this is deja vu news live from berlin nato grapples with turkey's invasion of northern syria the alliance meets today to hammer out a unified front as nato member turkey conducts operations with russian troops in its self declared safe zone in syria also coming up. police searched through homes in northern ireland as they investigate the deaths of 39 people found inside a truck near london the driver of that truck is in custody efforts to identify the bodies are ongoing. plus the world's penguin populations are in sharp decline

we'll take a look at the efforts to save the only penguin species native to after. i brian thomas thanks so much for joining us nato defense ministers are meeting today in brussels to discuss turkey's incursion into northern syria it is an unprecedented situation for the alliance turkey a nato member is now working closely with the alliance is the main rival russia their joint forces are patrolling the so-called safe zone where turkey wants to resettle in syrian refugees. this area is now under moscow's control russian military police made their way into the north syrian border town of kabbani on wednesday. u.s.

troops had withdrawn from the region earlier abandoning their kurdish allies and making way for their nato partner turkey to lead a military incursion into the area. a move that faced harsh international criticism nato however has been reluctant to criticize the so efforts of their allies in brussels general secretary voiced concern and called for international effort there war has been there for years we have seen hundreds of thousands of people being killed at all so it is so there's a need for progress for for a political negotiated solution now russia which is not a member of nato has become turkey's closest ally in an attempt to implement a military solution as part of a deal struck between the leaders of turkey and russia they seek to create a buffer zone in the formerly kurdish held border region and german tornado fighter jets could be part of a greater international effort to stabilize the area this is according to

a recent plan by a german defense minister and he could come she wants to take berlin's commitment even further my question is this my suggestion is that we set up an internationally controlled security zone and valving turkey and russia. and a suggestion that took many by surprise back home in germany in brussels the proposal was met with interest by the nato chief i welcomed nato allies proposals on how to move forward how to find a political solution and of course a political solution how to in one when all the in wall all all actors on the ground. this proposal just might be too little too late russia one of the actors on the ground has made clear already that it rejects berlin's vision of a security zone in northern syria. let's bring in our correspondent in brussels terry scholz following the nato talks for us today good morning to you terry russia

has been rejecting the proposals for international forces in the security zone but nato secretary general well he's welcoming the idea tentatively how will these very different approaches figure in nato talks today well certainly russia's approach won't figure much at all as nato will start its own path but we should very much say that these were cautious welcomes the details of the german proposal should they be forthcoming haven't been shared yet with nato defense ministers who are just coming together this afternoon so everyone's very curious about exactly what the german defense minister meant when she said we should create an internationally monitored safe zone so i think that everyone's waiting to hear from germany and to see if this really is a fully fledged proposal and that's not at all clear at this point in fact a spokesman for her said that she would not be bringing up this proposal on behalf of the government that she would be speaking in

a different capacity and that's puzzling as you head into a ministerial but i know that everyone will be listening very closely to what she has to say when she arrives this afternoon ok one person that people are looking listening very closely to is the u.s. secretary of defense mark esper you're just back from a talk he was giving ahead of the nato meeting what's he been saying. that's right and secretary espers in a difficult position because of course last night president trump came out and said everything's solved in northern syria turkey is pulling out it's going to be a permanent cease fire nobody is really sure what he means or how what kind of reassurances he might have from president air to want and so i very much would have liked to hear from secretary esper what he believes u.s. policy is how this conclusion in northern syria this resolution came to pass he didn't have a whole lot to say about that turkey's unwarranted incursion into northern syria jeopardizes the gains made there in recent years. this is

a very different line from president trump who as you mentioned has been hailing the turkish russian cooperation what exactly is being jeopardized according to the u.s. defense secretary. defense secretary esper has been extremely outspoken in the past weeks in staving criticism of the turkish incursion so i very much would have liked to ask him. how he squares that with president trump's praise of president everyone so what everyone was worried about one of the things everyone was worried about was of course that isis would use the chaos on the ground it would use the fact that detainees were reportedly escaping from detention they had been held by the syrian kurds and secretary as for himself said this that at least 100 perhaps high level detainees did get away so they were worried that isis could could does stage a resurgence in this area and that certainly isn't gone i would have thought they

were also worried about russia patrolling areas right next to the nato border in turkey but secretary esper and of course president trying to downplay that concern ok you mentioned islamic state you know turkey has been attacking the syrian kurdish forces who are the allies of course of the u.s. fought beside american soldiers against islamic state how will the u.s. be explaining that to its allies in nato. it's complicated isn't it what secretary s. for said this morning and what they have said before was that the u.s. troops who had been in northern syria who were in effect the buffer between turkish forces threatening to come into the kurdish areas and these syrian kurdish groups were allied with the united states he said that it became clear that turkey was going to go in no matter what and that he was not willing to risk the life of u.s. forces and that's why the u.s. pulled out which of course turkey saw as a green light to go in those are questions that the other nato allies are going to be asking secretary esper and of course his turkish counterpart as well as they

