the but. this is the w.'s live from berlin key intel kurdish forces reveal how they tracked down the leader of the so-called islamic state rubble is now all that is left of vaccarella baghdad his hideout in northern syria after the american raid in which he died the kurds say their source provided the intelligence that led u.s. forces to bug out his hideout is also coming up not backing down and he go when protesters in iraq define an army curfew vowing to stay on the streets until the

nation's leaders step down in the holy city of karbala 18 protesters are killed. plus a briton was briggs it was a logjam begins to break opposition leader jeremy corbin says he'll back an early election now that the u.k.'s the furniture from the european union has been delayed . and 2 big wildfires are raging across california and the northern wine country homes that wineries are turned to ashes close to los angeles thousands are forced to flee. on mylar thank you so much for your company everyone turkey is threatening to resume its assaults on the kurds in northern syria on course as kurdish forces have not pulled back from the region which is one of the conditions set by turkey. he

and russia when they agreed to a 6 day ceasefire that ends later today meanwhile more salient details are emerging about the raid in which the islamic state leader abu bakar al baghdadi died a senior advisor to the kurdish led syrian democratic forces says the s.d.f. was pivotal in efforts to track down by daddy in a series of tweets a senior advisor said all intelligence and access to al baghdadi as well as the identification of his place were the result of the s.t.'s own work our source was involved in sending corden its star wrecked in the air drop participating and making the operation a success all right let's get you more on this want to cross over to is stumble now to our correspondent giuliana who is reporting on this story from there julia what more can you tell us about these are revelations that the kurds played a key role in tracking down al by diety. now this is

all according to the kurdish led as d f a northeast syria it hasn't been independently verified but they now claim that they had an undercover agent an assett who managed to get access to the compound where the jihad is legal but daddy was hiding there in it live province in syria and this person brought. under way to conduct a d.n.a. task ahead of the u.s. raid to confirm that the person in question really was a baghdadi now another important note on the timing of it all the cut his forces they also claim that they have been working with the u.s. on the ground collecting intel in the past 5 months but the whole operation targeting all but he was delayed because of turkey's military operation which was launched about 3 weeks ago so how do all these stunning revelations fit in with this narrative of a u.s.

regional ally helping track down the most wanted man in the world with the white house deciding to cut them loose the moment their target decides to declare war on them. well it appears to have been an ongoing operation but i also think it's important for the kurdish forces to show the world how crucial they have been and still are in the fight against the so-called islamic state they repeatedly said how betrayed they feel by u.s. president donald trump's decision to withdraw u.s. forces from the within syria this basically gave green light to turkey's a military operation in the area now the cats have come under a lot of pressure in recent weeks but they're also the ones in charge of detention facilities and comms holding thousands of isis fighters and their families in north and syria there have been reports of breakout attempts and it's going to be interesting to see how daddy's killing will affect the situation. say they have

beefed up security in some of the camps because they are afraid of riots is only shows you that the fight against the so-called islamic state in the area is far from over and it is a nother really crucial day for the kurds because today the ceasefire there turkey and russia agreed on expires where do we expect to see happen today. well it has been a very shaky cease fire the cutoff side and the turkish side have both reported violations the deal and later today it was a deal struck between turkey and russia to allow kurdish militia with which turkey considers terrorists to withdraw some 30 kilometers from the turkish border the deal also allowed syrian regime forces who are backed by russia to return to these areas in north and syria so overall a very tense security situation it's very difficult to understand what's exactly going on on the ground but the turkish government says that not all y p g cut his

fighters have withdrawn from the area and if they don't do so let me quote the turkish foreign minister here turkey will wipe out the terrorists that. thank you so much your home reporting from istanbul. meanwhile in neighboring iraq or that country is in the grip of deadly anti-government protests with $240.00 people killed so far this month latest reports say masked gunmen opened fire on protesters in the holy city of karbala killing 18 of them in the capital baghdad demonstrators are defying a curfew and say they won't leave the streets until an emergency government isn't place they're calling for an end to corruption and inequality and some reports say and secure security forces are firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters. protesters in baghdad trying to reach the palaces of power and get as far as the bridge across the river sits the iraqi capital is heavily fortified international

