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this is d w news alive from ballet egypt's launches s strikes in response to friday's deadly attack in the sinai peninsula footage released by the military is said to show the gyptian jets talkative suspected militant hideouts the mosque attack during friday prayers has claimed more than three hundred lives also on the program. in pakistan violence erupts in islamabad as police move in on hundreds of islam as protest as they've been blocking access to the nation's capital for the last two weeks. and after a failed coalition talks seemed to shatter the chances of being in chancellor merkel's new government the greens are meeting to decide what comes next our correspondent brings you an exclusive interview with the potus cohiba.

i'm a money it's good to have you with us egyptian walk planes have hit back at militants suspected of carrying out friday's attack on a mosque in north of sinai the jets struck vehicles and hideouts said to be used by militants in mountains nearby now the death toll from yesterday's attack has gone up to three hundred five so far no one has claimed responsibility but prosecutors say the militants were carrying flags of the so-called islamic state. their images which are intended to reassure our shaken nation the military says it shows egyptian fighter planes bombing those responsible for yesterday's attack officials say they also struck a number of the militants vehicles and properties but the details of the strikes are almost impossible to verify that the military action was part of president abdel fattah el-sisi is promise of swift and resolute retaliation.

retaliation for this a house of prayer turned into a place of carnage. yesterday egyptian t.v. showed images of the horror of what went on inside the hour road a mask. the attackers came in off road vehicles surrounded the mosque and bombed it washed up as were fired upon as they tried to escape. more than one hundred were injured many were rushed to nearby hospitals some even had to be taken two hours away to the city of is my ear one of those who managed to escape recounted what he had seen. for one moment when the shaikh said in the name of god the most merciful and compassionate to begin the sermon i heard gunshots and sub bombs being thrown and to hit people all of them say referring them everyone within the us will. some friends and families of the dead have already said goodbye

to their loved ones. regardless of the government's latest show of military mind they're still coming to terms with how a place of peace can become a target of such hate. well we're now joined by journalist karim the egyptian capital of cairo karim it's good to have you with us do we know any more about the motivation behind this attack. we know more details about how it happened because. the general gave more details he was saying that there was a twenty five to sixty a pack of bullets in the. day came with the most cases carrying electric ice and then moving towards the most well over. twenty different. to the most so that. if you did it just a few ten it's

a cause that they carry like. we don't. appreciate. what. they want. is like an offspring of isis in the sinai. is something that is forced. to work. right. now karim you're painting a very good image there from the sinai region which is of course not new to volatility why is this region so troubled and in light of yesterday's attack can they gyptian government do much about it. well that's exactly the security question because we had a big show for you to hear. from you. but it actually not. really carry president.

pretty close. you know always been taken. didn't mention which to. mention. that's going to be there from. this thing that we did reach. probably. other places to other places. so it may be. that notification so who really nobody knows what could be done to order to continue situation in order for karim el go harry joining us from cairo thank you pakistani forces have launched an operation to clear hundreds of islamist protesters from the capital islamabad police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse the demonstrators back by setting fire to police vehicles and throwing

stones at the religious hardliners had blocked the main routes into the city for more than two weeks they're demanding the resignation of a government minister they accused of blasphemy. joining us now from islamabad is journalist assad hashem assad good to have you with us so two weeks of protests why is it that just now violence has broken out. yes wasn't mentioned the standoff has been going on for a while the government has actually sent several negotiating teams to meet with the protest leaders over that time period at one point they even assembled a team of religious clerics to go shoot with them but all of that was the whole deal now earlier this week the sob of high schools ordered the city couldn't station they don't have to clear the protest saying that it would cause a huge amount if it could be given to citizens in both i think a brinkman city of rawalpindi now the government also that attempted yet another round of negotiations and when that failed it seems that their patients ran out on saturday morning housing the police that were deployed to storm the protest site

and to fire tear gas rubber bullets water cannon that the protesters the protesters forced back as well but it was all to no avail it seems that they were not dislodged and i was a protest site about an hour ago and there are still at least a thousand people there and they're they're vowing not to leave so a very resilient group of protesters who are from a relatively new and also hardline islamist party tell us more about this grouping how much support does it have. yes so the person who's leading the supporters is a man named cardinals and because we know what the risk really is a cleric who is well known in the northern and central java problems as a hardliner who's made his name campaigning and railing support around the issue of blasphemy he's very well known in that region but nationally he's not really a famous figure but blasphemy has always been a hot button issue in pakistan and more so in the last ten years i would say that's one on which is very easy to galvanize a widespread public support if there's ever a question of islam big a suspect or a perception that this might be the case now it seems clear the newsreels using

