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Protesters in iraq defy an army curfew found a way to stay on the streets until the nations leaders stepped out in the holy city of karbala 8000 protesters are killed. Also criticism brings it logjam begins to break Opposition Leader jeremy piven says hell back and early election now that a new deal drags it has been averted. And 2 massive wildfires raging across california and the northern wine Country Homes and wineries are turned shows close to los angeles thousands are forced to flee. Thank you so much for your comfort everyone turkey is threatening to resume its assault on the kurds in. More than syria angara says Kurdish Forces have not pulled back from the region which is one of the conditions set by turkey and russia when they agreed to a 6 day ceasefire that ends later today all meanwhile more salient details are emerging about the raid in which the Islamic State leader Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi died a Senior Adviser to the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces says the s. D. F. Was pivotal in efforts to track down by daddy in a series of tweets the Senior Adviser said all intelligence and access to all baghdad as well as the identification of his place with the result of the own work our source was involved in sending coordinates directing the air drop participating and making the operation operation a success all right lets get you more on this want to cross over to stumble now to our correspondent giuliana who is reporting on this story from there julia what more can you tell us about these revelations that the kurds played a key role in tracking down al by diety. Now this is all according to the kurdish led as d f a northeast syria it hasnt been independently verified but they now claim that they had an undercover agent an assett who managed to get access to the compound where the jihad is legal but he was hiding there and it live province in syria and this person brought all but duddies underway to conduct a d. N. A. Task ahead of the u. S. Raid to confirm that the person in question really was al baghdadi now another Important Note on the timing of it all the cut his forces they also claim that they have been working with the u. S. On the ground collecting intel in the past 5 months about the whole operation targeting all but done he was delayed because of turkeys military operation which was launched about 3 weeks ago so how do all these stunning revelations fit in with this narrative of a u. S. Regional ally helping track down the most wanted man in the world with the white house deciding to cut them loose the moment the turkey decides to declare war on them. Well it appears to have been an ongoing operation but i also think its important for the Kurdish Forces to show the world how crucial they have been and still are in the fight against the socalled Islamic State they repeatedly said how betrayed they feel by u. S. President Donald Trumps decision to withdraw u. S. Forces from the within syria this basically gave green light to turkeys a military operation in the area and now the cats have come under a lot of pressure in recent weeks but they are also the ones in charge of detention facilities and camps Holding Thousands of isis fighters and their families in north and syria there have been reports of breakout attempts and its going to be interesting to see how but daddys killing will affect the situation the s. D. F. Say they have beefed up security in some of the camps because they are afraid of riots theres only shows you that the fight against the socalled Islamic State in the area is far from over and it is a nother really crucial day for the kurds because today the ceasefire there turkey and russia agreed on expires where do we expect to see happen today. Well it has been a very shaky cease fire the kurdish side and the turkish side have both reported of violations the deal and later today it was a deal struck between turkey and russia to allow Kurdish Militia with which turkey considers terrorists to risk draw some 30 kilometers from the Turkish Border the deal also allowed Syrian Regime forces who are backed by russia to return to these areas in north and syria so overall a very tense security situation its very difficult to understand whats exactly going on on the ground but the turkish government says that not all white p. G. D. Kurdish fighters have withdrawn from the area and if they dont do so let me quote the Turkish Foreign minister here turkey will wipe out the terrorists that. Thank you so much earlier on reporting from istanbul. Iraq is in the grip of a deadly antigovernment protests with 240. 00 People Killed so far this month latest reports say masked gunmen opened fire on protesters in the holy city of karbala killing 18 of them in the capital baghdad meanwhile demonstrators are defying a curfew they say they wont leave the streets until an emergency government is put in place they are calling for an end to corruption and inequality some reports say Security Forces are firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters. Protesters in baghdad trying to reach the palaces of power and get as far as the bridge across the river sits the iraqi capital is heavily fortified International Zone where government buildings are housed at this time Security Forces fire tear gas at the marches but they have been using live ammunition for weeks adding to the rising death toll officials confirmed that masked armed forces fired on protesters on monday night. Peaceful demonstrators those rulers homs iraqi people no salaries no appointments no problems land their promises allies and now theyre hitting us with tear gas the mind that in a new way there are no job if it unities here they stay at home without a hope i would not know when to move my city off. The leaderless protests cuts across all society drawing in men and women secular and religious groups on another day these young iraqis could have been studying to become clerics in the holy city of najaf but instead they are out on the street a ha listen to fix seminary and its students and teaches to have a solidarity with the peaceful demonstrators we tell the corrupt politicians get out this is the demand of the wretched people we dont want them the corrupt should get out of the. Analog. Said the model bottle was at the bottom. The protesters are angry about what they see as government corruption and a lot of basic services and widespread unemployment they want the government to step down and have already rejected a package of government reforms over the weekend Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said anyone disrupting businesses and schools would be punished but it seems unlikely that this will deter the protest as. Theres been no letup in unrest in iraq for him from our Arabic Department is here with me in the studio to provide us some of the back story you tell us 1st you know whats behind the ngos are these protests that we see now were happening in iraq well they were these protests are not something that started today yesterday or even the day before