this is g.w. news why from berlin tonight levanon is prime minister says he's resigned sawtelle hariri becomes the 1st major political casualty after 2 weeks of protests paralyzing the country his offer of political and economic reforms were not enough will his departure be what it takes to restore calm also coming up tonight russia and turkey cease fire has expired in northeastern syria moscow says kurdish militias have met a deadline to withdraw from the turkish border region on heroes it's not so sure

and the u.k. edges closer to an early election after the opposition labor party throws its support behind a pre christmas poll the lawmakers are still wrangling at this very hour over the date of that vote. i'm bring to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome tonight lebanon's beleaguered prime minister saud al hariri has announced that he will resign the move follows almost 2 weeks of protests across the country protests demanding political change many lebanese are unhappy with what they see as a corrupt and incompetent political elite the prime minister failed to satisfy demonstrators with his announcement of a series of anti-corruption measures as. political reform so today he headed to the

presidential palace to submit his resignation. now earlier we spoke with our lebanon correspondent bosler e.d. and we asked him about the falwell from hariri decision. first the 1st reaction to we we so in the process squares that old this is the day when happy they salute the movement. that it's the 1st step one of the main demands to the governance of the nation 2nd you have to. know you want. to fall they'll want to take down all the. civil defense that that is the government achieve. the new formation of a new government they. would dictate that to members so they can achieve the of the month. are there was our correspondent there in levanon staying in the middle east

now to syria where the ceasefire brokered by turkey and russia has officially ended russia's foreign minister saying that kurdish forces have withdrawn from the border area saying that they withdrew earlier than planned turkey says it will verify the withdrawal with joint patrols with russian troops kurdish militias agreed to retreat from the area under the deal that was struck last week the syrian forces have clashed with turkish backed rebels for the 1st time and they have traded fire near the border town of. 6 syrian soldiers were reportedly killed in gunfire. thousands of kurds refugees have fled northern syria since turkey launched its offensive against the kurds many have ended up in camps in neighboring iraq a huge question mark hanging over their future now and the fate of their loved ones

. mama and her daughter lie on are looking for a neighbor they lost track of when they fled northern syria they've been combing the bardo refugee camp in iraq for the past 3 days. there was. ringback the one. i live on the roof of the. well mr i'm happy she's my neighbor my aunts my mother everything i love her and her daughter very much we're always together fuck her husband mohammed and their 2 daughters survived the turkish military offensive they say it was a gift from god. george would grow and learn english that came out of the turkish army didn't invade commission it just bombed the city from the other side of the border we fled our houses very close to the border our children were afraid the bombing was indiscriminate people die. jani.

and now turkish president erika one is planning to resettle a 1000000 syrian refugees from turkey in northern syria. forcing some people out in order to make room for others is not acceptable. the barda rush camp in northern iraq is overfilled the syrian refugees are being brought here in passes from the syrian iraqi border the turkish military incursion took many residents by surprise the refugees were not able to bring much with them . mohamed fetches water he's afraid that he and his family will have to stay put here a long time after all the occupying turkish forces are cooperating with the free syrian army which includes many radical islamists in its ranks. a role for you if the turks and the free army stay we can't go there. where

afraid because they're cooperating with our yes you know they're letting us fighters move through their territory or dogs here and i do. feel like hopes that her family will be able to return home again one day she wants to be a role model for her daughter she doesn't want to let turkey's resettlement plans for her. the fact that oh if they came they'd be welcome if they have no homes i take the mending give them something to eat and drink it doesn't matter if they're arabs kurds christians or muslims we're all syrians to a yard wide receiver from the uk the worst thing about being displaced is that her children will not be able to go to school again for a long time and opportunities could pass them by. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a u.s.

