after the. november night. a german city in shock a gunman opens fire near a synagogue in the east and 2 people are confirmed dead one suspects detained others are thought to be on the run. also on the program so if you launches military action in northern syria warplanes launched raids against kurdish militants in what the president tried to talk it's called operation peace spring.

i feel good now welcome to the program at least 2 people have been killed in multiple shootings in the eastern german city of hama police have arrested one suspect and i'm looking for others thought to have fled the scene in one shooting occurred near a synagogue while services were 2nd place for yom kapoor the holiest day in the jewish calendar there was a separate incident as a combat shop and police say shots were also fired in the nearby town of lance back federal prosecutor antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation and police of warn the public to been made alert and stay indoors other cities that main railway station has been closed. let's get the latest from d.w.i. political correspondent max millions of course which are welcoming maximally on a subject walk us through today's events yes so far what we know is that an attack

a shooting has a curse in hollow which is to turn the eastern part of germany and so far we know 2 people have been confirmed dead by police authorities and they have arrested one suspect but they police authorities are suspecting that's more a silence are currently at large and they're currently looking for these people they have want the citizens of khalid to stay indoors to not go out they call this a rampage situation and are currently continue to investigate so we're talking about multiple suspects and what 3 incidents 2 in holland and one in months been dishonest with her and talking about a 2 and stands that have been so far reconstructed 1st of all there was a shooting nearby a cynical in the old town part of there today is young kapoor one of the holiest days in the jewish calendar and subpoena were at prayer in that synagogue nobody in that instant synagogue has been injured but one person has been shot near that

synagogue and then another incident occurred in holland there a cable so according to eyewitness reports this hasn't been confirmed by police authorities but according to eyewitness reports a mass person entered the cave up shop and a person was shot nearby and then later another shooting was reported by police authorities announced back a town nearby hala ok let's hear from one of the this is of that 2nd shooting you mentioned that key bab shot you see quite shaken up his story is quite compelling. you come of i'm on my own i saw a man in the home of he was right outside the car babson up behind an old lady. he was wearing an army uniform everything looked very militaristic he had a weapon in his hand in the mosque on. and it looked like he had a hand grenade of something else maybe if i crack and he wanted to throw it into

the shop. but it hit the door and exploded in front of the old woman with the huge bang then he came into the shop and opened fire. and everyone ran away shouting and screaming towards the staircase which was heading out the back of the shop. and i saw the entrance to the toilets where i hid well everyone else tried to find a way out or even a window. and yes that wasn't on that into also going on there was another loud explosion and a lot of shouting opposition that picked. up one by 20 and then suddenly grew silent. before i rang the police and they said i should stay in the toilet because i just wanted to take said my family and my parents. eventually i heard the police arrive they wanted to know if someone was there they secured the area i yelled out that i was there i held up my arms and they briefly search me and.

the midst of awkward. as i can say a lot about the attackers nationality because he was wearing a mosque but there was some gaps in it and i'm guessing it was a white guy based on that. the sun visor of a but i'm really not so sure because i was in a state of shock at the time. but i can say that he was very determined to get into this particular combat shop. was able to in these a lot and. gave everything happened so quickly in the 1st few seconds after he opened fire and everyone ran away right after that it seems as if i don't remember how long i was hiding in the toilet it probably wasn't longer than 10 minutes. but it felt. as if you took these little. devices to that he said well he said just smile after going through all that political correspondent the much money you know of course which is with me here we had

a brief description of the suspects from the witness what else are we hearing well the chronology of the events is still not properly clear we do know that that in several attacks we do know there have been this incident happening near the cynical can the old city center paula has been the attack at the kebab shop and there has been a shooting nearby hala in this little town called what we know so far is that one suspect has been arrested so we know this about the suspects and police haven't given any more. description the haven't said anything about the nationality whatsoever but they've said they're still looking for several more suspects that is indication through i would miss reports that some of them have left one or more cars and there's now also other parts of germany getting ready for this manhunt and so the police in bavaria for example has already been saying that they are getting ready if these people if these suspects have been fleeing the highway that is

leading from saxony on hall to bavaria that the police is in the neighboring state of the various now getting ready for this. looks like given given that one of the attacks happened. near a synagogue and a jewish cemetery on young people it just looks like some sort of terror incident what are authorities saying well the federal prosecutors are already investigating on terms of kind of national security but there is no indication whatsoever on the motive of course that is so indication in terms of that this is now in young kapoor the. head of the synagogue in khalid self has been claiming that the. this was an attempt on the synagogue and one has to say synagogues in germany are strongly protected by security so the synagogue had police security at the place before this attack had even happened because of

