this is g.w. newsline but from berlin tonight in germany facing up to an unfortunate truth on the day after an attack outside of a synagogue. jesus thomas today's brutal crime. has shamed out whole country. germany's interior minister says yesterday's anti-semitic attack that left 2 people dead confirms that the threat of far right extremist terrorism in the country is growing also coming up.

just a day after his troops moved into northern syria turkey's president aired on his morning the european union if you dare to criticize what we're doing in syria i will open the gates and flood you with refugees plus an austrian author wins this year's nobel prize for literature and a polish author is made the 2018 laureate one year later. it's good to have you with us we start tonight here in germany where the government is mourning that the threat of nationwide right wing terrorism is now very high it comes after an anti-semitic attack killed 2 people in the eastern town of hala on wednesday that attack aimed at the city's jewish community fell on the holiest day in the jewish calendar yom kippur war

a city in shock hala is grieving to wednesday's pretend attack. visiting the scene german president trying photos steinmeyer spoke of his horror and revulsion at the acts of a deluded right wing extremist. you can see the amount on you can go history warns us but the present demands we act and hold on tight. we must know how we must take a stand through our relationship with the jewish community. today and you just mentioned . chancellor angela merkel attended a vigil in berlin on wednesday evening but she chose to wait until thursday to make a statement on the attack expressing her shock and sadness she promised a strong response from the state so i let you know 1st and foremost this means that the representative of the states and i am standing before you as one of them we must use all the means available to us to take actions against hatred and violence

there must be no absolutely no tolerance for that that get this kind of a ton of hands. on wednesday a german citizen identified as the far right extremist tried to force his way into his synagogue around 70 people were gathered that on the holiest day in the jewish calendar they attack a fired shots at the bolted door but failed to break through a witness described his experience i think the energy was was fairly calm given the situation today i feel more kind of. somber just because people were killed but yesterday it was more about just kind of being really thankful for kind of america that you couldn't get through the door and that like a much bigger tragedy was. didn't happen. unable to carry out the massacre he had planned for the synagogue the attackers shot 2 other people as he fled before

police were able to detain him. police say they had no foma knowledge of the 27 year old he streamed his actions live on the internet and uploaded a manifesto full of anti semitic rhetoric stefan bay was taken by helicopter to the city of cods hua where the federal public prosecutor has taken over the investigation it's called the attack an act of terrorism the suspect was carrying a large us know of weapons to be a buffet. and he was heavily armed with multiple weapons which he appeared to have built himself with and a large quantity of explosives 4 kilograms of explosives were found in his vehicle alone buying into some magnificent. halla is left stricken with grief but also anger that police were unable to stop an anti semitic hate crime that

claimed 2 lives. and we have complete coverage tonight here in the studio with me is my colleague and our political correspondent william glue crossed and called nason is standing by force in hala let me start with you coral the day after this attack we know that it could have been a lot worse what the people been telling you today. well the memorial that you see behind me bryant is in the center of all of this started as a spontaneous movement by some residents last night just coming here to light some candles it's multiplied into what you see now hundreds of candles flowers and signs earlier today in fact there were some $500.00 people here in this square for this memorial of course there's photos of the victims people are coming to pay their respects to 2 people who were killed of course neighbors to some friends to others and we've seen signs there that say our love is stronger than your hate it's not though just

a chance to honor the victims i mean this is really the community and hala coming together as a show of strength don't forget right yesterday there was essentially a manhunt across this entire city everyone was on lockdown people didn't know what was going on they were afraid to come into the streets tonight though that is not the case people out here to honor the victims and show they will not stand for anti-semitism you know and you know it's important to note the the man in the woman who were shot and killed yesterday the police are saying that they were just 2 random people who were shot because the gunman was frustrated when he realized that he couldn't get inside the synagogue they are i want to take a look or take a listen to what germany's interior minister today had to say about the security situation in the country he says yesterday's brutal crime has shamed whole country. without history. something like this must not happen in germany. unfortunately we must look the truth