army officer is justified before congressional investigators in the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump lieutenant colonel alexander vin appeared despite white house orders for him not to an advance copy of his testimony says that he raised concerns about trump's disputed phone call with the president of ukraine. a mountain climber from nepal has a broken at the speed record for conquering the world's 14 highest peaks nirmal persia climbed the mountains over a period of 6 months and 6 days now the previous record was 8 years all 14 peaks are at least 8000 meters high. all right closer to sea level wildfires in southern california have driven some of the wealthiest residents from their homes including basketball star le bron james even the terminator himself arnold schwarzenegger several fires are burning out of control

in the state the biggest in wine country beyond san francisco has spread and firefighters are struggling to contain it the local electricity supplier says one of its power lines may have started the blaze despite shutting off electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers to prevent downed lines from doing just that. heading into an inferno san francisco firefighters on their way to battle the biggest and most destructive blaze the kinkaid fire. so the south in california the smoldering remains of several homes in los angeles fire swept through the tinder dry hills here prompting this warning from authorities 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 good time is of the essence

there's been a short rest night in the winds fanning the flames but they're set to pick up again . what we start to get ready for those another red flag event all right now it looks like that's going to start sometime midday 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 remains a race against time. against the blazes before the next critical period begins. to jason company he's a reporter with n.b.c. news radio he's involved angeles for us this evening jason hello to you there are 12 fires burning in the state we understand we can tell by your ta you that it's windy there in l.a. where you are what about these santa ana winds that are supposed to pick up today is that the biggest threat now in terms of fighting these blazes. yes yes it is so

firefighters are thrown everything they have at it right now here in south south california in the getting fire that erupted yesterday is holding at about 650 acres but as you can tell it is windy wind gusts are about 10 to 15 miles an hour right now officials say that by 11 o'clock tonight those gusts are going to get into where between 60 to 70 miles per hour and that's what's happening in northern california as we speak those high winds are already 18 at area and hitting at kincaid's fire which is already at 75000 acres yeah those do ya boy winds i think is what they're called there in northern california what about in l.a. we were hearing a lot of private homes are threatened and that even celebrities have been forced to evacuated what have you been hearing. that's right in in the getty fire footprint that's $650.00 acres or so you've got

a $1000000.00 homes i'm talking $10.00 to $15000000.00 homes you mentioned the bron james and arnold schwarzenegger some other celebrities and live in the area have also had to get back the way they're sharing their stories on social media and it's kind of it's scary thing when you have that kind of money and you're forced to leave everything behind and we're seeing celebrities now making a donation toward the california firefighters on john seen as a wrestler chris pratt the actor these guys are stepping up and donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and what about the cause of these fires are we any closer to knowing how these fires started. not exactly the p.g. and e. has to fit gas and electric in northern california they believe one of their transmission lines was broke in a wind you know on 100 miles an hour or so and it went and it landed on the vegetation below that one doesn't maintain and that energized line was able to ignite that vegetation and then spread quickly to the wind down here in southern

california we had a tree branch that hit a power line and that possibly is the start of the getting fire right reporter jason garrett only with the latest from los angeles in a windy los angeles jason thank you. hong kong's protest movement has been to some extent about us versus them that separate hong kong identity different from mainland chinese so when news that police sprayed a mosque with a blue water cannons during another one of its weekend protests it served as a reminder of the territory's diversity hundreds of thousands of filipinos and indonesians live and work in hong kong along with others from south asia and they've been caught up in the city's political fights correspondent mathias berlinger has more. to leave the southern tip of the kowloon peninsula is one of the cause but favorite places in the area is one of the hot spots for hong

kong's ethnic minorities about 250001 chinese citizens live in the city most of them from britain's former colonies in south asia at the center of the community the chongqing mansions a 5 block concrete jungle from the 1960 s. although quite far from his home because comes here quite often for basically there are many a lot of food because i'm going to believe in him for just like snacks and fresh cooked meat and lots of 1 things here not what available in our mainstream society but 2 weeks ago rumors suddenly spread that the protesters were planning to attack the trunking mentions the protest leader had been badly beaten the attackers were said to be south asians most probably high marks for seeing as how to stop it for 25 years that sunday the whole chunk you mention the 1st time in my 25 years living in a hong kong i see the truthful mention florist nothing of the like happening but

