thank you. this is date of you do fly for lent the deal is done britain and the european union say they have reached an agreement on the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. the e.u. calls it fair and balanced but any deal still needs to be backed by all but use member states and the u.k. parliament so what are the prospects of success. u.s. officials arrive in turkey to try to broker a ceasefire in northern syria they'll try to persuade congress to end the offensive

that started when u.s. troops withdrew but turkey's president is palin to push ahead of her guard. and a former s.s. guard at a nazi concentration camp goes on trial in germany the 93 year old is accused of being an accessory to more than $1000.00 counts of murder so why has it taken so long for this trial to take place. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us britain and the e.u. say they have reached a deal on the u.k.'s withdrawal from the european union british prime minister boris johnson is hailing it as a quote great new deal and urging the u.k. parliament to approve it this week johnson and european commission president have just been talking about the breakthrough in brussels the deal has resulted a range of sticking points and. it's set to be agreed in principle at

a european union leaders summit which is supposed to start shortly but johnson's northern irish allies in parliament they do you say they do not back the deal well let's hear what the 2 had to say about some key issues. and this is. really. just could be. improved aren't. we have. to protect the right. one to protect peace and stability on the. caribbean node on the private. market protect. these it's not about us. is about peter. piece i do think that this deal represents a very good deal breaker for the e.u. and the u.k. and it's a reasonable outcome. flex the large amount of work that's being

undertaken by by both sides and i really very much drawn toward what you said about protecting the peace process in the. northern ireland and of course for us in the u.k. it means that we can deliver a real brick seat that achieves our views all right let's go to our correspondent who is following all the action for us from brussels a garret tell us more about what boris johnson and john klein juncker have been saying. i started out by saying we have a deal and it is really if you listen to those words you could get a sense of the relief that is there on the part of the european institutions on the part of the e.u. member states for a number of reasons really 1st of all of course a lot of haggling months and weeks of hard work on the part of the negotiators that

has now produced a fruitful result secondly it's good news that a disorderly practice it at least from the part of the use of the table and certainly and crucially as the e.u. come what may will not be the party that is to be blamed for not reaching out to the u.k. not for not trying everything to avoid that disorderly breck's it and so it is when you listen to both leaders they reiterated that you clearly had also the sensation when you listen to boris johnson he has fully understood that it disorderly practice it would have catastrophic consequences for the ukase economy so he also emphasized that this is a good deal and of course that he hopes that parliament can be convinced in the u.k. to agree to that deal. it was interesting to see that they held a joint press conference although we should say that they didn't take questions from reporters but it seems like there is a determined effort here to really have a harmonious summit with a good break that agreement for all sides to really painful to as a success. a yes and no because when

boris johnson went on to say at the end of this meeting that this is great and after all it is the u.k. and the rest of europe who are key allies and partners and this is a day for celebrations and for success that is one junco juncker added at the end of the press conference look this is a sad day for us we are preventing a loose new situation this is the minimum we could have reached this avoiding a wuss case scenario and that is very much the feeling when you listen to leaders who were arriving here many of them have said. cautious optimism they know very well that we've already been in that situation we already had in the e.u. a situation where a jury some a was here where she said she has the consent from the do you be and then she didn't wear the steel a similar deal didn't fly and we were back at square one and so the feeling here

really is yes we want a deal to avoid worst case scenario but must nothing more nothing less all right while the 1st comments we heard today about this deal came from the e.u. breaks that they go here to michele by a year and he made it very clear that this new agreement would prevent either side from driving any unfair advantages over the other he talked about a level playing field for future economic relationships let's listen to what he said. we have agreed. on are solid guarantees for the level playing field to facilitate an ambitious free trade agreement that actually is without terrorists and quotas. on this point i would like to testify having discussed is often when i've visited various parts of the european union to the fact that all member states the european parliament national parliaments all and obviously businesses and members of the business community whom

