this is g w news live from berlin 2 nights in northern syria u.s. troops are packing up and going home paving the way for the chirps to attack the kurds as turkey prepares to draw in kurdish fighters away from the syrian kurdish border the kurds are accusing washington of abandoning the heroes against isis and then forgotten against erda was also coming up environmental activists returning to

the streets to draw attention to the climate crisis extinction rebellion is taking action in cities around the world paralyzing traffic and occupying building and the nobel prize for medicine goes to a trio of scientists for their groundbreaking work on oxygen levels in silt their research has changed the way humans are able to find cancer and other disease. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with the pull out and with the arrival turkey is getting ready to launch a long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria it comes after the united states reportedly started withdrawing troops from the area today clearing the way for that turkish incursion u.s. troop. worst station close to the border with turkey where they supported kurdish

forces in the fight against the so-called islamic state turkey however regards the kurdish militias as terrorists on sunday kurdish groups in the region held a mass demonstration against the turkish offensive accusing the united states of leaving them on their own washington says it will play no part in the turkish operation are for more on this now i'm joined by jonathan katz in washington he is a foreign policy analyst with the german marshall fund and jonathan it's good to see you again help us make sense donald trump's syria decisions you know within a few hours today the u.s. president cleared the way for what is expected to be a turkish assault against kurdish fighters at the same time he threatens to destroy the turkish economy if turkey gives quote off limits in syria which message are we supposed to believe. well this is again

a bit of the unpredictability of of president trump and i think it highlights the challenge for us foreign policy makers decision makers in the pentagon in the white house and elsewhere that the president has once again this is almost a repeat of what he did several months ago in announcing that u.s. troops are going to withdraw from syria so the question is you know the president united states got on a phone call with president decided without. talking to his top advisers in terms of what he's doing he tweets out a policy and that and several hours later realizing that the policy could harm those that the u.s. has worked with has decided to reverse course and call for the destruction of the turkish economy so i think a lot of people washington are head scratching but increasingly worried about the president's decision making ability and what that means for u.s. national security that of our partners including turkey and he is getting

a lot of blowback not only from democrats in washington but also from republicans in from some of his loyal supporters right. yeah the interesting part of this is that the president has managed to anger at a time when i think he seems to be relying on their support politically during an impeachment inquiry process to anger some very senior republican senators who have real concerns that the president is not only of bed and allies kurds but is leaving the u.s. vulnerable to isis again what we know is that despite the fact that the geographic area where isis has operated doesn't exist we know there still remains isis fighters and so for any u.s. president to abandon both the strategic position but also alison's a really difficult and wrong so difficult to those that we partner with and i think that what you're seeing is an increasingly concerned amongst members of congress

that these challenges are leaving the u.s. vulnerable. jonathan you know since everyone now is talking about the president conversations that he has with other heads of state we know we talked with the turkish president last night what do you think errol one said to drop what did he do to convince trump to abandon the kurds in syria. well 1st of all i think everybody wants to see the transcripts of the conversation between president trump and president air to one and i think this is of of deep concern in the u.s. right now that the president is free willing in these diplomatic engagement so i don't think that president the heir to one said anything new to president trump that he hasn't said before and so the decision making of the reasoning by president trump and his tweet and his decision on this policy is a mystery to many here in washington. jonathan katz with the german marshall fund

in our washington studio john king thank you very much we appreciate a really. great thank you all right here to be table with me is christine hilburn she is a journalist who has lived in syria for many years a familiar face or viewers here it's good to see you again what do you think the turkish president what does he want to do with syria actually has 2 purposes i think on one hand he wants to weaken kurdish autonomy that has established itself during the last few years in the northeastern part of syria by the p y d that could have democratic party which is a sister party of the big which is why i'm cannot considers them a terrorist organization and on the other hand out of one wants to resettle up to 2000000 syrian refugees that have taken refuge in turkey they have 3600000 syrians inside turkey and you know the atmosphere is kind of switching so i don't want to get rid of them he says we were resettled them in this 30 kilometer

