i think yes and even president bashar assad see than the previous piece of that syria is over everything and i am sure that now the government is working everything and trying to do everything in which. go to. the right or syrians inside and out say syria and we will be very very much a big if you order a few of us come back door their country and work on their factors and their families and live their ordinary lower will of see that this is of the syria which we use a. secular syria and syria was our discrimination between any any any ethnicity or between any religious or group i think yes the government does but we were concerned about that and working for that and i think that we must work we must work with there with the parties inside the syrian opposition who are taking to get about that and the rest of syria syria as a state and as a nation mother because of who are representing the dervish interests are saudi interests or america and the rest of us are other countries and diverse that we want to see it sooner than it was a force in the empirical says and for syria what divisions

i think yes and even president bashar assad see than the previous piece of that syria is over everythingand i am sure that now that government is working everything and trying to do everything in which. go to. the right or syrians inside and out say syria and we will be very very much the beach if you order a few of us come back door their country and work on their factories and their families and live their ordinary life will of see that this is of the syria which we use a. secular syria and syria was our despicable nation between any any any ethnicity or between any religious or group i think yes the government does but he was concerned about that and working for that and i think that we must work we must work with there with the parties inside the syrian opposition who are thinking about that and the rest of syria syria as a state and as a nation mother because of who are representing the dervish interests are saudi interests or american and the rest of us are other countries and diverse that we want to see it sooner than it was a nuisance for sunni and purposes and for syria division

the last remaining stronghold of armed opposition groups those groups opposed to the regime of bashar assad now what we have to understand when we're talking about the discussions that are taking place between iran russia and turkey is each has its own specific interest but also concerns circuit domestically the issue of syrian refugees has been. making more and more headlines particularly as it's become part of the domestic political discourse when the istanbul support elections took place just a couple of months ago one of the primary promises by some of the candidates indeed one of the candidates who ended up winning the mayorship for the c.h.p. was a very anti syrian refugee rhetoric and that's resonated with significant parts of syrian society at so that's the economic slowdown that turkey has witnessed that's why turkey says it needs to find a way where it can establish safe zones in syria in order to. now for many of the syrian refugee his insights are key to go back home the iranians obviously have spent a lot of money in terms of human resources in terms of sending militia to syria

push on the final rebel play it live not to be uprooted and rouhani support syrian president bashar assad's offensive which has gained momentum over recent weeks mr erdogan is concerned that the fighting will cause a renewed influx of refugees into turkey the turkish army has observation posts in to reinforce a buffer zone agreed last year but syrian forces continue to advance with the help of russian asterix so let's get more on this from d.w. correspondent julia han in istanbul welcome you here what does president want from these talks. well the turkish president will probably seek assurances particularly from russia's president putin when it comes to the situation in syria is it live province the last rebel held stronghold mr add on is very concerned that the only slowed in egypt could cause another refugee crisis 3 to 4000000 people are currently trucked inside it province and turkish officials warn that hundreds of thousands of them have already moved closer very close to the turkish border in fact they are hungry they are injured they are desperate they live in desperate conditions an

few minutes ago she was able to go through on to the syrian side and these pictures of president bashar assad absolutely every way he's showing he's saying that this is a big success and that syria is at peace and it's now back open for diplomatic business and what does that mean well the idea that the iraqis and the syrians who traditionally have had very good relations are now opening these border crossings the syrians are encouraging embassies to reopen within damascus itself and the idea seems to be that they want to normalize relations with their neighbors not be things like this that helped them do that there are number of countries however in the arab league for example which syria wants to be readmitted to that will have a very different perspective on the will not want president bashar al assad's syria to be readmitted but there is clearly some sort of diplomatic mission going on to try and get syria back into the fold of the international community whether it works or not remains to be seen but things like this are very key ok thank you very much indeed emraan joining us live from t

