this is g w news live from berlin tonight the blame game over britain's plans to exit the european union after a phone call between german chancellor angela merkel and british prime minister boris johnson a leak in london ignited claims that merkel told johnson his plans to leave the e.u. will not work but did she say that will last a war breaks it analyst also coming up tonight charges are being brought against the man suspected of hijacking a trucking crashing it into a line of cars here in germany several people were injured police are now looking

for a motive we'll bring you an update from the scene and the nobel prize for physics has been announced a trio of space researchers wings for their contributions to the understanding of how the universe has evolved and of the place that earth's tauzin all up and ahead of germany's match against argentina on thursday there's a new kid on the block 5 lords luke of all schmitz has hit a hot streak in the bundesliga this season which could see him make his very 1st appearance for joachim lupe's seat. i'm burned gone to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin tonight with the question what did she say did germany's chancellor really tell britain's prime minister the. they brag that deal probably won't happen well that is what

a source close to prime minister boris johnson has told the british media following a phone call this morning between the prime minister in chance there are. now the leak has prompted e.u. council president to warn the johnson that breaks it should not become a blame game the u.k. is due to leave the european union in $23.00 days at the end of this month. $23.00 days until breck said time is running out and now it's too late to reach a deal with the e.u. at least that's the latest need music coming from london the british government no longer believes an agreement can be reached and that's coming from downing street they're blaming chancellor angela merkel e.u. council president donald tusk is outraged boris johnson what's at stake is not winning some stupid blame game at stake is the future of europe and the u.k. as well as the security interests of our people you don't want to deal you don't

want an extension you don't want to revoke quo vadis. that follows a phone call this morning between boris johnson and uncle americal the chancellor reportedly said an agreement was overwhelmingly unlikely if northern ireland does not remain in the e.u. customs union but did she really say that. no comment from chancellor merkel she kept quiet on the subject later today to meeting in berlin with dov it's a solely the president of the e.u. parliament but the british government is making a big deal out of the phone call essentially saying if this is the new e.u. position then in principle an agreement would be impossible that would make johnson's rush to present a new proposal was a waste of time the e.u. remained unconvinced that they would do away with the need for border controls between northern ireland and e.u. member state island and in that case brussels couldn't do without the so-called backstop and

a customs union with northern ireland. cess only travelled to london on tuesday afternoon after meeting with boris johnson he said no progress had been made and there were only 2 options left an extension or no deal or let's take the story out of london today we're used to standing by good evening to you your good beer gives over looks like boris johnson's plan to renegotiate the deal before october 31st it's not working out so the question tonight what is a prime minister who once said he'd rather be dead in a ditch than asked for a delay to break what's he to do now. well boris johnson himself interestingly brant still maintains that the e.u. the u.k. is leaving at the 31st of october but he also says he still wants

a deal and he said that his all for the u.k. self was a significant step and also a compromise so he doesn't agree a tour with any sentiment from the european union that that was not a real offer however we really don't know what he's going to do because as you said parliament has actually legislated against leaving without a deal but he maintains he will leave it at that he has defacto and that's really only 3 weeks from now so we will have to wait for his real 1st actions and whether he will go to the u.s. and ask for an extension because it's the law so he would be breaking the rule in the u.k. if you didn't do that and a british prime minister cannot should not may not. be britain's parliament has passed a wall to prevent. so checkmate johnson or not well exactly and palm and this is so right here in the u.k.

so boris johnson has has a couple of options one is what the e.u. would probably find fairy very nasty and what's already not going down very well a tour that he's hinted sources around about hinted that the u.k. critique may be pressure other e.u. countries to veto a deal so if veto an extension sorry if the u.k. also an extension which he's bound to do by lho by parliament then the e.u. has to accept it. and we lost the signal there yeah unfortunately it looks like we've lost our signal to london with a big it was certainly a polish judge for that we've tried to get that reestablished if we can are it's now into hong kong where the territories chief executive kerry lamb says that she has not ruled out asking john his military for help in quelling the territories

ongoing unrest for months for gestures of staged demonstrations over what they see as growing influence from beijing over the sim my old tongue mr hong kong territory but the protests as you know they have often turned violent our correspondent in hong kong which he has berlinger has looked into why businesses have also become a target for demonstrators. protesters attack a china mobile in the past few days dozens of businesses in hong kong have been vandalized during clashes protesters of chocolate companies from the mainland such as the state owned telecom providers big chinese banks and other industries tied to the beijing government. but there are less obvious choices like this famous us coffee. starbucks has been one of the top targets this one has been vandalized twice 1st they trashed the entrance then the next day the company

set up these wooden paddles to protect it and then the next day the protesters took down these panels and continue trashing the shop not the hardware you stated. so it's clear that outside radio and press stating that the show time this consequence is good it is still true that governments which did this century to citizens. in online groups protesters post messages explaining the choice of targets on kong starbucks branches are run by the local cager a mix seems the company drew the wrath of the protesters when the fall of his daughter how the speech at the u n human rights council denouncing the protests it seems has distanced itself from a statement saying she holds no official position in the business but to no avail the logic of conflict has reached on space and this is between the eye of the protesters and repercussions on the chinese market many of them are facing

