this is d w news live from berlin going from bad to worse in northern syria aid groups are suspending their work there as turkey's assault on the kurds intensified meanwhile russia says syrian government troops now control the key town of monday's show as they seek to contain the turkish assault also coming up tonight gary is football federation chief says he is resigning after racist chants and nazi salutes overshadowed a euro 2020 qualifier between his country side and english football bosses are now

left asking how do we tackle racism in soccer probably one of the most of pulling though it's also useful to do think you a fan have to take time to collect all the facts and then decide how to act appropriately. and a deal to stop the u.k. from crashing out of the european union could now be in breach that's according to the e.u. use chief rights if they go she talks are still going on in brussels but time is running out. it's good to have you with us turkey's incursion into northern syria continues for a 7th day and that's despite u.s. economic sanctions and increasingly loud criticism from nato and the european union but the decision by u.s. president trump withdrawal from syria. it has left

a vacuum syrian government forces have moved into the area as part of their deal with the kurdish administration to thwart the turkish led assault and syria's ally russia is also moving to fill the void left by the us. the syrian town of ras al-ain pounded by turkish a tillery across the border. a week into turkey's offensive in northern syria fighting still rages here. turkish backed syrian militias seen here at battling kurdish fighters who are counterattacking to retake the town. the turkish onslaught has left the kurdish autonomous administration in northern syria little choice but to turn to the assad regime for help. syrian government troops have pushed forward to stop the turkish advance. they have reached the city of man bage a strategic town situated on

a major highway. syrian state television was on the ground as a local celebration at the troops arrival. russian troops have also been spotted in the town and the russian foreign ministry says it's just have created a buffer between the syrian and turkish armies to avoid a direct confrontation. it's moscow that has gained most from the withdrawal of u.s. troops and the subsequent turkish attack. the deal between the kurds and moscow's and i are sad gives russia access to northern syria previously under us way. as washington's influence wanes russian president vladimir putin's striding the regional stage after the visit to saudi arabia he was received by abu dhabi's crown prince mohammed bin ziad on choose day. the us of imposed sanctions while the european union imposed a limited farms and go on tacky german chancellor angela merkel on monday called

for an end to fighting. it's a bill from another thought so i have already said from my side that we believe that with the justified security interests this offensive should be ended because it just visit people losing a lot of human suffering and it's also bringing a lot of uncertainty with the fight against. it. but for now the offensive continues and so does the human suffering a civilians a caught between the fronts night these young victims of turku shelling in a hospital in rounds online there's. those who can getting out the u.n. says that 160000 people have already fled the fighting. well that is the civilians being exacerbated after the decision by international aid organizations to evacuate their staff the n.g.o.s say that security concerns due to fighting across the region are simply made their jobs nearly impossible to report

are alex force one and she joins us now to talk about. what are these charities what are they saying what i think the last 24 hours for these n.g.o.s has been a absolutely critical and one of the charities medicine so from his doctors without borders has said that it has suspended almost all medical aid in the region and evacuated all its international staff because the situation on the ground is so bad i also spoke to save the children who said the same thing that they they don't have that many international workers they say in the region but they too have been in fact evacuated there now in erbil in the kurdistan region in northern iraq but they say that the local stuff all still in place and dealing with what is left and valid d.w. also spoke to the u n who said that even some of that n.g.o.s who they thought no way the path to suspend all operations in the region because it is just so bad and we've also heard

from one german aid worker. he left a refugee camp in northeast syria what did she say yeah verrina loughborough and she works for the german and chicago and she's been involved in running a mobile hospital in one of syria's largest refugee camps called the al hole. and they've been walking with the kurdish red crescent to try to help refugees in that camp and even including the wife of the children of some of the islamic state fight is now she left the camp on monday and she's now also in but she said that she's very concerned with those workers who are still in the region because they can't help them let's have a listen. the problem is right now and there's also services and i parents cannot be provided anymore since our international viewers who are stuck there for our local organizations are charity organizations such as us are going to.