third is the kremlin's complicity in bashar assad's war crimes in syria. an untold number of syrian civilians have been killed by russian air strikes long in support of assad. those responsible should be tried in the haig on war crimes charges. this is not the behavior of a g-7 country. fourth, in recent weeks, russian forces have ramped up their pressure on the country of georgia. more than 11 years after russia's invasion, the georgian people suffer under its ongoing aggression. that is not the behavior of a g-7 country. fifth is the recent russian crackdown on demonstrators exercising their basic political rights. throughout the summer, putin oversaw the brutal beatings of children, women, and men and subjected everyday russian citizens to arbitrary arrests and detention. what was their plea? that they be able to register their own local candidates for their own local elections. mr. president, the kremlin's ongoing and too often violent oppression of the russian people is not the behavior of a g-7 country. no country in the g-7 acts this way. this behav

those who are opposed to the regime of bashar al assad then obviously losing them nor pretty new to you to take a swipe at american interference in the region albeit maybe people will be focusing coals and that argument considering the iranians themselves are so much involved in other countries as well and obviously russian speaking about the points of concern there are so that was just the opening session of this tylox all meeting which is now kicked off ok so that was a pretty meeting news conference now the 3 leaders are actually going to go in and have their talks what will be the talking points precisely what are the main issues right now and what are the sticking points between these 3 countries as far as a serious consent right. so so let's divide them into 3 sections you have immediate issues you have let's say intermediates ones and then longer it's harmonious the currents all media it sure is that's all it lip and the attacks that have been taking place there are by the syrian regime as well as by russian air force on what's his considered to be the last remaining stand of the

it live the last remaining stand for armed opposition groups opposition groups to the regime of bashar assad turkey wants to ensure that there is a total halt to russian and syrian air strikes on attacks on this issue not only to ensure the safety of the people there now and that they don't leave and to try to keep but also to establish that saves on that i mentioned so that syrians in turkey can actually start moving back and that brings us to the last point which is the longer term issues and that is what will happen post conflict how will syria be governed and here in the summits we understand that there will be a discussion about the formation of a constitutional committee to draft the document starts with help post war syria be governed but it is difficult to see how an agreement would be reached considering how much blood has been spilt in this war well earlier we spoke to joshua landis he is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and he says it's unlikely that syrian president bashar assad will bring about any meaningful political change to en

few minutes ago she was able to go through on to the syrian side and these pictures of president bashar assad absolutely every way he's showing he's saying that this is a big success and that syria is at peace and it's now back open for diplomatic business and what does that mean well the idea that the iraqis and the syrians who traditionally have had very good relations are now opening these border crossings the syrians are encouraging embassies to reopen within damascus itself and the idea seems to be that they want to normalize relations with their neighbors not be things like this that helped them do that there are number of countries however in the arab league for example which syria wants to be readmitted to that will have a very different perspective on the will not want president bashar al assad's syria to be readmitted but there is clearly some sort of diplomatic mission going on to try and get syria back into the fold of the international community whether it works or not remains to be seen but things like this are very key ok thank you very much indeed emraan joining us live from t

the russians and the iranians obviously because of their backing their proxy in the regime of bashar assad want to see a complete disarmament so all of the armed opposition groups turkey wants to see an end to bombardments all of those years in order to ensure that there isn't more refugees and also so that they can send and repatriates some of the refugees that are here present pointed to the fact that 350000 turkish or rather syrian refugees from starkey were able to return home because of the areas that the turkish military has been able to safeguard on that sliver of land on the syrian side of the psyche border but you also pointed out to the fact that he is adamant that a 30 kilometer safe zone buffer zone must be established under the protection of the turkish military awards the east of new free its river all of the asli the russians and the iranians fell short of agreeing on that however it starkly said if they don't get approval or agreements within the next couple of weeks it's a threats we've heard before that they would go ahead you know naturally an operator is taking points a

in the areas or the last remaining enclaves held by the rebels those opposed to the regime of bashar assad these protests they are being significantly smaller than last friday's one continue to be just as loud and clear in their message calling for international intervention to put an end to the continued targeting of civilian areas namely in italy province as well as the countryside of aleppo when the reason why these protests have been taking place is that since the sochi agreement that was made several months ago between russia and turkey and obviously with raney an agreement some sort of the escalation zone would be established despite agreements up until the end of august more than a 1000 civilians have been killed by the russians as well as by the regime of bashar assad so the syrian people calling on the charts as well as international community and those who have been behind these agreements to find some sort of way to put an end to it this coincides with the increase rhetoric by certain sections of the turkish political spectrum that has been quite frankly anti syrian refugee in i

