Overwhelmingly unlikely or did she brags that alex has the story. And turkey says its completed preparations for an offensive against syrias kurds a surprise move by the u. S. To pull troops from Northern Syria has plunged the security situation into turmoil plus the nobel prize for physics has announced a trio of space researchers women for their contributions to understanding how our universe evolves and what the earths places and it is. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program in Germany Police are investigating after a man rammed a stolen truck into a line of cars injuring 9 people the incident happening in the town of limburg in the west of the. Police quickly detained the trucks driver a Syrian National was lived in germany since 2015 the motive behind the incident is still unclear. This is the track that dreamt into several cars in the western german city of lim book Police Believe the person at the wheel pulled the tracks original driver out of cap asked whether there were any indications that it was a terrorist attack german interior ministers deal of a set. Being investigated but at this time i cannot tell you how this crime will be classified he said thoughts requalify. What we know so far is that the trucks driver was a 32 year old Syrian National the man arrived in germany in 2015 and was apparently known to police for assault and possession of drugs. Have detained the person behind the wheel of the truck at the moment we are investigating the reason for the collision and of course Everything Else necessary to determine what happened here. Prosecutors said that they can give any information on the possible motive security Authorities Say the suspect has no known links to extremist or islamist groups. And a reporter down a reg of his in limburg where that incident took place joins us now damnit you spoke with eyewitnesses what have they told you about what happened yesterday. Yes correct sara will some of them were really shocked in fact one eyewitness told me she expected some things like this to happen in a big city but not in the small town like the morgue in german measures this is indeed a small town 35000 people another eyewitness said that he stormed off a store to see exactly what happens and he couldnt understand if this was just like a random car accident or an intentional move but overall it seems that people around here and the ones ive spoken to are quite in shock from what has happened yesterday and one of the Big Questions that everyone has is why did this happen police saying so far no indication of a terrorist motive but theyre not ruling that out do investigators seem to see any parallels between this incident and the terrorist attack on a Christmas Market in berlin a few years ago. Well you know this is exactly what a lot of other people here are asking for now investigators and police of and of dorothys are trying to be very cautious with what they release to the public so some say that theyre not ruling out as you say like any motive whatsoever including terrorism we know that they 2 apartments have been raided by police and that phone calls and to a speech sticks have been seized and the potential ramming attack or he had the idea that we know that the suspect has stolen the truck just seconds minutes before he ran into those 8 cars here nobody rules that out but unfortunately these are not yet sure and police are not releasing that information yet with the latest on this investigation in limbo org donna raghav from dayton is thank you. Lets get more were joined by young st pierre an expert from the modern Security Consulting group here in earl and we have authorities theyre being very cautious you know discussing any possible motive tell us what they will have been looking at in the past 24 hours all the i guess the most important thing that theyll look at is that the contents of the cell phone of computers because they went of course in one of the secure the crime scene but its about the contacts weve learned over the last few years that these socalled lone actors actually are back bursar web of actors that support them somehow or instead incite them to act and i think this is what theyre doing that thats the reason why they were able to investigate or to go to areas today in certain different apartments to see if there werent more clues more insights as to why he did this because they were able to find the proper information of possible contacts in the cell phone the electronic gear so the 20 next 24 hours will be to see just to find out just how wide this wedding is and also just how did the robbery and we dont know yet whether this was intentional accidental authorities also really not ruling terror in or out at this point so a lot of questions which are still very much open but youre looking at this incident right now what indications do you think we already have well the fact that the driver the fact that it was started a carjacking. For me theres already a criminal intent now. How this whether its move politically motivated will determine whether or not to terrorism under german law need to be at least 3 people so thats why to find out just how did the rabbit hole goes is so important because you need at least 3 people for terrorism lots of come into effect but the fact that it started with a criminal intent then trying to injure others tells me theres a deliberate motive so i would at this point in time based on the information thats out i would rule out an accident but whether or not its terrorism that that is still open because its a law very