and change the direction of turkey i'm quite certain that many people in turkey are very. well anxious about their future they don't really know what is going on but they can feel that it's not in a good way whatever is going on and so we need to help them also but always tell turkey come back to a democratic way. think about again these imprisoned men's and well do something that we really see that you're on the right way in three weeks time turks president everyone will come to germany and at the moment it's still unclear whether he will actually address turks in germany whether we'll he will have a major speech here in germany would you be in favor of such an appearance. well in the past we we saw that it was a problem also when he talked to the people here in a way it's a normal act that someone comes and says ok i talk to my people i talk to those who are turkish citizens in germany but we saw that he well in the best manner really told people to be against our government our country and this is not acceptable for us of course and we talked about it in two thousand an

dislike for decades like turkey even before the a.k.p. was in power has had an unstable democracy to put it mildly i was given us i mean that's what i wish for all of humanity. the conditions for liberty solidarity and justice. or what i expect of germany and. what i expect of germany is that we start making new laws for the police and homeland ministries to accommodate far right extremists and right wing populist. instead we should with. thank you for talking to us. you relax. to find instruction athens to will celebrate. world heritage site. c threads fashion label all showing up turns heads in paris. maneuvers drone races get faster and more professional. hear what's coming up on the good with so much movement in the famously gastric band meant to just look like you're going to go it's going to take a look at what all that means for the title of course. the bundesliga came in five minutes total in. a contentious figure at home. in germany. gorbachev was one of the great heroes of the twentieth century me kind of go which on the last le

well turkey's president. he watched that announcement from a hotel room right here in berlin he was in germany on his first state visit official state visit as president and mr. hoping to ease recent tensions between their two countries. reject type out a once presidential plane touching down in berlin this is a two one's first state visit to germany as turkish president but it's not without controversy he faces heavy criticism and to learn about the rule of law in turkey and he hopes this visit to lead to closer cooperation between the two nations or one received a mixed reception in the german capital many supporters waited on the streets hoping to catch a glimpse of his motorcade but there were signs of protest outside the turkish embassy the president's visit was hotly debated in parliament with criticism coming from all sides. oftentimes the arbitrary imprisonment of german citizens has taken a heavy toll on bilateral relations german citizens remain behind bars on charges of a seemingly political nature

turkey right now is hosting say three point five million syrian refugees. population is three point five million people right now. turkey does not have the resources or the power to host a further three point five million people. we need to take joint steps to prevent migration from this area and to do that. we need to be successful in the fight against terrorism. let's get more from correspondent judy hahn istanbul welcome yulia what's at stake here for turkey. well eat live for turkey is a major security concern not only because the battle over could lead to a final decision in the syrian civil war in favor of president assad and that's certainly something turkey doesn't want but also because it is turkey that would have to deal with the consequences of such a large scale military offensive president again warned today of a blog bath a massacre as you already mentioned he is concerned of another refugee influx a large scale influx of people into his country considering that turkey is already hosting so many refugees from syria but he is also concerned abo

could that be an advantage for turkey the country is confident its big can stand on its own turkey's footballing culture its modern stadia and even president add to one's passion for the game positives after three unsuccessful bids this one is meant to click. around everyone can see we're ready to host the erase we love football we deserve to be the host of . football's been played in turkey for over one hundred years it's part of our lives here. but financial instability and the drop of the lira could put turkey's bid and potential profits in jeopardy. europe's governing body has sent out mixed signals they have set clear requirements including on matters such as human rights and freedom of expression on the other hand you a for expects huge tax breaks from the hosts. its executive committee is made up of twenty members. the german and turkish representatives can vote. one member netherlands prague has publicly thrown his support behind turkey. in case of a stalemate you wait for president alexandre shuttering will break the tie something he will lean towards germany as it stands it

this guardian had learned was typical of the western media coverage just before the leaders of russia turkey and iran got together to discuss the future of the last opposition held strong called in syria did the meeting in tact eliminate the danger of an imminent bloodbath and was it ever on the cards to discuss that i'm now joined by alexi klebnikov middle east expert at the russian international affairs council alexey thank you very much for your time thank you for coming over thank you for inflation now i'm sure you watch the broadcast of the meeting which was quite unusual in a sounds of allowing all of us a glimpse of how global leaders tangled with one another behind closed doors let's watch a clip of what happened at this meeting and then discuss it and if we declare a cease fire this will be a victory for the summit and the most important step in the process will give peace of mind to civilians that it is usually a big state to do but if we don't have representatives of the opposition at the table. i sort of to be the president of turkey is right that would be good too but we can't s

