i live in the us i live in china before i'm french but doesn't is a very good place to raise a family. and i love it was my somebody. this is the view of the news live from berlin nor remorse from the man accused of the new york truck attack prosecutors say the suspect assigned for those high powered wanted an islamic state flag in his hospital room now president trump has weighed in he's courtly for the death penalty or for coming up spins national court has

questioned nine members of catatonia south to government over charges of sedition and rebellion but not the deposed president he's refused to leave been shipped. thus in the next half an hour it took them fifty six years but finally the poster an asterisk have one of baseball's top prize. joy and jubilation among the fans as they watch their team win the world series we take a closer look at how the astros' reached the top. i know i'm under such good to have your company the suspect enthuses attack in new york city has been talking to investigators sign for waived his right to silence and told the parties he was inspired to kill by and the property islamic fits online propaganda he chose halloween day so that more people would be on the

streets of new york president trump has called for capital punishment for bob here's what he tweeted n.y.c. terrorist was happy as he asked to hang isis lying in his hospital room he killed eight people badly injured twenty should get death penalty. meanwhile family and friends in different parts of the world are mourning the loss of the eight people who were killed in the attack in the heart of new york old school friends from argentina enjoying a trip to new york some of the victims of the truck attack this video was taken shortly before five of them were killed they'd gotten together to celebrate thirty years since their graduation. in their hometown a candlelit vigil was held in remembrance one student said her friend's father had been killed. and her body seminar on you at the school we all attacked for each

other and when something happens we always try to be united together we've come with my friend and her family yet thousands of miles away in new jersey people were mourning another of the victims thirty two year old darren drake he had such a wonderful spirit he always had a smile on his face he was a great person. in new york another vigil for the eight people killed. the suspected attacker has already appeared in court so i follow side of an immigrant from both pakistan total thora tease he had been planning the attack for some time so allegedly admitted that he was inspired committed by the isis videos he watched and had been planning this attack for two months but the attack has sparked a heated debate on how to keep people safe president donald trump says he will ask

congress to end the diversity visa program under which side of entered the u.s. were to break we need resolve we have to stop it so we're going to get rid of this lottery program. democrats accuse trump of politicizing the tragedy well thank you everybody it doesn't work with new yorkers it doesn't work with americans and in fact if he really wanted to do something the weight we can stop terrorism is anti-terrorism funding to help our new york police department and all of our police departments the new york police and ordinary residents life goes on both every expected to be out in force for the city's famous marathon on sunday. but we know join scott is a professor of american studies at the university on bumming him in the u.k. welcome star scott first of all what do you make off doesn't trump's reaction to

this latest attack in new york well i'm afraid it's like bad political jab as he's just throwing out notes and hoping that it will appeal to his base so for example let's cut back on immigration for example let's just put this person to death for example let's send him to guantanamo bay which of course has been used for supposed terrorists since two thousand and two none of this is very well thought out in terms of what you practically do in response to this attack but trump both because i think he believes that and also because i think that people use it all mobilize the supporters this is when he goes on the offensive of course the supporters could argue that trauma's tweets and some of the things he said were an angry spontaneous reaction but to what extent do you think trump will actually change policy as he's said at his office tweets. well first of all when you call for leadership from the president you don't call for anger or spontaneity you call for

a very considered reflection about what has happened and what should be done in terms of what he's proposed you will not get rid of the diversity visa program because that is a congressional decision it is congress which has kept that program going for twenty seven years and they will consider it he will not get his muslim ban at least immediately which he's been pressing for since january to block people from mainland muslim countries in the united states because of adverse courtrooms so this is a man who is not pointing to what he can do the point a little bit to his own as it were frustration at what he is not able to do and scott i mean sadly there have been a number of attacks in the u.s. over the phosphate as a strong reaction in dealing with them defoe from previous presidents well in the past presidents from different parties i mean whether we're talking about a ronald reagan back in the one nine hundred eighty s. whether we're talking about george w. bush another republican or barack obama recently have called for unity they've

called for grief they've called for remembrance they have not called for division which is what trump has done because it basically said it's us versus not only the terrorist but us versus immigrants versus the entire joke of a criminal justice system it's that type of division that was called out for in on a couple weeks ago by former presidents bush and obama when they said this is politically damaging the united states but instead of changing his language trying to simply just reinforcing it and so we wonder if this attack in new york city will have more political casualties in the days and weeks to come scott lucas a professor of american studies in the university of wyoming and thank you very much for that analysis. therefore take a look at some other stories making news around the world german chancellor angela merkel is hosting a new round of exploratory coalition talks members of her conservative bloc are