i've met. have paid a great deal of attention and will continue to do so in terms of having. a common pair of sandals that will apply at the end of the transition for social rights environmental protection stage and age and taxation matters so garrett how important is this idea of the leving level playing field or to e.u. member states. for the e.u. it is absolutely crucial that they protect the internal market and it will be interesting to see look let's remind our viewers we're talking here about a revised withdrawal agreement so a new trade agreement a new trade relationship still has to be hammered out that is now part of the political declaration and it is quite interesting to see that that is something that has changed back from run theresa may have provided a deal she wanted to see

a much closer relationship to the european union than boris johnson he wants or rather loose the free trade deal with the e.u. and that is why for the e.u. the irish backstop solution a solution that provides prevents a border on the island of ireland is so much more crucial than it was even before. matters for us there in brussels thank you very much. and look at the reaction from london our correspondent standing by for us there can tell us what the reaction there from political london this all happened it seemed to happen very fast earlier today tell us what you've been hearing a thing there. really fast i have to say i think some people were really surprised at how fast this happened in the course of the morning really everything changed jerry london a lot of people really didn't expect that buzz johnson would get any deal through and now eyes are on this institution on british parliament because now this deal

needs to go through parliament and then we simply don't know whether this is going to happen the reaction so far has been mixed we know that the labor party are saying that they're not going to back boris johnson still in fact they are saying they're backing a 2nd referendum a conservatory referendum so that's a recent change and asked ons we are looking really how far the support is within boris johnson's own party he had excluded several m.p.'s who were. talking his brags that line we don't know how they are going to decide on the day that there is a crucial vote which will be on next saturday and also. on the northern irish unionists so they have to always deemed as very very important for boris johnson it has been said that they really need to back his deal now they don't we they have put out a statement they say they don't back this deal so the question is how many of

johnson's own m.p.'s will then say well if they do you see if the north northern irish allies of the conservative party if they don't back it that then a lot of conservative m.p.'s also not going to be really we're not sure we know that this on saturday an extra extraordinary sitting off the u.k. parliament and then all this will be discussed all right so the numbers are anything but they're very good and get the british prime minister sounded very confident very optimistic earlier today when he announced that he had struck this great deal as he called it so how is this still different from the agreement that the former u.k. prime minister 3 say may reach i mean has he managed to square the circle that nobody seemed to be able to do before. well i think is seen as a victory that he actually has managed to reopen this withdrawal agreement the e.u. had maintained that that's not going to happen but boris johnson has actually managed to get them to to renegotiate and and get the irish back stuff which was

toxic get that removed from from this agreement and replace it with a solution that is actually very similar to what series a may had proposed but also that had had been voted down so it's it's seen as an astonishing victory in the 1st place but we don't know whether this is actually going to be enough to get the numbers here and parliament all right or something certainly has his work cut out from the next few days mass for us there in london thank you so much. moving on to some other news now and turkey is continuing its off fence of against kurdish militias in northern syria with further shelling of towns near the border this morning president to one has rejected international calls to halt the operation nonetheless u.s. vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pump aoe have arrived in

turkey to try to broker a cease fire the u.s. has threatened punishing economic sanctions over the operation which turkey launched after the u.s. unexpectedly withdrew troops from the area trump has been accused of abandoning kurdish fighters who were washington's main partners in the battle against the so-called islamic state in syria. and let's get some analysis on this story in istanbul we have our correspondent dorian jones standing by for us and here in the studio we have henning rica with us from the german council on foreign relations good to have you both dorian let's start with you there in istanbul do we know anything about the talks so far and whether turkey really would agree to a cease fire. well we don't really have any information about the talks other than they are believed to be continuing in fact turkish officials have been playing down any hope of any kind of breakthrough they've been say suggesting this will just be a frank exchange of views uncurled washington really are loggerheads over this operation and relations have been plummeting ever since it was launched and

following sanctions being enforced by trump earlier this week and the message from the turkish president project type urged on was that we will not in this operation until all our objectives are achieved and dismissed calls from president trump of some kind of mediation saying we don't sit down with terrorists to turkey really has been setting out to stall ahead of these what was described as critical talks saying don't expect any compromise what we expect is support from our allies so it is expect to be very tough meetings but given the fact that expectations are so low they could be possibly some kind of gestures from both sides i think is a rescue recognition of congress part that it may not suit his interest to escalate tensions with washington at this moment or it having let's talk about how this looks from the u.s. perspective because the president trying very defensive about his position to withdraw u.s. troops there that decision and he said that the u.s. has no stake in defending kurdish fighters so why is he sending this delegation of

