this is d. w. news live from berlin washington holds a breakthrough over the turkish offensive in northern syria the u.s. says it's agreed to cease fire we don't corrupt and yet another expect unexpected turn the u.s. says turkey will suspend military operations against kurdish forces full 5 days and then return and then you where school lived economic sanctions against turkey also coming up. get over it there's going to be political influence in foreign policy and explosive revelations by a top u.s.

official the white house chief of staff admits that to ukraine was we pale in relation to an investigation that would help the u.s. president justice brings donald trump a step closer to impeachment. and negotiate is in brussels reach a new brick city agreement with the u.k. e.u. ladies if given their blessing but the deal still needs to get through the british parliament prime minister boris johnson's allies in northern ireland say they will not support it. i'm jarid ray thanks for joining me the united states and turkey have agreed to what the u.s. calls a ceasefire in northern syria under the agreement ankara is to pause its offensive for 5 days in exchange for a trait by kurdish y p j militia turkey launched. it's assault on the kurds last

wake after donald trump announced the withdrawal of u.s. troops from northern syria the u.s. had threatened encouraged with economic sanctions if it didn't hold the incursion vice president of the united states mike pence after talks in with turkey's leader the us vice president confirmed what up until that moment had been a rumor today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. turkish side will pause operation peace spring in order to allow for the withdrawal of y. p. g. forces from the safe zone. for $120.00. the americans claims the 5 day ceasefire as a diplomatic victory. but it's not clear if the kurdish y p g militia will fully abide by the agreement throughout the day there was heavy

fighting in the syrian town of ras allying local humanitarian groups say civilians were also pinned in among the fighting the a night cement was completely unexpected such as president dredge up to it added one had previously said he wouldn't agree to a cease fire he's denied removes that mike pence threatens tuckey with new sanctions should he fail to support the plan shortly after the vice president tonight it's the ceasefire the turkish foreign minister gave the press his government's view of the day's events. due to the out of it it's not the end of the operation it's not a ceasefire you could only have a ceasefire between 2 legitimate governments were suspending our operations so the terrorists the targets of our operation can leave the security zone. takesh government also expects the white peachy militia to give up all its weapons and will continue its dialogue with russia. assad's military backers have moved

that forces into position in north in syria in conjunction with syrian troops. damascus and moscow so far have shown little willingness to accept techie security . as night fell the fighting in basra line had almost totally stopped with only a few shots to be had the wait he's on to see how you know the cease fire will last . will d.w. washington correspondent all of a salad sent us this assessment of what effect a cease fire will have a last minute deal for president trump and what almost turned into a major embarrassment for american foreign policy it was the american withdrawal from syria that made the turkish invasion possible killing civilians driving former kurdish allies into the hands of dictator bashar al assad and causing the relief of hundreds of isis fighters pressure was mounting on the president to find a solution but the ceasefire is above all

a maximum victory for turkey all of president preconditions were met the kurds lose their autonomy and turkey gets a 20 mile safe so defacto all coupons corridor while president trump celebrates the agreement as a victory congress keeps pushing for sanctions against turkey the biggest concern is that this could lead to a revival of the islamic state. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today. has enjoyed a 4th day of tense protests with police dividing protests spanish fascist groups and anti fascists who support catalonia is independence in the regional polman separatist leader kim criticized the violence but called for a new independent voters a breakaway beat in 2017 lead to the arrest of separatist leaders who were handed lengthy prison terms this week. here in germany the trial of

a former nazi concentration camp god has begun the 93 year old is accused of aiding and abetting the murder of more than 5000 jews that should call for cabinet get downs in what is now poland the trial is likely to be one of the last legal proceedings of its kind. prime minister viktor orban has warned that his country may use force that its southern border if ankara allows millions of refugees currently in turkey to enter the e.u. turkey said it was considering breaking the terms of a deal with the e.u. on migrants because of the blocs opposition to its offensives in northern syria. a senior white house official has admitted that president donald trump withheld millions of dollars of military id to ukraine over a conspiracy theory involving the 2016 election mick mulvaney said that i had was me tailed partly to pressure kiev to investigate allegations about trump's rivals

it had been claimed that a computer belonging to the democrats was in ukraine but this has been debunked the white house denies any conditions were imposed on the item mulvaney has since backtracked but let's listen to his comments about trump's decision that he also mentioned to me in past the corruption related to the d.n.c. server absolutely no question about that but that's it that's why we held up the money. the demand for an investigation into the do it right part of the reason you want to withhold funding to pretty bleak look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation and that is an absolute rule of. well let's dig into this latest development in the trump card with g.w. will report a william no a glowing croft william mulvaney mention this alleged corruption what's he talking about here right so this we have to remember the mullah report was looking into

