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but you can protect yourself and your family from diseases and home by applying the five keys to safer food use them you also have a role to play. this is d.w. news live from berlin lebanon's prime minister resigns and fires a broadside at the bronze suns a reraise move took the middle east by surprise he talked about the evil that iran spreads in the region we'll go live to beirut also coming up u.s. president donald trump and his wife pay homage to the servicemen who died in the
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japanese attack on pearl harbor or to trump is about to start an extensive tour of asia with north korea topping the agenda. and a look ahead to tonight's heavyweight on display good clashes pretty champions by you knew they could travel to a parisienne dortmund side in crisis. welcome to the program i met her men it is good to have you with us now the prime minister of lebanon has resigned unexpectedly taking a shot at iran as he went saad hariri attacked tehran and its lebanese allies hezbollah for spreading chaos strife and destruction throughout the middle east and a televised address from saudi arabia really said the evil that iran spreads in the
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region will backfire on it or a surprise move plunges lebanon into uncertainty amid heightened regional tensions . all right for more i am joined by ben to beirut she is the middle east director with the foundation fink tank there. hariri claimed that his life was in danger and made a rather unusual move or resigning from saudi arabia is this a legitimate threat we never know about the facts here but we also also have to keep in mind that his father was assassinated in two thousand pipe here and the plot until today has not completely been worked through legally and yet there were there are threats to politicians here occasionally and i think this is where this comes from and this allegation of course is pretty strong we haven't seen an indication before that his life might be up to that and if you mention that he has been issuing his men from saudi arabia that actually is domestically
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a bit difficult because many lebanese this seems to show that it's actually saudi influence in lebanon that is being expressed here and that this is not only a domestic matter yeah absolutely i live it on is a divided country it's roughly split between christians and muslims the muslims themselves are split between sunni and shia and you know the two big power brokers in this region are saudi arabia and iran who is hariri representing in this conflict and where is the country go from here well really belongs to this only group of eleven and thereby they have been supported by saudi arabia and you have. a lot of the other site that are being supported by iran and this has driven between the political factions here particularly in light of the syria conflict hizbollah is siding with the us that regime that has really have this well they're
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opposed to it and so are their respective international factors and this it definitely is it is the most strain on the small country as lebanon it's and it is constantly an issue to negotiate a compromise between the two of them. all right ben to schiller in beirut thank you very much for joining us thank you move on now to some other stories making news around the world the german foreign minister is about gabriele has held talks with his turkish counterpart told of the meeting took place during a previously unannounced visit to turkey relations between the two countries have been under strain since turkish authorities detained more than ten german citizens on terror charges. depose catalog president bush demand has said he'll defy an international arrest warrant issued by a spanish judge. fled to belgium following catalonia stickler ration of independence is supporters turned out in force in barcelona to protest against the warrant and against the jailing of eight members of the cattle on government an
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american journalist has been arrested in zimbabwe after allegedly insulting the president robert mugabe martha donovan is said to have called him a sick and selfish man on twitter is charge she is charged with attempting to overthrow the government which carries a prison sentence of up to twenty years. and u.s. production company netflix says it has severed ties with the actor kevin spacey it also says it will not be involved in the production of the hit series house of cards if space remains in it this comes as the star faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. right to some other news the u s president donald trump is set to embark on his landmark tour of asia it's a five nation trip it will be the longest by a u.s. president in more than twenty five years trump is currently in hawaii but on sunday he will be flying to japan where he will hold talks with japanese prime minister
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shinzo from japan he then heads to south korea wire he will talk about north korea's nuclear program those will be taking center stage after that then it's on to china where he will hold talks with president xi jinping after that it is down to vietnam there he will be attending the asia pacific economic cooperation or apec conference and then on to the philippines for a meeting of the association of south east asian nations so this trip promises to be a diplomatic balancing act for a president that seeks to make america great again also looking to reassure asian allies of continued u.s. support right since symbolism in the sights of the japanese attack on u.s. soil more than seventy years ago is the starting line for donald trump diplomatic
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obstacle course across asia. as he paid his respects at powell hava the suspect sort of conflict with north korea may not have been far from his thoughts. in tokyo japan's prime minister courting a deferent trump doll to revive enjoying japanese hospitality ahead of our father's arrival the white house has been laying out its strategy on north korea. in assessing the degree to which were successful in galvanizing other nations to ensure that that the leadership there concludes that it has to denuclearize we need some time for that to work some locals know our opera hence of. niger but. i do wonder if things will be ok. like what will happen to the world. i wonder about trump's response to north korea and things like that for you there are things that scare me. he's becoming friendly with prime minister abbay. i don't
