has kicked off worldwide protests warning of an environmental apocalypse protests started this morning in australia and new zealand police started making arrests there and protesters blocking streets and london were also being detained now here in berlin activists have stopped traffic trying to paralyze the city demonstrators want greenhouse gas emissions to be cut to net 0 by 2025. and let's go to our correspondent simon young he is here in berlin covering these protests for us hi simon give us an idea of what's been happening where you are.

yes sumi a largely peaceful and good natured demonstration here with several 100 extinction rebellion protesters gathered at the victory column that's a key traffic roundabout in the center of berlin not far from the brandenburg gate so as you say they have stopped traffic here i wouldn't say that paralyzed traffic across the city the police of have a blind by blocking the roads here so telling motorists to go elsewhere use other routes but the point of this demonstration clearly to attract media attention as well as to disrupt traffic intersection here would normally be full of cars and trucks and buses all day long there have been stead of that songs and games and slogans and speeches we just had a speech from a coverall or recchi to an extinction rebellion activist and you might also

remember her earlier this year she was captaining the ship rescuing migrants trying to get from libya to italy but she's been giving an impassioned speech describing the effects of climate change and as you say a climate catastrophe and calling for action simon what exactly are these activists hoping to achieve with this type of civil disobedience. yes well disruption of course attracts the attention both positive and negative i think a lot of people here in berlin and across germany are broadly sympathetic to the idea that more needs to be done that perhaps the government has not been ambitious enough so far in its climate protection targets so there is some support in the mainstream as well for these protests but clearly when people are able to use their cause and move around as freely as they would otherwise that

raises questions the police have taken a very relaxed approach here just watching and waiting and it remains to be seen some of these protesters say they just want to stay here for days it remains to be seen whether the police will allow that to happen i suspect not funny you mention one of the aims is to drive governments to act let's take a look at germany's climate plans of the package that is to be adopted this week has been heavily criticized. it was touted as a major step when angela merkel's coalition presented its new climate protection. but now the german government has reportedly will sit down the climate bill shortly before it's set to be adopted. according to a report by german newspaper desh beagle the government has cut the goal to limit national c o 2 emissions by 24 feet and the final draft drops the pledge that germany would reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 instead it only says this goal should be

pursued and forstmann measures have also been weakened and an annual progress report by germany's newly formed climate council might be scrapped in september merkel's coalition agreed on or to reach germany's climate goals by 2030 climate activists and political opponents have criticized the original draft as insufficient. so sign it how disappointed are people there about the german government plans. well one protester here told me that people here was shocked they haven't been terribly impressed by the original plan the government's plans to roll out climate protection and do more over the coming decades but now these reports that have emerged today in the media saying that the targets are going to be less ambitious and possibly the monitoring is going to be less stringent well i think people here are very disappointed it's

clear that these people are demanding much more action much more quickly all right our correspondent simon young reporting on the story for us thank you simon to the u.s. now where democratic lawmakers have fresh ammunition for their impeachment inquiry against president donald trump a 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the case claiming to have 1st hand knowledge of a phone call between trump and the ukrainian president vladimir selinski u.s. democrats have launched a probe into whether trump pressured zelinsky to investigate trump's leading political rival joe biden and his son. president trump impeachment inquiry is proving extremely divisive in many states opinion on the topic and split predictably along party lines with democrats in favor and republicans against but it seems there's one point both parties can agree on that this is a road in u.s. political discourse even further. the market hole in allentown pennsylvania

has plenty of fresh produce the chance to get a haircut and to have a chat with your neighbors everyone pretty much agrees here what's going on in washington is dividing the country like never before we're going to have one hell of a time here if they don't straighten out up there d.c. that's true one hell of a time we're going to have so if this is what they want. get ready people have had enough if you're in a position of power you should take your position of power and use it to your advantage and what you're doing is you're dividing this country and it's not worth the time or the effort when we call the uniting which is what we're standing for been knighted states allentown pennsylvania alliance in a highly competitive political district the democratic and republican parties are on equal footing here but in the last congressional elections the district chose

a democrats congresswoman susan wild regularly holds town halls to check in with her constituents these public meetings are somewhat of a microcosm mirroring the deeply divided state of politics in the usa. their colleagues in congress are assuming impeachment which according to some polls the majority of americans do not support. i didn't come to congress to pursue an impeachment inquiry our president had with a foreign leader where he used his office to attempt to extract information about a political opponent he crossed the line clearly and he's too dumb to even know what he did which is shocking a lot of polarization divisiveness anger people doing crazy stuff because appalled by me i get in the political discussion with everybody about 2000 kilometers southwest of allentown is the river at louisiana repub. it can congressman mike

johnson is not worried about his job his district is staunchly republican but even here there seems to be disagreement especially on the topic of impeachment i believe it is worthy to teach me hope that the time to turn your load on this issue over the least seriously consider it might be easier than how well washington that you actually are the last 2 that went to its eye that you did not commit a crime and there's a lot of people have a lot of issues with the president and his style and his twitter and go a lot of the great right i mean to date no one has yet stated any specific color voters here are split on trump impeachment but they are united in their opinion that political fronts have become too hard. the division goes all the way down to families all across this country and friends and those divisions are a real and they're having an impact so we try to disagree without being disagreeable you know we try to do that in community you can have family you can

have community if you can't respect each other with so much political division many here may see prayer as their only hope. that. the nobel prize for medicine has been jointly awarded to 3 scientists well in kalen and greg cements of the u.s. and peter radcliffe from the u.k. they have been chosen because of their pioneering discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability this is the 1st prize announced by the nobel committee this year. let's get more on this story now we have derek williams from give you science with us hi derek tell us who these 3 scientists are and why they want these 3 researchers back in the 1990 s. looked into the genetic reasons for for how cells react to the availability of oxygen now every organism on earth needs oxygen we need them for fundamental metabolic processes and actually an earlier recipient of this prize back in the