to sochi now where turkey's prize russia. his russian counterpart for talks on the conflict in syria is a province by jim of pollution said there were complicated matters to discuss as they headed in several hours ago this is the second time in ten days the leaders of met one has warned of a blog often it live if syrian government forces backed by russia and iran attempt to recapture the last rebel held territory the un has warned a full scale offensive would lead to the west humanitarian catastrophe in the twenty first century. well the two leaders would you to give a news conference some three hours ago but as you can see we're still waiting for that to begin in the meantime let's speak to worry chalons who is monitoring developments for us from moscow what's behind the delay rory. well it's difficult to say are the moments we were told via the turkish sides several hours ago that the meeting had finished and yet we are still waiting for this press conference now. retired and said going into the meeting with putin the he th

turkey correspondent julie han in istanbul welcome you here what's at stake here for turkey. well eclipse for turkey is a major security concern not only because the battle over could lead to a final decision in the syrian civil war in favor of president assad and that's certainly something turkey doesn't want but also because it is turkey that would have to deal with the consequences of such a large scale military offensive president again warned today of a blog bath a massacre as you already mentioned he is concerned of another refugee influx a large scale influx of people into his country considering that turkey is already hosting so many refugees from syria but he is also concerned about jihadist fighters fighters that are believed to be inside thousands of them and they could potentially hide among civilians and try to cross into turkey so now that russia and iran have vetoed any cease fire just to have a plan b. to have this potential humanitarian catastrophe. well that's not entirely clear present out on seem to have not been successful with his proposal of a ceasefire

what does this deal for turkey and for president richard. for him first of all it means a diplomatic success he was the one who when convinced president putin not to have this not to force this major offensive turkey of course has geopolitical interests in syria it wants to sell a longer term presence over there it wants to be part of negotiations over syria's future but for now it also means that a large scale refugee influx that something president adam has been warning about will not happen in the near future the borders will remain closed and turkey will try to take care of the many i.d.p.'s inside syria from over here maybe you can see trucks going and coming across this border gate there are huge humanitarian aid deliveries into it live that's what turkey is trying to do to take care of people inside it looked province. on the border to. turkey thanks so much for the details we have at the moment and bring us up to date. and we have this breaking news coming in in this region a russian military jet has been brought down by syrian anti-

from turkey. well they have a lot of common territory by default i mean there's a lot of talk about friendship or lack there of at this moment in time but they are essentially family they're culturally intertwined there's some three million either turkish citizens or german citizens of turkish descent or both here in the country and that is also a major constituency for and one they have joint strategic interests within nato but also when it comes to energy security the european union needs turkey and there is of course syria and turkey borders on syria that's where much of what became known as the migration crisis came from and the migration deal that the german chancellor struck with turkey is basically keeping her that problem pretty much off the euro spark for now so a lot of common interests and a lot of issues beyond the very heated debate but that we saw over press freedom that they both need to talk about ok so that there has been a lot of sort of diplomatic shouting over the last few mont

and many of them are specific to turkey. i went to turkey about five years ago, to istanbul, it was thriving and there was exciting. it was looking like the place to be. have things changed significantly now with president erdogan in his policies and how he has a erdogan in his policies and how he hasa grip erdogan in his policies and how he has a grip on politics and power? and the views of people about investing in turkey, they have changed, haven't they? ever since the attempted military coup, the prospects for the turkish economy have dimmed. it still is, potentially, a huge economy. bites are the economic policies of the erdogan government improving things? no, they will make things worse. and with the tensions in the region and with the tensions in the region and with russia and the united states, the prospects for turkey in the short term without, dare i say it, regime change, are not particularly wonderful. thank you so much for coming in and sharing your thoughts. we will keep an eye on the lyrics today and we will

province and it seems that turkey is quite ready to. give back the majority of the province especially its. south east and south western parts and also let's not forget that also took us back militias control terrorism. syria's north permissions all of branch was conducted so it's a city in. and there is a syrian nation army i believe it's holding troll most of the roads and most of the entry points of the yes exactly so so it isn't for a gun it's not going to like the last card to play or to hold its i mean he has another areas but he definitely will you know do it is a most attempts to. to gain a maximum of it lip that you mentioned kurdish sensibilities of turkey earlier and my understanding is that russia is trying to be attentive to those. at the cost of a defacto partition of syria even though it's not quite clear whether turkey would be interested in that now i've seen some reports in western media about. some kurdish forces to be realigning themselves with the syrian army especially after the so-called american betrayal in the a

turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees. population is three point five million people right now. turkey does not have the resources or the power to host a further three point five million people. we need to take joint steps to prevent migration from this area and to do that. we need to be successful in the fight against terrorism. do turkey correspondent judy han well can you hear what's at stake here for to take. well eat live for turkey is a major security concern not only because the battle over could lead to a final decision in the syrian civil war in favor of president assad and that's certainly something turkey doesn't want but also because it is turkey that would have to deal with the consequences of such a large scale military offensive president arrah go on again warned today of a bloodbath a massacre as you already mentioned he is concerned of another refugee influx a large scale influx of people into his country considering that turkey is already hosting so many refugees from syria but he is also concerned about

come to turkey and turkey. made it very clear that they cannot carry does burden anymore yeah just following up and not on chris say the syrian government offensive. that it should stop and if it doesn't is to muss is going to listen what kind of reaction in effect could we expect from opening the borders anything else. well turkey again they don't want to open the borders they'd they told that very clearly that they cannot have this burden anymore and in this regard turkey's trying to differentiates. different groups like. sham which is considered as a shot and it is also considered as a terrorist organization also by turkey about from the other hand turkey sees some other groups. as a legitimate part of the. free syrian army and maybe. turkey will be more satisfied if these entities will be transferred to the northern part of the province as it was done before in aleppo province so in this regard turkey is also trying to send a clear message to bashar al assad meaning that by sending reinforcements to the. ca

somebody is in turkey who has been duly sentenced in germany. and then germany could well have passed works traditional that in the video we would have to extradite him certainly if i was present with such a case i would do it if there are no excuses i would certainly hand over such an individual. to a press conference between president agitate i don't want the turkish leader.

turkey in a campaign to help meet these promises of tax breaks of allowing. a five to basically rent free let them be used to stadiums and i think now that they see you know economically how they doing they probably knew that a lot of that was not going to happen so they yeah and also one of i mean turkey is so close to syria and one of the host cities was going to be close to syria and we don't know what's going to geopolitically we don't know right and the assessment report on turkey i understand that was done by the way that it was not made public right so we really don't know what's what the big risk factors were were just guessing there but when you talk about money the euro it had to play a big role that i mean let's you know we can romanticize football all we want but at the end it does come down to money and even like the president if you a for has not shied away from that and if you look at it i mean they have even said that if you look at the overall capacity of all of the stadiums in germany at the end they would have had around two hundred seventy

now threatening to retaliate if syrian forces use chemical weapons and germany and turkey find themselves on the same side as they lob a bloodbath in the turkish forces are already at the border preparing for what could likely be another wave of refugees fleeing the fighting. it's good to have you with us britain has called a special meeting of the united nations security council for tomorrow to discuss the evidence that london claims proves russia was behind a chemical weapons attack earlier this year british prosecutors have charged two russians with the attack on former spy script all and his daughter back in march the british government believes the suspects are members of russia's military intelligence agency and that their operation had the kremlin's approved. these are the men british prosecutors have charged with conspiracy to murder. alexander petroff and. are russian citizens but police believe their names are probably in the iss. the men are accused of attempting to murder former russian double agent. and his daughter yulia with a military grade nerve agent a police officer was

she can expect from turkey to friendship through cooperation and everyone who. makes a promise. to make some promises. of the promises that she will make of course she knows she will be delivered a cartoonist who will be watching the macula adwan meeting closely at the very least he says it should serve up enough material for some fresh settler. china is hitting back at u.s. president donald trump as tensions escalate over trade beijing had rejected an accusation by trump the china is seeking to meddle in the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections trump made the allegation on wednesday at a meeting of the u.n. security council he said china did not want his republican party to win because of his stuff line on trade china's foreign ministry has since reiterated that china does not get involved in other countries domestic affairs a spokesman said the international community is quote clear which country interferes most in other countries if it as. in another development president trump says he would be prepared to withdraw his nomination off a supreme court pick brett kavanaugh if sexual

this is deja vu news live from berlin a diplomatic reception in for atlanta turkey's president ratchet tie affair to once been for better relations with the german government turkey's president is meeting with chancellor on the american on a state visit to germany this visit is overshadowed by strained relations between the two countries we'll have an extensive live coverage of this controversial visit . i'm sumi so much god it's good to have you with us turkish president. is in berlin as part of a three day bridge building visit he was welcomed by german president fine foster steinmeyer before heading to the chancellery he is now attending a working lunch with the chancellor angela merkel the two are hoping to mend their relationship which was fractured after turkey imprisoned thousands of people including german citizens following a failed coup attempt but michael's government is being criticized for rolling out the red carpet for at one just bite opposing his policies some politicians are even boycotting today's events and protests are taking place in the capital. let's start our co