have to. provide all the subsystems selves you know i was into a sure into a tree just to build your patients millions and take care of hundreds of thousands internally displaced people or to situation we just were ready to materially crisis you know it's a horrible situation and alex always the question is are these charities are they going to return well over an allowable has said that she doesn't know when or even if it will be possible to return and save the children have said that monitoring the situation closely but it is changing hour by hour i think n.g.o.s a really hoping that there can be some kind of aid to cora door so that they can at least get supplies into the region but given what's going on and what we heard in that report it's looking very bleak tonight very difficult for those aid agencies to do anything apart from you know call him and see what happens it's a bad situation for sure i would force one is always the next thank you.

well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world supporters of cattle on independence have clashed with police in barcelona during a 2nd day of protests the demonstrations were sparked by the jailing of 9 separatist kind of one leaders by the spanish supreme court on monday activists have also disrupted transport across the region german police now believe that a syrian man who ran the stolen truck into several vehicles a week ago did not have terrorist motives 8 people were injured in that incident in the western german town of limbo the investigation has now been transferred to local police police in russia have concluded nationwide raids on offices linked to opposition leader a late scene of all these anti corruption foundation in september and of all the helped organize mass protests in moscow ahead of local elections is foundation has since been declared a foreign agent making it subject to spot checks and increased bureaucratic

scrutiny by the russian state. where the head of bulgaria's football federation has announced that he will resign following pressure from the country's prime minister now this comes after bulgarian fans targeted england players with racist abuse in a euro 2020 qualifying match in sofia yesterday the match which england won 6 nil was stopped twice because of the racial chants. prior to the match bulgaria had already been ordered to keep 5000 seats of the wasilewski stadium empty as punishment for previous racist behavior in the home matches against kosovo and czech republic bulgaria fans once again the track did negative attention with nazi salutes and monkey chops. directed at england players like write him sterling marcus rash food and tire and mix in accordance with you

a for protocol the referee stopped play twice but the visitors decided not to walk off the pitch despite hinting they may do so in the build up. we had a conversation. did you want to play and if you want to. stop we made a collective decision to continue again we thought it was important. we'd heard it was a pro quos had been follows and it happened again we would have that. done to the next step and come off the pitch but. no major incidents occurred in the 2nd half but the bulgarian association now face severe consequences from including a potential exclusion from all european competitions. well i'm joined now by pablo claiming co he is responsible for the eastern europe region at fair which stands for football against racism in europe pavol liska to have you on the show let me

ask you do you think that the players for england should they have stayed on the pitch last night or should they have walked away. that's a very good question you know this situation they're not very easy to handle both for for leaders for toshi stuff and obviously for us so when at the end of the 1st time that this 2nd step will today you have a 3 step protocol should have been activated the players decided to stay which is decision that that should be commended i think the focus should remain on that dog is a racist abuse anyway and ensuring they have adequate support well so do we have 2 problems here that we have the problem of how to react and how to i guess punish fans when they're doing this but the other problem is of course the fact that you do have fans who are racists which which one do you tackle 1st. well i think 1st of course you have to tackle the problem doc said some fans are engaging in

discriminatory behavior and this is. they're out catalogs of things you could do to tackle this problem the question oftentimes is whether there is political will to do so you know whether to start tackling the problem you have to acknowledge it identify the people who are engaging in these exclude them from the stadium and then you know continue with education and this is something we have not seen in vogue area there have been countless incidents at club level at national level we have you know we knew basically. this sports in the stadium where things were going to happen and those areas if they knew that and still they were in denial so the responsibility lies completely on the health well what about the political aspect of this the the head of bulgaria's football federation has resigned but we understand that that decision came only after pressure was applied on him to do so by bulgaria's prime minister if there had not been that pressure do you think he

would have taken any action. i think there have being many signs that have been calling for for him to resign after what happens. i mean if you write letters to the england there's a saying there is no racism in bulgaria and you know will guarantee he was offended for even raising the issue of racism and then your fans racially use england players than any decent person would resign and. what do you think needs to be done now because obviously we do have this problem of racism and we also have the problem of how to deal with it what your organization for example fair what are you doing right now to combat this problem. we do soon sorts of things the 1st one is tackling at discrimination that is being manifested in the professional game at grassroots levels we have an observer system operating outside international competitions that you often see far we send strange people to the stadiums to report these incidents of discrimination and then passing it on to the

