Bonus league is top team at the hands of a promoted side. Putting a dent in armor the upset disrupt chances of winning the league. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us american backed forces are close to gaining control of the last syrian territory held by the socalled Islamic StateSyrian Democratic forces the d. S. The made up of kurdish and arab fighters have captured the town of haji in and are now in the process of clearing out islamist fighters agin lies in the valley of the Euphrates River close to the border with iraq its the final urban stronghold of the jihadist militia which once controlled substantial territory in syria. Iraq but as the mainly kurdish inches closer to. Turkey is threatening to launch an assault against the kurds further north. This report from the frontline in syria. People have escaped the clutches of the socalled Islamic State. Stranded in a camp two hundred kilometers from the front line. Traumatized exhausted but free after days of rain and cold weather the conditions are atrocious but its better than being under the guns of the. Bottle on the banks of the euphrates. Used does as human shields so the warplanes cant attack from the sky. Planted mines everywhere and they dont want to let anyone escape. The criminals dirty thieves they took everything from us our money as well and then they left. The battle for the last bit of territory held by is a tough one. The militia has lost nearly all the land it held was around five thousand fighters are putting up fierce resistance their leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is thought to be among them. Dozens of members of the s. T. s have been killed in recent weeks last despite as support from the United States and other allies. Theyve put booby traps and mines everywhere we were advancing but slowly and we have to take care to avoid civilian casualties. This is whats left by the fighting the streets of hygiene the former terrorist stronghold most of the people who live here have fled. The mainly kurdish s. D. F. Has captured the center of the town and most of the outskirts from my ass. Fighting is continuing in the surrounding villages to jihadists are still managing to stage on bushs i hit and run attacks. Yes fighters trying every day to attack our units and recapture the villages but we are pushing back with all we have. The american backed s. T. F. Is now facing a potential enemy on another front. Victory over the i. S. I. The euphrates valley is within reach. But now turkey is threatening to march into courage controlled areas on its southern border and caresses the kurdish fighters as terrorists. These threats help yes precisely now when were making gains in the fight for Turkey Threatens an offensive in northern syria. And thats bad news for the people still in the ice control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket of highest territory. Or some analysis now lets bring in get are steinberg hes a middle east expert from the German Institute for international and security fares good to see you get or so if you know lets look at it in syria how close are we to do seeing as defeated in syria. Is defeated in syria has been the last major stronghold of the organization so that by now the organization doesnt control any territory any town anymore what we have seen in recent days is a big success for the for the americans if honest is defeated in syria and you suggest that they they are for all practical purposes what becomes of that notorious Jihadi Movement will they simply melt away or can we expect them to go on wreaking havoc elsewhere they have melted away but. They have turned into an underground movement already in neighboring iraq and i suspect that something similar might happen in syria in the coming months and years because we do not see the different conflicts in the country ending and that is why the organization will have its opportunities to continue operating but. Perhaps regional scale. And that is why we have seen the big attacks being reduced in europe in recent years now reports suggest that Turkish Forces in syria might end up attacking the kurds in syria whove been instrumental in defeating i as why would turkey do that is turk is turkey more interested in fighting kurds than it is in defeating i asked exactly from the turkish point of view the s. D. F. Is controlled by the p y d and the p y d according to the turks is an integral part of the Turkish Organization p k k they are right about that and that is why they threaten the kurds in syria with this attack they have already taken parts of kurdish territories in spring two thousand and eighteen enough green and now they might they might attack Eastern Syria as well as they take the p. K. K. Or p y d a lot more seriously than they take isis seriously as a threat to the turkish republic peter thank you so much for instance you know steinberg middle east expert from the German Institute for International Security affairs and bright. Some of the other stories making headlines around the world today belgiums Prime Minister showed michelle has resigned after a failed attempt to lead a minority government he decided to quit after he was unable to get enough support for United Nations agreement on international migration. Madagascar is going to the polls in a runoff between two political heavyweights Marc Ravalomanana and andre way to have both been president and are long standing political rivals if the