when the police water cannon house the nearby mosque that day it's great blue dye on the entrance of the building although the police later apologized and the protesters saw it as a deliberate attack on the city's south asian population most. families moved you during british rule as the city moved away from its colonial past they have gotten little attention suddenly that will change just a week after the paint incident the protesters were back to turn things around this time it's remained open. to everyone devoted to trying to mention the cost of evil here and also. they often con us. suddenly the south asian community was the focal point of the protests in that group this is like to give them a favor by eating in the choking mention so like a bun b. coming a lot of chinese people might be i'd like to put it that i will not it is coming

with the spending shot being like eating food shopping other things because but all is himself a 3rd generation focused on hong kong and has also taken part in some of the protests by most elderly prefer to stay out of politics he says more and more young south asian hong kong as have joined the movement drawing attention from the protesters and the media to that moment of the media's coverage of. many south asia as a whole because begin to realize that they have the they felt it is the protests that have the thinking on hold the protests have shaken many certainties in hong kong a nation ship with its minorities seems to be one of them. the u.k. looks to be heading to a snap election lawmakers are voting on u.k. prime minister boris johnson's bill to trigger an early election this coming december it's johnson's 4th attempt at trying to secure an early election his

election bill has cleared its 1st parliamentary hurdle after all position mts say they backed his proposal in pieces now are voting on whether to hold an election on december 12th it comes after the european union this week agreed to delay the u.k.'s departure from the emu for 3rd time that day is now set for the 31st of january are the stricken now with our correspondents a lot of pots she's on the story force in london good evening to you shall watch the m.p.'s are voting right now is more jobs do you think is he going to get the election that he wants. at last it does look very likely that we are going to see a general election here in the u.k. on december 12th as you mentioned it was johnson's 4th attempt now trying to push a general election through parliament and this morning the opposition labor party

finally announced that they would also get behind the idea of the general election they had been holding off because they wanted no deal to be taken off the table and now we know that the u.k. is heading into another extension that they are not leaving the european union on thursday but instead will stay in until january 31st so this is why it looks likely that the opposition parties will now back johnston's request for a general election and if that is confirmed later on then we will see 6 weeks of campaigning and we've heard that the mood already changed today the parties were getting into it themselves into election mode and into election rhetoric here. if. we're going to deliver a big majority in parliament.

all the polls suggest that he could get actually a majority in parliament this time around that he would win an election he's very much ahead in the polls ahead of the labor party that is for sure head of this opposition. well on the positive side for him he's an excellent campaign and we've seen that in the referendum for the leaf campaign in 2016 he has on the other hand though ditched his promise that the u.k. would leave the european union on october 31st and we'll have to see if the conservative base will forgive that that is on the negative side and if you look at . the history just 3 years ago theresa may call it unexpectedly a snap election she was ahead in the polls very far ahead indeed and that changed just within 6 weeks' time and to this that we've seen over the last couple of years here they could not find

a majority on either way in the saga so we'll have to see 6 weeks are a very long time and british politics and we know the. she did the same thing she called the. majority. and she was weakened until she had to resign johnson does not get majority that he wants what happened to him what about. well this is the question about this general election that is the dominating topic and so far there have been i mean parliament was at a standstill so now we look at the different parties in the conservatives have this deal on the table that johnson negotiated with the european union he wants to push that through if he gets a majority the labor a position is not really clear on how they want to handle brics is they might want to call the 2nd referendum if they were to win then we have the liberal democrats

who say we want to forget about it all together and remain in the european union and we have also the new kid on the block the bricks and potty on the conservative side that they want to a.s.a.p. and make it clear cut with the european union and i think what has become very clear is that a general election would be a referendum on. the far right. he will become the new president. of the world anti-doping agency water this coming january his most pressing concern will be the russian doping scandal which has severely damaged waters reputation in an exclusive interview with g w news witold the banca gives his thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead.

