this is d.w. news live from berlin nato grapples with turkey's incursion into northern syria the alliance meets today to hammer out a unified response as nato member turkey conducts conducts operations with russian troops and its self declared safe zone in syria. also coming up russian president vladimir putin welcomes african leaders for their 1st ever summit focused on trade moscow is looking to expand its influence on the continent we'll tell you what is at stake. in the european union's human rights prize goes to jail activist i'm

talking for his work defending china's weaker minority we'll hear from his daughter about what the prize means for him and the weaker commute. times to be so much kind of thank you for joining us nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss turkey's incursion into northern syria it's an unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey a nato member it's closely collaborating in syria with russia a nato outsider that sees the alliances of threat turkish and russian troops are now jointly patrolling a so-called safe zone in northern syria where turkey wants to resettle syrian refugees. this area is now under moscow's control russian military police made their way into the north syrian border town of qubani 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u.s. troops had withdrawn from the region earlier abandoning their kurdish allies and making way for their nato partner turkey to lead a military incursion into the area.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. 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 and 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 actors on the ground. but 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 teri schultz who's covering the story for us in brussels hi terry as we heard there russia projects that proposal of

a security zone but nato is tentatively welcoming it how will this be discussed in today's meeting i mean the issue of syria overall will be discussed and certainly the german proposal will be discussed on the margins although it's not officially on the agenda everyone is talking about it so it will it will definitely be raised by the germans and by other allies wanting answers to questions about how this would work but in effect on the ground it's been a fair complete by russia and. the united states has now given its blessing via president trump's announcement yesterday to this arrangement and so if european allies and nato would take any role in this they have no choice but to negotiate this with russia that puts them in a very awkward position not only are russian troops going to be patrolling just miles from nato's border the turkish border but now they would have to negotiate with the russians about

a solution inside syria with the syrian government which they've been opposed to for all these years so it's a very complicated situation and i don't think anybody sees an easy way out an easy political solution tell you listen in on a speech from the u.s. secretary of defense so mark asper ahead of the nato meeting what did he have to say. most of the questions were about turkey although he also spoke about threats coming from russia and china and secretary esper is also in a difficult position because he had been very very critical of ancora saying that the turkish behavior inside syria was unacceptable that there was a humanitarian disaster that atrocities were likely being committed on the ground and then yesterday his boss president trump says it's all ok it's all going to work out a permanent cease fire is is now going into effect so secretary esper basically has to tone down his own rhetoric coming into this nato defense ministers meeting and what he said is that turkey has put the alliance in a very difficult position turkey's own war to incursion into northern syria

jeopardizes the gains made there in recent years. and terry so how will the u.s. proceed in nato with a partner like turkey. secretary esper said that turkey is no longer at the moment the reliable partner that nato has come to count on that the u.s. has come to count on it has been you know is a stalwart. partner in many of nato is operations and now simply nato doesn't know what to do about turkey it has bought russian missile defense system it is now partnering with russia inside syria so there are going to be some very serious questions addressed to the turkish defense minister today but don't forget that the european allies are also uncomfortable with what the u.s. did in pulling out of northern syria allowing the turks to go in so secretary espers got some questions coming his way to our correspondent reporting there in brussels thank you very much. russian president vladimir putin has welcomed dozens

of african leaders to such where he's hosting the 1st ever russia africa economic forum the today summit is focused on expanding cooperation and trade infrastructure technology and security all 54 african states are represented at the event it's being seen as part of russia's drive to restore its influence on the african continent which faded after the collapse of the soviet union in 1901 now china has long been leading the way on investment in africa but now it seems russia is a critic catch up for example by pursuing its business interests in one of the poorest countries of the world the central african republic. russia's colors who are on display at this youth sporting event in the central african republic the kids from the capital bangui seem to be enjoying themselves and that was a good sign for the figures in sunglasses in the background. russia has set out to

win hearts in africa. this woman says she loves russia for organizing the event. russian money was also spent on a beauty contest that crowned miss central africa the sponsor at events like these is a radio station promoting russian african time is radio lingo sung go. so what's it like it a broadcaster that does advertising for moscow we don't get mansour to that question at its headquarters in a suburb of bangor. but we do get to view an animated clip aimed at showing russia's friendly feeling this toward the country's children it was paid for by lowe by invest. that's a company with ties to russian president vladimir putin a company that was named for a region known for its diamonds the government here has granted by invest a lot of mining rights the country wants to look for the precious stones more