result is tight observers fear a contested election may plunge madagascar into political crisis for lynn has marked the second anniversary of the terror attack that left twelve people dead and dozens wounded in the german capital on december nineteenth two thousand and sixteen a radicalized tunisian man hijacked a truck killed its driver and plowed into a crowded christmas market. Chancellor merkels government has agreed on a bill to help skilled workers from outside the European Union pine jobs here in germany the country kerr urgently needs people to fill more than a million Job Vacancies the proposed law will simplify the process for recognizing professional or Vocational Training degrees that have been earned abroad it will eliminate the requirement that employees check whether german nationals are also available to fill the vacancy and if passed by lawmakers it will allow qualified non e. U. Nationals who speak german to live in the country while they look for work. Is following this story at our parliamentary studios for a so good morning hans you got a package of new rules here for attracting Skilled Labor its on its way what was wrong with the old rules. Well the old rules in effect said that. It was only people with a University Qualification who had a chance of actually finding a job in germany and getting a visa from outside the European Union all this possibility is to be extended to people with occasional training below the level of University Education other with skilled technicians out as these kind of people people involved in engineering jobs for instance all people involved in things such as age old age care and hospitals and so on so its this level of people that is going to be needed in germany in recent knowledge in coming years as well and we have to say that germany has had some experience obviously in the last couple of years because hundreds of thousands of people from outside that you have entered the country as migrants as for refugees recently and several of those many of those have in fact already found some sort of work in germany now the government is also considering new rules for employing Asylum Seekers the question is whether qualified migrants whove been denied Refugee Status should be allowed to stay if an employer wants them. Met an iraqi who is eager to apply his skills in germany. Is nervous he has to give a presentation to the whole team today the forty year old iraq he is an apprentice at an i. T. Company and like most of his colleagues here ok fine she has only lived in germany for a few years you. See here from syria iran and iraq and they all came to germany as refugees and i knew that it was because of this is a great chance for me because its difficult to get a job training position here. Three years ago a request for asylum was denied his official status since then has been. What germany terms tolerated right to state this apprenticeship will give him a chance of staying longer the skills hes learning are in demand here there are eighty to one hundred thousand positions in the branch alone that cannot be filled due to lack of qualified workers. Up until now the problem was if you get someone who is not european then there is a risk that they are not going to be able to stay at the end of the day you need a visa and what am i going to do if they dont get a visa or if i have a job to fill but in germany or european has to do it then the whole process was a waste of time because in the moment germany needs immigrants otherwise its Economic Growth will slow down considerably experts estimate that in around ten years there will be a shortage of three million trained skilled workers the new Immigration Law now is designed to address this problem to make it easier for Skilled Labor from outside of the you to move here but still some questions remain how will the new Immigration Laws affect people working in germany whose asylum requests were denied they may be granted the tolerated the right to stay status for another two years yet there is still a stark demarkation between those seeking asylum and the migration of train professionals to germany. Were small contingent on anything after three years we were told a colleague has to return to his or her country of origin you know that would be a setback not just financially or from a business perspective but also personally. Some of the time from syria as the newest instructor he has been on the contract as an i. T. Specialist since april. First apprentice he still has one year to go and hopes go well. Im going to complete my training and get a job and stay here in germany so that would make me really happy and satisfied. So if were going to this. Boss is hoping things will get simpler with the new law so he can keep his specialist and amp. When you want as much. Reporting there puns what about the case of the iraqi gentleman we met in that report feel. Does this proposed legislation mean that people like him would find it easier to stay and work here in germany. Yes indeed it does this was one of the aspects of the new rules that was most heatedly discussed in recent months because many conservative politicians were saying that they would want to prevent illegal migration leading to a legal status in other words for people to come in here as Asylum Seekers without any prospect of actually getting asylum then somehow finding a job and staying in germany eventually now this is going to be possible people in this