this is news coming to you live from berlin. u.s., president, orders thousands of troops to leave afghanistan and iraq. the move helps fulfill his campaign promise to bring american troops home from conflicts over scenes from some american, some military officials and nato allies are sounding the alarm. also coming up looking at exclusive d.w. news footage of an air strike in ethiopia, province, the rebellious region has ignored a government falls,

made him to surrender. ethiopia's defense minister tells us the military offensive on t.v. will be completed within a week. plus germany soccer's team suffers its worst defeat in almost 90 years. it's 6, no loss to spain in the nation's league has some questioning the future of coach you walking with us. and good to have you with us. the united states says it's sharply reducing its troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. by mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country. president made a campaign promise to end what he called for ever wars, but the move has triggered opposition both from a leading republicans and nato allies. the sun could be setting on the us presence

in afghanistan. american soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. troop numbers have linked. now outgoing president, donald trump will further reduce the number of soldiers here and in iraq. in light of these tremendous sacrifices and with great humility and gratitude to those who came before us, i am formally announcing that we will implement president trumps orders to continue our repositioning of forces from those 2 countries by january 15th, 2021. our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2500 troops are for size in, iraq will also be 2500. as u.s., troop numbers dwindled extremist gained in strength. this attack on

a kabul university last week killed 22 people. it was claimed by the so-called islamic state, which has emerged as a rival to the taliban. the taliban themselves have stepped up their attacks on security forces and civilians violating an agreement that foresaw the withdrawal of all u.s. soldiers by may next year. criticism of the latest drawdown even came from within the president's own party to extremely important here in the next couple of months . not to have any earth shaking changes with regard to defense and foreign policy. persepolis, drawdown a new there or afghanistan or iraq would be a mistake in iraq. the u.s. military presence was greatly reduced after the defeat of isis in 2017. this has

increased the sway of neighboring iran and militia groups aligned with dohan. as u.s. soldiers head home. they could risk leaving the field to america's adversaries. for more now, i'm joined from, from herat afghanistan by journalist. what's the reaction been enough, get a cent to the announced u.s. troop withdrawal. it's not unexpected. i think it's just a matter of, at this point the government really just wants a clear answer. they want to know what the u.s. is doing. if they're going to pull out their troops, obviously pulling out all of their troops in a quick manner is almost impossible at this point. but they just want some clear direction. they want to know what's going to happen and what they can do to move on without having to rely on foreign forces. are all of the government. they were lied much us on foreign forces. but at the end of the day, what they need is a clear answer of what specifically the u.s. decision is. ok,

is the afghan government capable of filling the void left by the departing u.s. troops? if indeed they are withdrawn. so i've spoken to of one security officials over the last month and they keep saying that they are ready that they have made plans to go on with this mission to go on. if they need to go on with this war to go on with the peace process, whether or not the u.s. is still here. but if you just refer to the call the university attack last week, we saw during that attack that u.s. forces had to step in and help with this 6 hour fight against the forces that were in the university. so it's a major question and i think this is why the fundamental issue for the government that's being thrown into greater question with the arrival of the new administration is what exactly is the united states doing? what can they expect from them? and if they can expect anything, just so they know ahead of time so that they can be extra prepared. ok,

so there's still some uncertainty there. given these plans though that have been announced, what could it mean for the taliban in afghanistan? and indeed the peace deal. so the taliban say that the peace deal, they actually put out a statement saying they signed the peace deal with washington, with washington as the head of the united states. so dared argument is that the peace deal is with the united states regardless of who the administration is and that it has to be honored. now, course we've seen, and as you said earlier that the taliban have been in breach of this. that's all obama and i'm not the government have been in breach of this agreement. this agreement is that it does look at this point in terms of the talks. and then there are also questions, you know, that the head negotiator right now is on my highly thought. he's a very well known figure within the republican party. now with joe biden, coming in, the question is, will he be replaced and if he is replaced with who, because the perception is he's been very lenient with the taliban. he's given them