a rise of and to semitic crimes here in germany so this is something of course that has indicated that there could be just me to go to but this is something that cannot be speculated stills of police are not giving any indication on that and how it solves a small town in the east of germany yes a small town nice of germany arm and about $200000.00 citizens living there it's one of the oldest once the largest city in sex and the on hold which is the federal state that's how it's located in. the synagogue is like they were saying that around 7080 people were praying for young kapoor at the time ok thanks for bringing us up to date to maximally of course it did every political correspondent thank you. let's turn to some other breaking news at this hour in the last hour or so president turkish president vegetal on has announced the start of turkish military action in northern syria turkish t.v.

reports that jets are carrying out their strikes on syrian courage positions in the border town of tal. early video footage shows strikes hitting fields but reports from the kurdish led syrian democratic forces say they asked strikes are causing huge panic among the people before the strikes the president announced the offensive of the offensive into tweets. that the turkish armed forces together with the syrian national army just launched operation peace spring against the p.k. k y p g and terrorists in northern syria our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across the southern border and to bring peace to the area. operation peace spring will neutralize terrorist threats against turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe zone facilitating the return of syrian refugees to their homes we will preserve syria's territorial integrity and liberate local communities from terrorists. a spring in your. foreign policy spokesman for the conservative

party in the german polish we just heard in that tweet that it says it is preserving its country's territorial integrity does it have the right to do that in this way we have huge concerns concerning that military operation every military operation be as a result risk of a new escalation military escalation in the region and this might poison all my tom the peace process of the small about growing peace process ongoing in june if. the summit of those 150 people who should work on a new constitution for syria i think the turkish government should stop this operation and if they are not able and willing to stop that should concentrate on dead to fight terrorists among the p.c. is always justified to us and not the ends are on fighters that are on the side of the alliance against us and. they need support and not

fight by by by turkey so you say you should stop this action do you expect to germany to do anything more than talk. i think from my point of view of this is also a reason to call the ambassadors of the nato in brussels though that the turkish government can explain why and how they see that in line with international law this operation south of the turkish border this could be in line with international law in case that they want only to defend turkey. against terrorism coming out of the region and the government of syria has not a control over that region but as it looks now it's more than that and that would be also against international law and i think nato partners so to ask that question to the turkish government immediately ok what else is so germany as part of nato

should join that efforts to talk it out what should germany be doing as a as a sovereign country about this conflict. we also use the communication context to the turkish government to german minister was there some days ago we have this cooperation between european union and turkey concerned if you cheese the european union has to continue support for turkey concerning the refugee question about the current situation in the north of syria on the sales of the turkish border is more a crucial point there called tension we might increase refugees and not. be in the situation and this is part of the concerns we have for the current situation germany has a significant turkish population do you have any concerns that this action will cause tension or unrest here in the country. we know from the past that in

germany a lot of people are supporting a president out of one but of those supporting kodesh. population in turkey and in the in syria and in iraq we have a debate among those political groups in germany i think they should continue by debating that but my my demand on them is to the to that peacefully and to discuss the things but not taking any any action against the other groups because in germany every everyone has the right to state his his position but have has not the rights to take a violent action thank you so much for talking to us talking to you going hot foreign policy spokesman for the conservative parties in the german parliament thank you so let's go to turkey joined correspondent to yulia han

in istanbul welcome. what are you hearing about the military operation. well the operation started at 4 pm local time just 3 days after u.s. president trump sudden decision to pull back u.s. troops from the area the decision was announced as you mentioned by president add on was at the same time the chief commander of the turkish armed forces he did not do that as usual in a televised speech but he did do it on on twitter which was interesting to me and we got news now that turkish warplanes have hit targets in north and syria targets what p.g. targets targets of syrian kurdish fighters there ammunition depots sniper positions that's according to turkish officials turkish officials also very keen on emphasizing that this so peroration follows the standards of the international law

but there is of course some very different information and news coming there from the kurdish side that they are accusing the turkish military of hitting civilian areas they have they are saying that has caused a huge panic in the city of tel of yet for example it has about 20000 people who live there and they're saying people are trying to escape and seek shelter and they are also reporting the 1st civilian casualties that this is very difficult for us to independently verify but this is what this conflict is about very conflicting information and interpretations what's going on there on the ground and this operation spring. what is it. trying to achieve with it. well it's turkey's 30 operation in northen syria against the kurdish white p.g.