zone so he's not talking about sending them home instead it's resettling them with the. syria and there's a big difference there isn't there that's the problem because it's not really their home these refugees mainly from areas like it live a little damascus homes they are not originally from the northeastern part of syria which is dominated to some extent by the kurdish population there so it's really a some kind of demographic changes which will lead to social unrest for years to come maybe decades to come and we've seen this before in a free if you remember in the beginning of 2018 this is the area that everyone already tech once he did so before north in the north of aleppo so he is that just actually turkish protectorates inside syria and this is his plan 30 kilometers in the strip of land he also be helping bashar al assad the syrian president with this because this is this is demographic engineering going on here yes and it will probably backfire in the fight against isis because once the kurdish fighters are

busy with self defense against the turkish invasion they cannot be busy with taking care of tens of thousands of isis fighters that a locked up in their prisons which among them several 1000 european isis fighters that europe hesitates to take them back so we're not up to our responsibility in this region and maybe of the kurdish id my turn to bashar assad in the end which is from their point of view the lesser of 2 evils compared to one and would say please come here and how could you you know protect the border which is still the national border of syria what about the kurds maybe turning to bashar al assad what about them turning to russia what about them turning to iran will the way to the moscow's leads through moscow so they would turn to putin writing it putin he would organize talks which have already taken place with the with kurds and the syrian regime in damascus talking about you know the syrian regime taking back military control administrative control and security control over the northeast part of seo which is

exactly what bashar assad ones without fighting them so this would. obviously help and one might in the end say you know i would prefer the syrian regime at my border but not the fighters that aligned with the peacock a yeah yeah it's complicated and it's only getting worse. as always we appreciate your insights thank you jason. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world at least 13 people drowned during a nighttime rescue attempts near the italian island of lampedusa officials say 2 patrol vessels were approaching an overloaded migrant boat in rough weather when it capsized the coast guard picked up 22 survivors the exact number of missing is not to know a bomb attack has killed at least 10 people and wounded 20 others in eastern afghanistan the target was said to be a passing minibus carrying army recruits in jalalabad security forces defused several other devices in the area after the blast. the climate activist group

extinction rebellion has launched a series of global protests to pressure governments to do more about the climate crisis demonstrations kicked off in australia and new zealand today in european cities demonstrations brought traffic to a standstill more than 200 activists were arrested in london here in berlin they blocked 2 major intersections there demanding that world leaders cut net greenhouse gas emissions to 0 by the year 2025. to $3000.00 members of the group extension rebellion stage step profits in the heart of bending the face of it is a big difference it's the only effective way to draw attention to the climate crisis. and by and in its scene we decided to do this because for the last 3 decades demonstrations and petitions having to achieved anything even friday's to future the core of the climate movement doesn't achieve anything with their

registered demonstrations so we have to go further it's on duty. they came from all over the country to block off roads new york comic landmarks in the german capital this was part of a coordinated auction with other ex thanks to a rebellion groups of around the well their message is clear and one of those who voiced it was come on africa to cut-n. up to chairman risk. see watch as the light it is time for the german government to tell the truth and declare a state of ecology can imagine. the mood was cheerful but public reaction was mixed . i usually get around by bicycle yes everyone should do something to protect the environment if they can. sell it to. difficult but in traffic is already stressful and when i have to make a detour because of the protests i don't want to go it's upsetting. from the

victory common to potsdamer platz in the city center to protest which have been approved by burning off our cities past off without major incident some demonstrators were confronted by police but the extension rebellion activists continued long after dark to make their presence felt. pulse in the plots in the heart of bilin as one of the busiest traffic junctions in the city and though it's normally busy with cars today it's also living with climate activists the so-called extinction rebellion has taken over the size and the global price yes and what they're asking for through these acts of civil disobedience is drastic measures of climate protection meanwhile the german government here in berlin has come under scrutiny for not offering these measures the climate activists however are showing their mean it's they want to continue these acts even though the police is trying to remove them from the sides throughout the coming week. are in with me here at the big table now are 2 members of extinction rebellion ana marie backi and