in the areas or the last remaining enclaves held by the rebels those opposed to the regime of bashar assad these protests they are being significantly smaller than last friday's one continue to be just as loud and clear in their message calling for international intervention to put an end to the continued targeting of civilian areas namely in italy province as well as the countryside of aleppo when the reason why these protests have been taking place is that since the sochi agreement that was made several months ago between russia and turkey and obviously with raney an agreement that some sort of the escalation zone would be established despite agreements up until the end of august more than a 1000 civilians have been killed by the russians as well as by village him of bashar assad so the syrian people be calling on the charts as well as international community and those who have been behind these agreements to find some sort of way to put an end to it this coincides with the increased rhetoric by certain sections of the turkish political spectrum that has been quite frankly anti syrian re

stronghold or stand for those groups opposed to bashar al assad but also on the table the discussion of turkish military operations inside syria with turkey looking to extend or well beyond the 5 kilometers or 10 kilometers it currently. operates in. the banks of the eastern banks rather of the you're free to see the issue of. or sending back some of the syrian refugees that currently reside inside turkey through syria and how that would change the demographic makeup of sorts in areas particularly ones that have kurdish populations in them considering that turkey considers many of the turks kurdish groups those terrorist organizations on the russian side they have their own concerns with regards to turkish military operations with america considering that they are true nature all allies there and obviously there have their interests in the ensuring the continuation of bashar assad's regime and here is where is where we reach the next point for you which is what was meant to be discussed today according to some reports was finding an agreement through the formation of a committee that

network of state sponsored militia largely made up of former civilians armed by the regime of bashar assad. german authorities investigating suspected syrian militants are well aware of these groups. our source ahmed makes specific allegations. i was there when mohammad asked threatened a doctor at gunpoint when he tried to treat wounded civilians. these people had been shot and injured near our neighborhood. so they were taken to see a doctor. i was there with mohamed s. and his brothers threatened to kill the doctor. yeah. they said he mustn't give medical treatment to the wounded civilians. but says mohammed has also gave the order to shoot at unarmed protesters and recruited child soldiers for the war. it's impossible for us to verify many of his statements but we continue to search for more witnesses. which brings us to the federal criminal police office near bonn this building houses germany's central unit for the fight against war crimes costs on and his team deal every day with statements that are difficult to verify the police officers here investigate cases even if they've been c

and hassan rouhani supports syrian president bashar al assad's offensive which has gained momentum recently is concerned that the fighting will cause a renewed influx of refugees into turkey. a minister boris johnson pulled out of a joint news conference with his luxembourg counterpart today after facing jeers from bragg's it campaigners johnson met with european commission president john called you in a bid to make progress on the brakes that impasse the commission says britain has still produced no viable alternative to the contentious irish border backstop this is good news from berlin you can always find the latest headlines at d w dot com or you can follow us on twitter at. you're watching the w. news live from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more gold to see that. i do see businesses with billions of euros cost time as much of the rubble used to make incomes come time here which is truly an under siege plantations the starvation wages in extremely unhealthy conditions in german manufacturers not the trains because we hear exert pressure all the way down to the front. o

connecting aleppo in the north the coastal region with latakia there so this is very important for bashar assad he will not stop his. his. his offensive until he reaches this court and this will push the people further north we quit maybe foresee a kind off safe zone or from the perspective of the syrians there would be an open air prison to name it very strongly to host all these people that because this region north of these 2 high was not that important for president assad nobody wants to take these people in neither europe nor turkey nor anybody else the fate of the 10s of thousands of fighters being there as well so this would not be a stable situation and it would be a humanitarian catastrophe if the international community does not take up its responsibility at least for this small pocket that probably most of the inhabitants of it would end up in some major implications in terms of what is happening on the ground right now in syria kirsan helberg author in syria analyst putting it into context for us thank you pleasure. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has approved a new settl