zone where government buildings are housed at this time security forces fire tear gas at the marches but they have been using live ammunition for weeks adding to the rising death toll officials confirmed that masked armed forces fired on protesters on monday night. we have peaceful demonstrators those rulers harm the iraqi people no salaries no appointments no product land their promises our lives and now they're hitting us with tear gas the mind that in a new way there are no job if it unities here they stay at home without a hope i would not know when to move my signoff and the leaderless protests cuts across all society drawing in men and women secular and religious groups on another day these young iraqis could have been studying to become clerics in the holy city of najaf but instead they are out on the street

a ha listen to fix seminary and his students and teachers to campus solidarity with the peaceful demonstrators we tell the corrupt politicians get out this is the demand of the iraqi people we don't want them the corrupt should get out. it's an analog. so the model obama was at the bottom. the protesters are angry about what they see as government corruption and a lack of basic services and widespread unemployment they want the government to step down and have already rejected a package of government reforms over the weekend prime minister adel abdul mahdi said anyone disrupting businesses and schools would be punished but it seems unlikely that this will deter the protest as. well as i know about some of the other stories making news around the world. at least one person was killed and dozens more injured when a powerful earthquake struck the southern philippines civil government and

residential buildings were badly damaged the philippines lies on the pacific ring of fire where most of the world's earthquakes take place. authorities in hong kong have barred prominent pro-democracy activists joshua long from running in next month's local elections wang says he is the only candidate who's been disqualified the electoral commission says his nomination is invalid. antigovernment protesters have again taken to the streets in the chilean capital santiago despite a cabinet shake up by presidents a bus to. help police clashed with demonstrators in the city center the president replaced 8 cabinet ministers in an effort to calm unrest that has left at least 17 dead. british prime minister boris johnson is making a 4th attempt to force a snap election and it looks like this time he will succeed opposition labor party

leader jeremy corcoran says his party is now ready to back an early poll because the danger of the u.k. leaving the european union without an agreement has passed johnson has been pushing for an election in the hope of winning a majority in parliament he's abandoned his goal of taking britain out of europe by october 31st. all right let's get latest on these new developments so joining us from london is correspondent michelle lots of parts good to see you to so it looks that prime minister boris johnson got the early election is he so badly wanted what happens now. well it does look like a general election is now finally in the car it's for the u.k. and i say finally because boris johnson as you mentioned has been trying to push it through parliament 3 times already today it's a 4th attempt and what changed is that the opposition labor party has now made up their minds they want to back

a general election and it looks likely that tonight they are going to vote for it the question now is really on the details on timing of this general election it will be pretty christmas they are talking about the 9th the 11th or the 12th and it's a big teddy this whole thing on when this is supposed to happen but we will finally see what happens tonight and the house of parliament when they decide on this general election and then the parties will have 6 weeks to complain before we see the voters here in the u.k. go to the polls all right 6 weeks to campaign now how likely is it that johnson's conservative party will emerge as the stronger i should say this time around at the ballot box. well polls suggest at the moment that they will be the strongest party that they could get a slight majority in parliament and this is what boris johnson has been counting on he's been so eager to get his general election and he's really looking forward to

campaigning he's said the. reasoning behind this is say he wants to get a fresh mandate from the british people yes so to say from the voters on his brakes and strategy and then he finally wants to see his brakes a deal through but we also have to keep in mind boris johnson let go of his promise that the u.k. would leave the european union this upcoming sesay on october 31st there is now an extension in place until the end of january and so we have to see how well this sits with voters i think 6 weeks is a long time in british politics and many things can change of course in the polls or it what does this all mean for braggs it. well the houses of parliament we've seen that over the past year it became very clear that there is no majority on anything regarding bracks and so it's really been a terrible deadlock here and british politics and general election of course could

shake up the numbers in palm and if we look at where the parties stand on the issue the conservatives of course want to push that brics a deal through leave the european union the labor party has not quite made up their mind the liberal democrats they want to forget about breaks it all together revoke article 50 and then there is also a new kid on the block the breck said paci they want to make clear cut with the european union as soon as possible and i think what this general election if we then see it pretty christmas boils down to is that the british voters will finally have a say again on whether they want bricks that after all or what kind of bread said they indeed want. the parts are reporting from london thank you. firefighters in california are battling 2 massive blazes extreme winds have been fanning the flames and a statewide emergency has been declared officials say the fire ripping through