this is the man charged with solving sports doping crisis he told banquette takes over as president of the world anti-doping agency at the start of 2020 with a lengthy to do list we need to increase the controls of calls and we need then to doping playing sports we have state countries without antidoping policy without controls in africa country and we have only won a critique of the laboratory in south africa however the budgets of about 36000000 euros leaves little room for building new laboratories. they propose. to doping so they don't default to engage the private companies the public companies to finance the content particle are enough that proposal may set off alarm bells for some observers after the contriver see surrounding the oregon project run by sports clothing brand nike several athletes involved in the project led by coach alberto

salazar one gold medals before he was banned from athletics this year over doping violations i don't want to raid the concrete company because it's very important for me to engage some. companies to increase the budget for and to open controls 35 banks will become the youngest ever while the president incumbent craig reedie is 78 banker favors a modern approach to communication where there should change to communication with its environment also with the with the media we need to explain our polisi and i want to be more open to relationship with with the media this is the difference you know that the between maybe me and in the past but when it comes to russia's alleged manipulation of lab data bank or refuses to be drawn on what action should take this is the sensitive topic i am not actually the president and if of course. we discover some possible money. should be

tough and the possible sanctions is obvious now banking and water may soon have to rule on whether russia should be banned from next year's olympic games with such a controversial issue already on the agenda bankia faces a baptism of fire when he takes the reins in january. germany's young game though is one of the best triathletes in the sport's history and this month won the iron man world championship in record time now in a w news exclusive he talks about how he rises to the challenge and about his connections to a controversial country. most of us would succumb under pressure if we had to complete a 226 kilometer triathlon in under 8 hours not if you're young for deno he even managed to do it in record time earlier this month he won the iron man work championship in hawaii for 30 times and he did it in

a record winning time 7 hours 51 minutes and 13 seconds today no simply strikes when the going gets tough. i've always been a big fan in the saying that pressure pressure creates diamonds. and it's very much symbolic for me that i need pressure. to get to the very top to get to the very best of my ability he also won gold at the 2008 olympics but the 38 year old has recently come under criticism he trains with the bahrain elite endurance team that comes from a country known for its human rights violations. you know i believe that. we are going there despite the troubles and actually creating an escape for people or creating the possibility to make lives better and to me that personally a feels a lot better than pointing my finger and saying what you're doing is terrible. not

everyone may agree with that but what is undisputable is that young latino is a testament to pushing the boundaries of human endurance. is japan about to change the way the world rides escalator next year's summer olympics tokyo's transport authority has launched a campaign to improve escalator etiquette that's right it's the goal is to improve safety in the city's busy metro stations please pay attention. the push for escalator etiquette has been escalating for some time in japan like in most big cities tokyo train riders in a rush want to clear side so they can make a run for it but some parents are saying hold on safety 1st. i'd like to see people only standing on the escalator and for that to become part of our culture. she and others are at this workshop hosted by the tokyo metro

service for aim is to make escalators standing room only so far the new way of writing is being well received or she does it. i think that this is a good campaign it would be great if it spread through all of japan. i think this campaign will spread awareness and help make things safe you. and this is how you do it orderly and safely kids are regarded as the best ambassadors for getting the manners message out since they're often excited to share with they've learned this lesson includes experiencing what it's like to try . well as an elderly or disabled person for these children the new escalator etiquette campaign is a big step in the right direction. mind your manners on the escalators all right here's a reminder of that top story we're following for you there is a new development to report in just the last few minutes m.p.'s in the u.k.

parliament have voted to hold a snap election in december december 12th is the date of that election and it was british prime minister boris johnson's 4th attempt in trying to secure the poll that comes after the e.u. agreed this week to delay the u.k.'s departure from the european union for a 3rd time departure date now is jacob where we 31st again election date is december 12th you're watching the w. news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight inside the fires that have california burg.

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