fighting a potent rouhani he supports syrian president bashar al assad's offensive which is good momentum over recent weeks president obama's concern that the fighting will cause a renewed influx of refugees into turkey it's a huge army has observation posts in it live to enforce a buffer zone agreed on last year but syrian forces continue to advance with the help of russian asterix. correspondent you're han in istanbul cannatella small i welcome you here so what is the turkish president want to achieve. well as we speak the 3 leaders are holding a press conference and present edwin just said that the situation for refugees inside live was on the agenda today his main concern is that the onslaught in it led will calls another refugee crisis $3.00 to $4000000.00 people are currently trapped in a province that's about the population of berlin the german capital to give you an idea of you know the dimension of the crisis we are talking about but in recent months the syrian army with the russian air support has been pounding targets in it they say they are targeting terrorists but civilian ta

for a solution to this abraham i do you think the current syrian government the government of bashar assadis. we looking for a solution in the situation. in syria in the way that it will return to a democracy so that perhaps even they can lose their seat of power. yes i think the government is very much concerned about the citizens or does not their government promise or a government from other nation. i think yes and even president bush on a set c. than the previous piece of that syria is over everything and i am sure that now the government is working everything and bank to do everything in which. go around. that it's all syrians inside and out say syria and we will be very very much the bitch if you order a few of us come back door their country and work on their factors and their families and live their ordinary lives we're love see that those are the syria which we use a. secular syria and syria was our despairing nation between any any any ethnicity or between any religious or group i think yes the government does but we were concerned about that and working for that and i think that

august 31 ceasefire but many people living in fear it's only a matter of time before president bashar assad's forces resume their military operation that has already killed more than 1000 civilians the syrian opposition believes there is a deal to prevent the humanitarian crisis from worsening. there was an agreement between turkey and russia to create a demilitarized zone free of weapons and fighters on the international terrorism list the zone will be patrolled by russia and turkey the syrian interim government will take over governance from high atop. which will have to be disbanded. the situation and it was discussed this week between serious power brokers who support opposing sides but work together under the so-called asked and a process turkey made clear its priority is to prevent a humanitarian crisis and a large influx of refugees into the country russia and iran focused on the fight against those they call terrorists but it seems they found middle ground there may be limited operations in terms of time and location by. the other side of the. ongoing process and it depends you know i

that compared bashar assad syria's that lead at with hitler. as the need to make a more. flattering comparison really. saying even hitler didn't use chemical weapons. at that was rather read. it's a very very strange thing test that a lot of people come forget it lots of reactions and was like this one i'm sorry i just don't see how it's worth it. at this person saying have never missed a season but will not be watching this one refused to normalize or redeem sean spicer. about how much time boycott d. w. t. s. is doing the rounds. lots of people using that one. on one of our cut dennis he- was a rerepublican but is now very. anti trump and- barely says anything positive about the republicans. as is apparently embarrassing himself lying on behalf of trump was not undignified enough. for one. lifetime i you could possibly agree with her on that one and this is probably my favorite one of will and you're in the career sean spicer. there is a remarkable likeness i should i should be dancing and it does look rather like him well they- probably have a better sense of rhythm is

live the last remaining stand for on the opposition groups opposition groups to the regime of bashar assad turkey wants to ensure that there is a total halt to russian and syrian air strikes on attacks on this it's you not only to ensure the safety of the people there now and that they don't flee into turkey but also to establish that saves on that i mentioned so that syrians in turkey can actually start moving back and that brings us to the last point which is the longer term issues and that is what will happen post conflict how will syria be governed and here in the summits we understand that there will be a discussion about the formation of a constitutional committee to draft the documents that's with help post war syria be governed but it is difficult to see how an agreement would be reached considering how much blood has been spilt in this war. a british prime minister has made an early post conflict how will syria be governed and you're in the summits we understand that there will be a discussion about the formation of a constitutional committee to draft the documents that would help

turn to the war in syria now which is having a devastating effect on civilians and president bashar assad's forces and their allies and mostly to blame this according to the u.n. human rights chief michel bash he says more than a 1000 civilians have died over the course of the last 4 months $304.00 that's nearly a 3rd of the casualties were children almost all those deaths as said to be caused by as strikes and ground attacks by the syrian government and its allies in the rebel held areas of lead and hammer only $58.00 of them which you too are called non-state actors. in a bid to take control of territories there appears to be little concern about taking civilian lives any further escalation will only result in further loss of life and these plates many civilians who have already been forced to repeatedly freeze situation over dire humanitarian conditions so i appeal to all parties to the conflict and to those many powerful states with influence to put aside political differences and hold the karen it in other developments the united nations really is preparing to evacuate more displaced s

