the to stop its offensive in northern syria or risk serious consequences but that is not what the us president is sick tonight turkish forces are increasing their strikes against the kurds the kurds are valid to fight back knowing they have almost no chance will the u.s. intervene to help them according to president trump not a change. in berlin this is the day. they conducted air strikes. conducted artillery strikes. must position its placement that's going to be told that seems that it's condition of violence and i believe that we have their all the ingredients for unfortunately yet another humanitarian crisis in syria.

also coming up he released imprisoned journalists and made sure that women were in his cabinet and made peace with his neighbor for that and more ethiopia's prime minister. is receiving the 2019 and nobel prize for peace. with regard to the conflict with the a trans government which lasted for years we wanted to stop for the common good of both countries not only phone benefit but for that of the 2 put down nations. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome we begin the day with a phone call from washington to turkey the message stop what you are doing in northern syria today the u.s. defense secretary spoke with the turkish minister of defense and warned that if turkish forces do not stop their offensive inside syria there will be serious

consequences and what those consequences would be is anyone's guess tonight why turkey should take the threat seriously well your guess is as good as any the pentagon opposes turkey's operation but the u.s. president opposes any involvement of u.s. forces it's a sudden and drastic policy u.-turn that has left the u.s. military confused and america's allies in northern syria the kurds feeling abandoned with the turks moving in on them we begin tonight with this report. the kurds worst nightmare attacked on all sides pounded by turkish artillery again on friday sowing death and destruction on the ground. this is the 6th time we've had an explosion in the city people are afraid. this house you see here they were children playing a mortar fell and killed a boy the girl she lost her leg. meanwhile

a deadly car bomb claimed by so-called islamic state exploded in the kurdish town of commies. turkey is battling for territory held by its enemy the kurdish led syrian democratic forces ankara says the offensive will secure turkey's border and create a safe zone for syrian refugees. u.s. troops on patrol a few kilometers from the conflict zone a zone they evacuated just days ago clearing the way for the turkish assault now the u.s. is trying to put the genie back in the bottle threatening sanctions. i just met with president trump and he has authorized and will be signing a new executive order giving the treasury department in consultation with himself and secretary pompei a very significant new sanctions authorities that can be targeted at any person associated with the government of turkey any portion of the

government that c.c.t.v. footage of a camp holding tens of thousands of family members of all u.s. militants shows an apparent escape attempt the camp is controlled by kurdish forces they said the situation there is critical. turkey is defiant demanding loyalty from its nato allies. it's our most natural and legal expectation that our allies show solidarity as per the principle of the indivisibility of euro atlantic security it is not enough to say we understand turkey's concerns we want to see the solidarity very clear that. it should go to. now civilians who once fled the so-called islamic state are again desperately seeking safety as yet another humanitarian crisis looms in syria. or d.w. correspondent julie han is following the turkish offensive against the kurds and

she sent this update from the turkish syrian border. this is the 3rd day of the operation so you can hear shelling old day basically so this is of course affecting people and then there have been civilian casualties on both sides of the border at least 6 or 7 people were killed inside syria there hasn't been an update of these figures and then there have also been at least 8 people who were killed here on the attack or side because the kurdish militants have been firing mortars and rockets into turkish border towns including azza kahlo where i am right now we've just seen the pictures of a funeral that took place here today so many people are angry many people do support the offensive here i've spoken to the mayor of oxycontin little earlier and he said he is sure that this operation is going to be victorious and he said i'll quote him here we're going to turn this area into a graveyard for terrorists but then there are also people who are afraid some

people told as many have actually left at sound we spoke to one family who said you know in our apartment building there are 16 families who live there and all of them have left except for us so fia and the general sense of insecurity is also part of the atmosphere here right now. there on the border between syria and turkey well more mixed signals coming from washington today defense secretary. spoke out against turkey's offensive saying that he has badly damaged already frayed relations between the 2 nato allies he also came out with a strong statement of support for the kurds we oppose and are greatly disappointed by turkey's decision to launch a unilateral military incursion into northern syria this operation puts our s.t.m. partners in harm's way it risks the security of isis prison camps and will further destabilize the region. to be clear we are not abandoning our courage partner

forces and u.s. troops remain with them in other parts of syria another humanitarian crisis to talk about that i'm joined tonight at the big table by sarah learned she is with the autonomous administration of north and east syria she is with the representative body the women's commission or if you will for the kurds it's good to have you on the program had you been able to talk with folks in northern syria and what have they told you what are they experiencing right now well thank you for inviting and this opportunity that we can share here the current situation in art and the syrian well we get everything minutes on all the names from not on in syria and the situation there are it's very. tolerable now until now $22.00 freedom fighters they lost their lives and a little for many many many civilian they lost their lives and insurers under them

of course children and. they're losing their homes where they going well of course several countries like neighbor countries they do go also like this woman movement. prepared also. a lot of camp just like you know camps and they protect their rights and they protect them and this kind of for free and are there enough of these people to help the number of people who are having to flee their homes right now while in syria this ration like very very difficult there are places where they can of course stay and live in the organized. movement to with a woman movement judge woman movement but there is not enough places there is not enough. economical hout so this is a poor. and most of families are fleeing to like europe are other countries like