a lot of leeway. and now the question is, who will take his place and who really can take his place? who has that sort of weight? that recognition with an i want to sell an ad with in washington? so as i said, there are so many unanswered questions at this point. ali, thank you so much. that was journalist ali latif in heaven, a canister. thank you so much. so you look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. president trump has fired his top a cyber security official, chris crap spy, a twitter and a tweet. trump accused craps of making an inaccurate statement when he confirmed the security of the november 3rd election from continues to claim the election was marred by fraud, but has yet to provide evidence. police in hong kong have arrested 3, former lawmakers for disrupting legislative meetings several months ago on 2 occasions in may and sharon teddy at the chew and raymond chandler detained after

splashing pungent liquids in the main chamber to rest again, raised concern over the crackdown on hong kong's pro-democracy movement, ethiopia says its troops are marching on the capital, the tigra region, mickael, after a deadline for rebel forces to surrender passed there. earlier, the federal government carried out what it called surgical air strikes on the city . and also said that a final military operation would be completed within days. the government has so far resisted international pressure for mediation in the conflict. but the fallout from 2 weeks of fighting has potential to destabilize the entire region and has already started. what the u.n. says is a poor scale humanitarian crisis. with ethiopian air force fighter jets on a mission in the skies above tikrit. i captured by d.w.

journalist on the ground. local t.v. later showed what appeared to be buildings damaged by the air offensive. the escalating violence has sent thousands, spilling out beyond ethiopia's borders. aid groups say $25000.00, people have fled to sudan since the fighting broke out. half of them children when i took it out of, we came with the clothes on our backs. i don't know where my husband is. i've been looking for him for 5 days. and i don't know where he is. in an exclusive interview with t w. ethiopia's minister of defense says his country's fight was with rebel groups who

writes and their conflict in ethiopia. its operation is getting this. the state t.v. pictures claim to show national forces liberating towns, but hundreds are reported to have been killed. nevertheless, the government continues to resist calls for external mediation, sure, illiterate, or income, let fares. so, and also it doesn't that many, many times. it's really going to be completely within a week, therefore, we don't need any income.

but regional t.v. appeared to show footage of captured eritrean troops with whom the rebel forces have also been fighting. ethiopia's prime minister has promised a quick end to the conflict with his quote final and crucial military operation. he said then he'd be ready to reintegrate the swelling numbers of refugees now trying to survive on the banks of the to keys the river in sudan. let's bring in journalist samuel get to choose here and he's been helping us cover this developing story. samuel, let's 1st talk about the government's military offensive in the tigra region. president says he's starting what he calls a final operation. what does he mean by that? he thinks the crisis will end. there's 5 days, you know, it's been almost 2 weeks since it began. i believe today's that 2 weeks or so,

he believes it will end because a crisis on the ground is reaching a level even the un can't even be in a position to help them. you know, so far above 30000 ethiopians official numbers because they are more open officially longer than hasn't been. he's looking for shelter because of the crisis . so it's an old, great crisis. that's just so many lives. even the infrastructure generation to be old is being destroyed in this crisis. so he believes it will end very soon and the government will reach its mission and just end it. so everything least gets to normal in people won't be in a position to either killed or destroyed. a number of countries have urged to ethiopia to resolve this conflict through negotiation. is there any sign

that president nobel peace prize laureate might be open to that? you know why only countries later, you know, generally and canada just tweeted few hours ago saying there has to be some kind of ceasefire given cheney and uganda joining the continent. the former president doesn't. it has just arrived in ethiopia, looking for some sort of mediation. i think the world is beginning to understand the crisis isn't just a local places within the borders of your people. it's reaching eritrea, the sudan, and it will reach many, many countries outside of the continent. and that's why a country south even seriously. because just imagine $30000.00, children refused to the sudan and the u.n. says it will reach $200.00 a closer. and there are many people died in the baby, so it's just

a crisis that's so overwhelming. and i think everyone is beginning to understand that it's hostile and that's actually why the government said it's one. and within days it's under pressure by many, many countries so much. thank you very much. that was journalist samuel get a truth there in hurricane iota has been battering central america with high winds and torrential rains since coming ashore in nicaragua on monday night. the storm has been blamed for at least 5 deaths across the region. orchestre say, flooding and landslides will remain a big threat even as the system weakens. iota is moving across a region that still reeling from hurricane earlier this month. it's the 30th storm, so far this season, strong enough to have been given any hurricane are you? the storm roared ashore on nicaragua has counted being coast packing,