meeting the greens and liberals to discuss a number of issues including defense and commerce the negotiating camp's a huge differences exist in a number of topics. police in germany have reported a shooting at a supermarket in the northern city of breman this a one man has been seriously hurt the gunman is reportedly on the run but authorities say there is no immediate danger to the public no motive for the attack has been revealed. spain's national court is question members of catalonia ousted government over charges of sedition and rebellion but not the region's ex-president carlist who remains in belgium his deputy did appear in court but refused to answer questions he's among those under investigation for supporting the region secession from spain meanwhile protests have gathered in barcelona to express support for the ousted separatists. left now join our correspondent sean of

a trail she is in barcelona shot how angry are true independent supporters of what's playing out in the courts of madrid. diaries of where you join me at a time where you've got hundreds of people are outside the regional government office here are you hearing lots of songs it's very calm very good spirits here but that shouldn't hide the fact that people here are incredibly angry a what's playing out in the high court at the moment i was speaking to some people who say they're here to support the man they say is still their president colors push more now of course madrid says that he has been dismissed from these his role these people say not they say that it is important for them to stand up against what madrid is doing here which they say is extremely heavy handed and unjust they say that the independence that was announced here on friday has a fan mandate and they want to push ahead with it a shot some of the government is have already been charged with sedition and

rebellions a very serious charges could be dismissed catherine leaders end up in jail. they're extremely serious charges the rebellion charge alone carries a sentence of up to thirty years in prison so yes it is looking on like it's on the cards that these dismissed ministers could face prison now i just want to break this down for you because the ministers are in two cities at the moment and it's a little complicated so say bear with me you've got pitched him on and four of his ministers. in brussels at the moment and you've also got ministers who decided to stay here nine ministers they're the ones that went to the high court today and we know that eight of those nine have been remanded in custody they were granted bail so they already are seeing some time behind bars as they await trial the only one of die a group who wasn't denied bail was a man who didn't take part in the independence vote on friday a man who stepped down from the cabinet before that now let's turn to preach

a man who's in brussels he's refused to turn up for this hearing that he was meant to go to he was meant to be with them in the high court and he now faces. calls for extradition from spain for him to be removed forcibly from brussels so why carlos cruz you all gone off to belgium and why is he continued to stay there. where there was speculation before he went that he was trying to seek asylum while he was in brussels that he was trying to avoid jail here in spain looks like that's something that's really not on the cards propositions in brussels have pretty much ruled that out so now in a statement he's been saying that he is in spain firstly because he wants to bring his course the european leaders he wants to get their attention and second of all because he wants to proceed in safety he said he's worried that he is not going to get a fair trial in spain he says the trials extremely perilous to size and he doesn't think it's just he says he wants guarantees from madrid that he will get that

trouble for he returns something madrid has not yet delivered on. in barcelona thank you very much for that update. coming up ahead on the job it's hard to believe but sam keen the nationalist of wanted to vanish the taj mahal is causing huge controversy in india we find out what's going on there and not just there. but first to get ahead with some breaking news from the world of business that's randomly to the bank of england has raised its key interest rates for the first time in more than a decade from one quarter of one percent to half a percent the rate increase was already priced into the market so the focus now is whether the rate is likely to be slowly inched up over the next month high interest rates could see the pound rising sharply say analysts we'll have more on this story and analysis indeed of your business with ben physical and in the next hour.

central banks very much in the headlines today as u.s. president donald trump is due to announce his pick for the new leader of the federal reserve now will he be the new man at the helm of the world's most important central bank if you believe an increasing number of reports he will his name is jerome powell he has been a fed governor since twenty twelve he's a centrist on monetary policy and is known as a pragmatic and down to earth official with both private sector and government experience. the head of the u.s. federal reserve is the most powerful central banker in the world some past fed chairman have even attained near cult status like alan greenspan he opened the money floodgates and sent equity markets into a feeding frenzy had led to a time of unprecedented growth fueled by credit. until the bubble burst in two thousand and seven unleashing a global financial crisis greenspan wasn't around anymore it was his successor ben bernanke who had to do the damage control but he kept monetary policy loose the

