and precious liquid is rapidly running out after more than two years of. close to turning off all but the suspension of water supplies in south africa's second biggest city. the heartbreaking forelock him so what is. this daughter left home to join the islamist terrorist group. on her mother back in chechnya fear that they will never be reunited. there's been no letup in turkey's military offensive against kurdish militia in northern syria despite international calls for restraint kurdish forces current the controller much of northern syria you can see that in the shaded area here but it's an afghan here in the northwest that is the focus of turkey's latest offensive so why it is often under attack turkey's engaged in a decades long conflict with the kurds over their demand for autonomy a state it feels threatened by the increased presence along its border and fears the kurds could expand their hold on northern syria and the turkish president. says the operation really move onto the town of big and he says he with fort what he calls the games along the border. the turkish town has size only a few kilometers away from the fighting come back to brock and his friends are discussing turkey's operationalise branch nobody here believes in his wish to make sure. that we don't know the area around our freedom well so we cannot really say how long it will take but yes it may take a long time. to sink. possibly a month that's what i think but i'm not a soldier. takis military is continuing its operation was no reduction in intensity all day tanks and artillery are aiming across the border members of the protect his free syrian army are marching towards the afrin region they are supporting takesh troops in el paraiso against a syrian kaddish militia group. and they are a lot more optimistic than the texan hasa. i'm afraid will take a frame and succeed in this operation within the next couple of days. ago. with god's help we will conquer offering everybody. according to the latest figures from the syrian observatory for human rights the war so you fog came 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 add to and dismissed international criticism of the offensive saying the situation at hand means it's not possible to listen to every country's 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 offering. turkey claims a threat is growing at its school to try considers the y.p. g. to be the syrian faction of the p.k. k. which jackie sees as a terror group reacting to attack u.s. military attacks in recent days the y.p. g. has shelled texas border towns claiming civilian lives while many techs were you for it at the start the military's now changed. no war is easy neither for soldiers nor. for civilians you know what that must not have been quoted to you both sides of the border fear what operational of branch could still bring. is in istanbul and joins me now from there to the turkish president has spoken out saying that he is ready to target serious. what is the significance of this for the military operation. for the turkish forces they say it is key is part of their efforts to remove what they say is his tariff right on the southern border of syria but full nato it is a nightmare scenario because a large number of u.s. soldiers are believed to be deployed in mom bitch and this brings a threat of a confrontation between turkish forces and the united states although big he both started to pee prime minister of the ruling party said this played down those fears saying it was only a remote possibility is a very important town because for the united states it allows them to exercise control over iraq which is the key city in the region so there is the potential of a major confrontation there and i think that is what all of nato allies are trying to avoid and don't do on the issue to speak with a u.s. president today the u.s. has been supporting the y.b. militia who are being targeted by turkey now one of the expectations of this conversation. i think in many ways this conversation is probably the most important since turkey has launched this operation into a friend in this conflict is as much about turkey's anger at the united states over its support of the white peachey and particularly its announcement of creating a thirty thousand strong border force with the white peachy which has triggered this crisis now president urged one does believe according to sources in the palace he does have a good relation or potentially a good relationship with donald trump he could only put a lot of store on the telephone conversations with world leaders a position of advisors i spoken to in the palace they say the real problem with turkish u.s. relations isn't between the two presidents but more people around all the time particularly former military generals who hold great sway in the white house they are seen as a problem probably earth wants to believe that if he can have a conversation with trump possibly they can strike a deal out one thousand like to make deals with leaders and if if there is a possibility of suffusing this crisis it could be this conversation if that conversation fails it could well determine that turkey to continue its operations into the rest of syria and already done earlier this week the russian president hinges on the roar of russia in this conflict and how it pans out. well this operation of turkey could only have happened with the permission of russia russia controls the airspace in syria and turkey is relying very heavily on air support for this operation to moscow was the one that allowed this operation to go ahead and going forward moscow's corp is seen as key to has a major player in this ongoing conflict but there will be concerns in moscow if turkey continues to expand its operation too far then that there will be the fear that turkey has too much influence and it brings the possibility of clashes with the damascus regime and even possibly iran will be unnerved by a growing presence of turkey in syria during films in istanbul thank you very much for that assessment. the tech is offensive in syria is having political repercussions here in berlin germany regularly so its weapons including tanks to its nato allies and those weapons have been used in the cross border offensive that some general makers hill according illegal now contracts to upgrade the german tanks are being put on hold. relentless heavy shelling in northwest syria turkish forces stepped up their offensive known as operation olive branch. the prepared german made leopard tanks to roll in two or three in. the german government had recently considered reinforcing these against mines but that seems to be off the table no. buttes to avoid the talk i know that turkey is violating international law with its intervention in syria. it's absurd to think about upgrading these tanks or start on. being used can kind of there should be no arms exports to turkey i want to know what foreign ministers he discussed with his turkish 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 turkey's president or do one says the military action is justified. because in a free nor determined