berlin. it going from bad to worse and northern syria. groups suspended their work as turkey pushes ahead with its assault on the kurds. meanwhile, russia says syrian government troops now control a kekey town as they seek to maintain the turkish offensive. tonight, bulgaria's football federation chief says he is resigning part of the fallout after monday's game between bulgaria and england that was marred by the fans and the

racicist chants. probably one of the most appalling that cytosine and foototball. >> a deal to stop the u.k. from crashing out of the eu could now be in reach. talks are underway in brussels. time is running out. brent: welcome to our viewers. tonight, the united states is trying diplomacy hoping to broker a cease-fire in northern syria between turkey and the kurds. mike pence and mike pompeo had to turkey on wednesday. the u.s. has already slapped economic sanctions on turkey for the assault on the kurds.

the decision by president trump to withdraw military forces from syria, that decision has left a vacuum. syrian government forces have moved into the area as are their deal to thwart the turkish led assault. it syria's ally, russia is also moving to fill the void that was left by those departing u.s. troops. >> the syrian town pounded by turkish artillery across the border. a week into tururkey's offensiv, fighting still rages.. turkish babaed syriann malicious are attacking kurdish fighters who are re-attacking. the turkish onslaught has left the kurdish autonomous administration and northern syria little choice but to turn to the assad regime for help. syrian government troops have pushed forward to stop the

turkish advance. they have reached a city, a strategic town associated on a busy highway. we were on the ground as locals celebrated the troops arrival. russian troops have also been spotted in the town and the russian foreign ministry says it soldiers have created a buffer between the syrian and turkikish armies to avavoid a direct confrontation. is moscow but has gained most from the withdrawal of u.s. troops and the subsequent turkish attack. the deal between the kurds and moscow's ally aside -- assad -- vladimir putin is on the regional stage. he was received by the crown prince of abu dhabi on tuesday. the u.s. have imposed sanctions

while the eu imposed a limited arms embargo on turkey.. angela merkel on monday called for an end to fighting. >> i have already said from my side that we believe this offensive should be ended. it is visibly causing a lot of human suffering and it is also bringing a lot of uncertainty to the fight. for now, the offensive continues and so does the human suffering. civilians are caught between the fronts like these young victims of turkish shelling in a hospital. those who can are getting out. the u.n. says that 160,000 people have already fled the fighting. brent: for the latest let's go to our guest in istanbul.

what do we looking at tonight? has this operation gone from an offensive to push back the kurds to a potential confrontation between the military forces of turkey and syria and russia? >> that is the big danger that is facing these syrians now and it is all focused around the strategically important town. you have damascus forces taking control of the town and turkish forces camped outside with ererdogan reentering his -- reiterating his commitment to retake the town area damascus will be equally determined not to let thahat happen. now you have moscow tryingng to defuse the risk of a confrontation and up until now, vladimir putin while s strongly backing the damascus regime has a working relationship with

ankara. now he has to balance damascus and ankara. if he gets it wrong, the escalation -- syria will witness a major escalation which threatens to unravel the successes has achieved up until now. >> there is so much at stake. president erdogan obviously knows that if he is pushing forward with this offensive. why is this so important to him. >> it isn't just about security and the threat posed to the militia which turkey says is linked to militias inside turkey , this is s all about returning millions of syrian refugees currently living in turkey and theyey pose in many waways and exexistential threat to the turkish president. he is facing mounting pressure within the country and major

political setbacacks. if he doesn't resolve this, it could threaten his role in the country. he sees this operation is soso importrtant secururing this majr buffer zone in which he canan return one to o 2 million refugees. if he fails, he faces major problems at home. >> we know that the u.s. president is demanding that turkey stop this operation against the kurds. the u.s. vice president and secretary of state travel tomorrow to ankara to present these demands in person to president erdogan. is going to make a difference? >> they are going to face a very tough sell. a president erdogan has dismissed the calls for a cease-fire. he says the operations will continue until the objectives have been achieved despite the latest sanctions from donald trump. i think the message mike pence will be presenting is there will be calls for far more stringent

sanctions which will bring its -- bring your economy to its knees. he will say trump is doing his best to stop that from happening but if we fail to deliver there may be little we can do to stop this affect on your economy. >> thank you. hehere are some of the other stories makingng headlines arord the world.d. a syrianan man who rammed a soul in -- stolen truruck did not hae terrorist motives. eight people were injured.. the investigation has now been transferred to local police. police in russia have can -- conducted nate -- nationwnwide raids. in september, he helped organize mass protests in moscow. his foundation has since been declared a foreign agent making its subject to spotchecks and

increased bureaucratic scrutiny of the kremlin. thousands of separatists are protesting for the second day running over a spanish court ruling that imprisoned nine independence leaders and convicted three more. protesters clashed with police outside spanish government buildings today. gatherings are taking place this evening in all four of catalonia's capitals. protesters have blocked roads and set fires. people gathered in the streets saying the anthem and shouted slogans calling the spanish police occupying forces. for more now, let's go to barcelona correspondent. some of the protests turned violent today. what is the situation? >> the situation here is pretty wild.

