this is g w news live from berlin tonight the u.s. president declares a victory for his foreign policy in northern syria trump takes credit for a turkish ceasefire even though longer as offensive against kurdish militias was made possible by the withdrawal of u.s. forces also coming up tonight police find $39.00 bodies in a truck park and an industrial park near london they have to move the vehicle so that they can identify the victims plus russia's manipulation of their athletes

doping results the country is facing a long ban from international competition as a result but the top brass of russia's enticed to be agencies to tell the w news that someone else did it. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us he is declaring it a victory made possible by what he did today u.s. president almost trump announced he's lifting sanctions that he imposed on turkey 9 days ago saying that turkish president everyone has promised him to end the assault on critics forces in northern syria now the removal of sanctions came just hours after russia and turkey announced that they are establishing a safe zone along the syria turkish border russia with more control more power in syria than ever also made possible by u.s. president truong. russian military police in northern syria a consequence of

a pact negotiated in sochi between russian president vladimir putin and turkish president richard type 31 dividing up control of the turkey syria border. u.s. president donald trump is taking the credit for peace. was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation very simple turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out a reference to u.s. troops being pulled out of northern syria. the reality now is that russian forces are moving into the same kurdish territory that the u.s. has abandoned meanwhile there has been a sation of fighting. and i think what we have seen over the last days is

encouraging because it shows that it's possible to move towards a political settlement a political solution and what you have seen is at least some reduction some significant reduction in violence and fighting 3rd one and putin want to establish a safe zone along the turkey syria border of around 30 kilometers zone they say kurdish forces must pull out of turkey then wants to resettle a 1000000 refugees currently living in turkey all of this means that the kurds lose hard won territory but avoid a likely end the elation at the hands of the turkish military. but the big winner is putin who's further cementing his pivotal role in the middle east. a strong putin indeed our let's take this story now to washington our correspondent. is on the story for us good evening to you pablo the u.s. president describing the truce there in northern syria as a major breakthrough made possible by his policy in syria is that true.

well of course as you can imagine many people here in the united states critics from both republicans and democrats are saying that you know it's not true that in fact it was because of his decisions that this whole mess sort of came about and i think it's quite telling if we start hearing what's being said at the democrats who are probably the most critical today we heard from the senate minority leader said it was a nonsensical foreign policy decision by president trump and that was echoed by many democrats i think what we really need to focus on as well as what republicans are saying and it's quite key to perhaps u.s. foreign policy at the moment now republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell told reporters yesterday that in fact the united states should stop using sanctions for foreign policy and that while trump was hailing the deal as a success and i think this is very key jim jeffrey now he's the u.s. envoy for syria and the coalition against isis said that the united states believes

the turkish supported opposition forces in syria have actually committed war crimes and he also confirmed the secretary of defense mark esper statement that more than 100 isis fighters had in fact escaped and they don't know where they are so as you can imagine you know reaction to this particular trumps words today have really not gone down that well at all the u.s. president he used this speech today to to justify his america 1st foreign policy agenda that is a message that goes down well with his base but beyond. but. you're absolutely right and i mean a lot of the critics are saying that essentially it cements russia's role as the power broker in the region and also claims that the syrian kurds were happy with the u.s. for its role seems to be contradicted by images of some syrian kurds throwing in fact rotten vegetables at u.s.

troops who are withdrawing from the area and also this app promised that the troops are going to be brought home has been criticized because in fact it turns out that many of those troops who are going to be withdrawing from that area are going to be moved to iraq and in fact some are even going to be staying in syria so let's not forget like you said this is part of trumps an election campaign and election promises and let's not forget that next year there's going to be an election here and it's also a promise that he made and it's quite popular amongst his base he said that he wants to us out of endless wars but in fact it appears that what he's saying isn't necessarily true and that's according to democrats and even many republicans to the public who really awesome washington tonight is probably think you will hear some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world former israeli army chief of the gun has been tasked with forming israel's next government after long time prime minister benjamin netanyahu failed to recruit enough lawmakers to join his planned coalition if guns does not go going to ring of support within

$28.00 days israel may face another election september's vote which was the 2nd this year ended with no clear winner protests in lebanon new show new signs of letting up the government is now bowling a reshuffling to diffuse the demonstrations that appear alarms the country for a week the unrest was 1st sparked by a proposed tax on messaging services such as what's out but now the entire political establishment has come under fire for corruption and mismanagement. bolivian president evo morales says his rival in sunday's presidential election was attempting to stage a coup this after opposition led protests accused authorities of rigging the vote the latest official count puts the incumbent 9.5 percent ahead but morality needs a 10 point lead to avoid a runoff. nearly half the population of north korea is under nourished that's according to the united nations a u.n.