militia i mean you've mentioned the name that these military operations always have names that sound very positive because from the turkish point of view this is an operation that to defend turkey's national security against what they call a terrorist turkey is clearly saying these y p g militia in syria are linked to the p.k. k. a group that has waged a decades long insurgency here in turkey the conflict has killed about 40000 people that's the estimate so now the way the turkish media. are phrasing it this is a security operation designed to create a safe so for turkey to possibly resettle about $2000000.00 syrian refugees in the area so this is the way they are selling this whole operation now so turkey is looking to drive out kurdish fighters from this area secure it and then move syrian refugees. yeah but but well it sounds

may be very easy as you say it but it's a complicated and risky operation particularly because the kurdish fighters said that they won't give up the territory without a fight they have called for a general mobilization they're calling upon civilians to defend the territory there and these kurdish fighters are experienced fighters they have been trained and equipped by washington by the u.s. and they have battled the islamic state for years so they have weapons they are very determined to defend this territory so what's going to happen there and this is to least to say is we are going to see a very complicated and messy situation there. thank you. from turkey to the united states let's go to washington to rejoin the debbie correspondent called like you're welcome carla what reaction from the white house

to turkey's action. trump has been very active on twitter this morning and while he hasn't said anything directly about turkey's military action in syria this morning he did talk about how he thinks that sending u.s. troops into these endless war in the middle east is and cheryl a bad idea and he said and i quote the united states spent a trillion dollars fighting and policing in the middle east thousands of our great soldiers have died or been badly wounded going into the middle east is the worst decision ever made in the history of our country ok so no reaction so far to today's events. not directly no president trump has said that he would obliterate his word the if you call it if they say incursion goes off limits do we know what off limits means. well

here why sleep hasn't made clear where exactly his red line is when it comes to for example attacks on the kurds what many people here believe that he has the u.s. interests in mind at that off limits could refer to turkey for example not really making sure that captured i asked fighters are captured and are kept away from western countries and from the u.s. now the president was subject to criticism from both sides of the aisle when he announced that he was withdrawing u.s. troops from the north and syria. and the other reaction from from either from detractors or supporters at this stage. yes lindsey graham powerful senator on the republican side from south carolina who is known as a trump supporter has very heavily criticized the president's decision and he was

active this morning saying that when it comes to fighting i asked it's a bad idea to outsource american national security to countries like turkey so he and also senate leader mitch mcconnell have been have been very vocal and criticizing this and also criticizing it those morning after cherokees military incursion in syria on the democratic side none of the heavy fates heavyweights have yet reacted to these new to this new military action in northern syria. chris van hollen the democratic senator is working on a bipartisan bill together with lindsey graham that is supposedly being finalized as we speak and the goal of this bill is to to punish turkey for attacking as a whole and calls that our serbian kurdish partners. call

a bloodbath in washington thank you. this is that data news live from our top story at this hour at least 2 people have been killed in multiple shootings in the eastern german city of how police arrested a suspect in the looking for others thought to have fled in a car now one of the shootings happens near a synagogue while services were taking place for young capone the holiest day in the jewish calendar ahead of the hollow jewish community told german media the between 70 and 80 people were in the synagogue when the shooting happened there are reports of a separate that incident at a kebab shop in the city police say shots have also been fired in the town of lance back around 15 kilometers away in a federal antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation the police are warning people to remain alert the main railway station has been closed and our

people told to stay in. there to get you updated with the latest from the political correspondent max a 1000000000 on the coasts which welcome back maximiliano let's talk about the search for suspects and where is that up to well what we know so far is that police have arrested one suspect. but they're looking for they're currently estimating that there is at least one more if not even more asylums who've been part of the attacks that happened both in holland so there were 2 attacks in holland one nearby a synagogue in the old city center and then one near by a kebab shop and then there was another shooting in a 15th moment. a town 50 kilometers away called nuns and so police are looking for multiple are still at large they're currently advising citizens of hala and they're to stay indoors as they're calling this the rampage situation what's reset about a motive there's clearly not much seen being said about the motive and it's really

hard to speculate there is some indication that there could be a link to and to his semitic motives because today is young kapoor and one of the attacks has been happening in near the synagogue in the old city center of hala and the head of the synagogue himself has been claiming that this has been attack aimed at the synagogue cynical wasn't able to be entered because of heavy security that is at the moment a regular for synagogues in germany. but of course then the other attacks don't indicate that that could be connected as to and semitic motive so they're still mostly speculation and not a clear motive come from both or some. of the fact though that it is being investigated by federal prosecutors that badly in itself is significant but doesn't point in a particular direction doesn't point a particular direction it's just saying that the federal prosecutors are saying