a tough choice. for this starbucks crunch the only thing to do now is to renovate and hope that they will be targeted at the time. so here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in ecuador thousands of indigenous people have joined anti-government demonstrators in clashes with security forces. the protests have driven the president to move the administration out of the capital quito the protests kicked off after the government cut fuel subsidies. only 70 you countries have agreed to join a plan that would fast track the processing and distribution of migrants who were rescued from the mediterranean interior ministers meeting in luxembourg had hoped to recruit more countries joining the plan germany and france led the effort to satisfy demands by italy and malta they claim other countries should take more

migrants in. turkey says it's ready for an offensive against syria's kurds that follows u.s. president donald trump's decision to pull troops out of northern syria drug melva easing accusations that he has a band in kurdish forces who were key u.s. allies in the fight against so-called islamic state. prosecutors here in germany have. the man who hijacked a truck and crashed it into a line of cars with attempted murder 9 people were injured in that incident it happened overnight in the western german town. police quickly detain the driver they've identified him as a syrian national who has been living in germany since 2015 the motive has yet to be determined. this is the truck that rammed into several cars in the western german city of lemberg on monday police believe the person at the wheel pulled the truck's original driver out of his cab there was immediate speculation that the

case might be connected to terrorism but federal officials have dismissed that possibility for now they need that's the. my latest information says that at the moment there's no grounds to say there's a terrorist background to this event that is the status at the moment 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 drug charges. 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 just. as police searched 2 apartments last night they collected possible evidence including mobile phones and u.s.b. sticks the investigation is ongoing and prosecutors say they can't yet give any

information on a possible motive. for more than i'm joined by our reporter. in limburg where the incident took place good evening to you so let's talk a little bit about the motive here have investigators ruled out terrorism. well we cannot say that they have ruled it out altogether but they seem to be stepping away from this assumption according to what investigators have so far they say that the suspect had no previous links to potentially violent extremist or islamist groups this is why there are no grounds to believe that as of now this was somehow motivated by terror however as we know the suspect was known to police for previous offenses like drug offenses and violent crimes as well as an assault so this is why basically the police are now investigation investigating in all

possible directions. still looking for. what do we know that. this suspect. yes we definitely have more details today brant well we know that he has arrived to germany and 2015 that he's a syrian national we know that he was not granted an asylum status or a refugee status like many people from syria have ever been granted he was granted something that is call subsidiary protection this status is granted to people who do not qualify as refugees but are still facing a risk upon returning to their home countries we also know that this very permanent resident permanent residency oh residence permit has had expired just earlier this month on october 1st although it is unclear if he had applied in any way to extend

it we also know that he was involved in a previous harassment case in another state in germany north rhine-westphalia and then he harass the 16 year old teenager and later got into a fight with her mother so he was also known to police there with the suspect definitely. with criminal records. in germany thank you. brazil's president. says the mysterious appearance of oil slicks off his country's coast may be the result of a criminal act the oil began washing up on beaches along the northeast coast last month the president suggesting that another country could be to blame but he has not said which country. pools of oil covered beaches on brazil's coast for weeks they have been appearing along the shores of the atlantic in the state of mind on the tourist spot

a tussle covered in oil and claim this is the result of gross negligence. that's caused. more oil slicks have now been spotted 2000 kilometers for the south overall more than 130 brazilian beaches have been hit. the entire navy and northeast brazil has been mobilized we are trying to dennis what's causing this and where it's coming from. a brazilian t.v. network is investigating whether an accident a refinery belonging to the oil company petrobras may have played a role the site experienced an oil spill at the end of august petrobras which is partly state denied any involvement and claimed the oil may stem from a foreign tanka experts in brazil have criticized what they see as a delayed response from authorities. sill there was no fast coordinated effort from the authorities and the oil companies. to prevent the oil from reaching

the coast is that the right. course an analysis of the oil will now be conducted with the hope that the results will shed more light on its source . you're watching the w. news live from berlin still to come 3 scientists are sharing the nobel prize for physics for their research into the evolution of the universe and bill judges have said that their work is changed our understanding of the cosmos stay with this and we'll find out what's called the wobbly factor played into all of that. wildlife officials in thailand have discovered the bodies of another 5 wild elephants in a river in collier national park they made the discovery while investigating how a group of 6 elephants died after plunging into a waterfall over the weekend. these 2 elephants the lucky ones

they survived the fast flowing waters that swept away the rest of their herd officials initially thought 6 elephants died including a 3 year old car. it could we think the elephants were trying to cross over to the other side of the river probably one of the smaller elephants slipped on the adult ones were trying to rescue them but instead was swept away by the water but aerial photos taken during the investigation revealed another 5 bodies palko 30 say it's the largest number of elephants to die in a single incident. for now we can say that based on these aerial photographs there were 11 dead elephants in total. and only 2 survived. it is self pictured here before the devastating incident last weekend this herd was part of a population of around 300 wild elephants in the park the waterfall where the