business described by the russian military presence in syria as well as obviously the regime of bashar assad despite the fact that maybe syria hasn't been in the spotlight of the news is there has been previously there are still continued attacks taking place on residential and civilian areas particularly in the last remaining enclaves of rebel held areas in the north where civilians have been killed in these bombardments and what they've been calling upon essentially is for some sort of intervention by the international community we should remind our viewers obviously that the relative relative reduction in hostilities or in those attacks that have taken place in syria over the past few months has been due to the different deals that have been made between sarkozy russia and iran however there was maybe some hope that that would bring about an inch of the continued suffering of the syrian people the fact that bombardments continue to take place is the reason why people are taking to the streets and saying that really there has to be more done in order to protect those civilians particularly

sublight amir putin and hassan rouhani say they support syria's president bashar al assad and his offensive that offensive has gained momentum in recent weeks split turkish president air to one he's concerned that the fighting will cause a renewed influx of refugees into his country the turkish army has observation post to enforce a buffer zone which was agreed to last year but syrian forces continue to advance with the help of russian airstrikes. let's get more now with our correspondent yulia hawn she's standing by it is still good evening to you why is the turkish president everyone so determined to stop more refugees from coming to turkey. well 1st of all about 3 to 4000000 people are currently trapped inside it live province that's about the population of to give you an idea of the dimension here and to actual 30 say 500000 people in recent months have moved closer to the turkish border seeking safety that skew to the attacks by the syrian army and their russian of backers so prison edwin is very much afraid there could be another massive refugee inflow and he's also afraid that becaus

they will focus on the italy region, the last territory held by rebels seeking to overthrow bashar al-assadpromising to return stronger than ever, matteo salvini autonomy promises of from rome from the north of the country, where his league party has base support. savini is no longer in government following the collapse of the government he is part of. he is one of the most popular politicians in the country. >> he may no longer be in government, but matteo salvini is more popular than ever. >> i would rather concede posts today because we will get them back with interest and transparency in a few months. >> he lost his position last month after pulling down the coalition government. he hoped for an election thatat would let him reinforce his position. his coalition partners went into another coalition with enemies. even permitted ocean viking to dock saturday night. that is something savini tried to prevent. >> in europe, it is the same story against italy. europe is governed by the powers that be. >> whatever cell vini does, it is good for me. i better not tell you what i think ofof the f

efforts to sell iranian oil to our countries around the world including to the government of bashar al assad the president of syria what these sanctions are doing is not only targeting the vessels that are carrying iranian oil but the u.s. government has also now put out a $15000000.00 reward through a state department program looking for information from people who may come in contact with members of the i.r.g.c. or the quds force who are trying to move iranian oil through various ports in order to reach out customers at the other end the u.s. says this is an effort to continue what it calls its maximum pressure campaign on iran to give up its nuclear ambitions and to engage in face to face negotiations with the u.s. on a deal that would replace the 2015 iranian nuclear deal rania's for their part of already said that this is not a way to get them back to the bargaining table but we did hear from the u.s. president donald trump a short while ago who said that he was waiting to see whether these new sanctions being brought forward by his government are actually going to do what the u.s. want

august 31 cease fire but many people living in fear it's only a matter of time before president bashar assad's forces resume their military operation that has already killed more than $1000.00 civilians the syrian opposition believes there is a deal to prevent the humanitarian crisis from worsening. there was an agreement between turkey and russia to create a demilitarized zone free of weapons and fighters on the international terrorism list the zone will be patrolled by russia and turkey the syrian interim government will take over governance from high atop. which will have to be disbanded. the situation and it was discussed this week between syria's power brokers who support opposing sides but work together under the so-called asked in a process turkey made clear its priority is to prevent a humanitarian crisis and a large influx of refugees into the country russia and iran focused on the fight against those they call terrorists but it seems they found middle ground there may be limited operations. by. the other side of the. process and you know it's. off yes because there's pressure. but th