1930 s. won the prize for describing the process of how of how that works how suit is turned with the help of oxygen into energy but the question of availability and how the cells within the body react to availability of of oxygen that was something that was happening at a genetic level that nobody really quite understood and so this work is really about that fundamental process how does the cell know there's not enough oxygen there or i have enough oxygen in order to do a whole wide range of things including things for example an exercise to provide enough oxygen to the muscles at the right time in order to get the energy to the muscle ok so very important work was it expected that they would win. well it's it was surprising i read the websites like everyone who works in this in this particular area i read the websites and the predictions and and they were in the top 3 but that said it's no surprise that it is a surprise because there's so much fantastic work that's out there that's actually worthy of the nobel prize and and really you can break down the nobel prizes into

sort of 2 categories one is something that's delivered is research that's delivered a tool for example and antibiotics or something in that direction or the fundamental basic research that tells us how things work and so much of science is about learning how things work and that's what these researchers did they taught us more about how this particular process works which is so fundamental to so many metabolic processes so what does this research actually deliver then to us and how can it be used well there's a there's a whole. list i made a list metabolism exercise embryonic development immune response wound healing infection heart attacks the list goes on and on as i said oxygen and its availability affects everything really and when it comes to life and so it diseases like anemia but also cancer for example in the drugs industry cancer cells cause through using some of these fundamental processes they the tumor can call cause the body to create blood vessels to feed the tumor and by certain drug companies of

have focused on those mechanisms if you can block that that development then you can possibly still help strangle the tumor or at least contain it and so they would have been able to do that without understanding these fundamental kinetic things that are going on when it comes to oxygen availability and that's what these researchers did all right eric williams from the w. science i thank you so much for joining us here in our studio. few sports now and the world athletics championships and qatar have come to a close it's a bi annual event featuring the top athletes of track and field the u.s. dominated the final day of the global event that struggle to fill the seats. the day of finals on the final day of a competition marred by low crowds and complaints about the heat was begun with a win in the long jump for germany's malenka me humble was the odds world championship gold to last year's european title was in the javelin understand peter's one just

a 2nd ever world gold for grenada the time on the track kenya's timothy chariots produced a blistering performance in the 1500 meters hitting the front from the opening lap and never letting go of the lead was just too a chap to guy won a thrilling last lap bottle to take gold for uganda in the 10000 meters little of was the sprint belongs to the united states was a lead a lead an american 12 in the 100 metres hurdles was della mohamad didn't really go to her success and the individual hurdles event as the u.s. women destroyed the field in the 4 by 400 meters was done the men were similarly dominant labored right benjamin and could the team to the final gold of the championships to leave the u.s. with a table top medal haul of 29 was. in

basketball the houston rockets have apologized to china for a tweet that supported hong kong's to mock receive protests now the tweet from a team official has since been deleted but it read fight for freedom stand with hong kong now it led china's state broadcaster to yank rocket's games off the air millions of chinese fans have been a namor with the n.b.a. team since former player yao ming 1st joined them in 2000 to the rockets general manager darley mori has since tweeted he did not mean to cause offense to fans and corporate sponsors but some in the u.s. including a presidential candidate criticized the rockets for bending to beijing's pressure. football now we have new leaders in germany's going to sleep after birth you mentioned rocketed from 6th to 1st they took over the top thanks to a win over oxford. the grim weather england but couldn't kill the mood in percy

apart when the falls were ready for a party the much was less than 2 minutes old when marcus to ram sets up dennis south korea to go number one of my defense was sliced apart old too easily just a few minutes later flight back repeated the trick. by this time it was a lesson player from the left finding patrick hamilton for the finish and in the 13th minute the same combination made it 3 to 5 rinse and repeat the thought that we're on fire house but wish on all of the but if the coach martin schmidt thought it couldn't get any worse what he saw next well of left him dumbfounded. by glad i didn't need a boost but i was but a keeper thomas kobe gave player one anyway of i'm sure nearly half the time and

the home team were galloping to victory. hausberg did finally have reason to cheer in the 81st minute. florian needle a sham pounced on a loose ball to give the visitors a consolation goal but brill and below them scored a 5th goal for glass but to roundoff and me a perfect day for the hugs the boys won the final score a game that left out the drenched and defeated and mention god by sitting pretty at the top of the table. this is good having your views these are our top stories. the u.s. is pulling its troops out of northern syria paving the way for a turkish offensive against kurdish fighters kurdish groups are protesting saying washington is abandoning them u.s. troops were stationed close to the turkish border supporting kurdish fighters forces in the fight against the so-called islamic state turkey sees these kurdish militias as terrorists. a 2nd whistleblower tells

intelligence officials that president donald trump has abused his power the democrats leading impeachment proceedings are now investigating whether trump pressured ukrainian president vladimir selinski to investigate a political rival joe biden as well as biden's son. the nobel prize for medicine has been announced it's been jointly awarded to 3 scientists william kalen and greg cements of the u.s. as well as peter wreckless from the u.k. they've been chosen because of their pioneering research on how cells adapt to oxygen availability. the international climate activist group extinction rebellion has kicked off the world wide protests there warning of an environmental apocalypse activists here in germany and elsewhere are already disrupting major cities with acts of civil disobedience many are blocking

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