this is news a live from berlin u.s. president trump imposes sanctions to halt turkey's offensive in northern syria now this comes as the conflict there approaches a dangerous escalation with syrian government forces advancing towards turkish positions the u.s. is calling for turkey to withdraw also coming up. from political outsider to president of tunisia young voters propel law professor of tice saeed to a landslide win as he vows to implement reforms of direct democracy.

plus mozambique goes to the polls will the ruling party's decades long hold on power slip our correspondent is on the ground for today's general. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us the united states has imposed economic sanctions on turkey that after president trump demanded an immediate cease fire in syria and a phone call with president erred on the sanctions include an end to talks on a $100000000000.00 trade deal vice president mike pence is also heading to ankara for talks we're getting live pictures right now on the ground the offensive inside syria can continue these are the latest images coming in from ross and that's just across the border with turkey turkey is targeting

a number of syrian towns close to its border and has been pushing deeper than expected. now at the same time from the south syrian government forces are advancing to join up with kurdish fighters in the very same area. syrian troops heading towards the turkish border 80 years after president bashar assad lost control over northern syria his army is moving back and. the kurds who control the region saw no alternative other than to relinquish their hard won autonomy and enlist the syrian government's help turkish air strikes and artillery have continued to rain down on the border town of ras i lie in the. turkish backed rebel groups have already expelled the kurds from. another town on the border. but in nearby tell assad's troops arrive to hold the turkish advance. but we came here to tell some air to face the

turkish attack against syria and to ensure the safety of families from the random turkish shelling. the development risks a direct confrontation between syrian and turkish forces meanwhile u.s. troops are continuing their withdrawal from northern syria president donald trump has said he'll keep quote a small footprint stationed in southern syria and threaten turkey with economic sanctions for its offensive against the kurds at the white house u.s. vice president mike pence who said to fly to ankara to negotiate a cease fire with turkish president at a one set out the administration's agenda there is the president's objective here is very clear that the sanctions that were announced today will continue. and will worsen unless and until turkey. embraces an immediate cease fire stops the violence and agrees to negotiate

a long term settlement of the issues along the border between turkey and syria the european union has 0. also condemned the operation the bloc agreed to limit sales of weapons to turkey but fell short of announcing sanctions. for many more so that the pup was formally it was not possible to have an embargo that all countries committed to no longer delivering. the pretty they. don't. don't ask me right now what is happening with the ongoing contracts. to see who definitely is up to each country to see what they do it's never the less a very strong decision. but in ankara president ever one vow to press on. it over but we guard most of the threats and pressures we're determined to continue the operation until the end i'm stating clearly we will absolutely finish the job we started. as turkey continues its advance its civilians who

left to pay the price let's go straight now to did have you corresponding uli on standing by for us is an oxford kahlo that's on the turkish side of the border good day to you can you tell us what's happening right now behind you there are areas that we can see there on the syrian side of the border. i'm about 5 kilometers away from the syrian border which is 2 would say this on the other side you have the syrian town of tell of yet and reportedly it has been captured by the turkish military and its allies it was one of the main targets of this offensive but they're struggling to capture another crucial town called. we hear about fierce clashes still continuing over there and there is a new front line now there in northeast syria off of the kurdish let forces that have officially turned to the syrian regime for military assistance of bashar al

assad has been sending units off troops to parts of northeast in syria yesterday for the 1st time in years because the because that had officially trucked of damascus rule in 20121 year after the war started and assad's forces had withdrawn from the area and now they're all returning and they're facing the terror kasia armed forces that along and new frontline and this is essentially a victory for bashar al assad and his most powerful ally russia because it means they're gaining a foothold in an area that was beyond their control for many years ok now to contain the situation where you are the united states has imposed sanctions vice president on his way to the region can this type of american pressure president. well it's definitely a lot of pressure but president seems to be determined to go ahead with that this

so peroration no matter what but it's safe to assume that any kind of sanctions there from the u.s. will further had an already weak turkish economy an economy that has not fully recovered yet from last year's currency crisis now trump raised to terrorism steal back up to 50 percent something he did last year already to press for the release of a u.s. pastor in detention here in turkey he also suspended talks on a tech u.s. trade deal worth $100000000000.00 u.s. dollars and he imposed sanctions on 3 turkish ministers now no immediate a fact strong effect on the turkish lira it has a loss dramatically in value but foreign investors might be scared off by the sanctions they might not one to invest their money here in turkey. where are they headed and can they expect any international help.