northern california's wine country has now doubled in size with nearly 2 $100000.00 people under evacuation orders and further south another wildfire is threatening homes in the los angeles area some of l.a.'s wealthiest residents including basketball superstar le bron james and even the terminator himself are normal source a nigger have been driven from their homes. and the bigger the floor of 5 freeway in los angeles the latest front in the california wildfires so the blaze sweeping through tinder dry hills. thousands of people were forced to flee as the fires scorched the wealthy west side of the city authorities urged residents to heed the warnings and get out. if you're in the mandatory evacuation zone and you're still there watching this you're an idiot get the hell out it's way too dangerous people that stay behind or just the danger in themselves and not helping. the worst affected area is sonoma county in northern california 88000

homes here are in danger 4000 firefighters are battling to get the blaze under control as days of strong winds dropped and conditions improved but today's focus continues to be perimeter control and structure protection especially during this 24 hour window of opportunity we currently have with favorable weather conditions but time is of the essence full cost as a warning that this is just a brief rest bite winds a set to pick up and found the flames once more. what we started to get ready for there was another red flag a vent all right now it looks like that's going to start sometime mid day tuesday and push us into wednesday morning so we've got a kind of a quiet 24 hour window right now and then we're going to go into another critical period tuesday night into wednesday it's now a race against time a battle against the blazes before the next critical period begins. the very latest

now from jason the camperdown a reporter with n.b.c. news radio he's joining us from l.a. which is at the heart of this wildfire jason there are about 12 fires burning in the state are firefighters any closer to getting these blazes under control. not really unfortunately containment is something that's very hard to achieve especially with the winds being as strong as they have the past couple of days now today the winds are going to be a little bit slower than what they have been over the past week and but you're still going to get wind gusts of up to 20 to 25 miles per hour so firefighters are trying to get in there and give everything they got to their fire fight today the fire in northern california and wine country sonoma county they're not expecting that to be contained in till 2 weeks from now i talked to us a little bit jason about the weather which is playing a really crucial factor. so right now like i said wind gusts

are minimal 20 maybe 30 miles an hour in some of the mountain tops but later today in northern california about noon or so local time we're going to be getting a cold air coming from canada and the cold air is actually much faster than a warm wind would be because the cold air will pick up steam or pick up speed as it comes off of the mountain slopes and then gets down to sea level where most of these fires are burning so we could see wind gusts of up to 8090 sometimes 100 miles an hour later today and of course nobody is this spared a lot so homes there also in the area of a celebrities who have had to evacuate as well what more can you tell us about that . and these homes are mentioned multimillion dollar homes and you mention the bron james and arnold schwarzenegger they had to evacuate thank you an idea of the wealth and the money that is just in that area and these are not like one in 2

bedroom type homes these are 6 and 7 bedroom homes with vast landscapes and beautiful architecture and things like that down here near the getty center where the getty fire broke out yesterday as week we've lost about 10 homes but firefighters are battling overnight right now using water dropping helicopters to try and save as many structures as possible do we know when all the authorities know how these fires started in the 1st place. so there are a couple of i don't want to call them rumors but there are a couple of speculations that p.g. and e. pacific gas and electric is responsible for their infrastructure is responsible for the fire up in sonoma county the high winds may have knocked down a power line in the nose power lines may have ignited the vegetation underneath down here in southern california we do know that a tree branch broke off and hit our line but we're not exactly sure if that's the exact cause los angeles mayor eric garcetti did say yesterday that it was not

started by a homeless encampment all right jason campbell i am reporting from los angeles on the wildfires thank you thank you back here in germany the world jewish congress has honored german chancellor angela merkel for her efforts to counter anti semitism the president of the organization ronald as a logger praised americal as a ball work against extremism hate and anti semitism the war comes at a time when germany is seeing a shop rise in attacks on jewish people and institutions. it's a great honor for the german chancellor to be awarded the fair or hetzel prize by the world jewish congress the organization is honoring angela merkel's role in supporting jewish life and fighting anti-semitism in germany. later.