these are ongoing protests that were sparked actually at the beginning of october this month with the sort of sudden sacking of a very popular wartime military military official this was the spark this and this this anger then developed into anger at iraq failing Public Services the high unemployment situation of young people there and these grievances have basically pushed the anger throughout and now where the reaching towards the end of the month these are all very legitimate demands you know iraq is one of the highest producers of oil in the world that you have right unemployment. Poverty etc but also the security situation is quite bad were 2 years after the defeat of the socalled defeat of the stomach state in iraq and the security situation still very volatile young people are fed up by this i reported from iraq from about 2 years ago and the demands that young people told me they wanted are still not being heard today on the streets of baghdad so a lot of very legitimate grievances that the demonstrators have weve seen a lot of protests. In recent years in iraq what makes these different though youre youre right iraq is no stranger to mass protests the last one in the Southern City of basra this was in september last year so a little over a year ago 30 people died then the difference this time is the geographical spread of them you see them in across iraq in the north in the south in the Central States as well theyre certainly the deadliest i mean we have seen since the beginning of the month the death of about 200. 00 people. But we need to unpack this violence a little bit its not just Government Forces against the protesters iraq is a country ripe with militias and to tuitions like this this creates opportunity for them to also sort of flex their muscles on the streets and attack the protesters to show their strength to the various Political Parties that theyre aligned with but i think the main difference is that the people this time dont seem to be deterred by this. Violence at all they are going on to the streets knowing that it could be their last day they could die on the streets they feel like they have nothing more to lose you know the country since 2003 has been in turmoil and theyre done with the sectarianism that has that they see that many of the protesters have told me have completely torn this country apart yes they tore the country asunder now how united is this protest movement who is leading it this is a fairly neither in this movement that doesnt really have a particular figurehead that is. At the forefront i think you know even if were looking at these protests in comparison to what is happening in lebanon at the moment there are a lot of comparisons and certainly its quite an evolution i think from what happened in 2011 because the people are not calling for the removal of the figurehead anymore they they have seen that if you remove a figurehead this doesnt mean that the system will go and if the system the infrastructure that has created this figurehead still exists just to produce new ones so the people are united in this kind of clarion call you know all of these all of these parties all of these people they have to go you know we heard them. Record that led into this the corrupt must go if youre corrupt much if you are corrupt must go and this is i think the main difference whether that will actually translate into politics is an entirely different story this is a very entrenched political system very much rooted in sectarian division so well just have going to have to wait and see how this plays out which makes it so much more complicated and explosive at the same time reporting thank you as always. Well as i know about some of the other stories making news around the world. At least one person was killed and dozens more injured when a powerful earthquake struck the southern philippines several governments and residential buildings were badly damaged the philippines lies on the pacific ring of fire where most of the worlds earthquakes take place. Authorities in hong kong have barred prominent prodemocracy activist joshua long from running in next months local elections wong says hes the only candidate whos been disqualified the Electoral Commission says his nomination is invalid. Antigovernment protesters have again taken to the streets of the chilean capital santiago despite a cabinet shake up by president Sebastian Pinera Police Clashed with demonstrators in the city center the president replaced a cabinet ministers in an effort to apiece some of the unrest that has left at least 17 dead. Back here in europe british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is making a 4th attempt to force a snap election and it looks like this time around he will succeed Opposition Leader party. Leader rather than since his party is now ready to back an early poll because the danger of the u. K. Leaving the European Union without an agreement has passed johnson has been pushing for an election in the hope of winning a majority in parliament hes abandoned his goal of taking britain out of europe by october 31st all right lets get you latest on these new developments so joining us from london is correspondent michelle out of parts good to see you just so it looks that Prime Minister Boris Johnson that got the early elections hes so badly wanted what happens now. Well it does look like a general election is now finally in the car its for the u. K. And i say finally because Boris Johnson as you mentioned has been trying to push it through parliament 3 times already today its a 4th attempt and what changed is that the Opposition Labor Party has now made up their minds they want to back a general election and it looks likely that tonight they are going to vote for it the question now is really on the details on timing of this general election it will be pretty christmas they are talking about the 9th the 11th or the 12th and its a big this whole thing on when this is supposed to happen but we will finally see what happens tonight and the house of parliament when they decide on this general election and then the parties will have 6 weeks to complain before we see the voters here in the u. K. Go to the polls 6 weeks to campaign or how likely is it that Johnsons Conservative Party will emerge as the stronger i should say this time around at the ballot box. Well polls suggest at the moment that they will be the Strongest Party that they could get a slight majority in parliament and this is what Boris Johnson has been counting on hes been so eager to get his general election and hes really looking forward to campaigning hes said the. Reasoning behind this is that he wants to get a fresh mandate from the british people yes so to say from the voters on his brakes and strategy and then he finally wants to see his brakes a deal through but we also have to keep in mind Boris Johnson let go of his promise that the u. K. Would leave the European Union this upcoming sesay on october 31st there is now an extension in place until the end of january and so we have to see how well this sits with voters i think 6 weeks is a long time in british