from what we understand from over there it's extremely difficult right now for any kind of aid organizations and n.g.o.s to help the people there according to the united nations 160000 people have to escape they're fleeing deeper into kodesh controlled areas than in north in syria to what cities like iraq about the big question are there are they actually fleeing to what safety because the situation has changed now says troops all returning and for many people on the syrian side but refugees here on the turkish side as well this is an absolute nightmare. well european union negotiators have indicated they want more concessions from british prime minister boris johnson if abraxas deals to be agreed by the end of this month and pressure is building on all sides as an eve summit looms later this week johnson says he wants to strike an exit deal at that summit meanwhile in

london queen elizabeth spelled out the government's legislative program at the opening of a new session of parliament. queen elizabeth on her way to deliver her 64th queen's speech steeped in pomp and tradition the formal opening of the parliamentary season sees the british monarch reading out the prime minister's legislative agenda my government's priority has always been to secure the united kingdom's departure from the european union on the 31st of october my government intends to work towards a new partnership with the european union based on free trade and friendly cooperation. but opponents of prime minister boris johnson excuse him of instrumental laws in the queen in a stunt to support his political manifesto in the parliamentary debate following the queen's speech labor party leader jeremy corbyn took aim at johnson. mr speaker

there is never been such a farce as a government with a majority of minus 45 and a 100 percent record of defeat in the house of commons. setting out a legislative agenda they know cannot be delivered in this parliament and indeed with bricks at negotiations going down to the line and persistent rumors of snap elections the queen could soon be back opening parliament for the 65th time. well yet another crucial week for breakfast. joins us now to take us through it good morning baggett the new says it wants more concessions from boris johnson we have the finnish prime minister even saying the deadline for breakfast at the end of this month is impossible or what's the response to that in london.

well in london people are asking themselves whether this e.u. summit at the end of this week that was supposed to be the crunch time of the brics it's ahmed and boris johnson's opportunity to move on to actually execute what he has just laid out in the queen's speech whether this is actually going to be the crunch summit that was supposed to be we know that the british government have laid out a very complicated proposal this new proposals as for the situation another nod and which was always the stumbling block for getting anything agreed between the e.u. and the u.k. so new concessions more concessions on needed says brussels and here in london people are asking themselves well if this is the case then surely the negotiations need to go on a little longer we know that a cabinet meeting that's traditionally held on tuesday morning said today is going to be postponed so the update of the cabinet is postponed so that indicates that you know the negotiations that was supposed to end imminently end today and

tomorrow in order to prepare for the e.u. summit that might just go on a little bit longer ok is that the expectation then that these negotiations will be continuing how long can they continue. well boris johnson has always said at the end of october britain is going to leave the european union do or die those were his words and in order for that to happen at the e.u. summit at the end of this week in just 2 days' time it would have to be agreed or on the other hand britain would leave without any deal so those other options however if johnson decided well he does want drawl it would be beneficial. to not just leave the european union and then just see what happens with all the economic consequences the consequences for security he might just try and look for an extension this is what palm and want parliament wants parliamentarians in the

prime minister to do seek an extension they're trying to bind his hands to do so but we will see at the end of the summer and then on saturday when there's an extraordinary session of the u.k. parliament that basically take stock of what's happening and take stock of what will have been the result of the e.u. summit on saturday we should know more but we really know that time is really really showed the end of october is nearing and that's really the next deadline for the whole break that saga ok those states approaching very quickly now bigger thanks so much for that from london. just briefly down some of the other stories making news today spanish riot police have used tear gas and rubber bullets against pro dependence demonstrators in barcelona that after a court imposed long prison sentences on cattle on separatist leaders dozens were injured in those clashes spain's supreme court convicted the probe cut along politicians of illegally promoting independence. a large