it is a sad reality that we have to emphasize the importance of protecting jewish lines right now. but that didn't just start with the attack on the synagogue in hama on the 9th of october on yom kapoor which has struck at the heart of our entire society. members of germany's jewish community are also worried there has been a dramatic rise in anti-semitism in recent years a government study found a 60 percent increase in violence against jews in 2018 a study by the world jewish congress found that more than a quarter of germans harbor anti-semitic sentiments the president of the w.j.c. ronald lauder spoke to the w. about the need for targeted action by the state to combat anti-semitism well 1st of all in the political field i believe that anyone any party who is who shows anti-semitic feelings should not be in that party and i believe also there are some party small parties that are basically based on almost any.

theory they should be. but there are major hurdles in germany when it comes to banning political parties the world jewish congress says it will be watching closely to make sure that the german government further strengthens its efforts to combat anti-semitism in the country. all right to for more on this now i'm joined by my colleague frank kauffman you had who was at the meeting of the world jewish congress and filed that report and he's standing now by in munich thank you so much for being there frank in your report to ronald a lot or says neo nazi parties should be banned in germany who did he have specifically in mind. well i was able to talk to him again often sense of you and today and i asked him to clarify this as well as i was talking to other participants of the conference and as far as i understood them and they were very clear here they mean not only parties right wing extremist parties but also

a group in legal policy in germany and i was trying to also and i try i asked them to whether they could be no precise when it comes to the f.t. party the right wing populist and extremist party here that is quite gaining ground at the moment in germany and say yes they have a group called death the ving and this right wing extremist group in the party should be forbidden as well down the lines again today it's politicians in parties that are following right wing and they are not see your cheese should be banned out of parties here in the country what other measures does the world jewish congress want to see germany deployed in the fight against anti-semitism. from a lot of was a very clear he's thought there must be a tougher legislation against hate speech in germany as well he said stronger

prosecutions against anti-semitic crimes and assaults in the country for example he mentions the knife attack in to the center today the synagogue in berlin a couple of months ago were syrian attacked police and this man was released from custody the same day because no tougher measures against him terrifically. i'm no chance ungar americal was honored by the sea in munich but did she also offer a convincing plan on how to fight anti semitism. she was very political she also political sphere in this country to fight back against anti-semitism but when it came to stronger prosecution for example i have had the feeling that the delegates expected much more from the chancellor and not only from the chancellor but also from the ministers said met here today as well 6 european

ministers of interior affairs like the drone one missile from it here today at the conference venue behind may to get to business a lot another epicenter this of the w.h.a. sea and i had the feeling that also that many delegates were kind of disappointed because they want to have more action against anti-semitism from the colts and the state prosecutors frank hoffman reporting from munich thank you so now to the horse show that takes horse power to a whole new level and event in helsinki has shown its environmental can to credentials by generating all its energy from horsemen are. at the sequestering show in finland the horses do more than jump over obstacles they're responsible for powering the entire event from the school board to the lights inside the arena. and it comes not from the horse's mouth but

rather it's behind all of them in your produce during the show is connected up and turned into electricity all the people we get here in there doing that we day we use to get all the energy and the electronics how easy like power they will get the power from my whole events plus holes all pretty much the whole housing cario. finland with its 75000 horses is a 1st tile ground for the project the idea is you get more from your manure started 5 years ago the waste is transported by a local energy company mixed with woods and then burns to create energy cost management it but all of my school parable to say my wood my having roughly $1.00 makoto to my left me is that i have 2 horses so i need it to produce

a mold of energy that one single father called it requires the food. there are more benefits to horse power it generates less carbon dioxide than other bio energy sources environmentally friendly excretion that proves the saying you should never look at gift horse in the mouth. and around and out of the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour. kurdish led forces have revealed details of the role they played in the death of the so-called islamic state leader abu bakar al baghdadi the syrian defense forces say they tracked down al baghdadi and provided crucial d.n.a. evidence before the u.s. raid in which he killed himself. in the iraqi capital baghdad demonstrators are defining a curfew and say they won't leave the streets until the government steps down its reports from the holy city of karbala saying mass gunman opened fire on protesters

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