this is g w news live from berlin and nato grapples with turkey's incursion into northern syria the alliance is meeting to hammer out a unified response as nato member turkey conducts operations in its self declared safe zone in syria with the assistance of russian troops also coming up russian president vladimir putin welcoming 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's at stake and the european union's human rights prize goes to ill

hunt toti for his work defending china's leaver minority we will speak with his daughter who says the family doesn't seem the child activist since 2017. our family members were are no longer able to visit him and we don't know if he still has held in the same prison with we don't even know if he's still alive. plus africa's penguins making a splash or at least trying to look at efforts to save the endangered species. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss turkey's incursion into northern syria it's not unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey a nato member is closely collaborating in syria with russia and nato adversary that

sees the alliance as a threat here's a look at the key issues at play in a region that until recently was in the hands of the kurds. 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 u.s. troops had withdrawn from the region earlier abandoning their kurdish allies and making way for their nato partner turkey to lead a military incursion into the area.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 ever 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 the us 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 they could come she wants to take billions commitment even further. my suggestion is that we set up an internationally controlled security zone involving turkey and russia. but soon. 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 out laws proposals on how to move forward how to fund a political solution and of course a political solution how to. 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 vision of a security zone in northern syria. and the head of the nato military alliance have some concerns ahead of the meeting correspondent terry stoltz reports from the nato meeting in brussels here. just ahead of the meeting the nato secretary general young stolzenberg again welcome to the fact that germany has proposed an international mission in northern syria after speaking with the german defense minister on a great car of our for the 2nd time about their proposal he says he understands that germany would want a united nations mandate for such a mission and he knows that can be very difficult to achieve especially because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council whose approval would be needed and moscow has already rejected the german suggestion u.s. defense secretary marc esper said this morning that he sees turkey moving closer to

moscow's fear of influence than the west and he hopes that's a trend that's quickly reversed so nato allies will have many questions for their turkish counterpart about the ceasefire that's been announced and about its joint patrols with russia which will bring russian troops very near nato as border so while the turkey issue is expected to dominate the 2 day meeting there are other issues on the agenda to hybrid threats operations in afghanistan and of course the perennial how much european governments are spending on their militaries. let's get a quick check now 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 they set knows what john roffey 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 border to

a sikh shrine in pakistan the deal enables visa free access and a secure core door to the town of cart of poor where the grave of sikhism sounder is located it's a rare gesture of cooperation between the nuclear armed rivals. and official figures have given bolivia's president evo morales a 10 point lead over his main rival carlos mencia in the country's presidential election meaning he could avoid a runoff vote has said that a gigantic fraud has taken place the disputed poll has triggered protest in the south american country. jailed member of china's weaker minority has been honored with this year's prize their ward has been given out by the european union and it pays tribute to defenders of human rights toti has worked for more than 20 years to improve the rights of the leaders in china but he is now being jailed as part of beijing's crackdown against the group

which has seen more than a 1000000 we girls locked up in internment camps now the european parliament said that he deserves the award for his attempts to foster dialogue with china. majority . and i'm joined now by joe she is the daughter of toti in washington d.c. thank you so much for joining us here on the program what does this mean to you and your family. thank you for having me here today. it means i would say at this point of a war it means a safety belt for my family and my father i would hope this award can help him being safe in the prison since 2700 have not heard anything about my father i don't know if he is mentally doing ok physically doing i don't know if he's even alive and i hope this award could. push china to release more news about my father and

allow family visits and also eventually release my father how worried are you about him and other family members who are in china. i'm not able to contact my family in china directly i always have to find a 3rd person or other ways to be able to communicate with them and liking information worries me the most because without information i don't know if they are doing ok and i don't know if my advocates you work and what is happening with that we could affect. how much it could affect. every every day i wake up opening my eyes i would think about them and i just hope they could have a peaceful and worry lists life there's so much work to be done there

and we hear that you're actually you know you're picking up a lot of what your father was doing a lot of his work tell us a little bit more you know about his role in the community his role in the country we also know that he you know he started this blog which which garnered quite a lot of attention it was a chinese language blog called we were online. yes. the reason one of the reason i think my father created that web site was because 1st of all social media platforms like facebook twitter are banned in china also there is no google search engine in china and without those search engines and social media platforms chinese citizens have very small access abilities to the truth to the news most of the news they're reading are censored and because of that most of the chinese citizens they don't know who you guys are less they live with lugar people

a lot of people don't know what what we were is are and what their culture is and then when they read the news they might think that we are the evil other side and my for the reason one of the reason my father created this website was to try to promote peace and understanding between hunch chinese and we were as. i would say my father things with understanding that's how. the problems can be solved. misunderstandings are the the tool to create bigger problems so what is your call now for the international community i mean you you are increasing awareness there right now of what is happening in china do you feel that you know the problem the detention of so many leaders that we have seen in the country the violation of human rights that it is high enough on the political world agenda right now i would say we're getting enough recognition. i would say most of the government leaders

know what we girls are and what leaders are suffering and it's very sad that we have to be recognized by this way. and we deserve more than this thing suffering like this way. i would call. international people from from from the world and the government leaders from all over the world can take on actions recognizing it's not enough taking on more actions could and pushing china to release. and closing the camps will be my my initial goal. daughter of ill home toti who we know who has just been awarded the soccer off prize for human rights for his work regarding the leader minority in china we thank you so much for joining us from washington d.c. to tell us a little bit i want you about your father and the situation in the country. much.