in the face. and the truth is and has been for a long time. the threat level from anti semitism from right wing extremism and from far right to terrorism in germany is very high. you see the whole. so called the threat level is very high end now. yeah that's what horst as a whole felt was saying and found i found it a very stark admission very honest comments there from the interior minister essentially saying that germany is facing a much larger threat than perhaps they realized that during the press conference they often fact put to the threat of far right violence as a central challenge essentially equal to the challenge of islamic terrorism that's how seriously now the government is taking this he also went on so promising

further resources he said 100 more people will be working on these sorts of cases of far right violence in germany promise more money he also said more needs to be done to secure the jewish community in germany he promised there would be higher security for example stationed outside of synagogues and jewish community centers starting immediately we what do you make of what the interior minister had to say i mean lots of promises being made there a lot of promises and nothing we haven't really heard before not only from horse they offer but from an angle americal from from german officials all across the board multiple times we've seen these kinds of far right and anti-semitic acts of violence take place and we had a sasa nation of a local politician in western germany over the summer we heard much of the same things and you know the the thing is that i think there's a problem with the definition of terms for example you know horse they offer also said never again this could never again happen which of course the reference to the holocaust people say this term all the time in germany but there's not

a great clarity of what that actually means never again a holocaust of course not and never again racist violence of course not never again people should feel uncomfortable of course not but all of those things are slightly different of course very to be signaling you and there should never be this type of you know killing again but your point is well taken to me it is a vexing issue for politicians here in one is that it's a very vexing issue you know she horsehair we just heard with our history which of course again is a reference to the holocaust but germany didn't begin in 1033 and it didn't. begin tonight in 45 anti-semitism had existed long before that i mean this these these are questions that go far beyond legal questions of political questions of the day these go to very deep social questions about what it means to be german what it means for germany to existed as a western liberal country given its history not only i meant the holocaust but even before that about who is in and who is out in this society and it's also it was

stunning to think what this discussion would be like if the government had indeed been able to get inside that synagogue yesterday or if we him up here in the studio with me and call now in holland to both of you gentlemen thank you very much here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world it to associates of us president donald the trump lawyer rudy giuliani have been arrested ukrainian born parness and delusion igor freeman are charged with funneling foreign money to u.s. political candidates the $2.00 helped introduce giuliani to ukrainian officials and have been called as witnesses in the impeachment inquiry that is being mounted against u.s. president drum. there could be a pathway to a break sit deal that's according to a joint statement from the leaders of ireland and the u.k. ireland's from the earlier varadkar and u.k. prime minister boris johnson met on thursday to discuss the country's e.u. departure which is supposed to happen in just 3 weeks time the border between the

u.k. and ireland has been a major barrier to a break sit deal apple has removed an app that allowed protesters in hong kong to track police movements the tech giant said the app endangered law enforcement violating the company's rules the move follows criticism in the chinese communist party's official newspaper which accused of helping the protesters. the united states ambassador to the un has warned turkey that it could face consequences if it does nothing to protect civilians as it pushes ahead with its offensive in northern syria it did not say what those consequences would be however but international calls for turkey to moderates its action in the region they are growing thousands of residents fled on thursday as turkey pounded kurdish militia for a 2nd day. and

not a day another pounding along the border. to kish jets bomb towns just inside syria plumes of smoke in areas controlled by the syrian democratic forces who s.d.f. a coalition of kurdish fighters and other militias. kaddish led forces control parts of northern syria right up to the border with turkey the s.d.f. force alongside u.s. troops against islamic state. fleeing for the 2nd time around half a 1000000 people near the border are at risk once the u.n. refugee agency many are already far from home having come here to escape the fighting in other areas in syria. turkey wants to push out the kurdish fighters and create a buffer zone that it controls on the syrian side of the border in a fiery speech turkish president at one slammed critics of the plan. really

a european union. pull yourself together you know. i say it again if you try to label this operation an invasion. it's very simple we will open the gates and send 3600000 refugees your way richard with all to no move to june this is the regular unleaded i. this time in turkey and a possible retaliation turkish state turned to news agencies say the rockets that hit these towns people came from kaddish held areas on the syrian side of the border but it's not just civilian injuries and deaths that are the concern here kaddish forces from the prisons holding islamist fighters from the so-called islamic state these prisoners were captured during the war in syria. one of the prisons in which the i.s.

