this is d.w. news live from berlin the days of on the arrests forced she laid to pull out of hosting 2 major of global summit said she was president still struggling with massive protest says the top 25 climate summit and apec trade meeting will no longer take place in his country also coming up california on fire dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the state now high winds are fanning flames near los angeles forcing thousands to flee. and a hero's welcome for

a record breaking climber after conquering the world sport team highest mountains in just 6 months. i'm called assman welcome to the program has called off 2 major international summits it's a new setback for him battle president sebastian pinera who is says he needs to focus on restoring calm amid days of mass protests at least 18 people have died in the unrest now in new venues will need to be found for the cop $25.00 climate summit and the apec trade meeting which was scheduled to bring together world leaders including u.s. president donald trump and china's xi jinping. days chile's capital santiago has resembled

a war zone. protesters throwing rocks and stones at police. they responding in kind with the cannon. tear gas and more. it's against this backdrop that chilis in battle president has taken a decision he must regret. to cancel hosting not one but 2 upcoming international summits send the most 11 that will be deeply lament the problems and the inconvenience that this decision will have on apec as well as for the cup $25.00 summit. that all of this year as president of all chileans have to always put the problems and interests of the chileans there necessities and their hopes 1st. the middles beloved.

president pinera has already replaced a 3rd of his cabinet in his latest attempt to quell the unrest. that shit in this continue to take to the streets. up to a 1000000 marching against inequality poor public services and a struggling economy. few are bothered by the decision not to host either the apec summit in november or the un climate meeting a month later. reverend wright yes it's true these kinds of summits bring some benefits but as long as there are no laws or a new constitution to distribute those benefits it's fine to counsel them you know buy from magazine. and so the mass protests go on as chileans demand what they see as a brighter and fairer future. what's her designs are going to others for correspondent

john bartlett has been tracking those protests now john is of course are 2 high profile events i mean do we know what exactly led to this cancellation we were hearing just days ago that the president said they were going. yeah i think that i think that person saying that these were going to go ahead was the only thing you really could say i think not going to call both here and internationally as well but i think that it was just never really process going to go to scale that they did. stood up now i think the only really one of which was the council it's a huge shame must be. i mean chile has been working and people been working for a year to get this to get this event sorted i think in terms of security i think it was almost almost impossible for him to kind of i think he probably could have guaranteed the security people but it's just not worth the risk and i think the other thing is the terms of public relations the public image of chile it would

have been an absolute nightmare to have people and world leaders in their own throughout his coming to chile and seeing what it was like on the ground and you know giving interviews and saying saying what they've been saying i don't think i've been particularly favorable so i think from both points of view i think that he pretty much had to pull out it's a question let's talk about these these events now briefly i mean the top 25 climate conferences just over a month away the apec meetings were supposed to be in just a few weeks do we know anything about what happens now with these 2 conference conferences there must be a lot of things up in the air. yes i think saying to take a pic 1st i think that was it's looking like they're going to try to find a replacement venue in a couple weeks away it's going to be difficult to cope i think is a slightly different matter i mean that takes a huge amount of organization costa rica when the front runners to replace brazil when they pulled out with a person not being sick in favor of the climate talks. because the cost was too

high a chilly took on that burden and like i say it's been a year of preparation been a lot of a lot of work is going into this so i think it's a great shame but it seems like chile is going to find some kind of replacement venue for us so it seems like at the moment but what we know about that is not very much and it could even be pushed into next year and president piñera he's already placed a 3rd of his cabinet as we heard but lands they are still on the streets i mean what can he do in his government do to try to survive this yeah i think it's difficult i don't think that him being deposed as a sort of democratically elected president is really really a really viable course of action i think that you still got 2 years left to run in this in his term he's been in power for just over 2 years now so it's definitely a step in interesting i don't know what he can really do apart from propose some more kind of fundamental reforms and i think other than a kind of superficial cabinet reshuffle which is

a we've seen so far so i think there are death in the options available to him but it's going to be difficult to see him kind of getting out of this with anything other than you know kind of incredibly low popularity ratings which is why he's got the moment in the meantime those meetings up in the air as well correspondent john bartlett and she lays capital santiago thanks very much all right here's a check now of some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the u.s. department of defense has released the 1st video of the operation that killed a chief of car. shows us special forces storming into his compound in northern syria and its subsequent destruction by family members and loyalists were reportedly killed in the special forces raid. twitter has announced a ban on all political advertising beginning on november 22nd the company said the targeted advertising brought quote significant risks to politics the decision puts pressure on other social media platforms to follow suit amid increasing concern