my pump and my pets so 1st of all he wanted to withdraw american troops to fulfill a campaign promise and to play to its to his populist arguments that he wants to have no soldiers fighting in somebody else's war and this is the sound of his message here but i think he has lost touch with his own base a bit and with the report with the republicans in the congress who are there to support him and he was he was surprised over the criticism and the anger the cold and of course all these people know that america by withdrawing looks like betraying its allies gives room for russia it might bring the. he states to the fore again it might give room to iran and all the other little very closely whole america so the democrats great yeah he's been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism also from his own party as you said heading during the coming back to you you know president air to one is said under no circumstances will i

talk about a ceasefire why does it seem that washington has so little influence right now on ancora. well despite threats from president to try to obliterate turkey's economy and introducing sanctions earlier this week they were largely seen as symbolic and pretty much meaningless although my vice president prince is expected to leave a message saying look if you carry on like this there are far more to coney and measures being demanded in washington from congress who are calling for much more severe sanctions which president trump may not be able to veto given that there is bipartisan support from both democrats and republicans for those messages for those measures but uncle will be calculating that it will take time for those sanctions to pass and then to be in force and by then uncle will be hoping that this operation will be coming to an end to his defense minister did say that the end could be possibly in sight soon but on creates a way it is facing growing international isolation not only from washington the european union and the arab league but crucially now moscow moscow is now calling

for this operation to end and president one is due to meet with the russian president vladimir putin next week and those talks are seen as crucial because moscow is seen now with the key player in this region and telling me what you know we saw yesterday there was a letter from president trying to present aerator one that was leaked it was dated last week i think we can bring up those pictures of that letter there we have it there he says and i'm going to read this out a part of this he says let's work out a good deal you don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people and i don't want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy and then he goes on to say history will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way it will look upon you for ever as the devil if good things don't happen don't be a tough guy don't be a fool this was sent just before anyone announced that incursion what do you think it says about what the president and the u.s. are willing and able to do to stop their doing here. it is of course a threatening letter it says if you go on with this operation we will destroy the

turkish economy something the trump also has said publicly. but. of course it's not very sensitive and i wonder if you have this stubborn determined turkish leader wants to go ahead with this operation that he has announced long before with lots of domestic support. to treat this man without the slightest modicum of respect and bully him in a decision don't be a fool this colloquial way of saying things i think this will this will simply go the wrong way in turkey and it shows a bit the lack of diplomatic skills and negotiation skills that trump s. as of this moment. i think basically the the end will be that russia that turkey has the triple of of. syria under its control that it wants to have and what you can hope for is that might

come out of the meeting today that this is done in a way that respects human hearing needs of the of the people that has. very gradually. control of what the term what the turks do and. i think this is the best we can expect ok well we'll have to see how the meeting plays out will be following it of course very closely heading reka from the german council on foreign relations and adoring jones for us in if them both thank you both for your analysis but now to some other stories making headlines around the world officials in the philippines say at least 4 people have died after an earthquake caused a fire at a shopping mall as well as a landslide a 6.3 magnitude quake hit the south of the country on wednesday. climate protesters in london have disrupted rush hour commuters by climbing on top of a subway car and unfurling a banner the protest sparked angry confrontations on the platform with at least one protester being dragged from the train and some scuffles breaking out climate

activists are staging several weeks of civil disobedience in major u.k. cities. and the u.s. congressman elijah cummings from the state of maryland has died at the age of 68 a long serving democrat was chair of the house oversight committee and played a key role in the impeachment inquiry into president trump his office study of a long standing health challenges. the trial has opened in germany of a former nazi concentration camp guard the 93 year old defendant to you see here a concealing his face is accused of excuse of aiding and abetting the murder of more than 5000 jews that still tough camp near the dons can what is now poland prosecutors argue that by preventing people from escaping he made himself an accessory to their murder it is likely to be one of the last legal proceedings of its kind. and let's bring in correspondent minute she is outside the courthouse in hamburg you know the war ended nearly 75 years ago and the cues who