are doing is calling not for removal of assad, but for meaningful changes in regime behavior as a way to address the underlying causes of conflict. history of bashar al assad in syria is collaboration and cooperation with al qaeda. we know that he has used extremists including ice toys release them from prisons when it suited his purposes and in the past deployed them against u.s. forces in iraq. that is number one and number two, what we are talking about in term was defeating isis is enabling the post-isis communities of northeastern syria the time and space to demonstrate an alternative governance to the assad regime. some of the clear changes that the assad regime that would suggest that he is open to meaningful concessions and revising propersy law so that all syrians would have access to real estate and to rebuild their lives and lively hoods in syria and obviously to end torture, release political detainees and to engage in a meaningful way in the u.n.s facilitated politica process. >> i would add to that, senator, the only party in this conflict that has a clear vision for how they see it ending is bashar al assad. he believes that he can

cease fire but many people living in it live fear it's only a matter of time before president bashar assad's forces resume their military operation that has already killed more than 1000 civilians the syrian opposition believes there is a deal to prevent the humanitarian crisis from worsening. there was an agreement between turkey and russia to create a demilitarized zone free of weapons and fighters on the international terrorism list the zone will be patrolled by russia and turkey the syrian interim government will take over governance from hyatt. which will have to be disbanded. the situation and it was discussed this week between serious power brokers who support opposing sides but work together under the so-called aston a process turkey made clear its priority is to prevent a humanitarian crisis and a large influx of refugees into the country russia and iran focused on the fight against those they call terrorists but it seems they found middle ground there may be limited operations. by. the other side of the. ongoing process in egypt as you know. of course there's a precedent for. other

with syria his secret order authorizing the cia to work with saudi arabia in trying to overthrow bashar al assad and in that country i mean to use. president obama's phrase and to modify the a little bit don't you think that trump with all his mere cure mere curial temperament with all his disorganization that he has done much less stupid stuff than president obama himself who like the policy process so much i mean it's harder to give a quick comparison i think obama was much more thoughtful much more careful the libya intervention turned out badly at the time it was a time urgency about it because. gadhafi is forces were heading toward benghazi and they were likely to that he could offer you promise to have a very bitter screw me shoot up all the demonstrators that were going to be there and so it was it was a time when the allies were supporting it so so he could do it with a coalition not alone and it was amply you it could be done obviously it was affective to throw out to overthrow gadhafi not effective in terms of any sort of stable regime that followed syria obviously obama did not succee

williamson well she's a faith healer who doesn't believe in vaccines tulsi gabbert she's a pal of bashar al assad bernie sanders well he's just a silly old man who can't really be taken seriously he took on the bag but the bag clobbered him isn't that not a good message i think that would be a not good method and i've never given that method when you see false pretenses though u.s. officials determined that a side did use these chemical weapons against his own people used to inform here that about iraq it seems like the on written rules for the democrats are becoming all the more obvious step outside of that pro-war box and you are labeled a crank no matter how much the public likes you the democratic party run by. the democratic national committee have a vested interest in keeping this nation the war they want to fund the pentagon war machine they want to fund the different come flix the united states is in a present and there ensures that contracts for munitions for uniforms are good for planes with brooms etc etc etc continued so you have a strong own vested interest in maintaining the current

marianne williamson well she's a faith healer who doesn't believe in vaccines gabbert she's a pal of bashar al assad bernie sanders well he's just a silly old man who can't really be taken seriously he took the bag but the bag clobbered him isn't that not a good message i think that would be a not a good message and i've never given that message when you say false pretenses u.s. officials determined that aside d.d. use these chemical weapons against his own people use if i hear that about iraq right on written rules are becoming ever more clear for the democrats step outside of that pro-war box and you're labeled a crank no matter how much the public likes you. are seeing new york in a bit of a correction there we don't know how this slip through not 3 candidates but 10 candidates have actually qualified for that 3rd debate we will keep you posted as we have that story now some world updates for you making headlines around the world starting in the afghan capital of kabul where the taliban has claimed responsibility for a powerful car bomb blast which killed at least 10 people and the incident took