this is the w. news live from berlin a growing conflict in the middle east saudi arabia's new crown prince is on a mission to boost the oil condemns prominence book could upset the delicate balance of power pushed the entire region into conflict also coming up. standing

shoulder to shoulder on the conflict in syria u.s. president donald trump and russian president vladimir putin reaffirmed their common commitment to ending the war and defeating the islamic states. for two years this. no place to call home we need a family of kurdish refugees who have spent the past two years stranded in serbia failing in all their attempts so far to reach western europe. i'm still henery welcome. in the middle east tensions between saudi arabia and iran are on the rise the power struggle between the two arch rivals has now spilled over into lebanon whose prime minister saad hariri unexpectedly resigned while on a visit to saudi arabia lebanon's powerful has been the chief is accusing saudi

arabia of detaining hariri and now the u.n. and the u.s. are warning riyadh not to use the country as an arena for proxy conflicts. kuwaiti citizens heading out of lebanon their government is one of several gulf states that has ordered its people to leave the country this comes amid sharpening tensions in the region lebanon is being drawn deeper into a power struggle between arch rivals saudi arabia and iran. lebanese prime minister saad hariri is inside the arabia since he was designed last weekend ickes asians have been flying that the kingdom is holding him hostage. iran backed militant group hezbollah says that amounts to a declaration of war the group is accusing saudi arabia of using lebanon as a proxy in its conflict with rival iran. that you are if your problem is with iran why you are attacking lebanon just to preview have influence we admit that you have

influence but if you think that you can defeat the lebanese resistance or its political parties who refuse to comply with you you're mistaken. lebanon's president met with the saudi envoy on friday local media reportage that the president demanded harry reid's return riyadh says hariri is free to move as he wishes a claim that front supported on friday but there is no doubts that the complaint is escalating the united nations has sounded the alarm this is a matter of great concern to us and what we want is for peace to be preserved in lebanon. it is essential that no new coal fleet you're ups in the region is going to have devastating consequences about this side iran rivalry is also playing out in a war ravaged yemen a missile was launched from that against saudi arabia last week the united states

is now i said that the missile was a rainy and. in the proxy war yemen is suffering badly now they were fia's lebanon could become the next battle cry and. to talk more about this i'm joined in the studio by now they're all stars from our arabic service but they're one of the biggest questions right now is has he really been detained by the saudi government is a very good question some people say he is detained like we saw in the report doesn't us from other his balance sheet the chief is sure that he's been detained the saudi government didn't confirm didn't deny it were. really has been since last saturday . and in lebanon itself most of the political parties and lots of the people are quite convinced that their prime minister or they resigned prime minister is not. able to leave so to rob arabia and he's detained against his will in riyadh.

saudi arabia's crown prince is one of the key players in this conflict can you tell us more about him and what some of his aims are he's. something people say he's very impulsive he's thirty two years old and he's trying to show himself as the new strongman and riad he's actually the de facto king his father is quite old and people think that he will announce. that he will step in and be even the the king in the next few months and he's trying to fight iran on many. fronts like lebanon like yemen he waged war against the with the rebels in yemen in a very disastrous and a very. very devastating. step of since two and a half years and you touched on yemen another rivalry. human rights organizations

are warning of the biggest humanitarian crisis in modern history what is the latest on this. there have been the missiles strikes from the rebels to riyadh on the steam evening wear on. her really has resigned and saudi arabia has taken this as a sign that as bala and iran are declaring war against them now it's not the first time that the who feeds. the missiles or strike missiles with a sort of arabia but it's been i think seventy times but i think it's had been some on the grounds been prince he wants to end this war and i think he's trying to set up the action there have been air strikes yesterday against what

the defense ministry and some in the. yemeni capital so i think. where yemen is heading it's it's very wrong direction and i think i think it's very very very tense situation there is a famine in the country seventeen people seventeen million people are. having food insecurity so it's very dangerous and there are cyrus thank you very much for joining us and. u.s. president donald trump and his russian counterpart vladimir putin have reaffirmed their commitment to ending the war in syria in a joint statement the two leaders said there could be no military solution to the conflict but said the so-called islamic state must be defeated the announcement was prepared ahead of the apec summit in vietnam where the two leaders are attending. or wouldn't take the question whether donald trump would hold direct talks with the flood email puton was one of the more protracted sideshows at this summit in the