fires force an overcrowded camp for asylum seekers to be evacuated on the island of sawmills greece it's not nuclear was started that place although it did follow earlier clashes there the site houses thousands of people that despite having a capacity for just a few 100. margaret atwood is one of the joint winners of the a booker prize for her novel the testaments a sequel to her 1905 novel handmaid's tale shares the prize with bernadine. who won for her work girl woman other it's to tunisia now where officials have confirmed a landslide victory for say he'd the 61 year old former law professor is now set to become that country's president the vote has been very closely watched it's only the 2nd democratic election since an uprising in the country help spark the arab spring back in 2011 so he'd thank the country's young people for turning

a new page and has vowed to build a new tunisia. joy explodes on the main boulevard in tunis proud of this still budding democracy. doesn't a site supporters say liberating the men would they say can keep alive the spirits of the 20 levon revolution. that in the young people showed they can use their vote to change the system several political parties give a lot of money to win this presidency but the people and the young ones who were part of the revolution in 2011 did it again a new revolution this time with a ballot. case sayed is a low profile conservative low professor he come pain for ready called decentralization and plates to build a democracy that all tunisians including the youth can have a say in. oh yeah because we will face up to all the

challenges without blood sweat and that will power especially the economic and the social ones because the tunisian people expect solutions in this respect. but he will have to work with a parliament where no party has a clear majority the support is though i'm hopeful that the independent outsider can convince and succeed. let's talk about this more now. abraham in the studio with me this morning good morning i see you again you know we're looking at some interesting polls that show 90 percent of 18 to 25 year olds voted for saeed what's his appeal with young voters i think it's because he's not a politician and i think young people have had enough of traditional tunisian politicians and. is exactly the opposite of that he's a law professor people say that he's a newcomer to politics it's true that he's not a career politician but he's been on the scene for quite some time as

a constitutional law and this is appears in the media quite regularly he was also involved in the drafting of the 2014 constitution he's also you know really portrayed himself as someone who's not seeking power we can see this in the way that he has run this campaign a very very spartan campaign if you will not a lot of advertising has a real light so much on. external funding notably did not do any campaigning in the 2nd phase of the election because his opponent was in prison and you know as a constitutional law professor he knew full well that you know should he win his up his opponent could appeal a thing that he wasn't able to campaign and as such he refrained from campaigning and still he won this landslide i think this anti-corruption spirit that he has really appeals to young voters who've had enough of a stylish politician you know and knowing the constitutional ins and outs as being one of the fall. of the 24000 constitution courses will help him with the divided

parliament we're looking at right now no party has a majority can he get his goals his priorities through with a divided parliament well yes and no i mean we have to really understand the rule of the president in tunisia's governance the president unlike the president's role before the arab spring he has limited powers his powers are limited to foreign policy and defense the parliament is really the one that has a lot of power to approve laws however the president does have sort of some influence to set the tone of the government most notably the last president was the one who proposed that tunisia consider and equal inheritance law he had no power to approve it but he could initiate it and then it would go into parliament so he saw for women and for men and women most notably and you know that there was met with a lot of resistance but the president had the power to sort of initiated that debate so he does have power to initiate the debate but you know it is still limited but i think you know he is an independent and with this parliament really

being uncharted territory for the arab world with so many independents maybe there this new spirit will inspire some sort of unprecedented cooperation this election has definitely been a surprise and so in many of us and that means maybe the government will be as well ok hopefully there's more pleasant surprises ahead we'll be following this very closely thanks for that mozambique is holding elections today to choose a new president and parliament now you see the current president is expected to win a 2nd term the party he leads for a lemo overthrew portuguese colonial rule 44 years ago and has not lost a national vote since then but it will not be quite as easy for frail emo this time around to use it to increase explains why. a religious song usually giving things to go but in this campaign version the lyrics have been changed sing the praises of incumbent president phillip in youssif