in the main shopping street, and also the street of luxury hotels, there is basically barricades and f fires burning p and down the street. there is continual charges by the police that they have not been able to restore order. on a smaller scale, there is a similar picture and other principal cities of catalonia. >> the protesters are outraged. are we likely to see more violent clashes in the coming days? ask i think we well. i think we are probably seeing a turning point here after years of being proud of them having mounted the peaceful demonstrations for their cause. people are now frustrated and think that a section of the population deals that this is the way forward.

if you need attention you need some violence. >> what about the separatists leaders? most of them are being sent to prprison. are there leaders to keep this movemement going?? > and dairy, yes there are. there are plenty more. the ones who are in charge at the moment and frankly don't seem to be up to the job. today the catalan president congratulated the demonstrators who are basically writing in the capital city. he says they have the support of the prisoners. an ironic situation on the one hand is encouraging people to civil disobedience and then sending his own police force in to beat them up. ask thank y you. parts of the city on fire due to

the protests. breaking away from spain, now to leaving the eu. the eu chief brexit negotiator says a deal with the u.k. is still possible and the coming hours could be decisive. michelle bourdais updated administrators today. he wants britain to turn its proposals into a written legal agreement by the end of today. this could be given to eu leaders to sign off on at a summit which begins on thursday. working against the clock, our reporter joins us from brussels. you can hear the tick-tock of the brakes :00. it simply positive news. what do you think question mark >> i have been hearing t the tick-tock of the clock for years. seems to be tick-tock on and on

but this again is a looming deadline within the next hours or until tomorrow morning, there seems to be no exact cutoff point. there is said to be the possibility of an outline of a deal. we have to be careful. this is not a ready-made deal to be signed off by everybody who is involved. this is just the basic political agreement on the direction things are going in. from what we hear from mostly reddish sources and of course some irish sources, they say that it seems to have made a huge u-turn. gone back on all of these promises that never put a british prime minister sign something that would leave northern ireland in the realm of the eu customs union. if we look more closely, we seem to be more moving in that direction. >> that's a good point.

standby also because we want to take a look at the biggest obstacle in those brexitit talks between the u.k. and the eu. >> at the moment, you don't notice a border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland, sheila to stop for gas. on one side of the border you will pay in euros. on the other side, in pounds. everyonene seemsms to come andno with easase. now, brexit is making things complicated. at the moment, the u.k. including northern ireland and the republic of ireland are two independent states. because they are both in the eu, there are no border posts or controls. if britain believes the eu as planned, the rules will change. an external eu border would be put up between northern ireland

and the republic of ireland and it would have to be secured. the eu has strict rules about which products can be imported or exported and under which conditions. the problem is, no one wants a hard border between the northern ireland and republic of ireland. borderer patrols and g guard pos are symbolsls of one o of the darkest chapters in ireland's histor the nortrthern ireland conflict, the troubles in which more than 3500 people were k killed startg in 1969. only with the 1998 good friday agreement the violence c come to an end. together with the eu support, the way to peace. many worry that the conflict may flare up again and the cause of breaks its from the eu.

how can brexit take place while preventing a hard irish border at the same time? a comprehensive customs and trade deal between the eu and britain would be one solution. this has yet to be agreed. that is why the eu has proposed the backstop. the insurance that if needed, your antes there will be no hard border on the island of ireland. the backstop stipulates that the whole of the u.k. would be in the customs union with the eu following brexit until a better solution is found. that basically means that trade would remain as is for the time being. with one key difference. britain would have to abide by eu regulations even after brexit but would have no say in the rules. the countryry would no longngere in eu member. it is no wonder that the

backstop is so controversial in britain. boris johnson sees this provision is unacceptable. the irish border question remains the greatest obstacle on the long road to brexit. >> the long road to brexit, what are left to be negotiated? we know the boris johnson is making concessions right now. at the end of the day, do you think the brexit deal will look like the deal that theresa may negotiated? ask >> basically yes but with a difference because with boris johnson, he seems to want to agree to -- it requires a massive legal faith because in a way it is a political absurdity. northern ireland is supposed to be the eu with great britain together. it is also supposed to be the customs union areaa only in