and german foreign minister ehud goldwasser traveling to turkey today high on the agenda is the release of seven german citizens being held in jail they were arrested after the failed coup two years ago . i'm sunni so let's cover good to have you with us it may be the final showdown in this seven year war in syria the united nations is warning of a bloodbath if syrian and russian forces moved in to take the last rebel held province of which is home to around three million people many of them fled to elope from elsewhere in syria the first big influx came in december two thousand and sixteen after government forces took control of aleppo then in two thousand and seventeen the. asked the rebel fighters left the city of homes and in march two thousand and eighteen after fighting ended in eastern guta convoys also headed to. the u.n. has called for diplomacy between the major players to avoid a bloodbath the leaders of iran russia and turkey are set to meet on friday in tehran for a summit that could determine the course for an often. dark clouds warn of an impending catastrophe the first s

turkey is blaming the u.s. for the economic crisis do they have a point not at all the economic crisis is something of whole making it is being caused by lifting a policy said that they lead to the economy overheat by too low interest rates by too low currency reserves and by it to a high current account deficit this sanctions the u.s. as opposed to see it was just one little thing that added to all of this but it was not the root cause of the crisis comes new news that thank you very much. for you go has a warming trend in u.s. life insurance provider john hancock now makes new customers where a health monitoring the insurer can access if customers achieve their fitness goals that pay a small a premium cost in most refusing to ever track i will beat on down the company says everyone profits from the measure they cost the most are healthier and live longer critics indeed. misuse and surveillance. and that's all your business news from navi i gave us we'll have an update in the next hour thank you about. lawyer.

president of the republic of turkey if the floors. say moshe thing you know i think it is excellent mr president under bill the secretary general of the on the distinguished heads of states and governments esteemed delegates i have the unit to greet you personally thank you and on behalf of my country and my people. you know at the onset i would like to thank his excellent c nice work for a successful work over the past year as the president of this seventy second session of the united nations general assembly and. i also would like to congratulate him this is a spinoza. who has taken over the presidency of the general assembly. and i hope and pray that the session of the general assembly this year will avail an opportunity to bring all that his best to the people of the entire world. just him till he gets. we are holding this meeting on the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war. the league of nations which was founded after the war was immediately replaced by the united nations in the aftermath of the second world w

more understanding from chancellor merkel to turkey sensitivities cooperation with turkey in the fight against terror more business cooperation. to be more. optimistic about thirty years ago can prospects and what can chancellor merkel expect from president out. she can expect from turkey through friendship through cooperation and everyone who knows present. with a greenie that if he makes a promise he keeps it so if she can. to make some promises in exchange of the promises that she will make of course then she knows she will be delivered cartoonist who will be watching the map to add one meeting closely at the very least he says it should serve up enough material for some fresh set. tesla shares have tumbled thirteen percent of the u.s. securities and exchange commission accusing chief executive ilan musk of fraud yes he says musk knew all was reckless in not knowing that he was misleading at best that's it all started with a tweet. i'm considering taking tesla private at four hundred twenty dollars funding secured this is the message tesla see yo eat on must tweeted to his twenty tw

leaders from russia iran and turkey are set to me says the syrian government offensive looms to recapture the lost rebel stronghold of italy. hello and welcome i'm peter dover you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up talks to end the war in yemen stall as we see rebels claim they were prevented from attending a meeting in geneva. a frontrunner in brazil's presidential election is stopped at a campaign rally. also ahead we're going to refugees get involved in a project to save the environment in the shelters in bangladesh. our top story so far today the presidents of iran russia and turkey are meeting in tehran for what could be a decisive summit in syria's seven year war there to discuss it live the last remaining rebel held province russia iran and syria have threatened an all out assault against armed groups based there despite fears of a humanitarian disaster but they say they're open to surrender deals from so-called moderate groups turkey which borders it loop and back some of the opposition fighters wants to avert military action if he has an