end the two had just a few casual encounters with trump's team at home under investigation for possible collusion with russia it appears the white house was keen to avoid fueling that particular fire. otherwise trump didn't shy away from controversy on friday he lambasted global trade imbalances and viral put america first thoughts left other leaders pondering free trade without the u.s. one of the main things to come out of the summit was the revival of the transpacific partnership trump walked out on that deal earlier this year and many thought it was dead but the remaining nations have now agreed on a new framework. ball eleven countries are on board and this will send out

a very strong message to the united states and other countries in the region and i got. that message is aimed particularly china with its economic dominance president paying use this summit to push in the opposite direction to trump towards multilateralism beneath a meeting show of harmony deeply conflicting visions of the global economic future . right. now to some of the other stories making news from around the world protesters have clashed with police in the u.s. embassy in the philippines hundreds turned out to protest an upcoming visit by president donald trump when violence broke out trump will arrive in the philippines on sunday the last stop on his eleven day tour of asia. former united states soccer player hope solo has accused the president sepp blatter of sexually assaulting her in the words ceremony solo claims in an interview with the

portuguese newspaper that blatter groped her on the twenty thirteen ballon d'or gala lotter denies the allegation. that french president amanda mccraw has led ceremonies observing armistice day the day that marks the end of fighting in the first world war mccrone laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in the capital paris events are also being held in belgium and britain to commemorate the war dead of almost a century ago. the world's biggest shopping day is under way in china retailer ali baba is expecting record sales as shoppers hunt for the best online bargains it took just thirty minutes for sales to surpass america's black friday and cyber monday combined the shopping bonanza known as singles day was set up to celebrate being single. they were pictures that went around the world two years ago lines of migrants walking north through europe escaping war in the middle east they

travelled along the so-called balkan route that ran from greece towards germany but borders were closed and fences a wrecked it leaving thousands stranded in macedonia and serbia with their past blocked many migrants are now heading south our next report follows a young kurdish family that is making the journey to greece going back the way they came for two years this family has had no place to call home. the kurdish callout family fled the so-called islamic state militia in iraq hoping to get to western europe but they got stranded in serbia now the family is back on the so-called balkan route this time not heading north but south they've just crossed from serbia back into macedonia illegally. now my sons have no home that's the worst thing and. i don't know where the home is neither do my sons

. from serbia we tried to get to romania there was no chance the police and us back then we tried to enter hungary also illegally it didn't work. back on macedonia is northern border to serbia it is possible to get through that's why a red cross team patrols here to aid the estimated one hundred people who decide every week to turn back on the balkan route. this month is reaching almost three hundred people a month. versus almost two hundred people that try to that actually left and went on to greece that's what the caliphs are doing going back across the border again illegally the red cross helps the family by taking them two hundred kilometers to southern macedonia and the nearest container camp right on

the border to greece. it's an e.u. country we want to apply for asylum in sicily and they key who get into in a you program that reunites families who've got families in germany and the netherlands. even after all this time that remains there and they don't have the kind of money that traffickers ask for their only hope of moving on from tesla nicky is to go legally but nothing is certain still takes a lot of time and then how long can one way when he or she will be a unified with his or her family members disposer was a child so unfortunately people when they have to wait for too long to do their best to smugglers. it's evening in macedonia we arranged a meeting with the calif family but they've already gone neither the greek nor the macedonian police could stop them it seems porous borders like the one here make an illegal return to greece and the european union easy.

but hope that that family can find a place to call home soon. sports now and the renewal of one of soccer's big rivalries england hosted germany in a friendly between the two countries that have already qualified for the twenty eighteen world cup the pace was quick in the first half and both sides had their share of scoring opportunities but neither could put the ball in the net both coaches experimented with different combinations in a dull second half the final result from one of the stadium in london a score this nil nil draw. senegal has grabbed for the remaining slots for next summer's world cup they took advantage of a second chance given by soccer's governing body and defeated south africa to know the single is actually lost to the south africans a year ago but were allowed to replay the game because of max fixed fixing by the referee. meanwhile italy

are one step closer to missing the tournament in russia after dropping the first leg of their play off with sweden the four time champions lost after substitute jacobean hans and scored on to selection in the sixty first minute to the console of a team themselves with a win in the second leg that's monday back in milan stay tuned coming up in top the hour as more news and be sure to follow us and the dot com for more news updates thanks for watching. united against climate change. big challenges for the twenty third u.n. climate conference in bali. how our nations working to meet their paris agreement targets cop twenty three.