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know if that's right or not. and so like in the united states trump divides opinion. but. it's one thing if we were to imagine a war i believe south korea would have an advantage however since the consequences of war would be detrimental to all of us i hope president trying to solve the korean peninsula issues through peace talks. from the presidential palace menu c.n.n. has called for dialogue with their northern neighbors trump however professor tough are told. he'll take that message to beijing hoping china delivers a little tensions over china's ambitions in the size china sea and trade will also dominant discussions with president xi. well the climate experts and activists are gathering in the german city beyond for the u.n. climate change conference that will chart the way ahead for the paris accord cup
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twenty three as the conference is known doesn't start until monday but already activists are making their views clear. twenty three thousand delegates scientists and activists are expected president trump announced earlier this year that he was pulling out of paris accord unless the u.s. can get a better deal and hopes are high that progress can be made without united states. right at the demonstration in bonn is sonia dean the leader of did abuse environment team sonia what's happening where you are what are the demands of these protestors well here we are live from. the demonstration and their slogan. which is a very simple message you can protect the climate's unless you and the youth of call here more than twenty five thousand people according to the organizers that
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have come out to demonstrate are demanding immediate and socially responsible exit from coal we're just fifty kilometers away from the guards violator open pit mine it's the largest brown coal mine in europe and it's also the biggest c o two emitter so i think that it's sending quite a clear message get out of coal all right let's talk for a moment about the goals of the climate conference itself once you get started on monday how well do those lines up with those that are being put out by processors. well if you were to look at the big picture the emissions reductions that have been committed at this point take us to about three degrees temperature rise which is far above the two degree temperature rise limit that was established by the paris agreement so it's not looking good at the moment however at this conference is
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really the moment for the countries to come together and be able to well technically they're just hammering out the rulebook for how to implement the agreement and after that the hope is that the ambition for the emissions cuts can be increased so that the world can quickly decarbonise experts say we have about a decade window to take carbonized and change those that try to create limits and beyond that we're looking at potential climate catastrophe. right on you dave thanks for joining us from on ahead of what will be a big week for you and your team i'm sure. for some a look at friday's bundesliga action as a veteran travel to frankfurt on match day the visitors have been poor this season they actually fired their coach alexander noori earlier this week interim coach florian cofer was put in charge for this game and fortunately for him frankfurt
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went ahead early this beautiful strike. but you know braman they had something in this game they had something to say eight minutes later nicklaus moyes under. fired home to make it one one. there the score stayed until the eighty ninth minute sebastien there flicked it home winner for frankfurt they are surging they are unbeaten in five games. and also in the bundesliga at dortmund host byron munich in the biggest clash of the weekend the home team are in second place and trailed by by just three points but dortmund has been in poor form they've managed to take one point from their last three games by and though they have been perfect sense took over as coach last month. and have their swagger back that's been the case since the return of coach your pint is just in time for the german classico away to dortmund the defending champions are now top of the
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table which gives them added confidence but. i don't think the pressure is on us to be very unhappy that we're now three points ahead after two or three weeks of being five points behind. his has clearly lifted the mood in munich and the club has strengthened its defense along the way but the coach doesn't want his club to go into the match over confident against a struggling dortmund side. we shouldn't just naively believe getting weaker and we can take them with one hand tied behind our back on the contrary this will be a very intense game and. intense and you've confused. but intensity requires a strong dortmund lately they've has a slump no wins in the last three matches and the implementation of peter boss game plan continues to cause problems. early in the season we were on
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a roll and nobody talked about it it's normal that when you're not winning and he will talk about it and that will because it is what football fans around the world talk about after saturday's game remains to be seen with a win dortmund could be back in first and see some positive headlines. over in formula one flippin massa has announced that he's going to retire at the end of the season brazilian driver has raced for ferrari mercedes and his current team williams he's won a total of eleven grand prix races and he finished second back in two thousand and eight in the drivers' championship. on over to baseball and the houston astros received a hero's welcome on their return home from their first ever world series when astros players were driven through the streets of downtown houston on top of a fire truck hundreds of thousands of astros fans crowded the streets with some media outlets climbing up to a million people came out children in the houston area were given the day off of school to join those festivities. must have been cause for celebration for those
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kids let's end the show right there you're watching the news from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour and don't forget if you want more news and information you can always get it around the clock on our web site that is d w dot com thanks for joining us by phone no. health. appearance too long. solidarity. they fall by the wayside when the gap between rich and poor grows. life in unequal societies. the divide starting november fifth.
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