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Tanks in its syrian offensive and having repercussions here in berlin. Precious liquid and take town is rapidly running out after more than two years of drought the authorities are close to turning off all but essential water supply. Also ahead. Of the World Economic forum in switzerland our Senior Business editor ben consume is. Down to business in davos some of the topics will be covering today containing trump women and how to pull rain out of clouds for the team here on the news i dont social media. Welcome im terry martin good to have you with us turkey has intensified its military. Campaign against kurdish militias in Northern Syria despite criticism from the International Community the United Nations says the fighting has already displaced five thousand people and left vulnerable civilians trapped chris says it will press on with its operation against the kurdish militias on its border regards them as terrorists. Attacked this town has only a few kilometers away from the fighting come back to brock and his friends are discussing takis operational if branch navy they have believes in his wish to make sure. We dont know the area around freeman well so we cannot really say how long it will take but yes it may take a long time. To sink. Possibly a month thats what i think but are not a soldier. Takis military is continuing its operation was no reduction in intensity all day tanks and artillery are aiming across the Board Members of the protest Free Syrian Army are marching towards the afrin region they are supporting takesh troops and now pray she against the syrian kaddish militia group. And they are a lot more optimistic than the texan hasa. Im afraid will take a freeman succeed in this operation within the next couple of days. Ago. With gods help we will conquer offering everybody. According to the latest figures from the syrian observatory for human rights the war say for more than one hundred lives more than twenty to be civilians the turkish president joined a funeral on tuesday for a soldier killed the previous day ad one dismissed International Criticism of the offensive saying the situation at hand means its not possible to listen to every countrys take. These are pictures filmed by the kut ish militia group. Turkish media report that fighting between the the turkish army and its allies is intensifying in the direction of fraying. Turkey claims a threat is growing at its. Correct considers the y. P. G. To be the syrian faction of the p. K. K. Which he sees as a terror group reacting to attack u. S. Military attacks in recent days the why p. G. Has shell texas border towns claiming civilian lives while many techs were you for it at the start the militarys now changed. Neither for soldiers nor. For civilians with the much motivation. Of a few sides of the border to operationalise branch could still bring. Us bring in our correspondent dorian jones in bold dorrian do you have any reliable information on how the turkish offensive in syria is proceeding. Well its very difficult to get any information reliable or independent from this conflict most of the reporting if not all of it is coming from embedded journalists on both sides and much of it appears to be spinning their version of events for finding out what the independent story is actually going on one source of the syrian observatory scene is aboard the independent organization have access to some contacts and they do seem to oppose elise confirm the fact that there is major fighting going on much of it now in these isolated villages in these very rugged terrain there is concern for the plight of those villages there but it does appear to be very intense fighting villages taken recaptured also a strategic mountain is also the scene of very heavy fighting and its unclear who is actually holding it but the message is that the fighting is steadily progressing Turkish Forces do appear to be making ground but they are meeting very stiff resistance and they are being hampered by very poor weather conditions very low cloud which is making strikes very difficult and that is very important for the turkish offensive. How is this offensive affecting the civilian population in the region dorian. Well that is really the big concern the plight of the million or so people that live in this afternoon clave many of them had fled from the Syrian Civil War our friend had been in no way to have stability for many years now those people are facing fighting. Much of the concern at the moment is these villages many many of them and they all the seen apparently very heavy fighting also turkey she reports of turkish air strikes against them there is concern that the number of casualties there are reports of maybe twenty thirty civilians very difficult to confirm but we all seeing images on social media appear to show that some of them have been very heavily damaged and it is believed many of the villagers are still in those homes are unable to escape the fighting the United Nations says that the fighting has displaced over five thousand people but that is again very difficult to confirm and also the problem is that many of these people in africa have nowhere to go they cant get out the only axxess skate route is being controlled by the Syrian Regime forces and there are reports that they are not allowing the people to leave the area so these people are trapped and the big concern is that when the fighting reaches the main city of africa that is home to over four hundred thousand people maybe more the fear is that if that becomes a scene of a protective battle many civilians lives