that this is a concern of national security they haven't given indication on what they're currently investigating that is still to be expected within the next days all right so. to summarize or to dad numerous injured people. spittal 3 separate incidents 2 in holland one in. one of the incidents outside a synagogue and near a jewish cemetery no word yet on the no confirmation yet. on a motive there has been over the last few years here in germany a rise in anti semitic violence as germany has a problem at the moment it has and the security for synagogues and jewish institutions through germany has been increased so we see that also schools to schools for example have gotten a lot of heightened security there is been

a rise of anti semitic attacks of on to semitic case in germany that's been confirmed by authorities and so this there is a suggestion that this could be the motive but authorities are currently focusing on finding more suspects on trying to get the situation under control to make the people of hala and the surrounding cities safe again one of the things that police i have to battle with in a situation like this is it is room false rumors and social media and they're very they're going to quite some lengths to sort of course these exactly so german security authorities have learned from previous situations for example for member in 2016 the attack on the munich shopping center where police authorities have learned that they can use social media to navigate informed citizens who are frightened who are unsure what's happening and help to try to direct the discourse that's been happening on social media so they're currently warning that people should be listening mostly to the authorities that they should listen to trust that

media like for example the public full cost of the federal state of sex and you know on hold and that they should remain indoors and try to stay safe much 1000000 or stay with us we're going to hear from the police now they've been giving a press briefing on the latest developments that say about us what's been said. real minutes and told although we have at least 2 crime scenes one here on this street where one person was shot dead and one. beyond informants who introduced. we were told one perpetrator was on the run and this person was arms by the wind god so well he also got information there were possibly several perpetrators involved but we can't confirm that at this time when i didn't hear those but there was at least one perpetrator this person fled in a vehicle we followed that lead and this vehicle was stopped outside her house and the alleged perpetrator was taken into custody. first came off that i don't totally

confess you know it was really close it's political correspondent with me here in the studio this happened in the instant german city of what sort of place is a holiday is the largest city of sex now not just one of the eastern german federal states and it's not the capital but it's one of the biggest cities as a university city has a university hospital some of the victims a current. of the injured people of these shootings are currently being treated in the university hospital and yet it's one of the more metropolit cities of east and germany but of course it's in germany has in recent years come under scrutiny for incidents reported on in a phobia incidents reported on anderson is sick attacks and of course this is why and now how it's also being particular scrutiny as there is being suspicion that this could be erikson a phony cinephile bickley fueled attack. the best of my knowledge is this happened

at about 1 pm local time talk us through the chronology because it has because it is quite unclear at this what happened when and where and how many so what do we think we know so we think we know what has not been entirely confirmed but it can be piers together through eyewitness reports. through the police forces have already been confirming is that around lunchtime today there was 1st shooting being reported in. near the synagogue in the palace quarters which is one of the all city center areas of holland and one person has been shots nearby police have been confirming that it's a woman and that woman has been deaths and then later on after a while there was a 2nd incident at a nearby kebab shop where another person has been killed according to police authorities and then later that day but the acts that time has not been confirmed it shooting has occurred in the town 50 kilometers away from holocaust. has not

been any confirmation how these all these incidents are related to each other isn't far of the both the attacks happening in holland knew that cynical and knew that came up stop is that we know that these suspect or the assailant has been massed so the person has been wearing a mask it couldn't be described and that also they were wearing heavy armor a potentially assault rifles so 3 of those 3 attacks potentially 3 different groups of tacos police is currently not giving any indication on how these attacks are related so they're still looking for multiple suspects they're saying so they have one suspect currently arrested but they're still looking for most multiple suspect was very little and they're currently looking of course nearby hala there's been the town of hala has been on lockdown the local central train station has been on lockdown but there's also reports the

police have said in the neighboring federal states for example in bavaria the police as being ready for a like a broader manhunt reaching for germany. what reaction has there been well so far we've heard of course from local authorities and we've heard. from the local representatives that we've also heard for example from the spokes person of the german government of the chancellor german chancellor angela merkel who has been of course saying that they are with the victims and that there are a lot of the situation and the european parliament has giving a minute of silence during this session today in ok so it looks like everywhere you look at the pictures that we're reducing it has all the hallmarks of some sort of terrorist incident police not confirming that so perhaps we shouldn't speculate . too much but still germany.