much linked to politics one thinks about the attacks that have been decreasing mirrors some attacks using trucks they seem to be becoming more frequent more common here in europe is that the reality or are we is the media just covering this i would say the media because there are events involving cars that arent necessarily in the media but we react differently because these attacks of struck our imagination they defy we think about nice needs i would think about barcelona berlin every time a car crash happens that involves multiple deaths as specially does not in the car so its a normal reflex it gives a how a false perception creates the impression that we are more attacks but there are in fact that this actually speaking less but because that impression is there it does provide a sense of insecurity and we need to take that into account when developing security measures as well st pierre from modern Security Consulting group here in berlin thank you thank you. Lets get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world hong kongs chief executive kerri latham has warned she wont rule out chinese intervention in the semi autonomous territory if antigovernment protests dorson the citys police say that they have arrested 77 people since the ban on wearing face masks went into effect some journalists attending the briefing wore gas masks the. European union interior ministers are meeting in luxembourg hoping to end the deadlock over who should take in migrants rescued at sea germany france italy and malta want other e. U. States to back a plan that they agreed to last month to distribute migrants throughout the block. Iraqs president barham saleh has condemned attacks on protesters and journalists throwing a wave of antigovernment arrest earlier the government acknowledged that soldiers had used Excessive Force against demonstrators 2 more than 100 people have been killed and 6000 wounded in a week of demonstrations against corruption and economic mismanagement. Did the german chancellor Angela Merkel really tell the british Prime Minister that he brags that deal is overwhelmingly unlikely thats what a source close to Boris Johnson has told british media following the phone call this morning between the 2 leaders the leak has prompted the Council President on toast to warn johnson brogues it should not be a blame game the u. K. Is due to leave the European Union at the end of this month. To defuse brings that expert alex force fighting joins us now in the studio to break all this down for us so 1st of all i mean what exactly is angle americal supposed to have said here well all we know officially is that this very Early Morning call has been described by a spokesperson for Boris Johnson as challenging but that there was also an unofficial briefing to british political journalists who said that moscow sees a brics it dale is overwhelmingly unlikely unless london accepts some new conditions particularly that Northern Ireland must stay in the Customs Union of something that the u. K. Has maintained contact him because it cant have one part of the u. K. In the Customs Union and the rest of it not just a reminder about how it works Northern Ireland that is part of the u. K. We can see that that the republic of ireland will remain part of the European Union and the e. U. Wants to ensure that there is no hard border between the 2 particularly to ensure that the Peace Agreement which was. Agreed 20 years ago remains in place has been one of the most difficult issues in fact in these negotiations what has been the reaction from on the part of germany and on the part of the e. U. Well a spokesperson for angle americal has said that yes this phone conversation did take place but there is no way that they will discuss what took place in that during that confidential conversation but i think many merkel watchers would be surprised by what has been said by this unofficial spokesperson number 10 it doesnt sound like its the kind of language she views or her tone and particularly shes always said she would do everything in her power to ensure that there is an orderly brecks it many people in brussels believe that this is Boris Johnsons attempt to start laying the blame at the door of brussels and countries like germany and take this angry tweet from the e. U. Council president donald tusk he tweets directly to Boris Johnson whats at stake is not winning some stupid blame game at stake is the future of europe and the u. K. As well as the security and interests of our people you dont want to deal you dont want an extension you dont want to revoke quo vadis which means where are you going and then there was a tweet from scotlands 1st minister nicolas and she said the u. K. Governments attempt to shift the blame for the brics fiasco to anyone but themselves and today its merkel is pathetically transparent but there are many particularly in the u. K. Who think that this is just another example of brussels of lenovo of anyone in europe preventing the u. K. From leaving so take this rather extreme example from the pro brics a group believe e. U. We didnt win 2 world wars to be pushed around by a kraut now a kraut is a rather unflattering word that some brits use to describe germans so you can see what the sentiment is and sort of getting dirty and were really hitting up against the deadline i mean. 3 weeks time that is when the u. K. Is scheduled to leave the e. U. So what does this mean now absolutely and Boris Johnson has maintained he will leave with or without a deal he simply submitted his own plans to the e. U. Last