the fact that. the be . the best. the at. the busiest g.w. news live from violent attack erupts of its offensive in northern syria claiming it's captured a border town just as turkish troops intensify that on balkan and on kurdish militias the death toll is rising and thousands of civilians are leaving in a desperate attempt to find safety. and japan's capital tokyo is bracing for a typhoon the full cost as the worst in 6 decades more than 6000000 people have been advised to leave the area as typhoon head of it makes landfall on the

country's curse. the at the. time had a whole free cloud you could join me turkish backed forces say that they have taken control of. key border town a northeast in syria now that is according to turkey's defense ministry is the most significant gain since president add on's offensive into the region began a wednesday which is for some 100000 people to flee the area meanwhile the german government says it will not export almost a tacky that could be used in the syria operation. day 4 of the offensive so fierce fighting at the syrian turkish border bombardment by turkish artillery growing troops continue to make their way toward syria. alarm in the turkish border town of like to cali at least 3 grenades from the syrian side exploded in

people's homes apartments tell lieschen by kurdish militia y p g it appeared to be no casualties well the grenade came in here he says the fridge was destroyed and the grenade went straight to the other wall and it. in northern syria tens of thousands of people have left their homes international criticism of turkey is growing daily on friday the u.s. defense department said that turkish forces had fired on american troops in the syrian border region and pretty nice this washington has threatened sanctions and called for turkish withdrawal but turkey's president appears unmoved. we won't stop regardless of what the of us say they want to threaten is the one sides to trump you have as i've said stop it. but criticism hasn't stopped on saturday the general secretary of the arab league cold air to one's offensive an

invasion. where for more we're joined by the deputy correspondent you hear han she's standing by at the border town for us in the tuc ish town of july pina good to see you you here now we understand of course it is day 4 of this offensive what is the latest where you are. well i'm about 5 kilometers away from the syrian border now let me show you something on this side here you can see many lights this is the turkish border town of pienaar but on the other side you see that there is a lot of darkness this is where at some point the syrian border starts the syrian border town. now this town has no electricity right now it used to have about 50000 inhabitants but they have most of them have reportedly left the area and now today turkey's defense ministry said that the army the turkish army and their

forces have captured and. we are hearing some very different information from the kurdish led as forces they there they are saying that's not true the battle is still going on and in fact there seem to still be clashes because we can hear gunfire and shelling we also had some military airplanes hovering above us today now the situation on the ground seems to be messy and weak at very different information on what's exactly going on there. that is on the syrian side and how is this operation affecting local people on the turkish side. well the security situation here at the turkish border is very tan as journalists we had to move locations all day as well because sometimes security forces would tell us it's not safe here there have been reprisal attacks from the syrian side

dish fight is firing mortars and rockets into turkish border towns at least 10 people were killed civilians here on the turkish side we just went to one funeral today and it was very difficult to see and how much pain people law of course and many turkish people here who say they stand behind this turkish military offensive and the turkish government but others who've lost loved ones say they are afraid and they feel like they are the victims of this operation and they want the violence to stop and another facet to this operation is the concerns about captured islamic state fighters escaping from makeshift kurdish prisons for us and on that. well yes kurdish fighters are keeping as you mentioned thousands of isis fighters in makeshift prisons the families their wives and children in the camps for tens of

thousands of people and just today again a commander of the kurdish led s.c.f. has warned and basically said when we are busy fighting the turkish army we can take care of these isis prison as we feel betrayed and we have to fight 2 battles now one against the turkish army and the other battle is still going on against the so-called islamic state now of course the cutter side has an interest of raising this issue of bringing this up because the international community is very worried about the situation of the isis prisoners over there but from everything we hear from the syrian side the situation in the camps is quite chaotic right now correspondent your heart at the border between turkey and syria for us thank you very much to you and your team for your reporting. well turkey has reacted with defiance to other nato countries criticism of its offensive in syria now in an exclusive interview with g w news the turkish foreign minister. who said

a german arms embargo would not deter his government from pressing the attack he also dismissed an offer by u.s. president donald trump to mediate between ankara and kurdish wife e.g. forces saying turkey does not negotiate with terrorists or. foreigners for new york state now with some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of pro kurdish marches in german cities have taken to the streets to protest the tuckshop salts in northern syria at least 10000 people demonstrated in cologne alone calling for an end to the offensive. more than 6000000 people have been asked to evacuate their homes as tropical cyclone hug a base makes landfall in japan at least 2 people are dead and 3 all this missing heavy rains and winds have been lashing tokyo meteorologists say that the typhoon could be the most dangerous move in 60 years. in ecuador indigenous protest leaders have accepted

