1st d.w. news live from berlin a mom's arrested after hijacking a truck and crashing into a line of cars in germany injuring several people the suspect arrived in the country from syria and 2015 police are investigating why he did this will bring an update from the city also on the program the nobel prize for physics is an obstetrician a space research has plans for that contribution to the understanding of how to do diversity fault to 5th place and.

i'm for welcome to the program. police in germany are investigating after a man hijacked a truck and crashed it into a line of cars injuring 9 people the incident happened overnight in the western town of limburg the suspect was quickly detained by police and identified as a syrian national who's been resident in germany since 2015 his motive hasn't been established. this is the track bed rammed into several cars in the western german city often book police believe the person at the wheel pulled the tracks original driver out of cap asked whether there were any indications that it was a terrorist attack german interior minister c. office said. speeding investigated but at this time i cannot tell you how this crime will be classified these thoughts are qualified. what we know so far is that

the truck's driver was a 32 year old syrian national the man arrived in germany in 2015 and was apparently known to police for assault and possession of drugs. have detained the person behind the wheel of the truck at the moment we are investigating the reason for the collision and of course everything else necessary to determine what happened here. prosecutors said that they can give any information on the possible motive security authorities say the suspect has no known links to extremist or islamist groups. straight to limburg than where that incident took place to be reporter dana reggie is that welcome dana what are people there been telling you. yes phil will people here actually quite shock an eyewitness with whom i spoke earlier said that she did not expect

something like this to happen in such a small town at least in german measures we're talking about 35000 people she said i expected this to happen maybe in bigger cities like berlin. and nowhere near a place like in borg and other and of another eyewitness said that he was absolutely astonished he actually says he saw the accident when it happened the actual craft crashed as he is working in one of the offices here nearby he went out and wasn't sure if this was a car crash if it was intentional or accidental and people here aren't generally they cried in shocked. the police are not ruling out the terrorist motive this stage they must be looking at our house between. christmas market the time 3 years ago. well that's it feel i mean obviously a lot of people are drawing a lot of similarities between the 2 so as of now police are being very cautious with stating the exact motive they're not given any further details about that but

they're definitely not ruling anything out like you said so we also know that the suspect a 32 year old syrian national he was involved in former offenses drug offenses and violent crimes but as of this point they're not saying anything specific about a motive or about any extremist or terrorist links so let's leave it there. thank you. i'll move take a closer look than general secure situation with the young son pierre he's c.e.o. of the counterterrorism security and international affairs consultancy modern security consulting group welcome to date of the. we as we were just hearing that no motive has yet been established so how will investigators go about determining that well they'll be about verifying how just how many links are possible we have seen in the past that even if in attacks described as being lone

actors that there were numerous actors behind this attack or that the web is actually very wide very deep and does it lead to determine just how far that robert a whole goals in more importantly you know what probably what prompted this attack because there's obviously there's intent but the question is was it politically motivated can it be terrorism what exactly what is behind this and so the next 24 hours will be crucial because we have people will just assume syria involves a truck attack therefore terrorism but we have to be a bit more careful than that absolutely and that's probably the biggest success if you want to call it that way from terrorists over the last few years is that a random car crash now not to say that that was the case yesterday but we had a situation berlin a few years in a few weeks ago big car crash 4 people died and that the 1st reaction was is that terrorism and as such now we've reached a point where perception trumps facts and as such it can often lead to is this

a terrorist attack or not and skewer possible investigations. how will authorities here in germany have the have they learned lessons from from past incidents like this it's a difficult question so i answer because on the one hand there are some very short term answers that say yes there's been improvement on the other hand long term there's a lack of personnel lack of resources but more importantly the issue lies with the lack of training german authorities right now say well we've hired so many people you need to be trained they'll be ready in 3 years but the problem is the threat is ongoing and as such there's this discrepancy between what's available what can be effective and what's anticipated and what's going to come up and so we're playing catch up right now and not just in germany but in many you do you say the training so this is training it well in counterterrorism and general policing well it's an alice is essentially what are decides what are factors that can say can lead to

somebody saying well there's a 60 percent chance probability that this can be an attack or to try to avoid the mistakes that were done with i mean for examples i was just a drug dealer i can't be a terrorist times have changed the profile has changed and that needs to be adapted as. speculating than if this is terrorism it's interesting that a truck has been used it seems that vehicular attacks are becoming more and more common ave. statistically no but from a perception yes because again as soon as it's a terror car crash we tend to think right away it could have been a terrorist attack and so this gives us the impression that there are indeed more attacks was that this sickly speaking since 2016 there have been there actually been less and less attacks but because they're easy to to perform to perpetrate they're easy to to plan we get that impression that could be that could happen more often that it does but in fact it hasn't but if it comes down again to the