250 kilometer parer winds and leaving chaos in its wake. you know, this is the 1st hurricane i've seen in my life, and it's one of the strongest and most destructive hurricane i've ever seen in my life. i mean homes of thousands of people have been evacuated to shelters, and the area is still reeling from an equally powerful storm. the same stretch of coastline was devastated by hurricane etta just 2 weeks ago. where running out of this atlantic hurricane season record. but it's record breaking and every sense of the words it is turned out to be even west, and we thought it started earlier and is going to even late this unprecedented season is focusing more attention on climate change. scientists see it's causing wetter, stronger, and more destructive storms. november usually signals the end of the hurricane

season. something that can't come soon enough for people here. liverpool in northwest england has become the 1st city in britain to mass test, all citizens for the coronavirus around 100000. people have been tested there since the scheme was rolled out nearly 2 weeks ago. liverpool has among the highest death rates in europe, from the pandemic. the hope is that must testing will help to break the chain of transmission by identifying asymptomatic carriers. charlotte charleston pill reports. this is being billed as the u.k.'s latest weapon in the fight against 19, with the city of liverpool on the front line. that piloting a citywide testing scheme, the 1st of its kind in the u.k. and a massive p.r. campaigns underway to list the hoff a 1000000 people living in liverpool, the move people get tested, the better we can protect that great city and drive down that start the fight back

against. let's get tested. let's do it together. let's do it for liverpool. local authorities, a set up, dozens of testing sites across the city. and they brought in the army to help. the logistics considerations of this operation have been significant, so we deployed 2000 troops to the city of liverpool within 3 days, across 45 sites. liverpool volunteered to try the mass testing operation after reporting one of the highest rates in europe. authorities hope that by testing as much of the population as possible, they'll identify more asymptomatic cases and break the chains of transmission. the scheme is tested over 100000 people since it started a week and a half ago. but there's still a long way to go ahead of time. you were. it's good. it's a good idea that i've had mine done both me and my husband were negative. i think to get the whole population tested to be able to identify who started,

particularly those who have it and don't show any symptoms. and that's really an option for the people. processing tests quickly is the key to a scheme like this asymptomatic volunteers. myself included, are asked to do the swap themselves. you get the results on your phone within an hour the lateral flow devices that are being tested 5 like the 4 across liverpool. now a lot like a pregnancy test, they can determine results in 20 to 30 minutes. and the benefit is the results can be processed right at the testing site instead. and that's why these tests at the back of the pools there's some dispute about how many positive cases are being missed. critics also fear that getting a negative test could give people a false sense of security that results in any valid until the moment you leave the

building. and once again, at risk of being exposed to local councillor, paul brown says this scheme was never designed to be a silver bullet. we need to explain to the public passport to misbehave. this is part of the jigsaw public protection. it will be difficult to tell what direct effects this scheme house on causing infections is happening while england is in lockdown. brandt says every asymptomatic case that's identified is a step in the right direction. as we've identified through that program, 527 people who we now know were positive, who had no symptoms and were not previously have known. they were symptomatic and infectious. and they've now can take steps to take himself out of circulation and protect themselves and their family and their friends. originally planned to last 2 weeks, this pilots likely to be extended with increasing public engagement top of their

priority list. but it's a blueprint for the u.k.'s testing strategy. and the government's already announced more mass testing schemes in dozens of locations across the country. force is now in the german soccer team has suffered its worst defeat in almost 90 years. germany were beaten. 6 nailed by spain, in their final u.a. for the nation's league group match fair run. torah scored 3 of spain's goals, while germany only managed to get 2 shots on goal. germany coach joachim lucette humiliating defeat was difficult to explain, and that everything had gone wrong. the result means spain finish top of their group and are through to the final for joining me for more on this on this historic defeat, is lima otaki from d.w.