special investigation is found that a loving 1000000 people are facing what he calls alarming levels of food insecurity the u.n. says collective farming is exacerbating food shortage. for tonight in the u.k. investigators are trying to piece together a tragedy $39.00 people have been found dead in a truck container on the outskirts of london the vehicle was discovered at an industrial park the driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder police say the container where the victims were found traveled to the u.k. from belgium. but far splines there is nothing unusual about this cargo truck parked an industrial estate in the town of gray's east of london. but when police forced open its doors in the early hours of wednesday they made a gruesome discovery the lifeless bodies of thought to 9 people.

emergency services attended it but sadly all 39 people inside the container had died. early indications suggest that one of these paper was a teenager the rest of believed to be adults. a murder investigation was launched and the lorry driver a 25 year old man from northern ireland was arrested on suspicion of murder i mean mines in place custody a prime minister prime minister boris johnson expressed his condolences in parliament. for the whole house will be shocked by the appalling news that 39 bodies have been discovered in a lorry container in essex this is an unimaginable tragedy and truly heartbreaking i know that the thoughts and prayers of all members are with those who lost their lives and their loved ones. as police try to piece together the truck's movement footage has a message of it passing by 2 separate cameras shortly before the bodies were

discovered authorities say the container had just docked in the u.k. from zeebrugge in belgium the cap part of the truck is believed to have originated in northern ireland. police have moved the vehicle to a secure location so that the bodies can be recovered as this murder investigation gets underway. a war correspondent she spent the day in the industrial park in the town of greece which is east of london where the bodies were discovered and she sent us this. this is the horrific scene with 39 people with found dead inside the back of a truck they had believed to have died on their journey belgium to the united kingdom forensic teams have been collecting evidence all day in the hope of identifying the victims the 25 year old's northern irish driver is in police custody on the suspicion of murder and authorities are hoping now to get answers from him on what happened on this trip and to the victims where the details of what

happened here all points to a case of human trafficking gone terribly wrong. a champions league football now in the midway point of the group stage let's show you the scores from when state knights matches defending champions liverpool have no trouble with belgian side gang but napoli stayed top of group with a win over salzburg barcelona beat sylvia prague and they led lead group f. right now because dortmund last into milan elsewhere leipzig edged zenit in group g. chelsea tops group h. over its win with its win over a ox while little and valencia played to a drawl. russia's anti-doping agency who saw it on wednesday predicted a lengthy ban for the country's top level athletes including next year's tokyo olympic games and even the winter games in 2022 this in the wake of

a new scandal involving the alleged falsifying or deleting of doping laboratory data given to international investigators russia was already banned from competing in numerous competitions such as the rio olympics now in a w. news exclusive our very own euro shadow sits down with risottos deputy chief to talk about the alleged data manipulation syl can you give me 100 percent guarantee that rossana has nothing to do with this money venetian absolutely i guarantee it like that but ok let's move on to comments made by your bosses and huey the director general of the saadat who said that these manipulations went to form at the behest of c.d.o. officials went to see to that but with this deal i think the person or group of people who did this are very bold i don't know what their motives were in effect they undermined not only the minister of sport but also undermined the president both the minister maisha the president said that's

a dialogue was taking place that's all das will be handed over and that russia was interested in leaving the crisis behind and recognising that mistakes were made and the criticism. is the people who can guarantee that things will change even if the president himself comment yeld i would seriously look at the question of management in detail and not turn a blind eye to anything. what does that mean. i don't want to offend anyone and there are of course exceptions but just because you are a great athlete doesn't mean you can lead a sports federation or become managers or should we these people are awfully not managers but what would you say to athletes who now suddenly find themselves facing potential bounce the way guess what would i say to them i would say roll with the punches thoughts the 1st day or secondly keep on training and maintain your flawless sporting reputation b.c.

it's wrong you're a guy who says resign there is no way connected to this cover up and that it was done at the behest of senior officials you have told me the same thing what would you say to suggestions this is all about saving your own schemes careers and avoiding punishments yourselves. because of what. i've read similar suggestions where what we're doing is all about saving on protecting lusaka grisette it can no longer be pushed under pressure on us that i understand that people here might understand the term independent in different ways in the past the creation of an independent agency seems like a utopian idea but today it's reality on the civil margarita cannot scare thank you but i think. well you're watching the news from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour next is d.w. business with bobbie year don't forget you can get all the latest news and

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