to defend themselves. good luck i wish our forces strength we are united and we don't fear our do on his planes and his weapons. he took in 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 it's not just german tanks german military trucks have also been spotted on the syrian border. and at mount look at some other stories making news around the bond islamic state history in response ability for a deadly attack in afghanistan gunmen stormed an office of save the children aid agency in the afghan city of jalalabad two people were killed when the militants battle security forces who surrounded the building. to consecutive car bombs detonated near a mosque in the libyan city of benghazi on tuesday killing at least twenty seven people and injuring dozens more the attack happened as worshipers were leaving the mosque many security officials were among the casualties they are believed to have been the target of the attack. police in pakistan have arrested a twenty four year old man suspected of being a serial killer responsible for the reap and murder of a seven year old girl the case has sparked nationwide protests over allegations of government inaction police said the suspect had confessed to the girl's murder and his d.n.a. match samples found on her body. meanwhile says it's preparing reception camps for the gradual return of muslim refugees who fled to neighboring bangladesh because of a military crackdown in the buddhist majority country bungled this says it's also preparing for the transfer but it's warned it might need more time. he was in need of news coming up ahead cape town is rapidly running out of water off to more than two years of drought really a dream come in time to prevent a shutdown of all but a function supplies in south africa second biggest city. and the daughter who joins so what islamic state for you is the fall of a church in mother in law so her daughter now she tells you she fears he'll never be reunited. the first monica joins me in irregular it is back on the trail of u.s. technology companies monica absolutely a reach of the european union hits u s chip making giant qualcomm with close to a billion euros in antitrust penalties nine hundred ninety seven million to be exact now the u.s. competition commission a margarita vista august say to the chip maker paid key customers apple to use its chips exclusively in i phones and i pads and that meant qualcomm managed to illegally shut out rivals from the market for l.t.e. baseband chipsets for at least five years and showing its own market dominance. is such an interesting ruling let's cross over to standing by for as an affront what's the rationale behind the find i mean did european chip makers lose out did you customers play pay too much. yes both things are true if you're only if you're only the sole guy on the street offering a service of course the customer is going to pay whatever price you want and if you can assure that the customer is loyal to you and you pay an amount of money of course that's going to up the price in some way the e.u. commission puts the aftereffects of that price fixing of that fixing of the contract to the delivery contract to apple. as a follow price of about a billion euros and. sure the customers will have paid the price because qualcomm in some way has to get back of course the money that it paid to pull in order to ensure it's the sole distributor their second followed the commissioner for competition market best ago also point out pointed out that customers don't have the kind of innovation the kind of new developments at hand if the person developing the chips qualcomm in this case is sure that there's not that much competition it doesn't have to put all its resources into developing new and better products better than the competition because a child at the competition is the first us giant tech giant to be hit by the european union the e.u. is also laying into facebook into google and apple to what end. to the end consumer benefit again that he did not defrauded the competition comes back competition seems struck but in the end that means best products at best prices and best development and creates more jobs in the end maybe not at the one company that's trying to get the benefit or with their shareholders but for the good of the whole and here the e.u. commission has indeed not only singled out to american companies but european companies as well it's quite doctor. in frankfurt thank you so much for this. and turning to the what economic forum now in switzerland europe takes the spotlight in davos german chancellor angela merkel and to the french president. expected to make an address today and some members of the american delegation will be there to listen including u.s. treasury secretary steve he's already spoken at the conference in switzerland ahead of his boss president trump who is yet to arrive and due to speak on friday that he is what nugent had to say. it's really all about economic growth opportunities to invest in free and fair trade. so we're looking forward to a very careful and. gender equality has emerged as a top issue in davos with canadian prime minister justin trudeau saying if you want to fix your economy employ women our team and apple spent the day talking to the top female officials there and asked them for their solutions in closing the gender gap. no matter how you look at it there are still far more men than women and davos but something's changing and not just the numbers the forum is discussing topics like harassment power and injustice more intensely than ever before the seven high profile women co-chairing the world economic forum are a symbol of change but many women and davos feel things need to progress further and faster. we can make sure that all girls get access to quality education that will be a huge step for these girls and also we need to make sure that no children get married as you get girls and science and technology and take away the stigma that girls are not skilled at the disciplines and take away the fear that many girls that are not qualified are capable of engaging in these disciplines to close a gender gap we need to tackle economic inequality because all these norms in society that justify inequality between men and women that justify violence against women are already intended to put women in the opposition and exploit them a konami could i think we need to understand the value that women bring to the people not just going forward but also in the generations trance what they've done for the world in terms of the workforce that they bring to the table it does the bentley to companies in terms of the nurturing the caregiving the deployed to work i think that's the unique thing about women taking action is more important than ever studies show women have the most to lose from globalisation. and there's more devils coverage coming up will carry the speech of german chancellor i'm going to match life in our program that's in about one hour from now also check out our website and follow due to be a business on twitter for any live updates from davos the first two years without rain