that they're being used to present misleading information to voters. a fire has torn through a world heritage site in japan almost completely destroying it sherry castle on the island of okinawa wind up in flames early on thursday the complex is a major tourist attraction the actual buildings are replicas of the originals that were destroyed in the 2nd world war. to the u.s. now where wildfires are raging across the state of california about a dozen are currently burning they're being fueled by dangerously dry conditions and now strong winds gusts of up to 110 kilometers per hour are fanning flames in the south of the state the blazes have led to widespread power outages hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes. a grim dawn in southern california simi valley a blaze has just broken out and it's been found by strong winds and not made for

local beth rivera her bags are packed but for now she's determined to stay and try to fight for her home. they've started over this happened in hill behind. me that maybe they feel. like i'm satisfied safe in this case. as the morning wears on the blaze picks up 1st in the line of fire the rural ranches in the hills it's not just residents who have to be evacuated ranchers struggle to coax terrified horses toward scifi before the flames sweep through. your nervous with a honeymoon but i believe they're going to be good i'm going. to take. this so-called easy by in simi valley also threaten an american icon flames tore up

the hill towards the ronald reagan presidential library. in the end fire department helicopters saved it baiting back a blaze that was within 30 made his of a library full of valuable historical documents i mean this smoke in the wind i've been here in l.a. for 45 years and i've been through a lot of fires in this was one of the scariest nearly 1000 firefighters have been brought into the battle against this bligh is the county's using every resource it has to tackle it. but 5 fighters don't expect conditions to improve in the next 24 hours meaning the risk for multiple suburban neighborhoods or southern california remains. staying in the u.s. and the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump. u.s. house committees have summoned donald trump's former national security advisor john bolton to testify next week bolton departed the white house last month after

reported policy disagreements with the president to other national security council aides have also been asked to testify several house committees are looking into whether the president pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden and his family in exchange for military aid. ok to d.c. now that's where correspondent oliver salat is standing by for us he's been reporting on the impeachment inquiry for us now oliver what do democrats hope they can learn from bolton's potential testimony well john bolton was president trump's former national security advisor and of course he will be one of the most senior figures to testify if he decides to do so in the impeachment inquiry so he was very close to the president and could therefore play a vital role in the inquiry now they have been many testimonies the inquiry is really picking up speed these days and according to other officials that have already testified john bolton was alarmed by f.

ford's taken by the wide tells to pressure the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden who of course could be a president trump political rival his potential contender in the 2020 election come pain wide tells us urged officials not to testify but of course joe biden was fired so he didn't really even friendship he was openly critical over ukraine and the hopes of the democrats are that he might have something substantial to add to the ongoing inquiry now we're also learning that democrats in the house of representatives wolf will hold a vote to formally authorize this impeachment probe walk us through that i mean what's the significance here given that the inquiry has been going on for a few weeks now. right and that's an important aspect col that this will be up tomorrow the on thursday the next big step moving forward in the impeachment inquiry that it'll be also the 1st official vote that the house of representatives

takes on the process and they will introduce formal rules on the impeachment inquiry so what that means is that the process in itself will become more transparent that will also be more rights for a president trump the republicans complained a lot of old many meetings taking place behind closed door and this is a major step full of the democrats to move forward in the inquiry all right our correspondent all over someone washington for us thank you very much. well a nepali mountain climber who scaled 14 of the world's tallest mountain peaks in record time has made a heroic return to the nation's capital undue nirmal for just took just a little over 6 months to complete that remarkable feat he broke the previous record by more than 7 years. back on solid ground no mile persia received a rock star's welcome on his return to katmandu on wednesday the nepali climb a scaled all of the world's mountain peaks over 8000 meters in just 189 days

a record breaking feat which required enormous sacrifice i give them a pension a lot of money. brezik. assume a house. this was the project where nobody believed up which could be done. when i 1st started talking about this who are making a joke out of the purges expedition began back in april taking in everest k 2 and 12 other death defying climbs before culminating at the summit of china's shipping a mountain on tuesday. as they said you know there was no prudence prosaic there was no selfishness and. the pros it was never about the rich. it was truly about the human endeavor while happy to have completed the challenge push or want to be celebrating too long and plans to return to work as a mountain near

a guy in the next few days. some folks it seems just can't get enough of the high life. all right coming up next it's business news africa with rob wants to forget all the latest news and information around the clock on a website that still dot com i'm called aspen i'll be back with more news right here shortly stay tuned for. bursts. home 2 days of species. a home worth saving. given those are big changes and most start with small steps global odious tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world. but news that could turn the good news to good solutions and be forced to show. they could turn.