when i russian president vladimir putin has welcomed dozens of african leaders to sochi where he is hosting the 1st ever russia africa economic forum the 2 day summit is focused on expanding cooperation in trade infrastructure technology and security all $54.00 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 back in 1901 and time has long been leading the way on investment in africa but now it seems that russia is eager to catch up for example by pursuing its business interests in one of the poorest countries in the world the central african republic. russia's colors who are on display at this youth sporting event in the central african republic tickets 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. 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 times radio lingo. so what's it like at a broadcaster that does advertising for moscow. we don't get 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 feelings 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 to the people this is the minister at the russian embassy he's with the areas of a security advisor to the african countries president so harrumph is 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 and that's unacceptable. we don't. raise in our constitution it is forbidden that's why we are against kind of. 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 must go says it's stop playing geopolitical games if you use african governments as partners. you're watching still to come on the program former dictator franco in his berry after this remains words from a state to blame his legacy to rest just for a difficult matter over 4 decades after his death. pollution and overfishing have devastated africa's penguin colony conservationists trying to prevent a much. lovejoy birds are dying out. but 1st china's foreign ministry has confirmed reports by british police that 39 people found dead in a truck container near london on monday were all chinese nationals police say that

they have secured a warrant to question the driver for another 24 hours he was arrested on suspicion of murder but no charges have yet been made the investigation has also led to raids on 2 homes in northern ireland britain's national crime agency says it's working to find out whether organized crime groups are 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 here today especially in this area i mean my mom i knew my mom and he 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 sure 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 carried 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 wednesday offices towed away the truck. this matches attracted national and international interest and it's absolutely imperative that the operation is interrupted. that. the family life. may get to the gym by then and not so many different things with their families for now there's still more questions than answers in this one case which of horrified

many britons. the family of the late spanish dictator francisco franco has attended a really burial ceremony for his exude remains they were removed from the state muscle e.-m. known as the valley of the fall of early on thursday it's part of a debate by the spanish government to transform. morial into a place of national reconciliation thousands of political dissidents were killed imprisoned or went missing during the 4 decades of franco's the war tearing it rule which began following his civil war victory in 1039 but many of his supporters have been critical of the very very ill. let's bring in enrique and artie who is joining us from our spanish service with the latest on what is happening right now so so what is happening and. the interest so she is government has finally succeeded to it soon the remains of the dictator some months

of people the way to avoid any legal obstacles members of the franco family has sought a court order to try to prevent the rebbe but the government initiative has finally succeeded just weeks ahead of the country's general election on november the 10th different polls published by local media in the last days so does it actually only run hard for the spanish to pollution supports the extermination. important device in the country for example between older generations and between the right on the left but for some people he was not. in the country faces important economic and political challenges including the can tell you a crisis and level of unemployment i want to pick up on what you just said there because i mean only half of the population support this re burial why has it been met with some opposition there in the country i mean does he really have supporters

left there. well today we've seen the images of people screaming lonely franco of course there are people who are still praise his rule after these images but they're an exception this is to be more of an emotional reaction to a very poor raise an issue that of the c. word in franco's dictatorship those who could he says a move mrs sara lee frankel supporters of a opposed looking back into the country's past spain's path towards a democratic system also live to many of the rituals victim be hand in what have all of the country defense we read in its history to acknowledge this the other half is not comparable with fees in this troubling to is the reburying also met lee bell i mean when we're talking about reconciliation is it is it likely to help push the country closer toward. it doesn't it seems so easy there we burial doesn't change the fact that thousands of his victims are still waiting for justice and

many people just do not know what happened to some member of the family who disappeared one day and he says that this is happening just before the elections and after the different political forces failed to return a government agreement and the difficult situation in catalonia has only contributed to reinforce this social poor situation in the whole country so it doesn't seem that since it doesn't seem that any country is going to be able to get an absolute majority they will have to talk to each other about common goals and that is not what they have been doing regarding franco's rings and weak and from our spanish service thank you thank you. after 8 years of the helm of the european central bank mario draghi has held his final policy meeting his famous 2012 words whatever it takes to preserve the euro at the height of the currency zones financial crisis will go down in history for all his successes druggy leaves behind

a divided governing council many are unhappy about low interest rates and about his latest decision to restart quantitative easing printing money to buy government and corporate bonds as a way of stabilizing the eurozone economy his successor will be christine legarde the former head of the international monetary fund. a 100 years ago it's believed that 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 creech visited an organization in cape town that is trying to stop 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 put are doing is we're just taking the penguins and

making sure that they're all ready for release so we each one has his own thing cause this is made of this what he had 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 tents. but these birds might not be here in the long term. they are in danger of extinction it's quite possible that anyone can go extinct in the future and we've had a 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 though. at least penguins 1st have to spend

time in the small box but only briefly until they have fully recovered and are ready to return to the wood. in simon's town one of the few remaining green colonies they are released. 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 the penguins but all of the sea life and other wildlife that is in danger from human interaction. 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 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 clean as it used to be this last big problem however the biggest threats to the african pingree is the lego fish there are not enough and show 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 prevent that from happening. this is deja vu news these are our top stories. nato defense ministers are meeting in a bid to hammer out a unified response to turkey's incursion into northern syria. worried about the impact on games made against so-called islamic states and about uncle resteal to

collaborate with russia in the region. beijing has confirmed reports by british police that the 39 people found dead in a truck container near london on wednesday were all chinese nationals police still questioning the driver he was arrested on suspicion of murder but no charges have yet been made. or activist toti has been awarded this year's sakharov prize the award is the european parliament's top human rights prize has been a fierce critic of china's treatment of the weaker minority is currently serving a life sentence for separatism the. russian president vladimir putin has welcomed dozens of african leaders to sochi where he is hosting the 1st ever russia africa economic forum the 2 day summit is seen as part of the kremlin's efforts to expand its influence on the african continent.

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