and his freely to the president as messiah. now damaged and you see. where voting for president you see on the free my party for the sake of continuity. you see he kept his promise. he said every district should have a pac and a hospital and that's exactly what he delivered. he makes everything better and going to. 2 2 sing in the future we can see many projects in mozambique i think president knows. the men we can issues. which president you see is presenting himself as a peacemaker and organise the scientists story peace agreement with the former rebel group. that was already the 3rd music remains and once again it is a very fragile one hour journey takes us to go on goes in central mozambique this

area was devastated by 15 years of civil war which pitted the ruling socialist for lima party against the opposition mozambique a national resistance or party young people here especially hope that the old conflict over ideology is now coming to an end. if we have peace i will have a better chance to graduate because of the conflict i could not study the economy is down and there is no money. but it is always again. this is because i much as well the situation appears to be calm and peaceful right here there's still some tensions because not far from here up in the hills this is where some members of the armed opposition hiding. this is the real now more stronghold of the parties . some resistance fighters are refusing to accept the peace agreement and want to stop the election it was clear to local politician and mr angeleno during the election campaign that the internal conflict could cost in our movie but he's

optimistic the party will unite and outrun the free labor party. that the push taking as a different number wins the elections we will change many things socially economically in all of the areas that affect the mozambican people so that they can finally live freely and happily. leave it even more important that more to. inequality is a huge problem here powerful fall mozambicans live in poverty. the country is only slowly recovering from an economic crisis and president you see his government has recently been plagued by several corruption scandals. the election will be closed and for the 1st time in years and up the struggle for the ruling for the party. it's the football now and england's euro 2020 qualifying match against. was

overshadowed by racism from home fans after monkey chants directed at england players there were nazi salutes in the stands now as a result the referee stopped play twice in the 1st half with warnings made over the stadium sound system a 3rd stoppage would have led to the match being called off england won in the end 6 now the incident has again raised the issue of how to deal with racism in football naturally because if they want to be recognized for their football they want they were playing so well that they didn't want to beat the pitch at that moment as well i'm sure that would have been part of their thinking so. i'm incredibly proud of all of the players and all the stuff i don't think. of course we could be criticised for not going far enough but i think we've made a huge statement and. frankly we're in an impossible situation to get it right to the satisfaction of everybody. he speaks of course this is an extremely important

topic not only for poker area but for england and for all nations. like i am for strong punishments if such a thing exists but it also has to be proved if it is not proved then it is just speculation. just because. now researchers of film striking images of humpback whales off the alaskan coastline scientists use the drone and an underwater camera to capture the photo footage that delivers new insights into the life of whales. when humpback whales feed they use a sophisticated hunting method. the whale surround a swarm of plankton squiggle fish trapping it with a net and. then they dive through the bubble neck tunnel and swallow their prey.

humpback whales are believe in whales they use a calm like structure and up a jaw to filter out the plankton. the footage is is rather groundbreaking serving how these animals are manipulating their prey. and preparing a prey for for capture so it is allowing us to gain new insights that we haven't really been able to do before. the research help scientists to understand how humpback whales feed what they feed on and how their bodies change will grow. the whales way up to 40 tons during the summer feeding period thousands of humpback whales. here that eat up to 1.5 tons of plankton a day then they had to hawaii for the winter breeding period. when the whales leave their foraging grounds they don't hide again until they return several months later

. it's reminder top stories this hour as all sides seize strategic positions in northern syria u.s. president has called on turkey to halt its offensive against kurdish forces that he's ordered sanctions replaced on. don't forget you can always get to their views on the go download our app from apple player apple store that'll give you access for all the latest news from around the world as well as christopher hitchens we're going to break so you can also use that uk app to send us photos videos. this is the interview news live from berlin our football magazine kickoff is up next i'm brian thomas for the entire song of the.

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