this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight native's dilemma what to do about turkey what to do about turkey and russia as nato headquarters defense ministers are faced with one of their own turkey suddenly patrolling northern syria together with a nato adversary russia can the alliance endure this major test of its unity also coming up tonight the european union's human rights prize. for his work defending china's rieger minority will speak to his daughter who says the family hasn't seen

him since he was put in prison 2 years ago. our family members were no longer able to visit and we don't know if he still had. it when we don't even know. and it's more than 4 decades after his death he is a hero for some he haunts spain for others the remains of former dictator francisco franco exuded relocated and reburying easier than laying to rest the legacy of franco for good. it's good to have you with us at nato headquarters they have a problem with one of their own defense ministers are discussing turkey's actions in northern syria in the last 2 weeks unprecedented events. turkey

a nato member is now closely collaborating in syria with a nato adversary russia must have joined forces to drive kurdish fighters out of northern syria until recently the region was controlled by the kurds who were backed by the us that is until president trump withdrew american troops that decision cleared the way for the turks to roll into syria. a russian patrol winds its way through the syrian town of commish lee on the border with turkey only weeks ago u.s. forces patrolled here now the guard has changed. russian forces share control of the border with turkish troops and with the syrian army in a buffer zone that is 30 kilometers deep. ass and they serve some us in brussels secretary general yan stoltenberg welcomed the arrangement the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart to red

chip adult we have seen significant reduction in violence we agree with must build on this should make it progress in our 1st to find the political solution to the conflict in syria. we fully support you and other forts to reach a political solution. hundreds have died and peasants have been displaced since turkey launched its attack on the kurds on october 9th. deserves its streets and destruction this is a town of ross a line under turkish control after fierce fighting a cease fire has been declared to allow kurdish troops to pull back but fighting still fared up on thursday. germany's defense minister wants to prevent further conflict with an internationally and for security zone in northern syria she believes the idea is gaining traction. in the discussion has begun it will be a long process and

a difficult path as the 1st steps the 1st talks were encouraging. but after the u.s. withdrawal russia and turkey are differing up the spoils in syria the 2 powers have little appetite for making room for others up the table. you know the words of a nato member there we'll talk about that i'm joined now by our correspondent in brussels teri schultz terry is covering the nato summit force good evening to you terry so what was it like today when all of the nato defense ministers when they came together was was turkey the black sheep in the room and what about the u.s. was there criticism of what the u.s. did withdrawing its troops from northern syria. well brant i'm told that everyone around the room all the allies did criticize turkey did say that they weren't happy with the turkish with the turkish actions but that's something they said before they were basically repeating criticism that they've all said as

individual governments or across town in their european union had but it didn't go further than that and actually i was surprised to hear that that there wasn't a lot of heat in the room and in fact the united states has has come out of this quite well a week ago yes we heard criticism that the u.s. had pulled out its 50 soldiers which you know basically kept the turks from staging this incursion earlier we didn't hear that today. germany has proposed an internationally administered safe zone in northern syria let's take a listen to how the nato secretary general you bring how he described reaction to the german plan today. the german defense minister she she briefed allies on her thoughts on the way forward. again i think it is broad support for the over political solution. and also. ways to try to

engage the international community to support such a political solution. terry i don't think that i heard stoltenberg addressed the russians who have already dismissed this german proposal did he leave them out intentionally do you think. well i tried to get him to do that i asked a question specifically about whether turkey had expressed its willingness to accept this german proposal and whether it would lead the way in convincing russia also to accept an international presence and he really didn't respond to me in the in the press conference on the topic of russia and it is surprising to hear the nato secretary general and other governments basically accept the results of this turkey russian deal because that's going to mean that russian forces are just a few miles from from nato is border and truly they are not comfortable with it but it just doesn't seem like anyone is getting details out of turkey on exactly what

that deal means in turkey remains strategically important to nato i guess that's part of the the problem here but it appears to be forging closer ties with russia so what do you think this means to nato and its unity moving forward. it is a problem for nato and u.s. defense secretary marc esper mentioned that specifically in a speech he gave this morning he said that turkey has always been a real reliable ally but it seems to be turning more toward russia and less toward the west and he really urged to change that direction at the same time that this isn't completely new for turkey you know it did by a russian missile defense system the s 400 instead of a western missile defense system and they blame the west for forcing them into that they said the u.s. didn't want to sell its system and there is some talk that the european union having put a partial arms embargo on turkey is going to do even do to push that even further