prisoners are kept under the control of s.t.'s forces was bombed by turkish warplanes yesterday and probably some of the i.a.s. members have escaped. and these battle hardened kiddish forces who helped contain i-s. fighters in syria now face a fresh assault from turkey. elam joins us on here the big table by christiane he is a middle east analyst at the bertelsmann foundation it's good to have you on the show so you know what we're seeing right now is a day after the turkish president since his forces into syria now he's aiming his threats towards the european union saying if you criticize us i'll open the floodgates and you will be flooded with refugees why is he doing that and what's he hoping to achieve and we happen to know that the turkish president. laughs very harsh rhetoric especially against against europe. and i think that the turks to bob diplomacy did not expect that the 5 member states at the united nations security

council where so firm to criticize this military operation and that the statement of the e.u. foreign ministers council this morning was also very harsh to criticize the military operation so so he didn't feel this and he doesn't like the wording of the invasion you know it's for them it's all in his narrative it's a military defend. operation well and not of not an invasion we talked we talked about this last night as but if you talk about the definition of invasion i mean he did cross the border into another country yesterday have the kurds in northern syria have they posed a security threat to the you know the border integrity of turkey recently it's a very it's a very risky military operation 1st we we just don't know how far this military operation would go 51020 even 30 kilometers into northern syria on all the 500

kilometers from from a border with syria or not and we just don't know what would be the reaction of the of the kurdish militias will there be. a lot of military confrontation or how many internally displaced people we have to take care of what will happen to the 10000 detainees of the so-called islamic state would watch what's going to happen because we've got the religious don't know grant brant we just don't know who is responsible for that we would all be of course a the heir to one or one said that trump the us president had given that responsibility to turkey so is turkey in charge of these isis prisoners now. it depends where these prisons are so far we just don't know if the turkish invasion has already kept some of the prisons and of the camps yes or no for the time being they are under under kurdish militias. occupation and but there is a responsibility there is a responsibility of the west and of europe because there are some of the fighters

are having holding european passports there is a responsibility our military has bombed the areas of iraq and others in the in the east of northeast of syria so there is a western responsibility to recover the area and to help to rebuild the area and this is not just on the burden of the u.s. so there's an argument about trump is right he has been trying since half a year to convince the europeans to help him to step in into this area in order to rebuild the area of northeast of syria and so far no success in those attempts christiane with the verbals been foundationless and we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you pleasure. well today is the world day against the death penalty more than $100.00 nations have abolished capital punishment including south africa but calls to reinstated there have grown louder in recent months as authorities struggle to contain escalating violence last year 21000 people were

murdered that is 58 amazing 58 a day on average our correspondent adrian krishna sent us this report from cape town. every month klute jones visits his son's grave room was just 27 when he was shot in the front office over 3 years ago. he was june 2nd son killed by warring gang members in his neighborhood was this a good son eve when they was months younger i used to call him love that was my nickname for you and i used to for years over these years used to that's you know and told him yeah you my love you you mark my able to think it was. some abuse all my heart is still missing because up to today. this is not the one person that they went to through with. when joel was buried here his father says this part of the

cemetery was still empty but since then oddly a day goes by without deadly shootings in his cape flats neighborhoods the violence has been escalating for us security forces us travelling to keep the area under control. i didn't spring these in blue jones shows us his neighborhoods a young man was shot he had just a few hours yet been waiting for a bus the death penalty is needed in south if it could this be a moment of time because they've been trying everything everything everything on and nothing is really happening it's getting worse and worse and worse i feel sick and tired of living legacy. oh you did you can save us from those horrible. calls for the death penalty i'm getting louder here in south africa after recent of a few of violence against women 600000 people have signed

a petition asking to bring back the death penalty but the government so far has shown little interest in changing the laws and currently the death penalty is inconsistent with the constitution. most researchers say evidence that the death penalty actually deters crime it's inconclusive constitutional law professor forces instead calling for a larger and better trained police force and sweeping social change the death penalty is not a magic bullet the problem in south africa is that most cases. are never successfully prosecuted only about one in 10 people who commit to murder are actually sent to jail so the court said. if people don't believe they going to ever be caught and prosecute this kind of sentence you get give is going to make no difference for a practical reason they shouldn't be a death penalty because it doesn't make a difference of course also for the ethical moral reasons i think the state should

