become a citizen. to migrants your platform for reliable information. this is deja news live from berlin turkey pushes on with its offensive in northern syria as international criticism outs with turkish backed troops ramping up their bombardment of kurdish militia the death toll is rising and now france and germany have halted arms exports to turkey also coming up poland at a crossroads as voters elect a new parliament today the ruling conservative long and justice party is seeking an absolute majority the critics fear another term could harm a once democracy. i'm

calling out and welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has told turkey to in mediately halt its offensive in northern syria merkel made the demand in a phone call with turkish president wretch of thai have everyone on sunday according to a german government spokesperson it comes a day after germany announced it would stop arms exports to turkey but everyone seems unmoved by efforts to stop his offensive or portable you know a blue cross joins me now in studio and william has more on this now look chancellor merkel is known to be cautious when it comes to getting involved in any sort of international conflicts what you make of this phone call cautious is to put it mildly i mean i go america has been in power for most 15 years there's almost no examples of her taking a leading or proactive role. especially when it comes to foreign policy especially

comes the military policy not only angela merkel but germany as a country does not tell other countries what to do given its history of occupying other countries and yet this phone call and yet this phone call so this is incredible and on top of that the threat that germany faces of from turkey of the refugees that turkey is keeping there is part of the e.u. turkey deal and that i'm going to call still makes this phone call despite the risks the political and just p.r. risks how it looks is really can't be understated and we should mention apparently this phone call was requested by ed on himself but but merkel saying these things on the phone call now before that phone call germany and other countries had also announced that they would halt and weapons exports to turkey here's how president responded today take a listen. despite the fact that we've been saying this for months. there are those who threaten economic sanctions and embargos.

those who think it will turn away from its power have been mistaken and mistaken. william the netherlands france norway germany and others they've they've also announced an end to weapons exports to turkey yet all of those countries interest in lee their nato allies i mean they're supposed to be working together right nato allies but also e.u. members sweden a nato partner not a member but a nato partner they've also called for a common easy response it's fascinating to see what's happening now turkey we cannot say this enough is a nato member they have the same rights the same obligations as every other nato country and this has been a long brewing conflict within nato about what to do with turkey as turkey tilts ever more to dictatorship to losing its democratic institutions under air to one and nato prides itself on being an alliance of democracies so we're seeing we're seeing maybe for the 1st time a real hard split within nato itself and between nato and the e.u.

let's talk about the e.u. we're also hearing that the european union is a preparing a common response to turkey do you think we're seeing europe stepping in now to fill the power vacuum that's been left by the united states you know the united states occupies such a huge amount of power in the world it will be hard to see how even a block as big as the european union to really step into that after decades of sort of shirking its responsibilities on the internationals on the world scale but we see that's that's where we're going the united states defrock threatening saying there has been nothing in this for in sex but also the same time defacto greenlit this operation by pulling u.s. troops out of harm's way to allow turkey to go in but let's not forget the u.s. is the real power broker here it's the u.s. that provides most of the arms to turkey i mean 2400 main battle tanks turkey has those are all from the u.s. so just how much power and influence and or european nato members can have in this situation really remains to be seen as can be fascinating see how it develops

a reporter william think of a much. well as that phone call was being placed fighting in northern syria raged on up to 200000 people have been forced to flee their homes with international aid slow to come through. syrian rebels backed by turkey advance into in one of several towns in syria close to the turkish border in an area that's been under kurdish control and that turkish forces and their local allies aim to seize. here they're posing in front of a poster of a gel and he may be in a turkish jail but the leader of the p.k. k. kurdish separatist movement in turkey remains a potent symbol reviled by the turkish leadership anchor and to crush the kurdish forces in syria the y.p. gene militia which it sees as terrorists linked to the p.k. k. but the kurds are putting up a fight the white p.g. where the united states

a key ally in the campaign against islamic state until president donald trump decided to pull u.s. forces out. of the fighting has already displaced as many as 200000 people in syria living near the border many simply don't know where to go and international aid efforts to get to get under way these people are camping by a road nicko been a. while and now we fled our village we were scared of the bones and we were worried about our children so we came here to save ourselves here we just sleep on the ground. international criticism of turkey's venture may be intensifying but president regift tired everyone is pressing on he says his aim is to create a safe zone to resettle syrian refugees currently in turkey as well as to defeat the y.p. g. adding to the turmoil in the region hundreds of people in northern syria have a scape from a camp or supporters of so-called islamic state correspondent julia han has more on