russia in turkey cooperating. on resolving the crisis in this country and we are making efforts to stall pressed cities to improve the humanitarian situation in syria we but i mean it concentrated on the focus on the issues around. we talked about the militants and their infrastructure during our talks today. we have been able. to achieve some serious results some serious progress in resolving this issue. and now we can move forward to coordinated. actions that working with the graduates of. russia's concerns if there were. a country that one of them was one of the countries that created the deescalation zone was that there are threats right now being created. by the militants there i mean. the national province of aleppo the threats. our military objects in syria so just stick with our. airfields. during our meeting we have talked about the situation and we have decided to create to create any way in. the market ability to create by fifty the by the fifteenth of. october this year to create a demit arised zone of

turkey has a much larger current account deficit inflation is much higher in turkey that there are greater concerns about the stability and sustainability of growth in turkey and while the indian policy response so far. arguably has not been adequate more bill will be required and the direction of policy in india is questionable with import curbs turkey has a bigger challenge in convincing markets that actually the substance behind the headlines of the economic plan that the finance minister is fleshing out today gregor really good to talk to your counting the cost but he thinks they for being with us you're very welcome. now in japan a teaming up to manufacture electric cars the new nine billion dollar project involves building several factories from scratch the new industry is expected to be up and running by twenty twentieth's for the first consul roll off the assembly line will be called qatada it will be launched in conjunction with the fifth a world cup qatar twenty twenty two the project is backed by all of japan and finally this week space the final frontier for tourism if you're t

in the first place russia understands that for turkey it's one of the most important parts and it can't just push it and impose its own wheel on on its partner well i was partially both agree and disagree with you because i do think their relationship with turkey eric strongly is extremely important and we will talk more about that but i also think russia genuinely. cares about what happens to the people of that province and i think this is one valuable thing that we got out of the summit a very explicit declaration by all the three leaders that they will try to take a lot of care in trying to protect the civilian lives and we are talking about more than three million people living there but from what i understand it doesn't mean that russia syria or iran for that matter would refrain from narrow strikes aimed at the militants infrastructure is it possible to separate the two to go after the terrorists and fully spare the civilians i think september fourth it was the first series of airstrikes in the weeks so when they targeted. targets outside of populated areas so and in fact after th

go to joe to turkey visit turkey and also the german turkish energy for all has been discussed and i am very happy that president out of one has. established a poster in his office which will. which will. improve corporation. is. in. different subjects we discussed. migration turkey is. enormous results when it came to. hosting three and a half million syrian refugees we discussed it live on the subject of it lip and we want a meeting of the russian president the french president myself saw a meeting and president and we are aiming for the month of october in order to discuss this subject and we also discussed the cooperation agreement between the e.u. and turkey and we. need to make sure that the money that the e.u. has set aside for refugees will be dispersed as bureaucratically as possible regarding the fight against terrorism we would like to improve our cooperation we have contacts between the home secretaries of the different both of our countries and we have a dialogue between the foreign secretaries not only regarding foreign questions but also german schools in turkey and al

jihadist groups to which turkey has -- turkey has played a role there because turkey is responsible for the growth of these jihadist groups in syria, not only the syrian regime and the russians. this is quite a difficult -- phil: it starteted tricky and it got trickier and trickier. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. officials in the iraqi city of basra say one person has been killed and 11 injured in protest. demonstrators set fire to the consulate that link iran and the local government which they blame for corruption and poor government services. israeli forces have shot dead a palestinian teenager in crashes along the border with gaza. palestinian health officials say at least 30 people were wounded. earlier, israel's military said it struck at a group of militants launching balloons towards israeli territory. an intense wildfire in the u.s. state of california has forced the closure of an interstate highway. motorists had to flee their vehicles as the blaze raged in the national forest. scores of homes are under threat from a

is now threatening to retaliate if syrian forces use chemical weapons and germany and turkey find themselves on the same saw it as they walking to prevent a bloodbath in the turkish forces are already at the border preparing for what could likely be another wave of refugees fleeing the fight. it's good to have you with us britain has called a special meeting of the united nations security council for tomorrow to update the evidence that london claims proves that russia was behind a nerve agent attack earlier this year british prosecutors have charged two russians with. poisoning a former double agent surrogates cripple and his daughter your back in march the british government believes the suspects are members of russia's military intelligence and that their operation their mission of the approval of the criminal . these are the men british prosecutors have charged with conspiracy to murder. alexander petroff and. a russian citizens but police believe their names are probably aliases. the men are accused of attempting to murder former russian double agent sergei script and his daughter yulia