politics and many things can change of course in the polls. What does this all mean for braggs it. Well the houses of parliament weve seen that over the past year it became very clear that there is no majority on anything regarding bracks and so its really been a terrible deadlock here in british politics and general election of course could shake up the numbers and palm and if we look at where the parties stand on the issue of the conservatives of course want to push that bracks a deal through leave the European Union the labor party has not quite made up their mind the liberal democrats they want to forget about bricks at all together revoke to kill 50 and then there is also a new kid on the block the breck said paci they want to make clear cut with the European Union as soon as possible and i think what this general election if we then see it pretty christmas boils down to is that the british voters will finally have a say again on whether they want bricks that after all or what kind of brick said they indeed want. The parts are reporting from london thank you. Firefighters in california are battling 2 massive blazes extreme winds have been fanning the flames and a statewide emergency has been declared official say the fire ripping through northern californias wine country has now doubled in size with nearly 2 100000. 00 people under evacuation orders and further south another wildfire threatening homes in the Los Angeles Area some of the ways wealthiest residents including basketball superstar Le Bron James and even the terminator himself Arnold Schwarzenegger have been driven from their homes. Heading into an inferno San Francisco firefighters are on their way to battle the biggest and most destructive blaze the kinkaid fire. So the south in california the smoldering remains of several homes in los angeles fire swept through the tinder dry hills here prompting this warning from authorities if youre in the mandatory evacuation zone and youre still there watching this youre an idiot get the hell out its way too dangerous people that stay behind or just the danger of them selves and not helping. The good time is of the essence theres been a short rest but in the winds fanning the flames but set to pick up again. What were starting to get ready for there was another red flag event all right now it looks like thats going to start sometime midday tuesday and push us into wednesday morning so weve got a kind of a quiet 24 hour window right now and then were going to go into another critical period tuesday night into wednesday it remains a race against time at the top against the blazes before the next critical period begins. The World Jewish Congress has honored german chancellor Angela Merkel for her efforts to counter anti semitism the president of the organization Ronald Lauder praised americal as a bulwark against extremism hate and anti semitism the award comes at a time when germany is seeing a sharp rise in attacks on jewish people and institutions. Its a great honor for the german chancellor to be awarded the fair or hetzel prize by the World Jewish Congress the organization is honoring angle americas role in supporting jewish life and fighting antisemitism in germany. Later. It is a sad reality that we have to emphasize the importance of protecting jewish lines right now. But that didnt just start with the attack on the synagogue in hama on the 9th of october on yom kapoor which has struck at the heart of our entire society. Members of germanys Jewish Community are also worried there has been a dramatic rise in antisemitism in recent years a government study found a 60 percent increase in violence against jews in 2018 a study by the World Jewish Congress found that more than a quarter of germans harbor antisemitic sentiments the president of the w. J. C. Ronald lauder spoke to t w about the need for targeted action by the state to combat antisemitism well 1st of all in the political field i believe that anyone any party who is who shows antisemitic feelings should not be in that party and i believe also there are some party small parties that are basically based on almost the new nazi theory they should be not allowed. But there are major hurdles in germany when it comes to banning Political Parties the World Jewish Congress says it will be watching closely to make sure that the German Government further strengthens its efforts to combat antisemitism in the country all right to for more on this now im joined by my colleague frank often you had who was at the meeting of the World Jewish Congress and while that report and hes standing now by in munich thank you so much for being there frank in your report to ronald a lot or says neo nazi parties should be banned in germany who did he have specifically in mind. Well i was able to talk to him again oftens interview and today and i asked him to clarify this as well as i was talking to other participants of the conference and as far as i understood them and they were very clear here they mean not only parties right wing extremist parties but also a group in legal policy in germany and i was trying to also and i try awesome to whether they could be no precise when it comes to the f. T. Policy the right wing populist and Extremist Party here that is quite gaining ground at the moment in germany and i said yes they have a group called deaf all the ving and this right Wing Extremist Group in the party should be forbidden as well they underlines again today its politicians in parties that are following right wing and they are not see any ideology should be banned out of parties here in the country what other measures does the World Jewish Congress want to see germany deploy in the fight against antisemitism. From a lot it was a very clear hes thought there must be a tougher legislation against hate speech in germany as well he said stronger prosecutions against antisemitic crimes and assaults in the country for example you mentioned the knife attack in to the center today the synagogue in berlin a couple of months ago were syrian attacked police and this man was released from custody the same day because no tougher measures against him terrifically. I mean no chance under americal was honored by the w. J. C. In munich but did she also offer a convincing plan on how to fight semitism. She was very political she also political sphere in this country to fight back against antisemitism but when it came to stronger prosecution for example i have tied the feeling dots the delegates expected much more from the chancellor and not only from the chancellor but also from the ministers said met here today as well 6 european ministers of interior affairs like the german micio for met here today at the Conference Venue behind may to get a business a lot and other representatives of the w. Ch a c. And i had the feeling that after that many delegates were kind of disappointed because they want to move have more action against antisemitism from the colts and the state prosecutors Frank Hoffman reporting from munich thank you. And some sports news now for you the u. S. 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