turkey and iraq and iran you know outside of the middle east what we're hearing is that a lot of people except for the u.s. president but a lot of people in washington d.c. say that the united states has abandoned the kurds do you feel like that you've been stabbed in the back in the back by the americans since they are not helping you know well actually if they kill a dish people they used to bang and are they used to. like be alone. by they are just an itty so it's not a big shock for the kurdish people we do know that you. are protecting people against that i as because of their reince because a fair interest so we do know that at the other time they will change their own but you know but you know as long as the american military presence was there the

turks were not going to come in and invade or try to assault the kurds without the cover of the americans now you have the turks coming in of course because the power like military power is like weak so they do they quit. a tactic you know it's very easy there is no barrier so they don't no one no care about the carrots they're so can they defeat your forces i mean what is the in game going to look like here what do you fear is going to happen we don't know what fear actually to cure people and people in norton is syria they didn't know what fear from and of think we cuz we skype everything one by one and the people are very relaxed they believe in their right they in their struggle so they do not have any fear or are against this kind of innovations right because they are talking tonight about the situation of the kurds in northern syria thank you if you show your time tonight. and still to come

on the day the woman the white house wanted to silence today on capitol hill that woman appeared and did most of the talking while lawmakers did most of the listening a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine explained why she believes the u.s. president fired her how heavy will her words be as the impeachment inquiry moves forward we'll go to washington to find out you represented the department. is here to keep keep john brief keep count of the tricks cities like climb be good mounting. we need vigilance determine it shouldn and patience but i'm not going to go into all emotions from the podium as we are waking to i think you clearly the mood music is good hopefully that this conversation that the teacher has had with but has done so well on lock the impasse i think both leaders see a pathway to

a possible deal now out of this little doubt this but even this light this last. i think it is possible for us to come to an agreement about there is many a step up and that but lots of things that are not in my control you know will there be a last minute deal there are signs that progress in that direction is being made as secret so-called tunnel discussions are set to take place over the weekend teams of negotiators from the u.k. ireland and the european union promising to cooperate and not to leak any information what we do know is that the u.k. prime minister boris johnson is signalling his own u. turn concerning the future border between ireland and northern ireland well that has been the biggest hurdle to any agreement for the u.k. to leave the european union by the end of this month. look at everything that i've said previously i think you can draw your own conclusions from that but let's that

the gay shake his kettle and i think we're. going to go to yesterday was a joint feeling that there is a way forward we can see a pathway to a deal that doesn't mean it's a done deal so there's this work to be done by boris johnson speaking there well given this recent sign of progress we asked our brussels bureau chief max hoffman about the chances of britain actually leaving the e.u. on october 31st that's less than 3 weeks from now he says there are 2 scenarios 1st one is they actually do strike a last minute deal then it seems very likely that they will need a so-called technical extension to implement that deal remember the house of commons so the whole parliament actually in the u.k. has to approve a potential deal and also the european parliament in strasbourg and that will take some time most likely a couple of weeks more than the 31st of october 2nd possibility they do not strike

a deal and then by law boris johnson has to apply for an extension remember that law that was passed by the u.k. parliament that's responsible for that although he has said there might be a way around that we do expect him then or somebody else by the way to apply for an extension until the 31st of january and at the moment it seems likely that the leaders the e.u. leaders will agree to that so still a lot of ifs there but of all those scenarios at the moment no deal bragg's it on the 31st of october seems the least likely. on capitol hill in washington today another closed door hearing in the impeachment inquiry against president truong the former u.k. s ambassador to ukraine marie evanovich testified before congressional lawmakers and reportedly unloaded some rather damning statements about the president in may

president trump had evanovich recalled from her posting in kiev basically he had her fired reportedly because she blocked efforts to pressure ukrainian officials to investigate joe biden trump has described evanovich as quote bad news it's 3 bad news evanovich our let's bring in our washington correspondent good news chiffon good evening to you stefan so what do we know in terms of what the former ambassador actually said in that hearing today. so as you mentioned it was a closed door hearing however we know the following she said that she believes that she was ousted from her position as ambassador u.s. ambassador to the ukraine by donald trump who is certain pressure on the state department who then in return made sure that she's losing her post she also said that she had about 3 times contact with rudy giuliani doll trump's

private lawyer who was in the your crane and that in all of those meetings or contacts with him biden or corruption was never ever a topic they talked about so that was interesting but the real cherry on the cake was that the democrats afterwards came out and said after the testimony of former u.s. ambassador to ukraine and said that they have and they believe that donald trump and the white house tried to block her not only from that meeting which she defied obviously but that he also. that he was trying to block this is another incident for them or another piece of evidence for obstruction so democrats are head over heels into this impeachment inquiry saying the white house doing everything to obstruct justice which is then feeding again the impeachment inquiry