turkey has been the main. main supporter of the rebels in recent years and they try to save the last bridgehead in the country but turkey is very much focused on the containment of the p.k. k. the kurds in syria that's more important for them russia has made tremendous efforts to rehabilitate the syrian government and to get money for the for the record. struction of the country so there might be a chance that these two two states will be ready to find a negotiated solution the problem is that the syrians and iranian allies seem to have to decided to stop this. there are so many factors here that have not yet been calculated of course we know that u.s. president actually warned assad on monday to not recklessly attack it live and the white house strongly cautioned him again reiterated that on tuesday the u.n. security council is also set to me do you see world powers here the various forces at play potentially on a collision course no i don't i don't because the american declarations. of president secretary ha

province and it seems that turkey is quite ready to. give back the majority of the province especially its. south east and south western parts and also let's not forget that also took it back militias control terrorism. syria's north permissions all of branch was conducted so it's a city in. and there is the syrian nation army i believe it's holding troll most of the roads and most of the entry points of the us and exactly so so it isn't for a gun it's not going to like the last card to play or to hold its i mean he has another areas but he definitely will you know do it is a most attempts to. to gain a maximum of it lip that you mentioned kurdish sensibilities of turkey earlier and my understanding is that russia is trying to be attentive to those. at the cost of a defacto partition of syria even though it's not quite clear whether turkey would be interested in that now i've seen some reports in western media about. some kurdish forces to be realigning themselves with the syrian army especially after the so-called american betrayal in

also coming up tonight talk about bad timing turkeys president want to rides in berlin looking to reset relations but on the pitch his country took a hit from you guessed it the host alluded to twenty four will be in germany. for we begin the day with what may go down in history as the one political event of two thousand and eighteen that had almost the entire world watching today in front of a u.s. senate committee and on live television two people offered two very different versions of how their paths crossed thirty six years ago dr christine blasi ford recalled the terror and trauma that she experienced at a party when she was fifteen years old she told lawmakers that she is one hundred percent certain the person who sexually assaulted her was a seventeen year old named brett kavanaugh the man president has nominated to sit on the u.s. supreme court i was pushed onto the bed and brett got on top of me. he began running his hands over my body and grinding into me. i yelled hoping that someone downstairs might hear me and i tried to get away from him but his weight was heavy. brett gro

turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees. population is three point five million people right now. turkey does not have the resources or the power to host a further three point five million people. we need to take joint steps to prevent migration from this area and to do that. we need to be successful in the fight against terrorism. let's get more from t.w. to correspondent judy han in istanbul welcome you here what's at stake here for turkey. well it live for turkey is a major security concern not only because the battle over could lead to a final decision in the syrian civil war in favor of president assad and that's certainly something turkey doesn't want but also because it is turkey that would have to deal with the consequences of such a large scale military offensive president again warned today of a bloodbath a massacre as you already mentioned he is concerned of another refugee influx a large scale influx of people into his country considering that turkey is already hosting so many refugees from syria but he is also c

has warned syria not to use chemical weapons on friday the leaders of iran russia and turkey are due to hold a summit that could determine the course for an offensive. with nowhere left to go civilians and struggling to find ways to keep their families safe having witnessed a massive military build up over the last week this father is preparing for the worst. but making protective masks for my children and others in the area because people fear there will be a chemical attack. in this densely populated region of the seeking safety ground of. most people in this village have a cave connected to their house. these caves were abandoned during the truce that lasted six or seven months now people are again preparing for an offensive and stockpiling food inside an attack takes place so we can go into the caves. fearful residents are bracing for bloodshed as the syrian government masses its troops on. the first strikes hit the rebel enclave on tuesday syria's ally russia released footage purporting to show russian warplanes attacking what it calls terrorist targets but human rights groups s

has warned syria not to use chemical weapons on friday the leaders of iran russia and turkey are due to hold a summit that could determine the course for an offensive. with nowhere left to go civilians and struggling to find ways to keep their families safe having witnessed a massive military build up over the last week this father is preparing for the worst. making protective masks for my children and others in the area because people fear there will be a chemical attack. in this densely populated region others are seeking safety under ground. most people in this village have a cave connected to their house. these caves were abandoned during the truce that lasted six or seven months now people are again preparing for an offensive and stockpiling food inside an attack takes place we can go into the caves. fearful residents are bracing for bloodshed as the syrian government masters its troops on board. the first strike hit the rebel and clave on tuesday syria's ally russia released footage purporting to show russian warplanes attacking what it calls terrorist targets but human rights