were talking about here is 93 years old why his he only being prosecuted now. well that's true the german criminal justice system hasn't prosecuted concentration camp guards just like bruno day in the past because they couldn't present any evidence that he actually has committed specific crime but that changed in 2011 when john demjanjuk also a former guard in a concentration camp was sentenced in a landmark ruling so the courts found that someone can be sentenced for being a cog in the nazi killing machine even though he can't be linked directly to a specific matter so actually at the moment german prosecutors are investigating 27 similar cases but as time's passing it's really difficult to say they will end up in a courtroom in the end of the day because the suspects are already very very old and so this case this could be actually the last criminal case of an individual.

charged over the holocaust ok so besides the state prosecutors who are behind this case there are also additional joint plaintiffs what does this trial mean for them and other survivors of the startup concentration camp. yes so they are around $25.00. plaintiffs but today there were there was no one of them here so i want to get there from countries like israel like the u.s. or poland and i want to point out one specific cases so. she's now a 994 year old woman she lives in the u.s. she couldn't make the trip to hamburg but she was represented by her lawyer and her grandson and the lawyer actually read out a very emotional very strong statement today in the courtroom and in it she describes. the last moment that she had with her mother because her mother was also

in the concentration camp she herself was only 14 years old and she describes how they were queuing in front of a gas chamber naked because they were told that they would get a shower in there and they had the feeling that something was wrong that's. something bad would happen so that was actually the last moment because she managed to escape her mother couldn't and she actually says guards like him bruno day are actually responsible for them my mother and he would should also take the responsibility for our reporter my own over porting press there from hamburg thank you. spanish and catalan leaders are appealing for an end to the violence in barcelona and other cities after protesters clashed with police for the 3rd night in a row the demonstrators want catalan independence leaders who received long prison terms to be released they also want a path of nationhood police fired rubber bullets and tear gas after reportedly being attacked with petrol bombs. one small sultans took to the streets.

and one small clashes erupted between demonstrators and police in a televised address the spanish prime minister trying to calm the situation appealing directly to catalonia as pro independence leader. this is to express what i would like to make a special plea to the catalonian president don't do it. member of the school he and other members of his government have a political and moral duty to condemn it without any excuses and with maximum clarity in determination of the use of violence. and gotten. late on wednesday night the catalan dida then responded the. call for calm. and you see independence movement is not violent.

we have always condemned violence. we cannot allow the incidents that are taking place in the streets of our country. well you have got there is no reason or justification to burn cars or to carry out any other activity and to leave them protests should always be peaceful. but that was not the case as to clashes continued into the night and demonstrators are calling on people across the region to make their way to barcelona for more protests on friday. in hong kong as legislature opposition lawmakers have had all the territories leader kerry lam for a 2nd consecutive day she faces renewed calls to address the demands of hong kong's month long protest movement after a prominent pro-democracy activist was violently attacked. i a day after being forced to abandon her annual policy address hong kong's embattled

leader kerry lamb returned to the chamber where opposition politicians accused her of having blood on her hands several were ejected from the session as it descended into chaos and was repeatedly suspended. out of. a. vote. amid all the anger and the shouting moments of silence where held for protesters angered in hong kong's months long demonstrations not least activist jimmy sham one of the public faces of the movement who was left bloodied on the street after in 1000 tamar attack sharon has urged others not to retaliate while his colleagues remain on detail. no matter who the target is it won't stop us insisting on our 5 the months. the protesters and activists want to secure greater democracy

while many or position lawmakers are calling largely for carry law to stand by. a reminder now of our top stories here on g.w. britain and the european union say they have reached a deal on the u.k.'s withdrawal from the bloc british prime minister boris johnson is urging the u.k. parliament to approve it this weekend e.u. commission had chocolate euchre said the deal is fair and balanced but he added that he is sad about frank said. turkey is pushing ahead with its author of in northern syria despite international calls for a ceasefire the us the center delegation to ankara to try and persuade president roger transfer to want to hold the operation against kurdish led syrian forces. coming up next on d.w. news. delhi gasps for air as the toxic smog descends over india's capital forcing

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