arrive for the nato defense ministers meeting this afternoon the united states likes to put all the blame on turkey for this but there are certainly european governments who were not at all comfortable with the u.s. decisions and so i think that there are going to be some very frank discussions around the nato table this afternoon ok maybe we'll see some frank answers moving forward this afternoon as well terry thanks for that from brussels let's review down some of the other stories making the news at this hour russian president vladimir putin has welcomed dozens of african leaders to tsotsi where he's hosting the 1st ever russia africa forum the 2 day summit seen as part of russia's efforts to expand its influence on the african continent. and the u.s. a group of republican lawmakers have disrupted a democrat running pietschmann hearing into president trump 24 republicans entered the room where a closed door hearing was taking place they refused to leave calling for the importing to halt what they described as its unprecedented secrecy. well

plays have raided 2 homes in northern ireland as part of their investigation into the deaths of $39.00 people found in a truck container on the outskirts of london a vehicle was discovered in industrial park the driver who's from northern ireland has been arrested on suspicion of murder britain's national crime agency says it is working to identify whether organized crime groups may have been involved. it's britain's largest murder investigation in years police are still trying to piece together what happened to the $39.00 bodies found in this truck. it's also a tragedy which has touched many in this community. completely and utterly shocked and devastated but that's actually happened it's a day especially in this area i mean my money my money was down the road my dad works down there so i you know i drive down all the time so for that to happen is

i'm completely shocked detectives want to know the exact route the truck took on its way to the industrial park on the outskirts of east london. this footage shows the vehicle passing by 2 separate c.c.t.v. cameras shortly before the bodies were discovered. british police a facing and europe wide investigation it's known the dory has gary number plates and passed through the port of support in belgium the truck's driver was from northern ireland. forensic investigations along under way with victims still not identified late wednesday officers told the truck await. this matches attracted national and international interest it is absolutely imperative that the operation is conducted. that. the family. may get through this and find them and mathematics is to be with their families for now there's still more questions

than answers in this. in case which had horrified many britons. the international judo federation has banned iran indefinitely until its athletes are allowed to face israelis in competition a suspension had already been imposed on iran last month now the band comes after saeed mole i was pressured by his country's judo officials to lose a world championship out rather than risk facing an israeli opponent. i walked off the iranian team in tokyo in august in protest around has $21.00 days to appeal the suspension. well 100 years ago it's thought there were more than 2000000 penguins living along the southern coastline of namibia south africa but now africa's penguin colonies are endangered with the populations they're decreasing rapidly our correspondent adrian krishna visited an organization in cape town that's trying to put

a stop to this alarming decline. one last chance to relax together before things starts to get uncomfortable. an appointment with dr roberts is not something these penguins seem to be looking forward to so at the moment putting is we just checking on the penguins and making sure that they're all ready for release so we each one has his own thing cause this is a medical record this one he had on this will say he was 70 percent oil and he was emaciated he was really underweight the conservationists take in sea birds in peril and try to prepare them to be released back into the wilds thousands of injured animals come here every year some will stay here forever as they would not so wife in their nature will have the temps. but these birds might not be here in the long. they are in danger of extinction it's

quite possible that one can go extinct in the future and we've had dramatic declines in the numbers even between the concert last year and this year the numbers of dropped by about 2000 breeding pairs so we have less than $20000.00 breeding pairs that's scary though. least penguins 1st have to spend time in a small box but only briefly until they have fully recovered and are ready to return to the why did this. in simon's town one of the few remaining pigweed colonies they are released. oh oh oh. it went really well. so quickly they didn't get confused the crowd was very polite and not too noisy so that didn't scare the penguins and they were they went straight up in the direction they should've gone. already we can see them i think there's one head sticking out over there so now the threats that they face of the

same as all the other wild penguins people need to think about the impacts of what they're doing and how they can affect anything once but all of the sea life and other wildlife that is in danger from human interaction but still the message seems to have got through to the hundreds of people in the crowd over here we have a lot of folk musicians who are trying to save the oceans and. the pings were being we have been put back in but there's a lot more we can do is you must do more to protect them because you see what is happening and see this is not only seen as it used to be this last big problem however the biggest threats to the effort jumping green is the like a fish there not enough sardines in the oceans due to overfishing. in the worst case scenario the last african penguin colony will die out in 20 or 30 years but people here definitely want to prove. that from happening. this is the 2 of you

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