case will have to be in gainful employment for a number of years three to four years they will have to speak german well and so on and if they fulfill all of those conditions then they will eventually be given permanent residence in germany so there is a possibility of changing track as its called here in germany from being an Asylum Seeker a refugee of some sort to being an accepted migrant an accepted foreign resident of germany so this is in fact in german politics a real change in the way german politics treats migration something that has been controversial in germany for more than twenty years hans thank you so much t. W. Political correspondent hans one. In india the winter wedding season is in full swing the celebrations involve hundreds of guests but theres often a huge amount of food left over and usually its just thrown away thats where the Robin Hood Army comes in the network of more than twenty thousand volunteers across india is trying to stamp out food waste and hunger our india correspondent followed them on the outskirts of delhi. This is how spends most of her free time ever since she joined the two years ago. The Group Leftover food from restaurants and distributes it to those who need it like in this slum on the outskirts of. The bomb tears at a mix of students and professionals they call themselves. There are no obviously want to be oh it. Is true we are so i didnt want people who were. Enjoying our insulting and always wanted nor the fact that there are a lot of things in this world its nice to end hunger is you. Know its they are are you know it still. Exists everywhere all. The groups business is doing hectic wedding season. Venue booked out months in advance extravagant parties and events. Guest list can run into seven hundred people and they has to be no fluke that. Almost always vast quantities go on each other and i simply often sit ablations. Tonight needy who is a marketing professional might be an offender im invited to the wedding reception. To. Be four hundred. Five hundred. C. Since im part of i know the food mr we have decided its been distributed in the dark. For needy and a federal its going to be a long night if this food left over the going to make sure it gets to the hundred. Its midnight and the parties of. The robin stick stock of the situation. Its bad. To estimate this food left over five hundred people around eight hundred people were invited to the wedding. That means all hands on board the oddities special night team pitches in. The food needs to be distributed before it goes steve. Its past one in the oddity is driving tonight in delhi where many people sleep hungry. After week the bomb for. The men at this Night Shelter dont seem to mind being pulled out of bed into the cold some are drug addicts and alcoholics others are ill or disabled mostly rough in the streets in some way. This food is a lifeline for many who go to sleep hungry. Want to go into work. This food is much more filling in the cheap street and i can afford the money. For the robins this late night food tripe has been well worth the effort but the acknowledge more needs to be done. To find people its not because i think the number is going to be that i wish it was not about. Me not doing this because there is a problem like we just wish this problem was not. Until then but Robin Hood Army is staying true to its motto taking from the rich and redistributing it to the poor. So only follicle reporting their football news and fresh after sacking coach. Manchester united announced that former player. Jr will take the reins until the end of the season the former striker played for almost a decade at united and during himself to fans after scoring the winner in the famous nine hundred ninety Nine Champions League victory over byron munich. Has honed his coaching skills in his homeland winning norways top Domestic League twice with more. What is legal later is Borussia Dortmund have suffered their first defeat of the season in a shock to one loss at does hold or results throws the title race open and gives dusseldorf another big boost in their battle to avoid relegation. It was pats on the back all round between these players with dusseldorf and dortmund on good form going into this one marco roys thought he got the visitors off to a bang up to just fifteen minutes. Of christian policy cause interfering with play from offside to leave the referee with no choice but to rule it out. That all sparked into last soon after kevin struggle with the defense splitting pass the luka back you know with the coolest of finishers one nil to the hogs three goals against ball and now one against dortmund looking back here is certainly isnt scared of the big boys. And the home side double dare late in style early in the second half. John zuma unleashing a for russia strike to make it two nil with the clock ticking it was time for top men to send on the big guns and it paid off in sanchez with the ball to lukas piss check. With the finish in the a. T. F. Minutes dazzling footwork from the english wonder kid before dortmund super sub struck his twelfth goal of the season. But it was too little too late and still so dull held on to record a famous victory back to back bonus later wins for the promoted saw it for cheered on flying high. Argentinas river play to come back down to earth after winning their copa liberty daughters saga against bitter rivals boca juniors that victory qualified river for the Club World