perception between terrorism and occurrence good talking to you thanks for joining us that you and some people from the modern security consulting group thank you. i will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world are you council president or are tour skies accuse the u.k. of playing a stupid blame game over breakfast is tweet came after a phone call between german chancellor i get a makeover of british prime minister boris johnson unnamed sources in london a reporter saying that bracks it still is impossible because chancellor merkel has made unacceptable demands. become to hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb has warned that she will not rule out chinese intervention in the semi autonomous territory if anti-government protests are worse than hong kong police say they have arrested 77 people since that ban wearing face masks came into effect as some journalists attending the briefing wore face masks. turkey says it is ready for an offensive against syria's kurds following u.s.

president on trump's decision to pull troops out of northern syria president trump faces accusations of having abandoned kurdish forces who were a key u.s. allies in the fight against a circle islamic state. or european union interior ministers have been meeting in luxembourg today to discuss how to deal with migrants arriving across the mediterranean sea germany france italy and bolton have already agreed to accept a share of migrants rescued at sea now they want other e.u. states to join the new voluntary resettlement scheme according to current e.u. law asylum seekers must register and stay in the country where they 1st land now has put enormous pressure on mediterranean states so far this year spain has received more than 20000 migrants it's a nearly 8000 and greece more than 40000 migrants arrivals are down by about 30 percent this year but when the rescue boats arrive europe struggles to deal with them today's talks were aimed at improving that v.w.

correspondent max hoffman covered the meeting in luxembourg he told me how things stand. the meeting is over that is a fact so that's information number one and it took a long time for them to come up with something in the end because it was supposed to only be over lunch in the end they discussed this over 3 hours migration policy it shows you just how contentious this issue still is and you said correctly feel that the goal was to include as many countries as possible in an automatic mechanism to relocate refugees rescued at sea in the central mediterranean group policy of the german interior minister said after the meeting the good news is that 12 countries are interested or think it's a good idea to have this automatic back in ism but none of them want to join your original 4 which are france italy malta and germany so they will have to continue it's an ongoing process but you can say that policy holder for now at least failed

in his goal to have these results here today in luxembourg yeah he did seem confident a couple of weeks ago about getting these countries on board so what went wrong. well maybe he was a little too confident in the beginning to begin with he underestimated probably how contentious this issue still is in some countries how hard it is to sell but there's also an interesting effect on the other side of the spectrum which is that some countries that are always taking migrants really like spain or portugal thought they should have been included from the very start in this mechanism and didn't take it too well that only 4 countries did that without informing them so the most likely route now is that in the end will succeed it's just not as fast as he hoped it would be and that you know over the next few weeks he will be able to include more countries in this mechanism so from what you said and 8 sounds slowly

optimistic you said that lots of countries like the idea but didn't want to get involved but do you think that they will become over time. it looks like that countries like the baltic states like ireland like portugal are interested but still we have this massive rift built in the european union that has not changed especially between eastern european countries like hungry in poland and then some western european countries like germany that has not changed the opposition from this eastern european countries is still fierce to put it that way and so the long term goal of a common asylum policy seems as remote as ever. in luxembourg i think. so either so a very wonderful or it's something horrible that's what one of this year's nobel laureates for physics thought a phone call telling him he be receiving the prize 3 scientists have been named as

witness the nobel committee set the prizes being awarded for the trios work on understanding the structure of the universe. it all began when the universe exploded out of a hot dense state nearly 14000000000 years later her for the nobel prize in physics was granted for our understanding of what happened next the royals we did she can move sciences has today decided to award the 2900 new bell prize in physics with one half james peoples for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology back in the 1960 s. cosmology was largely a speculative science but since then we've learned a huge amount about the evolution of the universe around us and james peebles was a key figure in that process nearly every step of the way time after time his seminal work in the field has helped scientists interpret traces from its earliest days and also help show the universe is expanding due to 2 of the greatest

mysteries in modern physics dark matter and dark energy to other researchers and astronomy were also honored and the other half jointly to michelle may you. for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar types. back in the early 1990 s. it was still impossible to take the incredibly detailed measurements of a distant star the could show whether it was orbited by a planet michelle maior and d.t. a kilo developed new cutting edge methods to do so and sparked a revolution in astronomy more than 4000 so-called exoplanets have been pinpointed since their 1st pioneering efforts a number that steadily growing. the list now even contains planets that could theoretically be conducive to life circling distant stars the discoveries made by this year's physics laureates have forever changed our perception of the universe around us. well it goes we'll have business news africa and

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