u.s. economy had gotten used to extremely low interest rates a rapid reversal would have caused shocks to the system but it was business as usual under his successor janet yellen at least at first now she's open the door to gradual rate increases amid stable growth in the us federal reserve stronger intervention in the economy stands in contrast to the policies of the european central bank which has favored of lighter touch and focuses on inflation the fed reacts to developments in the job market yemen's term ends in february. jerome powell is the man tipped to replace her the former investment banker is a republican and already part of the fed's governing board markets look ready to welcome such a choice he's nomination would signal continuity theoretically stanford university economist john taylor remains a candidate but his chances are slim analysts caution that he might be quick to

tighten policy. janet yellen would normally be expected to serve a second term but because she was appointed by former president barack obama that is out of the question for the current white house by replacing a fed chairman only after one term president donald trump looks set to break another tradition. facebook reported a massive seventy nine percent jump in profit on wednesday as it pushed further into video advertising facebook's total ad revenue alone rose almost fifty percent to just over ten billion u.s. dollars still facebook is in the hot seat in the united states for the way it handled political ads alive the spread of the fake news facebook said that russians bought thousands of u.s. political ads to spread those falls news the social networking platform pledged to double its cyber security force in the future electric comic

a tesla is still having serious production issues and is booking record losses last quarter was a whopping six hundred ten nineteen million u.s. dollars in the red there are still only older models on the road that's due to problems with mobile three production which can start the december as planned production of the lower priced model is now slated for late in the first quarter of the next year then five thousand cars are scheduled to roll off assembly lines tesla setbacks with its battery production. so tesla is having problems getting its cars on the road and is losing money let's cross over to our financial correspondent ali bond in frankfurt before we talk about the bank of england should investors be war investors be worried about tesla. yes i think they should be share prices great heights tesla is valued as the second most valuable u.s. automaker after g.m.

and tesla has been making losses for years they've been piling up and the recent losses have been even higher and g.m. has made more than nine billion dollars in profit but the two are in terms of stock market valuation very close together and that somehow does not fit but investors so far were so enthusiastic about the future prospects of tesla that they accepted that the future prospects being based on the technological advances that people saw now we see that well with the advances there are problems there are technical problems and there are also very basic engineering problems apparently in the production side of the picture so the share has been losing with a reaction to this and it remains to be seen whether investors see further. cost friends and whether the share will come down further in the next few days when the bank of england. pushed up its interest rates from zero point two five to zero

point five percent that was widely expected expected was it necessary to prop up the pound but you think. i think it was must have been a very difficult decision i don't know what i would have done in the same situation because at the same time the british economy is very very weak and that is a followed from the breakfast decision businesses are leaving orders are not going to britain and people are uncertain and the british economy is feeling that not least because inflation has risen and that's the reason why the bank of england decided to act and it's a courageous move. the first rate rise in ten years but it wants to fight inflation so at least the imported prices don't put so much pressure on business and consumers and on the british pound. we'll wait and see for the market reaction to see whether this first rate hike is enough to prop up the pound and fight inflation or whether the market in the bank of england will see further need for further rate

rises in the next few months only fancy and frank thank you very much for this analysis. and that's all your business now to india where there's been a deadly explosion in a power plant that's right get hot the explosion took place at a cool find power plant in the north indian state of with that but they say it came to twenty six lives and more than one hundred people have been injured it's one of the country's one last industrial accidents in the us the blast at a plant operated by a state owned company happened when a pipe exploded and covered workers in burning coal ash many victims have been hospitalized with severe burns the death toll could still rise into the parties have not gotten inquiry into the cause of the accident. from on the story you have on the line our correspondent in delhi so need tell us more about the scale of the accident it is not the worst in recent years in the country that's right under the

it is it is because you are calling it one of the country's worst industrial accidents in years and rescue efforts have to be going on about our plan with the british because it appears that some workers quite still be trapped inside that unit so there are fears for that told me indeed right now over eight hundred people who worked at the plant many of the injured like you say that's not the favorite body injuries they've been taken to hospitals in the capital lock knob and in the woods one of the worst accidents ironically in this case the national coalition our corporation which operated the power plant actually has a good safety record and accidents have been rare at the facility and all of the holy india has a poor record when it comes to industrial accidents why's that. that's right india does have a rather grim history of workplace accidents and industrial disasters and the most infamous one of course being the deadly gas leak at the union carbide chemical factory in bhopal in one thousand eight hundred four that killed thousands of