which we value within turkey in. other problems regarding syria and other areas in the region has seen as showed a great deal of responsibility the syrian conflict has been waging for over seven years cobbling which many people have lost their lives that is a stage we would like to see come to an end and here we agree with germany. for the time being there are three point five million syrian refugees being housed in turkey. and in particular. we. see german a sensitive when we're talking about the humanitarian situation and we're seeing what germany has been done to help the seven refugees and we are grateful for that responsibility has been taken the willingness to make sacrifices what's shown in this phase and it did provide relief in the let's start off but in recent days trade relations. have been very much protection is. that is you know we agree with germany. we would like to take measures against such protectionism because we are aware that this would constitute a danger for the global security as well. as par

but it also has to listen to outside states it has to listen to turkey has to take on board turkey's concerned as stephanie was just saying there and of course then there's also this this complex problem of what to do are there the war is over how to rebuild syria now russia is going to have to take on some of that's responsibility itself but it is also trying to intreat other countries to take part as well it wants the europeans to come in something the europeans are very reluctant to do with the moments so russia is trying this kind of outreach process in european capitals saying hey look perhaps you can come in and take this. it's on board as well contribute to it if you do then we can help with your refugee problem and perhaps anything that you do in syria to help rebuild see saying this you know they're saying this to the europeans will prevent or at least restrict iran's. influence in syria and that's something you want to is there another square that they have to circle or another circle they have to square pardon me rory and it's this the narrative over the past six months as

province and it seems that turkey is quite ready to. give back the majority of the province especially its. south east and south western parts and also let's not forget that also took us back militias control terrorism. syria's north permissions all of branch was conducted so it's a city in. and there is a syrian nation army i believe it's holding troll most of the roads and most of the entry points of the yes exactly so so it isn't for a gun it's not going to like the last card to play or to hold its i mean he has another areas but he definitely will you know do it is a most attempts to. to gain a maximum of it lip that you mentioned kurdish sensibilities of turkey earlier and my understanding is that russia is trying to be attentive to those. at the cost of a defacto partition of syria even though it's not quite clear whether turkey would be interested and that now i've seen some reports in western media about. some kurdish forces to be realigning themselves with the syrian army especially after the so-called american betrayal in the

at the same time turkey needs germany in multiple issues turkey's economy is in trouble it needs support it needs investment so are doing is looking for that but at the same time he doesn't want to step back from the problems that turkey is having on human rights and rule of law so it's very difficult to find a balance where the two countries can find common ground and continue the dialogue right i want to go back to someone young who is in cologne right now so simon eddo one is due to give a speech as part of the mosque inauguration are we expecting more controversy there . well as i say people are upset about the way that this opening ceremony has been planned by d.j. upand many local politicians for instance the mayor of cologne under state premier of north rhine-westphalia where we are both have said they won't come to this ceremony there are fears that mr everyone will speak to his supporters and will encourage them to as i said draw the. no they're affiliation to turkey rather than talking about dialogue and integration which is much more the kind of tenor that the german authoriti

use you want to get turkey you know some space between nato and turkey or this sense of. this supporting to do you know in diplomatic manner an economical matter and you have this four hundred and this the the military aid which like to support. but as iran iran would like also to get this area back because this base their base is there a cetera so i think there they have some understanding and the future of what's going to happen but that's all been doing concerning the reconstruction of cd and we have believed ation of c.d.'s and retaining of refugee and how come this supports of such a brutal regime to kill this people back again this is the problem and i don't think the european or other nation would support said or russia and russia doesn't have that its sources to build syria again and she's in deep trouble now with that's what will sort of take. you know drain resources and c.d.'s well this is very important logical point and you don't have any you end bland peace political process for syria it's all dead now ok as i said is winning the game. and he would negotiate

turkey to prevent that humanitarian catastrophe in idlib. he was in ankara to improve relations between the countries. also on the agenda was the release ofof seven gererman cits whwho were detained in turkey on political charges s after the failed coup in the country two years ago. let's go now to dw's julia hahn following the story for us in istanbul. good evening to you, julia. eclipsing these bilateral talks is this countdown to this major offensive in idlib, home to three million people. i mean, the two men, what have they said about this impending military campaign? julia: when it comes t to the current situation in syriaia in ididlib, the twowo ministers are basically on the same page. they agree that a major offensive on idlib has t to be prevented, as you alalready mentioned,d, becauause it couldd to what they call a humanitarian catastrophphe. millions of civilian lives arere atat risk, andnd turkey, especi, fears another wawave of refuge trying to cross itits border tuturkey alreadydy hosts more tn three million refufugees from sy