Cup but they have crushed out in the semifinals to a in of the United Arab Emirates alain won on penalties after a two two draw they were only playing in the competition for Continental Club champions because they were the hosts elaine face mighty real madrid who are japans kashima in the final. This is our balika and big news in the pharmaceutical and right pharmaceutical giant a five and Glaxo Smith Kline a forging an alliance and will be worth billions the two Companies Plan on combining their over the counter Products Division last year they had a combined to an overall for almost thirteen billion dollars pfizer to hold on to thirty two percent of the plant joint venture back so will hold on to sixty eight percent so the next step will be to flow to the new company on the stock exchange. And that of course is something we need to discuss with our Financial Markets a correspondent orly bods is standing by for us in frankfurt so what he pfizer and galax of smith kline joining forces are we talk about two partners seeing eye to eye here. Yes and i think Glaxo Smith Kline is also finally seeing eye to eye with investors heavyweight investors that have been putting pressure on Glaxo Smith Kline g s k lets term it for short to get more out of the company to deal unveil the hidden value in the company and do a spinoff like this and now its doing it t. S. K. Is obviously the more a weighty partner in this but both stand to gain if they can actually make good on the cost cutting and the purchasing price advantages that they are hoping to get from this union in the Consumer Health care business all right and how is this this joint venture going to shake up the pharmaceuticals market. Well they both will be clearly now number one together in the Consumer Health business among brand names at least seven point three percent of post will be their market share compare that to four percent for the other leading contenders like bayer for example or as an all three or johnson and johnson but it isnt just the market plunge if they can put towards parts of the ground thats behind this its also Glaxo Smith Klines intention to beef up its Pharma Division and get new blockbusters going in the pharmaceutical business which gives probably if successful more yield and the more steady steady income delivering Consumer Health care business and it said that will be for its Balance Sheet with this deal in order to be able to invest more in oncology investors thinking it a good idea especially the g s k share going up by leaping up i should say by about seven percent on this occasion some people really welcome that move there will be bought in front of it thank you so much. The European Union has agreed on a plan to ban single use plastic a major contributor to c waste according to the e. U. Commission around twenty six Million Tonnes of play. Stick wasted generated every year in the e. U. Alone less than thirty percent of which is collected for recycling the bad in tends to reduce the amount of Plastic Waste on land and in the worlds oceans the extent of the damage to American Life the danger to humans is only slowly becoming a knowledge by policymakers the bad still needs to be ratified by Member States but it is already beginning being looked at as a milestone in the fight to reduce Plastic Waste. A few things are more frustrating than being stuck in traffic especially when youre on the way to an important appointment most of us just complain about it and get on with our lives tech entrepreneur musk however started to digging the result of his endeavors have just been released. Electric cars whizzing autonomous lee underground this is ilan musk the allusion to what he once called soul destroying traffic in los angeles now with the unveiling of a three kilometer tunnel and whole flooring just outside l. A. His vision is a step closer to reality so you can have as many channels as you want and im pretty sure everyone in the United States is not going to move to l. A. But you could literally tunnels to transport everyone in the United States in a way there is no limits. No limit to his ambition at any race this promotional video shows how musk invasions the future of transport. Youd park your electric car in a pod and take the elevator down to the tunnel. From there youd be transported at breakneck speed to your destination. The idea of high speed underground travel has already attracted the attention of urban planners need United States. Earlier this year musk signed a deal with the city of chicago to build an underground Transit System linking the city center with the airport but progress has been sluggish and the project is still waiting to be granted final regulatory approval. But those kinds of stumbling blocks dont appear to be putting musk off the entrepreneur describes the Transit System of his dreams as more like an underground highway than a subway in car loving america its a concept that might just catch on. Youre watching the w. News live from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour and of course you can always get the latest newest of round the clock on our website that instead of an adult to comment thanks for joining. Us. On the. Floor of the. Car culture. Hair. Superman. Superfood. Bush long long gone. Lifestyle youre a. Little over. These places are still in museums during the first task is in a. Call from the cathedral to come to town. 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