could be in peril. Turkeys defense partners have strongly criticized its actions in Northern Syria is president concerned that is offensive could alienate his nato allies. Well i think that was taken aback by frances. Frances particular criticism over the weekend the there was calls for the operation to end and france saying move to the United Nations Security Council to discuss the operation but it seems that france has dial back its criticism and it seems to be more for in the line of many of its. Other nato allies calling for straight leave of condemning nora supporting the operation and i think the concern among nato is that turkeys drift towards moscow moscow gave the green light to operation the concern is that that will only further enhance relations between turkey and russia and for now at least very happy of the fact that most of the criticism is very muted and is very what they say even handed and i think that will only enhance it in bold and turkeys military operation into africa has dorian jones there in istanbul thank you very much. While turkeys offensive in Northern Syria is having political repercussions here in Berlin Germany regularly sells arms including tanks to turkey and those tanks are being used in the offensive in Northern Syria german lawmakers describe that offensive as illegal contracts to upgrade the tanks are being put on hold. Relentless heavy shelling in northwest syria Turkish Forces step up their offensive known as operation olive branch. The prepared german made leopard tanks to roll into a free. The German Government had recently considered reinforcing these against mines but that seems to be off the table no. You. Know that turkey is violating International Law with its intervention in syria. Its absurd to think about upgrading these tanks start all the. Kind of there should be no arms exports to turkey i want to know what Foreign Ministers he discussed with his talk his counterpart was it all about an arms deal. That was just under three weeks ago the aim to foster better relations then on monday the Turkish Foreign minister to protect civilians. It fell on deaf ears turkeys president says the military action is justified. And the kurds in a free now are determined to defend themselves. I wish our forces strength we are united and we dont fear or do on his planes and his weapons. And the one nine hundred ninety s. Turkey used old east German Army Weapons against the kurds in turkey and history is repeating itself in syria. And its not just german tanks German Military trucks have also been spotted on the syrian border. And lets bring in Political Correspondent standing by studios. Leading Foreign Policy expert in merkels conservatives has labeled turkeys syrian offensive illegal was. Taking on the conflict. The chancellor herself has not said anything publicly about the conflict but her spokesman has spoken of all of those and has been very reluctant in fact to condemn whats happening in the oven in syria at the moment to condemn this to. Action the governments position is that. It is not clear whether International Laws being broken by this offensive and that to the whole thing should be seen in the context of developments in syria in in its entirety so the German Government is pushing for a peace initiatives in syria to be accelerated and this situation in a free in Northern Syria to be included in those kinds of negotiations in other words there is a great reluctance on the part of the German Government actually to criticize turkey and to condemn what is happening there at the moment as we saw in the report has germany has been a key arms supplier to turkey we saw those tanks other vehicles is that likely to change in light of recent developments. Well in the possibility because turkey is a nato partner exports of alms to turkey were not in essence controversial as a result of recent developments in turkey more generally obviously turkey has been. You know getting closer to russia and there is a certain distance between turkey and nato as a result of developments in syria but also since the attempted coup in turkey a couple of years ago so the relations are quite tense and here in germany it is clear that the export of alms to turkey is likely to be turned back to be possibly even stopped completely as a result of these developments theres a lot of political pressure that no for the arms deals to be done with. As we all know germany is in a bit of political limbo at this point is the countrys failure to form a new government after the last election impacting its ability to deal effectively with crises in Foreign Policy like were seeing in turkey. I think i think thats not really the case after all the government that is running the country at the moment in an acting capacity is the same government that is likely to be formed or a very similarly structured that is likely to be formed after Coalition Talks in other words the social Democratic Party together with the conservatives will continue most likely continue to have the control of government in germany and the acting government is simply continuing with the policies that the skull them and pursued before as a result you know the export of arms that have been approved in the past by this government are being defended at the moment and polish politicians from both sides both the social democrats and the conservatives are saying that the situation in turkey is so special its so difficult that one has to be very very careful about containing such actions that relationship through turkey have freed have to be dealt with in a very reticent manner. Thank you very much d w Political