not be in the business of killing its own citizens for any reason. but disagrees he wants justice for the murders of his 2 sons and he wants to live with his family without fear in his own neighborhood. for here are some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world in ecuador thousands of indigenous people have gathered for more protests in the capital it's the 7th day of nationwide demonstrations that are frequently involved clashes with riot police the president has evacuated his administration from the capital the unrest was originally inspired by cuts to fuel subsidies and other all spirity measures police in honduras. fired tear gas at protesters demanding the resignation of president one or. the protests were sparked by claims by u.s. prosecutors they allege the conservative president took millions in bribes from drug traffickers he has denied those allegations. the

nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 2 authors with the scandal as subtext peter hunka from austria claims this year's award poland's oga ticket for 2018 the unusual delay was due to a sexual assault scandal at the royal swedish academy. off to the swedish academy's crisis is now making his 1st major appearance the new permanent secretary an ounce to prize winners today austrian peta had to take the wood for 20192 of his most well known works on offending the audience and the goalkeepers fit the penalty but the highly praised 76 year old feels that his readers judgment is the most important as he said in this 2017 interview. for me it's about the readers what the people say how they read or heard something to.

dispute it moves me. but of course an award is a nice bonus. hunka is not uncontroversial politically during the war in yugoslavia he not only showed literally support for then president milosevic he also attended his funeral but that didn't play a role for the committee. even him the prize is a matter of course he's a great artist with 70 to 80 of his works in various genres a great creative ability that continues on broken. down polish trying to get to celebrates its surprising success with a novel the books of jacob she received the 2800 prize retroactively. you can look at this and you know what she really does well a theme that crosspost this she writes across photos and that's clear even in her style tell us more from where you start the performance they will and she's crossing borders at the moment on a book tool in germany. for the 2020 olympic games are said to be one of the most extreme in history thanks to the addition of

a host of these sports aimed at attracting younger audiences chief among them sure you've already guessed it surfing it's been a long process to get the sport recognition in the olympics and now organizers are ready to show more established events what the what the games what they've been missing. surfing is just one of many new sports set to make waves at the 20 twentieth's lympics it will debut alongside fellow extreme sport skateboarding and climbing a ship seen as monumental evolution by the head of the international surfing association. will be the single most important program change in their case probably ever. believes youthful modern sports will overrun their older established counterparts if they don't evolve similarly to skateboarding surfing has a strong lifestyle component and loose structure unique to a lympics sports were never really an organized sport to that point they need to

have feels glad members the girls were going to have a busy hour about their age. but it wasn't his call it on the base go surfing's moment has been a long time coming it was 1st proposed as an olympic sport in 1012 equerries personally been pushing for its inclusion into the games for decades. a summit i dream about many many many years it was very hard i mean it basically seemed possible for a couple think it's. only. a set game that we were in the right place to pile and catch that early in the way. with qualifying well underway fans will soon see if surfing rises to the top or takes a spill as an olympic sport in tokyo. or this is g.w. news and these are were top story germany's interior minister is warning that the threat of nationwide right wing terrorism is now very high it comes after an anti-semitic attack on

a synagogue in the eastern city of hala he says of the attack and shamed the nation and that the government will do all it can to protect germany's jews. turkish forces have taken at least one village from kurdish fighters on the 2nd day of an assault on northern syria tens of thousands of residents have fled turkey's president richard tell your peril one has lashed out at criticism threatening to send millions of syrian refugees to the european union. 2 associates of u.s. president donald trump lawyer rudy giuliani have been arrested ukrainian border lev parness and bella rouge and igor freeman are charged with funneling foreign money to u.s. political candidates the $2.00 helped introduce giuliani to ukrainian officials and have been called as witnesses in the impeachment inquiry against donald trump. this is d w news for more head to our website w dot com and you can follow us on twitter at w news you're watching t

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