maximillian here how many have you in some for a few minutes today let me ask you i know what happened today here in berlin we all experience that the traffic was up for me and you disrupted the city but other than calls ing headaches for commuters what did you achieve today thousands of people from all over germany came to berlin today to block the city. we also had activists joined from sweden poland and switzerland we all came to the german capital to really put the german government under pressure to show that we will not just demonstrate and be ignored any longer and we will we are ready to go further into civil disobedience to put on a pressure we need action on time and emergency now so if the disruptions don't get action by lawmakers max what what are you willing to do what is the civil disobedience going to look like well we will stay strong as the takes and if necessary get arrested and if at some point we will be cleared from the streets we

will come back we'll come back until the demands of being met and what are your concrete demands what do you want to see german lawmakers do tomorrow so 1st of for the german government to finally tell the truth about climate but the climate crisis and the host of year it really is therefore they should what do you think do you think the government has not been honest the belt well bad situation is well if we look at the drought they met so far i don't think they take it quite as seriously as they should so we have facing a world with 4 degree warming right now and this will lead to a collapse of civilization in america what would the this concrete action look like is i mean i know people are watching they're going to say ok what should the chancellor and members of the bundestag what should they do. tomorrow then to fight

this crisis this climate crisis we demand that the german government declares a climate emergency to more and we want them to establish a citizens' assembly this week we need a citizen's assembly that are random people selected from all over the country so citizens come together to discuss this emergency and come to. lucian when you need that you've got a parliament you're already is it the parliament supposed to do the does talking for the people it hasn't worked it hasn't worked for the last 30 years the parliament is a great thing but not to solve this massive crisis that is a long term crisis so parties are working against each other but not with each as not to sort this out i'm busy this is this is this is the thing though i think the concerns a lot of people you're not only saying we have a climate crisis you're also saying we have a democracy crisis and that the system is failing us that's a lot to fix at one time but citizens assembly have been proven to work very

efficiently and they take very caring decisions for the greater good of society that's been established already in many countries have been working there for successfully also in germany before in a smaller regional level demand assistance to assembly on the national level and we want the governments to establish it this week to sort this times the south so you're going to stay outside these 2 intersections here and block traffic until you you get results most of the people that were out there today were younger people and there's a generation gap here you're both of you are young you're actually doing work or you're demanding work to be done that your parents' generation should have done i mean that has to really. get under your skin when you think about your parents' generation has let you down. yeah it's it's a system it's not anybody's personal fault i think it's the system's fault and this

is the part about telling the truth. the studies haven't been taken serious government is committing scientists have been warning us for years and it's been ignored by the government they're now breaking the law by not protecting the citizens of this country they're breaking the law on global level on international just like level before in our time how do you guys keep this protest within the realms of civility with spilling over into political revolution because people could understand he was saying we want to overthrow the system as well we actually want more democracy and this is what the citizen sanity is all about it's more inclusive bringing people together off all realms very diverse group of people as representative off the society that we have in germany and there there are career politicians that are working against each other. a 1000000 here how much we appreciate you coming in thanks a lot of times and we'll be talking with you and we're going to see what's going to

happen the next few days thank you thank you thank you so much. are you watching news and they're going back now still to come. a homeless a woman's. singing skills turned her into a social media sensation after this video of her in the los angeles subway system went viral we'll tell you about that and the not so happy ending. as. well the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to 3 scientists from the united states and britain they were chosen for their pioneering discoveries of the way blood cells since and adapt to the body's oxygen levels it's the 1st prize and by the nobel committee this year. converting food to energy is a process that wouldn't be possible without oxygen but oxygen levels can fluctuate dramatically in the body during exercise climbing to high elevations

or pregnancy amounts of the vital gas that are available for metabolism vary. to keep functioning the body cells have to be able to adapt to these changing levels of oxygen but how does this adaptive process work william killen serpico radcliffe and greg cements are discovered the mechanism behind it but i would say the benefit is understanding this fundamental mechanism for the practical applications are to come and that's actually what's this is a great discovery that it opens up so many possibilities and creates new research areas for example in the healing of wounds treating patients with severe anemia or even cancer in their discovery kalen radcliff and cements of have laid the groundwork for a new era of drug development one that's now starting to address many dangerous ailments that modern medicine seeks to heal.