usa and see for the simpson every to support the legal process to issue sanctions for this type of behavior so this incidence rates do not remain down. and the 2nd. a 2nd way of our work is is using the positive value of football to educate and sue to bring people together and promote diversity because football has enormous power and as i sat there. the action plans and the number of things you could do to tackle that problem have been known for a for decades now it's the question is about introducing the many elements well bob let me ask you this though you say football has tremendous power to unite people you know bring people of different backgrounds together but it's at these football these these soccer matches where we see these racist attacks happen so there's something about football that's also we're tracting racist fans. well part of the

problem is and to trace an old defined of cultures in many countries including eastern europe but also in germany and in the u.k. spain wherever you are you see infiltration by organized far right groups who are using a suitable stadium's as stages for their hate and for their propaganda we see bulgarian using the flags of the 3 inch far right extremist political parties that will matches instead of all banners of their own teams and so i think this has to be taken very seriously and this will really with the rise of the far right across europe and it acts on minorities on refugees l.g.b. th you people that are out there reflection. it's a very good point it's impossible to separate society politics and sports. from fair which is an anti-discrimination organisation however we appreciate your

time your insights tonight thank you thank you very much still to come on the w. news what to wear on a trip to the moon nasa has just previewed its 21st century suits for the next lunar mission be the bees own style guru is going to be here he's going to do a bit of catwalk for ben's future space walk. the european union's deep breaths of the go she says that a deal with the u.k. is still possible and that the coming hours could be decisive michel barnier updated e.u. ministers on the state of negotiations today he told the meeting in what's a bird that he wants britain to turn its latest proposals into a written legal agreement by the end of today and this could then be given to e.u. leaders to sign off on at the summit which begins on thursday. working against the clock to use corporal visa she joins us now from brussels you

can hear the tick tock tick tock harbor here that brits a clock this sounds like positive news or brags it what do you think serious labor and i've been hearing this tick tock of the bricks of a clock for years now and it just seems to be tick tocking on and on and on but this again is a looming deadline within the next hours or maybe tomorrow morning there seems to be no exact cut off point there is said to be the possibility of an outline of the deal now we have to be careful here this is not a ready made deal to be signed off by everybody who is involved this is just the basic political agreement on the direction things are going in and from what we hear from mostly british sources and of course irish sources they say that boris johnson seems to have made a huge uterine sort of gone back on all these promises that never quit

a british prime minister sign something that would sort of leave the northern island was in the realm of the. e.u. customs union but if we look more closely we seem to be moving in that direction yes a very good point barbara stand by because we want to take a look at yale the biggest obstacle in those books of talks between the u.k. and the european union. at the moment you don't notice a border issue when driving between northern ireland on the republican line and unless you want to stop for gas on one side of the border you pay in europe on the other in pounds everyone here is used to coming and going with the east. but now breck's it is making things complicated. at the moment the u.k. entering northern ireland and the republic of ireland are 2 independent states but

because they're both in the european union there are no border posts or controls if britain leaves the e.u. as planned the rules will change. and external border would be put up between northern ireland and the republic of ireland and it would have to be secured after all the e.u. has strict rules on which products are allowed to be imported or export it and under which conditions the problem is no one wants a hot border between northern ireland and the republic of violent. border patrols and guard posts assembles of one of the darkest chapters in island history the northern island conflict the troubles and much more than 3500 people were killed starting in 1969. only with a 998 good friday agreement to the violence come to an end together with the e.u.