theory because in practice, northern ireland is supposed to stay on the territory within the realm of the european regulations and therefore it is a massive leap of faith and of course, it seems a political gymnastics of the more involved kind. >> you heard it from barbara. thank you. the head of bulgaria's football federation says he will resign following pressure from the country's prime minister. this is after bulgarian fans targeted english players with racist abuse in a qualifying match in a sophia. the match which england one 6 -- zero was stoeded twice because of the racist shouting from thee ststands. >> prior to o the match,h, bulga had been ordered to keep 5000 seats empty. the punishmement for previous

racist behavior. bulgariaia fans oncece again attracted negative attenention nazi salute's and monkey chants. directed at england players the place stopped twice but players decided not to walk off. >> we had a conversation at halftime. did wantnt to play on? did we wananto stop? we made a colollective decisisio continue the game. we t thoughtt t was importanantt we heard that the protocols have been followed. the second half was better. >> no major incidents occurred in the second half but the bulgarian association faces

serious consequences including a potential exclusion from all european competitions. >> famine and malnourishment remain serious concerns in more than 50 countries according to the new hunger index. the number of malnourished people increased from 785,000,004 years ago to 822 million last year. the situation in the central african republic is seen as among the most alarming. the lack of food is big and yemen, chad, and to zambia. climate change is one keach factor of shortages. yields of corn and wheat have been falling because of extreme weather conditions and dwindling water resources. this is driving up food prices and making food unaffordable for some it in ethiopia, the somali region in the west has been suffering climate extremes with several years of drought.

>> it has been almost six months since it last rained in this village in ethiopia. with almost no vegetation to beat on, the livestock is dying. this woman and her relatives have already lost eighght out of 10 cows. >> our lives are very difficult now because we are e dependent n our livestock. first our goats and sheep's started to die, then the cattle. >> the spepeed came from the u.. organization.. animal specialists are also carrying out emergency treatments and vaccinations to try to save some animals. >> during a drought, animals become weaker andnd they are susceptible to some disiseases. that is why we have to treat them. we can't do anyththing for those animals ththat died but we hope the others wiwill benefit from e need and medicine anand will survive and produce more m mk.

>> the communities in this regionon are dependent on their livestock for their food and income. with few alternatives, it is vital to say their animals. >> rebuilding will b be an enormous task. it is econonomically less expensive and more efficient to protect and sererve labor goods before they are lost. animals willll be treated d durg this i intervention.n. >> next to the newly distributed need, families say their animals are looking stronger. she was one of those to benefit from the program and her cows are producing milk again. >> our cows milk had dried up but now we are able to get milk for our children and the cattle are much healthier. >> drinking water for people in

the village is still scarce and must -- poor quality. river are almost entirely dry. communities have been suffering for the past five years. this year, t the main rainy seasons has failed to bring the expected water to the ground. the little that is lefeft is now to be shared between the households. sarah fetches water for her children 10 times a day. she limits yourself to 10 cans. >> this year, we had less than five days of rain and they were only small showers so the grass didn't grope did there is also very little groundwater. people have a a spoken agreement to magee the waterer we have so that everyone e gets som >> hopes are high for the rainy season that usually comes between october and december. as the somali region continues to be afaffected by unseasonable weather, e experts expect chronc

drought to worsen. >> for more on this, i am joined by our guest who is the director for the german organization. it's good to have you on the show. we have a zero hunger goal by 2030 at the u.n.. that goal seems light-years away. do you believe the politics can help stop or at least slow down climate change and its consequences? >> yes i believe so. if you make the right decision at the right level, it is achievable. >> do you have faith in the world's political leaders to take the right decisions? >> if not, people have to make them make the right decisions. >> you are the manager in a country.

you are feeling the effects already. >> yes of course. for example, the rainy season begins later in the past and it is shorter than before. that means before, it was four months and now it is 2.5 months. >> that means even if you're not having a drought, you are still using the total amount of rainfall that you would normally have and if t the time is always shortened, you're never going to catch up to the levels that used to be normal. that's a terrible situation. >> yes especially if people eat less.

they're obliged to eat the seeds that they are supposed to so for the next time. at that moment, you have a vicious cycle of hunger, knowledge should and poverty. >> will we be seeing any knockoff affect from the developments here in europe? is there anything happening in europe that is going to impact here? >> of course areas the way people are living and wasting food is not normal. we have to print out that people here or in africa are suffering. that's why i think it's an issue of equity and justice. >> we are glad you came in. your organization is an important part of the story that needs to be told.

we will take a short break. i will be back to take you through the day. stick around for that.

. yeah but it's use welcome to liveve from paris world news and analysis from france twenty four i'm margot in the east of the main world news headlines russia steps into the vacuum left on tuturkey syria border by the us pullout moscow says turury has no right to deploy its troops in syria permanentltly manned bache curti city i buy t turkey. is the now controlled by syrian state troops. great city looks more and more likely to force johnson makes a key compromise. u. k. promises seems of accepted any you planned for bold in the irish sea. i was prime minister the veron