use you want to get turkey you know some space between nato and turkey or this sense of. this supporting to you know in diplomatic manner an economical matter and you have this four hundred and this is the the military aid which like to support. but as iran iran would like also to get this area back because this base their bases their cetera so i think there they have some understanding and the future of what's going to happen but that's all depending concerning the reconstruction of cd and you have to let deshaun of c.d.'s and retaining of refugee and how come this supports of such a brutal regime to kill this people back again this is the problem and i don't think the european or other nation would support said or russia and russia doesn't have that its sources to build syria again and she's in deep trouble now with that . sort of take. you know drain resources and c.d.'s well this is very important logical point and you don't have any you end piece a bland peace political process for syria it's all dead now ok as i said is winning the game. and he would negotiate in go

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fearing an influx of millions of refugees what is at stake for turkey. well it is a very crucial matter of national security for turkey not only because what happens in egypt could lead to a final decision in the syrian war but because it's turkey who would have to bear the costs of such a large scale military offensive miss to add on won't again of a bloodbath today he is as you already mentioned concerned about another influx of refugees considering the fact that his country is already hosting so many people we have gone beyond our limits he said and he's not only worried about civilians seeking aid or shelter in case of such an offensive but also about jihad is fighters thousands of them are believed to be inside it live they could potentially hide among civilians and cross into turkey. that was due to abuse you leon reporting from a for us earlier from istanbul. where germany has all americans in the french city of more say for talks with president call to are discussing key european issues like migration euro zone reform and. both leaders are facing

has warned syria not to use chemical weapons on friday the leaders of iran russia and turkey are due to hold a summit that could determine the course for an offensive. with nowhere left to go civilians and struggling to find ways to keep their families safe having witnessed a massive military build up over the last week this father is preparing for the worst. but making protective masks for my children and others in the area because people fear there will be a chemical attack. in this densely populated region of the seeking safety ground of. most people in this village have a cave connected to their house. these caves were abandoned during the truce that lasted six or seven months people are again preparing for an offensive and stockpiling food inside so from attack takes place we can go into the caves. fearful residents are bracing for bloodshed as the syrian government masses its troops on. the first strikes hit the rebel enclave on tuesday syria's ally russia released footage purporting to show russian warplanes attacking what it calls terrorist targets but human rights groups say

as a partner turkey is important strategically for germany but it's also important for the e.u. refugee deal but at the same time from this press conference what was important is to hear emphasize the rule of law the lack of press freedom in turkey so that was really really important to hear and from the side of our go on he emphasized to the . turkish people living in germany should be integrated into the german society so those were really important two important points spring back in charlotte chelsea is in the central valley as a show you went through a list of people's problems with president. well this was one of the biggest issues is do they believe that he germany should actually be talking to him in this way. pretty much the main concern people that we've spoken to here of course there's a lot of anger at president add well there's also a lot of anger being directed at the german government as well they say this time they should not be rolling out the right topic quite literally for a man they call a dictator for that reason that they're going to the presidential palace

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and development and governmental relationship between all of that so very much as he does to do with turkey position himself between the two worlds if you like i'm sure because he was talking about all the united nations should establish a youth agency or should be based in istanbul i guess trying to show that turkey is a genuine world player i mean there have been across him they have been very active players and they have started a number of initiatives that really took off very well including the alliance of civilizations it was very much a turkish invention or proposal now i'm not sure about the youth agency on the back immediately of an elders agency i know has already talked about but it was in the air. does it look like he is looking for a purpose and the role within the united nations structure ok let's talk about syria because that is the most pressing issue for turkey president over one's words with this is unprecedented on a global scale i.e. the amount that turkey has had to do and its key words where we expect more support he's going to give him more support who is he talking t

turkey is saying that they are incredibly concerned about not just turkey but aid organizations that people if this military offensive escalates closer to the populated areas people will of course feel they have nowhere to go because most of the areas is surrounded by government forces and also turkish controlled territory they will be heading to the border and the border is closed to other news in iraq's parliament is still in emergency session into saturday night as it tries to work out how to contain protests in the city of basra there's another curfew now in place weeks of protests over a failing government services and unemployment and corruption have spiraled into a violent few days several major buildings have been set ablaze on friday night that included the iranian consulate earlier in the week a state t.v. building was also at least twelve people died during these demonstrations. we should draw a distinction between the political factors and the other issues namely security and services unfortunately events have developed rapidly since the parliament's first session of mond