that from the syrian turkish border region. according to the information we get from the movie syria's several family members of isis fighters have managed to escape from a camp today a kurdish controlled camp southeast of the syrian town all the time yet where the fighting between the turkish army and because of fighting is currently taking place now we don't know how many people have managed to escape will watch where they might have gone but the camp was reportedly housing about 1000 i says a family members now this is a worst case something the kurdish forces in syria have been warning about they say we can't fight to battles we can't fight the turkish army and at the same time take care of these isis prisoners in this is of course leading to growing concerns internationally that in the end the so-called islamic state might benefit from the emerging chi is there in northeast syria. you've gone there reporting for us from

the turkish syrian border let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world typhoon hog abyss has roared across japan leaving at least 35 people dead and many more injured in one of the strongest storms to hit the country in recent history rescue efforts are underway after record rains triggered major flooding and landslides. hong kong pro-democracy activists have scaled the city's lion brock peak 500 meters high to erect a statue that they called lady liberty it represents of injured female protester believed to have been shot and the eye by police additional pop up protest took place in multiple locations across the city on sunday. thousands gathered in central berlin on sunday to protest anti-semitism and right wing violence comes after 2 people were shot dead in the eastern germans city of hollow a gunman attempted a massacre at a synagogue there where around 50 people were observing the yom kapoor holiday. in

poland voters are choosing a new parliament today the incumbent's nationalist law and justice party under jaroslav kaczynski was ahead in pre-election surveys and it's hoping for an absolute majority today party is presenting itself as the defender of traditional catholic values against what it calls quote l g b t ideology the vote is also being closely watched in european capitals the law and justice party has an act of controversial justice reforms as well as fiercely resisting e.u. efforts to resettle foreign refugees in poland. all right let's head to poland now our correspondent olivia cortazar standing by for us live via according to those polls we heard about the law and justice party has the support of about 40 percent of the population why is it doing so well. well the people here feel that the living standard has been rising and they connect

that to the governing party peace has introduced in the very beginning in 2015 and the last months of 2015 social benefit programs which has promised before meaning that family scott child benefits which is around $130.00 per child and that's a lot of money in poland especially in the countryside where peace is very strong so people vote for this party because they know they can expect more social benefits for the next 4 years and they think that their life will be better with this part and. what about the opposition now in this election want are they campaigning on. well the opposition really lost a chance i think because people don't really know what they're complaining on at the moment it's very much about being bar you. being a state of. with the rule of law and being against peace not having peace and you

can see that even in research. in the polls they show that people vote for the governing party for the oppositional parties to avoid peace being in government again. but after all you can say that they are not doing that but the 3 governing oppositional blocs on the left side of the government have around 467 percent when you look at the polls piece of course being p.r. yes that's the polish abbreviation for lawn justice party quickly can you give give us more background on this controversial judicial reforms that are taking place in poland what's going on there. well for the last 4 years we saw more and more laws being introduced and when we look at that point what what they have done we can say that every entity of the justice system has been has been changed has been affected and while it does just the system becomes more and more young more and more political we can for example look at the constitutional court it was

targeted in the very beginning it would not would not rule against the interests of the governing party at the moment anymore or for example there's been a law introduced which makes it possible for the minister of justice to appoint and dismiss all the presidents and vice presidents of the courts in poland so basically the rule flows freely in danger tear many eyes across europe ron paul once a day want is at stake in this election. we are not sure if peace will have to build a coalition or not that's like the most and pressing question today if they have to build a coalition they cannot just rule on as they have done for the last 4 years. i think that the people here like the most probable experts say for example the most probable outcome is result will be that peace will not have to go into a coalition and it can just go on as of just on the last years but if they have to

go in the coalition it will probably be with the. right wing populists and then they will have to do compromises and probably the situation to become calmer even are the polls close there in just a few hours olivia quarter or sophomores thank you very much. and to sports now gymnast simone biles is so good even we have trouble keeping up with her she was competing in the world championships in stuttgart and byelaws tied the all time mark yesterday closing her 23rd championships medal and well she went on to top that record today collecting medals number 24 and 25 with golds in the beam and 4 events biles surpasses vitalis serbo to become the most decorated gymnast male or female in world championships history and quite a weekend in sports the records just keep on falling history was also made at the chicago marathon on sunday kenya's brigade caus guys smashed the women's marathon

record a stunning 71 seconds previous holder paolo broad cliffs radcliffe's record had stood for 16 years because they finished the race clocking in at 2 hours 14 minutes and 3 seconds. are to formula one now and mercedes driver voluntary boat has eased to victory at the japanese grand prix ensues aka the race weekend had been disrupted of course by typhoon a key piece with qualifying also taking place on sunday the fins victory secures a 6th straight constructors title for his team it also guarantees mercedes will win the driver's title the toss is $64.00 points behind his teammate lewis hamilton with 4 races to go but hamilton can wrap up the championship at the next race in mexico. you're watching news live from berlin up next play your way to success shift looks into the gaming industry and not forget

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