efficiently whether with russia or other partners the. president has said that we are open to anyone who wants to cooperate in public private partnerships to exploit these valuable resources and. this is the minister at the russian embassy he's with the areas that are of a security advisor to the african countries president sakharov has seen as a man with power behind the scenes who has helped train its army russians can now view that army on state television only a fraction of the trainers are officers from the russian army most of the rest reportedly work for a private russian security firm for the opposition here that's unacceptable. don't. messner reasons in our constitution it is forbidden that's why we are against a kind of for it. so what's behind russia's new solidarity with central africa how

much is about mercenary services or weapons paid for with diamonds critics say russia is using private business to help secure national interests on the continent but most go says it's stop playing geopolitical games if you use african governments as partners. now to some other stories making news around the world 16 people have been sentenced to death in bangladesh for the murder of a teenage schoolgirl including the school's principal and they set this wrecked john brothy on fire after she reported them for sexual harassment her murder sparked outrage and protests across the country. india and pakistan have signed a pact allowing indian pilgrims to cross the. order to a sikh strine in pakistan the deal enables visa free access and a secure corridor to the town of qatar for where the grave of sikh isms founder is located it is a rare juster of cooperation between the nuclear armed rivals. and the remains of

spanish dictator francisco franco had been exuma from a state mausoleum and will be moved to a private family vault in a madrid cemetery this follows a long legal battle between the spanish government and his family who oppose the move from spain from 139 until his death nearly 4 decades later. the winner of the european union's prize which honors people who defend human rights and freedoms has been awarded to ilham tohti total as an economist and a member of china's weaker community he has worked for more than 20 years to improve the rights of the minority ethnic group he's currently serving a life sentence in prison in china the prize is worth 50000 euros it was 1st handed out 30 years ago. and for more on the story we can speak to joe head of the daughter of and talked as she joins us from washington d.c. joe hare thank you for being with us here on d w what does this prize mean to you and your family. hello

1st of all ms a lot to the your community to my family in to me this is considered like safety lest for my family i would say i would hope i hope this prize this award could help my father. be away from some potential harm from the chinese government and i hope when the chinese government is when they decide to take a negative a negative action towards my father they would consider international attention and also this is a i would say this is a recognition for my father's work for the past decade and also this is a recognition of a recognition for the. plight of the. of their current situation tell us more about your father why his work has been so important to this community. it's not

a recent issue it's been a while since the leaders have been suffering from the chinese government's regime . such as non fair education opportunities no fair job opportunities and no access of free religion. to free freedom to practice our religion my father has been trying try so hard to talk to the chinese government and also for trying to promote peace between 100 chinese group and the leaders in order to fix those issues. he was one of the very few people who were able to speak up for the. since there were no freedom of speech and . freedom of thoughts in china and it was very difficult for someone like my father who could actually decide to speak up and continue his

work for so many years and even though he knew he this his action could get him into trouble could it get him and get him arrested but he continued his work and he secrest by himself now he is serving a life sentence you hear you mention that you hope the international attention might in a way protect your father you haven't had any contact with him for years now how worried are you about him and other family members in china. so the last time i saw my father was 2013 february 2nd but the last the last time our family members heard about my father it was 2017. that was also when the concentration camps started. our family members were and are no longer able to visit him and we don't know if he still had health in the same prison room if we we don't even know he is still alive and we don't know how he is doing and. my family members of course i worry about worry about them every day and my brothers are still very young today is that

actually my brother's birthday to mars my father's birthday and i hope this award can be a sort of a birthday gift for for both of them and. most of the people say happy birthday but i would say i wish both of them long and healthy life that's the most i wish for for the both of them now to hear yourself have been such a vocal advocate for the weaker community what do you think needs to happen at this point to improve the situation of weekers in china also looking to the international community. first of all i would urge. the us has been doing a lot and with this awards given by the european parliament also. a gesture from that i would say it's a gesture from the european parliament for that we girls cause and i would hope this award and could bring up more countries to stand up for that we cause and also . i would wish them to stand up to ask the chinese government to release my father

other interlocked trolls who are serving and just unjust and justice and in the prison or locked up in the concentration camp ok. the daughter of a thank you so much for joining us here in the. now china's foreign ministry has confirmed reports by british police that the 39 people found dead in a truck container near london on monday were all chinese nationals police are still questioning the truck's driver who was arrested on suspicion of murder the investigation has also led to raids on 2 homes in northern ireland britain's national crime agency says it is working to identify whether organized crime groups might be involved. it's britain's largest murder investigation in the 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 that that's actually happened here today 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 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 lorry has gary number plates and passed through the port of support in belgium the truck's driver was from northern ireland forensic investigations are long underway but police say the victims are chinese nationals 8 women and 31 men late wouldn't stay offices towed