a proposal for direct talks with the country's president protests began 9 days ago when the government cut fuel subsidies is out of austerity measures and since then the president has moved his administration from the capital quito to safety protests continued on saturday despite the announcement. and thousands of protesters have marched once again in hong kong against a ban on face masks at demonstrations many covered their faces despite the threat of up to one year in prison demonstrators defied police warnings that they were gathering illegally. well following this week's deadly fall right terror attack on a synagogue in the german city of harlow german politicians promised she would increase security at jewish houses of worship around the country but many muslim residents are also worried about far right violence he spoke with members of a mosque in berlin where many worry that they could be targeted next. the dar es salaam mosque in an area of berlin with

a large muslim population hundreds attend friday prayers here many are worried about wednesday's far right terror attack in a synagogue and a turkish kebab shop were targeted leaving them to ask if mosques are protected enough. that sick you just can't go there and indiscriminately shoot people it doesn't matter what religion the people followed this is very critical should anything ever happen here in any case it's questionable whether it's safe here. we would feel better if there was a police presence here for our protection. fiza facts just as much as the synagogues what happened is that the state and for police have to be more involved . germany's domestic intelligence had once watched the mosque for extremist views of its own but there is no sign of that today in

a sermon the man condemned the attack in holland saying the state is tasked to provide protection for all citizens. it actually doesn't matter if someone is a jew a muslim a christian or an atheist. in the end jewish people and muslims are more affected. we're a target for nazis and racists. and meanwhile not far away these people are also expressing solidarity between religions christians jews and muslims have gathered to pray for peace this kind of interfaith service is unusual appealing for intercultural dialogue working against hate and exclusion. of course you are always afraid as specially when you hear about attacks like the one just now in hell or when you ask yourself tomorrow will . as always some other group be the target the question is not only relevant for

muslims but for everyone. the terror attack in holland has put germany on edge the spotlight is on authorities to provide better security for jews muslims and everyone else. to talk through this now i'm joined in the studio by d.w. reporter would you know if you cross good to see we have 1st of all how big is the threat right now to germany's muslim community well there's of course lots of reporting both from the state and from nonprofit organizations about what kind of threats what kind of crimes are committed against muslims are committed against jews and other kinds of groups but i think it's important not to get too caught up in these numbers because a lot of these numbers are are criticizers a lot of questions about these numbers there's been reporting changes big changes in classifications and definitions. anti muslim crime isn't even of very much a formalized kind of crime in germany or it's just becoming that so there's there's a lot of questions about what these numbers are actually saying ultimately this is

not a competition for who gets police protection this as we saw in the report really comes to the very democratic foundations of germany absolutely and with that in mind how does germany that plan to confront far right violence when we're talking about that targeted at someone who is muslim someone who is jewish other people it's important also know that this is not the 1st time this question is coming up muslims and people that of the community have been saying for a long time they they think they need more protection as well as we've been hearing that from the jewish community as well we heard from the interior minister this week of germany or say off for talking about more policing going after online hate speech things we've heard before but i think more with the zoom out from these legal and criminal justice questions to be looking at you know the fact that horse they offer is own party the c.s.u. in their bavarian state elections try to out the the if the the alternative for germany party by going really hard to the right on questions of migration questions of minorities. we've been dealing with failures in the police and security

apparatus in germany from dealing with far right violent with far right groups repressing information denying that this problem is there so this this problem goes far beyond just how many police we put in front of a mosque or synagogue so these proposed steps then do they go far enough why i think this is as i said this is much more about a social question than a legal or policing question i mean let's look at khalid just as an example i mean in the 16 percent of voters there voted for the f.t. the far right party in the 2017 federal elections that's also reflected in the european elections the f.t. is the 2nd largest party in their state parliament and they're currently polling still in 2nd place for the 2021 state elections coming up so it's a bit rich to be nice to be talking about where this is hayden this anti-semitism and also anti muslim sent to me come can be coming from from just a lone wolf as we saw in wednesday's attack when really there's such a 5th of the population is voting for the f.t. or more in other parts of germany who would you know if you thank you very much

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