week to try to get around the issue of Northern Ireland it doesnt look like theyre going to be accepted hes also had his hands tied by his own parliament who said that if he cannot secure this deal by next week it weekend which is the Council Meeting he must also for an extension he doesnt want to do that he may be forced to do that and if you can blame the British Parliament for that and perhaps it wont look so bad for him and there could even be a general election in the not too distant future how its forced why the thank you. Donald trump plans of all american troops out of syria is drawing fire from both sides of the aisle in washington senior politicians are calling on the u. S. President to reverse his decision they are concerned that the pullout will allow turkey to launch its long planned offensive against turkey kurdish fighters in the region fighters that have been key allies of the u. S. And its battle against the socalled Islamic State. Leaving in a hurry american troops started pulling out of syria within hours of the fischel announcement they gave behind these empty bases near the Turkish Border bases that had been a guarantee of safety for Kurdish Forces. U. S. President donald trump abruptly canceled that guarantee saying in a tweet it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars many of them tribal and bring our soldiers home. U. S. Troops were in syria to support Kurdish Forces in the fight against the socalled Islamic State but turkey has long resented the presence of armed forces near its border it considers them terrorists ankara wants to establish effect because he teamed up with kurdish fighters against i. A. S. They fear a technician bayesian is eminent and there he had the hope was this green light to trump gave terror to one will actually complicate the crisis in the region of the gun. So it will provide Islamic States with an opportunity to regenerate and control areas such as rocco and terrorism or again at the cover of the resort majority turkish president of the one who gave the cut a stark warning if. There is a phrase that we always say. We can come any night without warning and our determination remains because it is absolutely out of the question for us to further tolerate the threats from these terrorist groups. Trumps decision has and him widespread criticism even within his Republican Party current. American radical. Hours later trump appeared to try to placate critics by issuing a stand warning to and. Right now were at a position where if turkey does anything out of what they should be doing we will hit them so hard on the economy mixed messages at the top and meanwhile on the ground in syria the kurds are waiting for the next by to fall in a region that seen its share of misery and violence or 80. 4 lets bring in our correspondent whos standing by in istanbul so yulia how soon could we see Turkish Forces move into Northern Syria well the Defense Ministry in ankara says preparations for this cross border operate all completed theyve sent out a number of tweets today sounding very determined additional troops and military vehicles have been deployed to the border it seems now they are evading orders and they reportedly are also waiting for the American Forces to fully withdraw to avoid any military confrontation between the 2 nato allies but this operation is controversial it has drawn criticism from the u. N. From the European Countries as well and it seems it appears that there are some u. S. Officials within the pentagon the state department who is still hoping to talk turkey out of this iran a Syrian Regime ally has also. Reportedly to not you know go ahead with the incursion but the big question is of course well im sure a listen yulia been alternately what does the u. S. Withdrawal mean for the kurds in Northern Syria. Well aid organizations like the International RescueCommittee Say for example that there are 2000000 People Living in these areas in northeast syria many of them most of them have survived the brutal rule of the socalled Islamic State they live in displaced camps and camps for displaced people and the military incursion by turkey could immediately displays about 300000 people so thats the civilian aspect of this story the syrian Kurdish Forces on the other hand say they feel abandoned and betrayed by the u. S. Because they say for 5 years they have been fighting alongside american soldiers in the battle against the socalled Islamic State they have lost thousands of their fighters in this battle and now basically u. S. President trump is turning his back on them they also to the south face iranian russian backed Syrian Regime forces and on top of that they have to deal with the challenge of yet whats left of the socalled Islamic State in syria and looks look in fact at what the u. S. President did say essentially warning that the u. S. Will punish turkey if it does anything off limits is it clear what he needs why off limits yulia and what is on grossing about all of this. Well its clearly perceived here as a threat and as we know threats never go down well here in turkey but we were waiting quite for quite some time to get an official response now the 1st one to respond was a Vice President for type president on himself is on a state visit abroad and mr oktava replied by saying our message to the International Community is clear this is a quote turkey is not a country that will be moved by threats but at the same time we remember what happened last year when the 2 Countries Exchange sanctions tit for tat sanctions that really hurt the turk