this and he's got closing on the fact that both mean something that can really bring people out onto the streets and he's using it to resupport for himself and for his newly launched political party that they're equal aback by this man who are the ones under whose banner this is actually happening and again the supporters seem to be just another example of the news this issue to go most border only with it's unclear and moving forward we'll see if that actually translates into political support but so far it seems that the position of strength assad has shame in a slum about thank you it's now time for some of the other stories making news around the world u.n. planes have arrived in yemen carrying humanitarian aid workers and desperately needed point of vaccines but the saudi led coalition that's blockaded the port is still refusing to let ships dock with wheat and medical supplies about seven million people face famine in yemen best survival depends on international

assistance. the libyan coast guard has intercepted more than six hundred migrants bound for europe most of them including women and children from sub-saharan africa the un's international organization for migration says more than thirty three thousand migrants have died in the mediterranean trying to reach europe since the year two thousand. officials in georgia say at least eleven people have died in a fire at a luxury hotel on the black sea coast a further twenty one people were injured in the blaze and more than one hundred evacuated from the hotel and casino facilities in but to me it's not clear what caused a fire. so here in germany it's still unclear how will form a new government a to failed coalition talks momentum has been growing for another so-called grand coalition of how conservatives and the center left social democrats this comes after exploratory talks between the conservatives the pro-business liberal party

and the greens collapsed last sunday now the greens are holding a party conference in berlin to discuss how to move forward and what went wrong with the field talks that would have made them part of the ruling coalition green party co-leader. has blamed the liberal party for their collapse. in an exclusive interview spoke to correspondent. samir you said not forming a give a coalition with the conservatives of angular america the f.t.p. the pro-business f.t.p. would be a missed opportunity why do you think so. i think we could have achieved a lot for germany if first of all germany would have got a government that could response to president micro in france to commission president younger we could also do something in the fight against climate change we could do more for social justice in germany we agreed on so many fields including

that we have to invest more into digitalisation more into education the kind of things that the liberal said in the election committee didn't matter to them obviously they didn't matter as much as they said. the liberals have blamed merican for not being able to form this coalition for the wrong negotiation style and things like that what do you think about that is that true well to be honest i'm fed up with you know i hear all the time men complaining about strong women i mean this is so much old school liberals lost the last election because of themselves not because of our get american a foot still learnt their lesson from the previous election why they couldn't pass the five percent threshold in the election before and now they're blaming i'm going to america le guen everybody's responsible for self for himself we have to fight for our you know points that matter to us and then at the end of today we have to find compromises that's what politics is about if you insist that you have to get hundred percent don't blame others at the moment now we have the option of either

a minority government or another grand coalition which is the most likely outcome of that very moment in that case you would be the smallest opposition party how would you want to be heard or do you believe in other options it's difficult so i mean let's admit that it's will certainly not be easy so far it's not clear whether we will get a grand coalition again which would be to first grand coalition and of last four terms i'm afraid we might get into austrian situation that the bigger parties get smaller and smaller to the first time where we had to scrounge coalition was two thousand and five when the red green coalition was over seventy percent now they have fifty three percent that's a clear message so my opinion is it would have been better to form a coalition that is not a grand coalition but cinch unfortunately mr ed opportunity now i think we're heading towards a grand coalition i said here in the capacity as a party leader we're still willing to take responsibility for our position this

first a country dandified to you and i have to realize for the liberals is the other way around thank you very much. from politics to formula one where messages drive a voluntary botha's has trained pole position for sunday's abu dhabi grown tree edged out. will turn by less than two tenths of a second in qualifying ferrari's sebastian vettel grabbed the final front row spot his steam mate daniel ricardo will head off to the second row followed by to me right cannon and max fish happen. and in sailing spanish free has won the second leg of the volvo ocean race its crew was playing catch up for most of the seven thousand miles from lisbon to cape town but they dug deep and took the lead in the closing stages when gives my friend the overall lead in the competition for the next leg set sail from melbourne australia.

on to tokyo now where despite initial costs the city appears to be on course to have everything ready for the twenty twenty olympic games it's just unveiled the first of eight venues the forests for plaza will host badminton modern and tat's lawn and fencing as well as basketball for the paralympics the building has a capacity of ten thousand and the remaining venues are expected to be completed in the next two years. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you egypt has launched airstrikes in response to friday's deadly attack on a mosque in the sinai peninsula the warplanes are said to have hit suspected militant hideouts the mosque attack has now claimed more than three hundred lives. you're watching the news in berlin more coming at the top of the hour thank you for joining us.