people and many experts here i think blame poor safety standards often negligent by employers a lack of government oversight for these kinds of accidents and really you can see evidence of this by just visiting you know one of the many construction sites in any indian city you'll often find open liars there that pose the risk of electrocution you'll often see workers working without any help standing you know several stories above the ground on bamboo scaffolding without safety nets or belts so i think there are there are serious problems you know there are laws in place that govern safety at work sites where employers are you know meant to ensure that workers of supplied with safety equipment and helmets and that kind of thing but in theory i think you know that that in reality things are quite different in korea now talk is have noticed an investigation into the cause of the blast initial thoughts on what could have happened. when this is going to end we still really

don't know the exact cause but there are reports here that suggest that some workers you know sent pressure building up in the boiler the boiler started shaking there was a loud blast a senior skate police official who the page had said that you know ashen piled up in the cornice the next the boiler which could have led to the building up of that pressure which resulted in the explosion so the indian authorities have ordered an investigation to determine the cause of the accident but they're also investigating whether there was any negligence since it still remains unclear whether they were the dealy in shutting down the plans after the initial alarm or evacuating people to safety sonia follicle in delhi thank you very much. and we stay with india but return now to its most famous monument it's this one the taj mahal it is at the heart of a political controversy with some hindu nationalists wanting to have it demolished to say the missoulian built by a muslim emperor does not reflect indian culture one lawmaker has called it

a blot on indian culture built by traitors. this majestic mausoleum was named one of the new seven wonders of the world ten years ago. the taj mahal draws eight million visitors per year prince william of wales and his wife kate middleton among them. the taj mahal commissioned in sixteen thirty two took twenty one years to build the mogul sharjah hand intended it as a memorial to his favorite wife. but this long revered symbol of love is now being scorned by hindu fundamentalist because it was built by a muslim any moment built by muslims cannot be our national pride. there are moments of slavery they are the moment. they are the moments of. hindu nationalists see the taj

mahal as a tribute to muslim conquerors who occupied india in the sixteenth century they believe it was built on top of an older hindu temple the tension. they want the hindu temple to be excavated even if that means demolishing the taj mahal. just like the people of germany. in the same way this. monument this should be reconverted into they do. only then it will become a symbol of. the controversy has dominated headlines in india for against members of the ruling b j p party and parliament support the calls of the fundamentalist that's why the chief minister of the state of pradesh was compelled to make a demonstrative visit to the taj mahal. wearing the robe of devout hindus a degenerate is known as a hard liner but in

a symbolic appearance meant to put an end to the dispute he insisted the taj mahal would remain standing his a close confidant of indian prime minister narendra modi who has himself used famous muslim buildings like the red ford in delhi to showcase india as a regional superpower critics say modi's party politics are dividing the country and pitting the hindu majority against the muslim minority muslims in india say they feel socially and economically marginalized by the b j p government hardline hindu nationalists now want to restrict religious freedom to they say that muslim prayer or no mas should be forbidden at the taj mahal. when it is. meant by archaeological department not be allowed. and thus the taj mahal status as a symbol of love is being overshadowed by irreconcilable differences between religious groups in india. now tonight it was forced to use it was

a huge night in baseball as the astros one the wild series for the first time in their history the best of seven contrast against the l.a. dodgers front right to the wire but the astros pulled off a comprehensive victory in the decisive game to put their fans on cloud nine. logue this is the moment fifty five years of hurt finally came to an end. fans watching on a big screen at home stadium went wild as they saw their team become world series champions in enemy territory oh it was history in the making and a big moment for the after of recent events go you through google houston exploded out of the blocks a game seven hitting five home runs in the first. george springer was the hero as

he hit a homerun for the fourth consecutive game from their houston held out the judges winning the decider five one to seal a memorable first championship. thousands are still displaced following hurricane harvey's devastation this victory was a boost for the whole city. everyone down on their luck but the ashes cricket stuff together somehow something to cheer for and now we're champions. fifty five years whitey for the glory the posse in houston will be less and proud. as a leak of the top story that we're following for you the man accused of carrying out the new york terrorist attack has appeared in court shown no remorse now president on a conference made in his court for the death penalty. i'll have more news in half an

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