support the deal paved the way to peace. many worry that the conflict may flare up again in the course of britain's exit from the e.u. and several attacks in recent months suggest that this concern is not unfounded. my but how can bracks it take place while preventing a heart in an irish border at the same time a comprehensive customs and trade deal between the e.u. and britain would be one solution but this has yet to be agreed. that's why the e.u. has proposed a so-called backstop a kind of insurance that if needed guarantees they'll be no hard border on the island of ireland. the backstop stipulates that the whole of the u.k. would remain in a customs union with the e.u. following brax it until a better solution is found which basically means that trade would remain as it is

for the time being but with one key difference britain would have to abide by e.u. regulations even after bracks it yet would have no say in the rules after all the country would no longer have been a member. so it's no wonder that the backstop is so controversial in britain prime minister bars johnson sees this provision as unacceptable. and so the irish buddha question remains the greatest obstacle on the long road to break set. of the long road to briggs barbara what options are left to be negotiated then let me ask you this i mean we know that boris johnson is making concessions right now do you think at the end of the day the brics a deal is going to look like the deal that the former prime minister theresa may negotiate. basically yes but with

a difference because what boris johnson seems to want to agree to is a requires a massive leap of faith because it is in a way a political absurdity northern ireland is supposed to leave the european union with great britain together so they go and it also is supposed to leave the customs union but only in see it or theory because in practice northern ireland is supposed to stay on the territory. within the realm of the european regulations and therefore it's a mess of leap off face and of course it seems it seems a political gymnastics of the more evolved kind political gymnastics of the evolved card or you heard it from our own or provincial or both thank you. time to get dressed now nasa has given us a 1st look at its next generation of space suits the equipment has been designed to protect astronauts on the artemis mission which will take men back to the moon men

and women of course the space suits are customized to fit women as well as men although there have been advances in space suit technology for space walks during the shuttle missions these are the 1st u.s. space suits designed for exploring the surface of the moon since the apollo missions which ended back in the early 1970 s. . wow. all right i'm joined now here at the big table by the w.'s gare hard as you may know him he's one of our business anchors but he has made a name for yourself by talking about what we wait here with his dress code video series which focuses on the rules and the sins of attire in today's business world he's the perfect man to evaluate nasa's latest fashion plates here it is good to have you on the show what do you make then of these new space so i am not quite sure whether really the right man has been about this but they have been on the

policy side on they i mean if you look at the old one these are the old ones by the way that the poet stones have worn back of the day weighing 90 kilos that's 200 pounds here on earth but only one 6th of it of course on the moon but the new of the new equipment of course is much more sophisticated and still is is basically it is what you and i wear as well as work where is the appropriate give that you need to read your place of work and for you and me it says this was would be the one i guess that the women would be wearing that's the old one with that's the old one the new. suit that they've been introducing today is sort of really redesigned and you can see it looks much bald here but it has. very complicated and very tricky joints that make movement easier on there that is built for human beings it's built for human beings and it's and to from the back that's a that's a novelty so that makes it easier to create the space that you need

kind of like a suit with cleats in the back and we exactly and pleats around the midriff because even in this day and age they will be wearing diapers like garments. a vast space will they don't like it the astronauts nasa says they still have to have that were something like i was ok and what about the heroes behind the scenes you know the men and women who helped get that 1st mission to the moon i mean look how they were dressed yes i mean this is of course as you can imagine much more like it those were the day and it was a day in age when men dressed in suits and ties for for work i mean back in the day these men were the heroes that brought the 3 heroes to the moon but hundreds of them were working and you're using lament the loss of this very very very much culture very much so the. that's behind this kind of dress. it is

always good to look at things through your fashion thank you thank you. this is news and these are our top stories turkey has continued its incursion into northeastern syria for a 7th day this despite international condemnation and u.s. economic sanctions washington's military withdrawal has opened up a power vacuum syrian government forces backed by russian troops now control the key. area around. supporters of cattle on independence have clashed with police in barcelona during a 2nd day of protests the demonstrations were sparked by the jailing of 9 separatist leaders by the spanish supreme court activists also disrupted transport across the region. the european union negotiated michel barnier a deal with the u.k. is still possible this week but time is ticking as the party has asked britain to

come up with a written legal agreement by the end of tuesday ahead of thursday's summit and european leaders. the race is abuse of the england players at a you're 2020 qualifier in sofia's prompted the head of vogue areas football federation to announce his resignation players are subjected to nazi salutes from the state.

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