when you can add today's testimony to. the significant amount of evidence that the democrats have been amassing in the last week and a half or so is there any indication when the house might be ready to move on articles of impeachment. this is to say hard to say actually. you're absolutely right this question is raised more and more here in washington and more loudly there is a significant and growing number of democrats who say who push majority leader nancy pelosi to put the votes to put a vote to the floor about the inquiry about the impeachment that's actually what the white house as you remember a few days ago just wanted to dump truck coming out saying like i'm not going to take this serious before you put this to a vote on the on the floor of the house of the house of representatives now pressure on pelosi is increasing to a good amount not frantically but to

a good amount to actually do exactly that to put the votes to the to the floor of the house of representatives about this impeachment so yeah pressure is mounting on this on this front definitely which will change basically nothing because as pelosi said it's absolutely illegal and according to house rules to do this inquiry and investigations without putting a vote to the floor and from the outside it looks like the evidence must be piling up against president trump i mean we hear that the president is now phoning mitch mcconnell the speaker of the senate now about 3 times a day are we seeing cracks in trump's support base. let me be very careful with this answer so there seems to be the case for. very specific reasons there is now this human of defiance the order or

the order of the white house and the state department to not go to the to the house hearing to not file a deposition to not be deposed she did so that's a critic now 3 other other state department and other administration officials will testify next week against the order of the white house and the state department not to do this under subpoena threat so in this regard maybe there are some cracks politically speaking no i don't see that happening the republicans are still strong on the side we're going to chop yet but we would if we see what happens next week it will be a pact we have on the ones in washington stefan thank you for. yesterday us president trump held his 1st rally since impeachment proceedings against to begin and it was the longest rally since his presidency started trump speaking almost 2 hours straight and he did not pull any verbal punches he lashed out at democrats calling their impeachment investigation a partisan witch hunt he w.c.

alexander phenomena reports from the divine streets of minneapolis minnesota. these you as go tourists wanted to make clear that donald trump is not welcoming minneapolis and should be removed from office if she's just not fit for to be president of this country he is flagrantly abusing his powers and he needs to be stopped while these voters waited 4 hours in the rain to watch trump take the stage in the target center weena unshaken in their support for him despite the impeachment inquiry i think it's all made up by think it's fake news and i think it's just another way to try to get him out of office i have faith that it's going to work out for trump's advantage of going to be another black eye for the democrats that just keep doing nothing to try to get him out as the impeachment inquiry gets more and more support among the general public the president die hard

supporters react with anger and defiance donald trump's reelection campaign wants to use this event here in minneapolis to rally his base around him the president however seems more and more concealed by the impeachment proceedings. that's a combative campaign rally and angry downs trump lashed out against the democrats accusing them of trying to overturn the 26000 election because they know they cannot be team in 2020 they want to raise your vote like it never existed they want to erase your voice and they want to raise your future. the president fired off insults and still no listen lawmakers using profanity to attack his political opponents in particular form a vice president joe biden he was only a good vice president because he understood how to change barack

obama's. under fire from his own party for pulling u.s. troops out of northern. sam defended his decision we were supposed to be in syria for 30 days we've now been there for 10 years we were supposed to be in afghanistan for a short period of time we're now going to be there for close to 19 years it's time to bring them home. he speech was interrupted by some protesters who however were quickly removed from the arena i am an adjusted president told the crowds and he supported us thanked him with applause and see a full chance. but out said the arena the end protests carried on late into the nights. when the weeds. nobel committee has decided to award the nobel peace prize

for 2019. if the opium try minister i'll be ahmed ali. that was today's announcement of the nobel peace prize awarded to ethiopian prime minister abi made for his work to resolving the border conflict with neighboring eritrea it was up against around $300.00 dominic's he was praised for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation since being elected prime minister in early $28.00 team the norwegian nobel committee made the announcement. earlier this week nobel prizes in the fields of medicine physics chemistry and literature were also. abi ahmed has only been in office for a year and a half but his push for peace and democracy in that short time impressed the nobel committee. even if much work remains they are has

initiated important reforms that give many citizens hope for a better life and the brighter future. met was awarded for the reconciliation he forged with every tray in the 2 neighbors when boiled in a longstanding border conflict. after a war in the late 1990 s. killed an estimated 70000 people they failed to implement a peace deal. but within months of taking office med's met with eritrea as president for a summit where they signed a historic peace agreement. it was a moment ethiopians and eritreans had been waiting for for decades the critics say there has been little progress since then on key goals such as economic cooperation . the nobel committee also recognized for implementing democratic reforms winning jiminy theo paeans respect. he did

a lot for example releasing prisoners and granting freedom to people. by law does not mean only one year he has brought so much change hobby is the one who made freedom of speech possible for ethiopians. he even outside of a few years here he has a great vision for all africa he believes in peace democracy and equality he's one of the best leaders for africa right now. after measures praised for mediating in other regional conflicts like here in sudan the committee set the price was intended to encourage after his efforts for peace and democracy in ethiopia and the region. over the almost on the conversation continues online to remember the matter what happens between now and then tomorrow is another day of a good week and everybody will see you again on monday.

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