away the truck. this matches attracted national and international interest and it's absolutely imperative that the operation is conducted. that. the family life. we hear so much in private and not smarties the same thing with their families for now there's still more questions than answers in this one case which of horrified many britons. is following the latest developments for us from london as we heard there of beijing has now confirmed that the 39 victims were chinese nationals what more can you tell us. we don't have any more information other than these are chinese nationals and that you all of them are man and 8 women previously had been reported that was one teenager amongst them but as to the exact identities we have no further information. of course this

for many people in britain they will remember that this is not the fast tragedy that involves us chinese nationals already in the year 2058 chinese migrants at the time had suffocated in the container so yes another really really tragic story here in the u.k. that involves chinese people but what about the investigation i mean are we any closer to knowing how this happened. you know we do know as yet when the chinese nationals entered the contest and exactly what happened where how they died there have been media reports that they were in a refrigerated container now these can go down in temperature to up to minus 25 degrees celsius so the speculation is that they would have frozen to death

very likely but at the moment this is just speculation we know that a murder investigation is on its way the truck driver in northern irish truck driver from his facebook page it looks like he's a professional truck driver but we don't know what they he knew that he had people in the container since the story broke yesterday there have been other refugees have come forward and they told of their own story and also some of them said that the driver the truck driver didn't know that they were in the lorry so a murder investigation yes but we don't know yet the exact circumstances of the tragic case and just quickly about that we have heard that authorities in other countries are also involved in the in the probe what can you tell us about that well yes the belgian author and he's are investigating because we know that there container came from the belgian port of seabrook and only going

raids as it appears in the north and alan several properties in northern ireland which is of ca's in the u.k. are still being raided and we know that the police just checking whether any organized crime could be involved in this tragedy our correspondent frank of mass with the latest there thank you. now are we edging closer to an era of super fast quantum computing according to google the answer is yes the internet giant says it has designed a machine that needs only 200 seconds to solve a problem that would take traditional supercomputers thousands of years to crack google's researchers say that within a few years quantum computing could revolutionize all sorts of fields like artificial intelligence it may not loop like much more than a maze of interconnected wires chips and cooling roads but scientists here at google's lab in california see this is in front a leap into the future this quantum computer called sycamore performed

a task in seconds that even the most advanced computers would need centuries to complete. quantum computing gives us a chance to not only achieve many practical use cases and help make the world better in a way that we cannot do just with classical computers alone but it also allows us to help understand the universe in a deeper way closer to the way that actually works and i'm told there were plenty of reasons to be cheerful ex-pat say that the promises of quantum computing such as revolutionizing medical science and vastly advanced artificial intelligence are still many years away. they really promise you that there are going to be applications which are going to you know impact ordinary people in 5 years or 10 years it's exploration i view it as

a frontier of science. nevertheless google views it as a win over its rival i.b.m. google says it would take a traditional supercomputer like i.b.m. summit 10000 years to complete the same task i.b.m. accuses its rival of raising public expectations too high but google c.e.o. maintains its quantum supremacy experiment is like the 1st rocket to leave earth's atmosphere an advance that made interplanetary travel at least theoretically possible. now 100 years ago it's believed there were more than 2000000 penguins living along the southern coastline of namibia and south africa but now africa's penguin colonies are endangered the population is decreasing rapidly our correspondent adrienne crees visited an organization and cape town that's trying to stop the alarming decline. one last chance to

relax together before things start 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 god this is made of this one he had he was 70 percent oiled 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 term. 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 training with 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. 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 world so. in simon's town one of the few remaining pinguin colonies they are released. oh. i. i i. it went really well it was really nice to go out 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 out in the direction they should have gone and 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. all the other wild penguins i believe think about the impacts of what they're doing and how they can affect not

anything wins but all of the sea life and other wildlife that song 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 animals in and obviously the pingers were being rehabilitated and then 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 at sea this is not only a game as it used to be this last big problem however the biggest threats to the african pingree is the let go fish they are not enough and show visa and sardines in the oceans due to overfishing. and the worst case scenario of the last african penguin colony will die out in 20 or 30 years but people here definitely want to prevent that from happening. coming up next on news asia well have more on weaker activists still on talk team winning the sakharov prize

speaking to the world weaker congress about china's crackdown against the ethnic minority. plus a channel how that story on d w news asia coming right up. if

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