russia's potential involvement they found russia's involvement in election fraud and election manipulation in the 2016 presidential election now donald trump was very interested in how that how muller's investigation began in the 1st place it's a conspiracy conspiracy theory that has actually no merit no evidence in fact his own national homeland security officials have said this is been debunked that it wasn't russia involved but ukraine involved and not on the side of the republicans and donald trump on the side of the democrats that is this conspiracy that has been trying to push and that's what they're trying to that's what he said he was trying to find out about in ukraine which is what this whole thing is now about it's a bit hard to keep up isn't it mulvaney said. the aid was partly held up to pressure ukraine he said said the media have got his comments all wrong why have his comments raised eyebrows like this well once again we see the trump administration seemingly deng doing a quid pro quo out for everyone to see which of course they backtrack and say there's no quid pro quo the quid pro quo we're talking about here is we we give you

military assistance if you help us with our political agenda now the big question here is was this for was this in the name of america's interests or was this in the name of donald trump's interest that's what impeachment avesta gaiters impeachment investigators in the u.s. house of representatives are looking at because if this was withholding military assistance to reach some kind of u.s. policy goal that's perfectly legitimate and as mulvaney said that happens all the time in in foreign affairs but if this was being withheld to help donald trump and help his own personal or political interest that is what could be a quid pro quo and what could be an impeachable offense ok what else has happened today in terms of these to impeachment inquiry against donald trump a lot of dominoes are falling we have gordon zombieland the u.s. ambassador to the european union testifying in a closed door a closed door meeting with house investigators and he said that it was donald trump who gave his private attorney rudy giuliani basically. no holds barred sue to

pursue a parallel ukraine foreign policy in addition to official u.s. foreign policy that is on land although he had reservations about this and didn't like it went along with it and then the other big development is that the u.s. energy secretary rick perry has resigned he's been caught up in this investigation as well it's been rumored for several weeks he might resign it's not a clear why he chose to resign today but being when he resigns stepping out of the government might actually freedom up to be able to speak more freely to investigators ok deal the reporter william noah glucose thank you very much. well britain and the e.u. have reached a new deal on the u.k. as we've droll from the european union e.u. leaders have unanimously backed the agreement your european council president donald tusk said it would if avoid chaos and conflict the agreement still needs to be approved by the british parliament where prime minister barak's johnson has a minority government in spite of that uncertainty there's been relief in brussels

at the end of the marathon negotiations i. heard i heard i i have to include the boss here. the fever of the past few days has subsided there's a deal it's a reasonable. for us in the u.k. it means that we can deliver a real bricks it that achieves our objectives and it means that the u.k. leaves whole and entire the fine print of this deal was hammered out by use chief bracks and negotiator me showdown you know hard border on the irish soil a main sticking point that seems now to be unstuck when you said they'd found a workable solution for northern ireland a part of the u.k. . notion island will remain and i and to a limited set of new rules should not properly or dated to googe this means

that all applicable procedures on good should we take place at the point of entry into an island and not across the aisle. e.u. commission president put it this way the deal is not a badass the need is a bond people have without some of these constituencies spoke of stood right outside the summit meetings british remainders they are still hoping to get an extension and thus more time to call the 2nd referendum. alternately what i want for the british people to have the final say on any deal or no deal the deal also faces political resistance back in the u.k. the northern ireland do you people party has already declared they would not approve it that's a problem for the break that deal while german chancellor angela merkel says she's optimistic it's hard to forget the fate of the last deal which the u.k.

parliament ultimately buried french president emmanuel mark home sees no proof just yet that the end of negotiations is in sight yes it is fixed in cuba north 2nd time your satisfaction goes hand in hand with prudence of course history shows that parliaments have difficulty in coming to agree on a number of you not in the best political. johnson has cleared an important hurdle but the path to the finish line is still not a straight shot. well you know we spoke with g w correspondent back at mass and we are asked her if boris johnson had to give in to make this deal work he did have to give in when it comes to know all the nolen and this is exactly why would why he will have a hard time and getting his deal through parliament the northern irish party the day you people who's an ally of course johnson they still think that northern island will be treated differently from the rest of the u.k. and this is what they not want they are

a unionist party they want to stay as close the lines as possible to the rest of the u.k. and effectively there will be some changes and they fear that northern ireland will in the long run be drawn more towards the european union that do elations the business relations will become stronger with the european union and it would drift away from the rest of the u.k. so this is why they're objecting to it and this is where because johnson had to give in had to make concessions and this is why you will have difficulties getting a true. don't forget you can always get d w news on the guard just download out from google play all from the ups store that would give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the d.w.i. to send us photos and video. you're watching news live from building up next is doc film goodbye yellow sea hello black forest that's in

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