sports. good syria. what went wrong for germany? everything. i don't even know where to start, and if you still don't believe your eyes than it is, pay attention to the numbers speak. germany yesterday did not manage to register a single shot on net, you know, and that is unacceptable. when you have players of the quality of lorson, a team will be an up front search area. but they also have just everything was wrong with them. it wasn't just like one aspect of the game where they failed. i mean, they couldn't hold on to the ball. they had at the end, what was it only 30 percent possession. and that too is unheard of for germany's playing style. but what stood out to me was also just their body language. they just looked like they didn't even want to try. it looked like they didn't even want to fight. they didn't really challenge for the ball in the end. if you were watching yesterday, the game,

the most interesting part was that you could not hear the germany players communicating. so you hear a lot, you heard a lot of spanish, but not a word of german and that in itself to show to you that the spanish players were communicating, giving out instructions, germany, nothing but. and they just say one thing, it's ok to lose to spain. because spain was the better team, they was just a pressing game, was on point. but still, you know, a team like germany, you have so much quality, you should not be losing 6. no, rather remarkable. where does this last rank in the history of german defeat? it is, it's their worst ever competitive defeat. the last time that happened, they also lost by 6 goals before and that was what is it back in 1031, that's almost if my math is correct, 80 or 90 yes ago. but they've also had the most recent, i think a big humiliating loss was probably back in 2004. and that was was it against

romania. so yeah. but nothing is as bad as this one. or the coach, obviously is under pressure after this is, is his future safe? i mean that has been a talking point since 2018, since they have that humiliating exit, you know, at the world cup. but exactly this question was also post to germany. national team manager, all of a b, a ha. and he was really kyo, he said that this game does not change anything that they continue to have trust in your so i sink that we won't, we find out until after the euro's, i think a lot of it depends on how it does at next year's euro's and let's be honest, it's not what we saw yesterday. what we saw. that was not just the occupant of that was, i mean the coach can get out instructions. players have to execute them. but what i

saw yesterday, i mean with the quality that they have most recently what they have for pay us, for example, that most recently won the champions league with bae in munich. you should not be performing like that, alina, thank you so much from did obvious, for just a few more scores for you from tuesday night's nations league match up france defeated sweden, portugal beat croatia, switzerland. ukraine match was cancelled after coronavirus outbreak in the ukrainian side. and finally farrow islands played malta to a draw. so with the last result, the pharaoh islands have topped their nations league group and will be promoted to the competition's league. see, the tiny island nation in the north atlantic is part of the kingdom of denmark and home to just 52000 people. we travelled there to find out more about the underdogs . they're

a mole sheep than people living on the faroe islands and it rains 300 days a year. still football is by far the most popular sport here. almost everybody. i blame if you go couple years ago, 100 percent, or 99 percent of all the kids in school. they played football last couple of years. maybe not that much, but we're up to with. so i don't 7080 percent of all, all the people stay and they are playing and playing in some kind of a club environment. the national team only began competing in fever competitions in 1988. since then they have beaten sides like austria and greece, but have failed to qualify for a world cup or european championships. the last 5 to 6 years we have going from beating greece 2 to now playing competitive matches against the baltic countries.

and many of the middle nations we are competing against now, so. so we are not satisfied but but, but we are satisfied with the development we have been going through a leading example of that development is gone. simonetta plying his trade for bundesliga side. i mean, a bill of felt he is the only member of the national team set up sign for a non nordic club. this september he made history. and here comes the police league, its 1st player from the fair while it's you, it's, we were coming on here to be the felt he took on the sharks. i'm sorry, stats are good, it's the bottom is the 1st, the fairways goalscorer. i would also love to get other younger players from the fire island still to also come to the professional football because i think we have a lot of talent there and i just want to look like till the german close. also to look in the faroe islands when they try to scout for talent. the small nation will now be looking forward to a future competing on a big a stage. you are watching news. remember,

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