all right. the woman you see here won the hearts and ears of millions around the world after this video of her singing opera in a los angeles subway went viral just over a week ago she was one of thousands of anonymous homeless people on the streets of southern california. but of course things have certainly changed for her 52 year old. this weekend the sopranos insatiate and took what could be her 1st step to stardom when she performed at the annual little italy celebration in los angeles take a look. at .

which she certainly has quite the impressive voice my colleague alex is here where you should talk about breaks it's not we're talking about something totally different for a change what do we know about this this lady emily's a more well she moved to the states in her twenty's she's originally from russia and as you said before she's 52 but a couple of years ago she became homeless and she says it was because of very precious filing was taken and broken i think that broke her she said that she couldn't make ends meet she could no longer make any money to pay her rent and she was evicted so then she started singing and she's not a trained opera singer but she started singing in the sump way and she was filmed by a cop by one of the police offices then ended up on their official trip website went viral and said in the end the rest is history crowdfunding tens of thousands of dollars have been raised. to support says she's had this saturday where she

impressed everyone with her voice and has apparently already been offered a recording contract so we can watch what happens to her in the future i mean 1st glance this looks like a feel good story but it does open a window on i guess a significant homelessness problem that is facing authorities in los angeles and around the world for that matter yeah that's right and that's just look at california the national alliance to end homelessness says that there are almost a $130000.00 homeless every night across california and the majority of those are in l.a. county but as you say it's a problem across the world and and surprising that so many countries that we think of as wealthier have had these problems in that state for example germany and figures released by the federal homelessness association estimates that around 48000 people sleeping rough they were sleeping on the streets at the moment and almost hoffa's those are children and there's also

a growing issue about the number of people who are homeless who went dying on the streets in the british charity shelter that last year more than $720.00 homes people died in england and wales and that was an increase of more than a court said just on my year it was on so many people homeless now more people now compared let's just say 10 years ago what is what i mean there are many issues one of the main ones is obviously poverty in the feeling that many people just can't afford to live for example in cities that where rents over the past 10 years have more than doubled you've got the problem in germany where the association again for homeless people saying that the country is short of around 2000000 homes and then you've got other issues such as mental health problems you've got addiction that can lead to homelessness it can also be i was also of homelessness so i think well what we're talking about the subway city is fantastic story which is very uplifting

we have to remember that there are many millions of homeless people across the world who just i'm never going to get the story tellers right there and they all have a song to sing to but most of the time no one's listening i was always thank you. well the world athletics championships in could have come to a close every 2 years the top athletes the track and field take center stage the u.s. dominated the final day of the global event but did not manage to fill the seats take a look at the time 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 man like me humble was world championship gold to last year's european title was in the job when under some peters one just a 2nd ever world goals for granada the buy on the track kenya's timothy cherry ought to just a blistering performance in the 50100 meters hitting the front from the opening lot

and never letting go of the lead. i'm just a chip to guy when a thrilling last lap to take gold for uganda in the 10000 meters i'm the sprint belongs to the united states i'm a leader lead an american one to win the 100 metres hurdles i'm on and i didn't really go to her success in the individual hurdles event as the u.s. women destroyed the field in the 4 by 400 meters i'm on the men were similarly dominant i'm 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 time this is g.w. news and these are our top stories the u.s. is pulling troops out of northern syria clearing the way for an expected turkish offensive against kurdish fighters kurdish groups are accusing washington of

abandoning them u.s. troops supported kurdish forces in the fight against a so-called islamic state turkey regards the kurdish militias as terrorists. police in hong kong have arrested 2 protesters for defying a ban on face mass demonstrations they're the 1st to be prosecuted under the wall which was introduced to counter violent anti-government protests. 2 americans and a brit have been named winners of this year's nobel prize for medicine william kale and greg simmons and peter ratliff were chosen for their pioneering research on how blood cells adapt to the body's oxygen availability the committee will announce winners in other categories this week. the international climate activist group extinction rebellion has kicked off worldwide. warning of an environmental apocalypse activists here in germany and elsewhere blocked bridges

and major roads to disrupt major cities with acts of civil disobedience. this is g.w. news you can find out more on d.w. dot com you can also follow us on twitter at w newt. you're watching the w. news live and from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i have to see this.

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