well that's hard to imagine here in europe but not in south africa not in south africa is a drought and boss of south. thank you very much monica and the cape region of south africa's in the grip of the longest drought in living memory since two thousand and fifteen the area has seen no substantial rainfall and none of the expected before may or june water is already being rationed authorities now say they'll have to cut off all supplies for non-essential use by. a lack of rainfall in cape town is making south africans very nervous water in the city's main reservoir the teva kloof down is down to thirty percent capacity the situation isn't much better at other reservoirs cape town has imposed a level six alert level six is the next step that we're taking it to. people most significantly less than eighty seven liters per person per day anyone who exceeds the amount of water permitted for each household faces severe penalties that's why a growing number of people are getting their water from public reservoirs so it doesn't change their water meter readings. i've seen some parts happening here and this is before day zero so i can imagine people get quite upset when there's no water. it seems like a paradox that the metropolis on the atlantic coast is slowly running out of water but cape town doesn't have a dissemination plant tourists are being asked to save water too it's currently high season and public showers are being switched off at the beach. apart from that there are no real restrictions for visitors. by contrast agriculture has been very hard hit the water shortage means many fields can no longer be cultivated the latest alert means farmers must cut their water usage by sixty percent based on their consumption before the drought began johann esther he is a gross fruit in the western cape where he's had to cut down some trees in order to save the rest. on the rock and saudis another. perfectly producing orchard. oh i decided. to operate. because of the water shortage and you know it's not that easy decision to mike that there's no improvement in sight all eyes are on the to vote as close dam if the water supply sinks below thirteen point five percent capacity cape town will be forced to turn off almost all its taps experts are dubbing it daisy they warn it could happen by the end of april. in recent months the so-called islamic state group or has lost control of most of the day freed once held in syria and iraq as defeat humans the families of young people who left home for three wondering what has become of them hundreds of them went from the russian republic of chechnya in the second of three reports from their views a year to the château this is the family for young woman who took her children to join her husband fighting for i guess in syria. and in grozny a typical tighten up people know each other and help each other too despite the high fences there is one thing the neighbors don't discuss of though the missing children. is one of those who has kept her silence for a long time for years but now she's breaking her silence to talk to us about. celina her beloved daughter hasn't been a happy erin's house for four years cellular follow to her husband who went to syria to fight with the so-called islamic state. of us. through he took selena together with their three children i know he will never come back because he was killed last march. we needed new. since then she says she hasn't heard from her daughter salinas one of hundreds of chechens who have left their homeland since of the beginning of the syrian war to join us. the women mostly from low to their husbands as is customary for chechen women to do. official figures put the number of chechens fighting for the terrorist militia at seven hundred most. listed as missing some of the mothers gave us these photos desperate and hoping to get some sign of life from their children. because it's pretty much house son and seller and grand daughters soumaya and look at photos of celina we want to know if answer would allow himself to be recruited by terrorists and would go to syria as his sister did you. know i will not get recruited. after all i have my own mind and i do not listen to the others. isn't giving up hope of seeing her daughter again she even shows us children's things she has bought for her three grandchildren. now and then she shows us that they speak to her. i took the picture myself in syria. when we accompany her again on a trip from moscow to chechnya she reveals that she did once manage to see her daughter in the last fourteen years. middle men in turkey helped her to establish contact with selena in december twenty fourth team. it took her several weeks of traveling to reach a member church in northern syria she sas of the journey was fraught with uncertainty and she didn't know if she would ever arrive. islamic state members allowed her to stay with her daughter for four days she wanted to take her back to chechnya but sally no wasn't allowed to leave enter neither of her children. now together with other mothers she has found that a support group it already has of eight hundred members. of the mother awful slan who took pretty much daughter to syria is also a member of the group. man torched my daughter was always obedient she really trusted her husband and he ordered her to go with him to syria where he. is this lance mother also to blame for your daughter's disappearance. no i swear because to be honest it all happened according to the higher will the will of allah what must be must be that's what i think. as we hear again and again while filming in chechnya strong religious beliefs are one of the reasons why young people are being recruited by yes the mother of missing children keep coming back to the airport in grozny in the hope that their loved ones will one day return to. the feast i'm here very often for them to. at least i'm hardly at home why should i be at home. i have to look for my daughter. knows that russia has declared to military victory over the so-called islamic state dozens of chechens are being transported back from syria and iraq every three weeks that gives pretty mouth salaam a one year hope that she too might hold her daughter salim in her arms again. if she is still alive. that report by our moscow bureau chief. the third and final episode off mini series will go on air tomorrow that's thursday so do watch out for that and of course you can find all ports on in our media center just go to our website z w dot com ok turning now to tennis and the a street open despite a slow start roger federer has won his for the final against. in straight sets he faced the unseeded south. amazing run in melbourne continues as he saw american tennis fan grant to reach his first ever grand. semifinal germany's jimmy combat brushed aside madison keys to reach the last four off the australian open the formula was number one is back to winning ways after a torrid two thousand and seventeen season kevan face a woman stops a similar to khalid in the next strong off the remaining one in straight sets or what lead up to 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