elephants giant is known as the ravine of hell teil 30 saying they will now look at walkways over the waterfall of the solutions to prevent a tragedy like this from happening thank you ben. for hear some more stories now that are making headlines around the world german police are removing climate protesters who have been blockading streets here in berlin climate activist group extinction rebellion says several 100 people camped out overnight as part of a wave of civil disobedience similar protests are taking place around the world to put pressure on governments to do more about the climate crisis hundreds of haitians have joined protests in the capital port au prince demanding the ouster of them babble bit president morsi the demonstrators are angry about corruption wising inflation and a lack of food and fuel at least 17 people have been killed in the past 3 weeks of

unrest. well it's either something very wonderful or it's something horrible that is what one of this year's nobel laureates for physics says that he was thinking when he got the phone call telling him that he had won the prize 3 songs is have been named as winners this year the nobel committee says that the prize is 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 half of the nobel prize in physics was granted for our understanding of what happened next the royal swedish academy of sciences has today decided to award the 2019 a better prize in physics with one half to james peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology back in the 1960 s. cosmologist 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. 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 be shelled by you. for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar types thought 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 orbit had by a planet michelle my hero and d.d. 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. fascinating and to help us understand more about exoplanets and how they fit into the nobel prize for physics i'm joined tonight by nikou madhusudan from the institute of astronomy at cambridge university in england dr matas and on it's good to have you on the show i understand you have worked with one of the new laureates professor kalo and 1st of all tell us a little bit about that work what makes an exoplanet different from an ordinary plant. hello yeah glad to be here an exoplanet is short form for an extra solar planets which is basically a planet orbiting

a star that's outside our solar system so there are thousands of players that we know of today which orbiting stars nearby in the solar neighborhood around other stars obviously and that's what is next about it and do we know how we did it mr kilo and we show you how did they discover the 1st exoplanet. so that saw the take neat they used is what is known as the video of the last day at that age this intially then a planet is going around the star this study warbles at 0 and at the center of mass of this system. so if you have for sized the last 2 measurements off the start of a long line of sight what you can see is this small motion off the start warbling motion of the star at around the center of mass of the system because of the gravitational tug on the star due to the planet now this signal times are to be

extremely small it could be anywhere from a few meters 1st 2nd to times of mr 2nd and back then it was the decisions of the instrumentalist of the. devil nothing to be good enough to make that sort of a measurement and this team that sets us fully made that sort of precise measurement for the 1st time and so they did as so they really did the 1st wobbly planet detectors if you will it do it do people see a dish yourself do you get excited when and i'm an exoplanet has a higher wobbly rate or not to me does that signify anything. it's a it's a huge revolution what that test but so we actually had what excited this small it was really is because they were the strength of the wall both the amplitude of the velocity itself is proportional to the mass of the planet which is the smallest of

planets this lawless evolved of the surface of the so that save us did it it was a giant planet but now put up like banners the woman is going to be much smaller well dr have to ask you when we're talking about exoplanets and their wobbly factor do you ever ask yourself if one of these planets maybe has extra terrestrial wife on them do you think we are alone or do you think there's something else there. i would bet that there is something out there and it's actually very likely because you have found lots of planets that are small and could potentially hold life we haven't found life yet but they have the right conditions flood life to be present and it's only a matter of time in my view in the future that we find something i think people with agree we've just got to make sure we can hold on to the wife we've got here on this planet in the meantime mr mo to saddam with cambridge university deny talking about these new nobel laureates in physics professor thank you thank you let me

get are back on earth sports football germany face argentina in a friendly match on wednesday in a game that highlights the decline of the 2 sides who faced off in the 2014 world cup final for you're welcome love it's chance to get a look at young players who could boost his squad chances at next summer's european champions just europe in particular luka vote schmidt who just can't stop scoring go. he's risen through germany's youth ranks about schmidt made scoring look easy at the european under $21.00 championships in june there is performances and him plenty of admirers and a call out to the senior scores now he's in line for his 1st senior appearance. i said through this i know how it feels to be parts of a set up i know how things work a bit and i know the people i'm pleased to be here again no doubt about something.

about schmidt has carried his prolific strike rate into the season has been just really got. his start again storm and at the weekend scoring and fried books to troll. fox meat shop shooting has drawn comparisons with another famous german efforts his knee and namesake lukas podolski exactly the kind of potent force you from the team have been missing. hitch and his best quality is his finishing he's very dangerous in and around the books he's got a lot of quality and doesn't need many chances to score goals and for all talk the coach will be hoping those words ring true against argentina. but one of germany's footballing grades is hanging up his boots staunch tiger announcing that he is retiring following the final game of chicago fire season last sunday trying to tiger made his name at byron munich where he spent 17 years as a youth player in full professional winning 8 the good titles in the champions

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