that they're going to look even more closely at russia as an arms supplier so it's a very complicated situation right now and i think that's why we're not hearing more crystal clear ways forward nobody knows exactly what to do you've got to keep turkey inside nato nato is better off that way the thinking goes in turkey's better off that way so there's really no discussion of of turkey leading nato or being kicked out but nobody knows exactly how to truly bring it back psychologically politically into the fold of western allies yeah it's a it's a geo political love hate story. teri schultz in brussels covering the nato summit force thank you. we'll hear some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world u.k. prime minister boris johnson wants an early general election on december 12th he says that he will put forward a motion on one day to ask parliament to approve the move of this comes after m.p.'s refused to fast track johnson's proposed breaks

a deal earlier this week police in the u.k. say they've secured a warrant to question a truck driver for another 24 hours after the bodies of $39.00 people were discovered in the back of his truck the man was arrested on suspicion of murder but has not been charged with anything the victims they were all chinese nationals. ilham tohti a jailed member of china's we've heard minority has been on earth and with this year's 2nd prize the award is given out by the european union and pays tribute to defenders of human rights the ads worked for more than 20 years to improve the rights of the weekers in china but he is now in jail as part of beijing's crackdown against the group which has seen more than a 1000000 we walked up in internment camps the european parliament says that he deserves the award for his attempts to foster dialogue with china's han majority.

were earlier we spoke with his daughter in washington d.c. and she told us what this prize means to her and her family. i would say this profile awarded means a safety belt for my family and my father i would hope this award can help him being safe in the presence ins 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 was the daughter there of the 2nd row of prize recipient this year. here in europe the family of the late spanish dictator francisco franco has attended a burial ceremony for his exude remains they were removed from the state most will

leave earlier on thursday it's part of a bid by the spanish government to transform the memorial into a place of national reconciliation hundreds of thousands of political dissidents were killed imprisoned or with missing during the 4 decades of franco's authoritarian rule that rule began following his civil war victory in 1939 but many of his supporters they have been critical of this repairing. our world there's no joy but i call the news pearl is from our spanish service good to see you again so. why is this we're talking about 40 years after his death. there was a fear that. would reopen the. of the civil war also if they dictate a ship and it actually happened and spain never faced has passed the way other countries might have done by germany for example it was always something that they kind of looked away and it was only in 2007 i mean franco died in 75 and it was

only in 2007 that there was a law passed the law of the memorial and with the law they removed public symbols of the streets of the squares that where so from that it takes a ship so it's a process that has been. a lot of time and actually there were a lot of appeals and. until it finally happened vic summation the francisco franco foundation it gets public money so it exists extreme rides and fungus family tried to sell this explanation they actually appealed to the european court of human rights. all of these things are happening it speaks to think that i'm not a lot of time really has passed. really still have supporters yes we've seen that today the spirit of francisco franco is still alive nowadays in spain and what do i

mean with the spirit we saw today fastest flocks they are legal in spain songs we saw people that were supporting him and wanted to play tribute to him today with fastest. and for all this time for this 40 years 44 years that he was in the valley of the fall and some supporters went there to bring flowers to pray to it's today or so we're talking about a really polarized society not everybody. free to do this is this valley where his remains were was going to become almost like the tourist attraction for for right. now. we also talk about the start of a new era in space well the mission from god has happened today's actually only the tip of the iceberg spain has still a lot of work to do to deal with his past we're talking about a country that has around 2015 mass graves more than 100000

actually 100. 120000 victims of the dictatorship disappeared families are still asking for justice asking for recognition international recognition and we're talking about from our generation the grandparents generation grandparents so it is still something that lives in the families and the society is polarized and they're still waiting for the crimes against humanity to be prosecuted by spenders justice we've got about 30 seconds when if you in 2 weeks spain is going to have a general election. play you into that at all you see yes because not only the society is polarized also the parliament the political fight is a polarized solely the accused the prime minister for use this as an erect electoral show and the 2 is actually going to probably gain more vote event that actually should be respected so we're talking also about polarized. pulling

politics to the right here he was from our spanish service as always thank you thank you well. you're watching the news business news is up next we'll. be right back.