Correspondent hans blunt there. Now in some of the other stories making headlines around the world today an explosion has gone off outside the office of the save the Children Foundation in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad media reporting that suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the agency theres no word on casualties. Two consecutive car bombs dead touch unaided near a mosque in the libyan city of benghazi on tuesday killing at least twenty seven people and injuring dozens of attack happened as worshipers were leaving the mosque many Security Officials were believed to be the target of the attack or among the casualties. Police in pakistan arrested a man suspected of being a serial killer responsible for the rape and murder of a seven Year Old Girl case has sparked nationwide protests over allegations of government inaction police said there the arrested twenty four year old man had confessed to the girls murder and is d. N. A. Match samples found on earth on. Improve in peru fears of a new flooding catastrophe are spreading as the remark river raged through the town of. Hundreds of residents took to the streets to protest what they say is a lack of government a region was devastated twenty seventeen by epic flooding that left ninety people to. Youre watching d. W. News still to come cape town is rapidly running out of water after more than two years of drought will rain come in time to prevent the shutdown of all but essential supplies in south africas second biggest city. And your way for holds the first ever draw for a new International Competition but does soccer really be yet another target. So to monaco now and donald trump gets his way with the fed you can say that again terry i mean his choice for the next head of the u. S. Central bank the worlds most powerful economics jobs has been approved by u. S. Senators drone powell multi millionaire was backed by lodge majority asked chair of the Federal Reserve with support from republicans and Many Democrats the appointment marks the end of a decades long tradition that has seen president s stick with the Federal Reserve chair who was in charge when they took office power is expected to take over when janet yellen leaves her post on the end of february. Well outside to the United States there is a growing criticism off drums trade policy as the leaders of india and canada both use the World Economic forum in davos to call for free trade washington is slapping steep terrorists on imported washing machines and solar products is another week and another set of tariffs this time hitting imported washing machines and solar panels on tuesday u. S. President trump signed an executive order for punitive tariffs on those products specifically naming two asian multinationals. Our action today helps to create jobs in america for americans it will provide a strong incentive for l. G. And samsung to follow through on their recent promises to build a major manufacturing plants for washing machines right here in the United States the trumpet ministration believes that south korean washing machines and chinese solar panels have an unfair competitive advantage against products made in the u. S. Tariffs as high as fifty percent could be imposed on washing machines trump is on his way to davos and plans to use his trip to promote his America First strategy theyre going to davos will be talking about investing in the United States again for people to come in and spend their money in the good old usa and thats what theyre doing we have massive amounts of money coming in. The u. S. President is due to host a dinner for european see those at the World Economic forum on thursday and investment in the u. S. Is likely to be high on his agenda. Well on its second today the World Economic forum in davos focuses on europe and its role in the well today king philip of spain italy as Prime Minister polo gentil levy and french president among lemme call theyre all expected to speak today as is the german chancellor makola with this id like to cross over now to davos where my colleague ben fizzling joins us on the balcony with a beautiful view today in the background ben lets start with ladies first i mean what is the worlds most powerful woman going to say in davos. Which hes going to be giving his speech on European Affairs she was really seif with and ecstatic welcome last time she was here a few years ago and there was doubt about whether or not she was going to come this time because shed been out of the worlds focus basically trying to build a Coalition Government shes now go to preliminary deal of types so is now on her way and is going to be spending the day here and blowing the trumpet for europe shes got the timing right she wont be crossing paths with u. S. President donald trump hes not a real fan of his medical especially her refugee policy he said that accused her of ruining germany but in her confrontation with trump she does have a very close and very strong and powerful ally and that is the french president well macaw of colors and with marco and merkel we have two very pro european politicians and certainly mccaw in his less than a year presidency hes made his mark do you think hell fire up the crowds in doubles. He is a World Economic Forum Favorite theres no doubt about that a former investment banker and hes really been shaking up france hes being reforming the economy and having a lot of success in doing so he also wants to reform the entire e. U. Hes talking about closer integration free trade at a time that britain is pulling out

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