to a person or to a computer in this case. if you listen it's a feeling that the instruments that steer us and whoever can control these feelings has great power over us by. the rhythms instead of feelings measuring emotion starting december sixteenth on t w. this is news coming to you live from berlin a stunning victory for u.s. democrats and a major embarrassment for president troubled doug jones claims victory in alabama's special senate election the first democrat to win in the staunchly red state for

twenty five years his republican opponent roy moore couldn't overcome damaging accusations of sexual misconduct. also coming up turkey's president says his country will never accept president trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel and calls the u.s. partner to bloodshed. plus in the bundesliga dortmund received a lifeline in a must win game under their new coach the team defeat minds to get their first win in nine games. low and welcome i'm terry martin good to have you with us democrat candidate doug jones says won a u.s. senate seat in the deeply conservative state of alabama his republican. roy moore's

campaign was overshadowed by allegations of sexual misconduct accusations that repelled many moderate republicans and kept them away from the voting booth the result deals a huge political blow to president donald trump. of all the states in which the democratic fight should take shape alabama was an unlikely starting point the party has not won a senate seat here and a quarter of a century. we really have just around the state of alabama though we have shown the country the way they are real of the guy. the celebrations here or much to the control vis a surrounding his opponent. airlie or in the day the republican crusader roy moore had hoped his horse named sassy would carry him to victory. it was the final bed to

cast him as a thorough bred conservative in a campaign marred by multiple allegations from women claiming he had molested them decades ago when they were teenagers even for high ranking republicans moore's actions and policies were beyond the pale. he believes homosexuality should be illegal and that moves along shouldn't serve in congress. for donald trump the only thing that mattered was moore's loyalty to his vision the president has congratulated doug jones on a hard fought victory but said votes cast for a third candidate harmed the right ten votes played a very big factor he tweeted bought a win is a win not so. he has refused to concede. but the votes are still coming in and we're looking at that but god bless you as you go home give the place during and thank you for coming tonight we're not over it's

going to take some time. but it is democrats who are smiling having narrowed the republicans majority in the senate to just one day say as they see a sign of success is to come in crucial elections next year. let's get some analysis now d.w. correspondent carolina carolina chamorro joins us now from washington d.c. carlino the alabama senate race had polarized the us political establishment how is the result going down in washington well it has been a very very tight race the first results were first showing a three point advantage for republican roy moore this was before all the ballots had been counted thirty minutes later the outcome changed after the ballots of all

counties have been counted as the result you just mentioned it is clear now forty nine nine percent for democrat jones and forty eight dot four percent for republican roy moore this is a historic result in alabama alabama as a say that traditionally votes for the republican party and now after twenty five years it is the first time that alabama has elected a democrat to the senate so it is a big change in national politics but also a clear signal against republican roy moore and therefore also against president on a trampoline dorst more until the very last minute indeed donald trump campaigned for roy moore home big of a blow is this for the president and the republicans. well it is a clear defeat for donald trump for the republicans their slight majority in the

senate has been reduced now even more they have to go up from fifty two seats to fifty one seats in the senate this means that republicans only have one seats more than democrats in the upper house and we have to stress also that this is the second signal against the current administration after democrats swept the very dinny a legislature races a month ago this shows also that the democratic and. could produce a sort of turning point maybe in the midterm elections next year that could maybe completely flip control of congress now the campaign was dominated by allegations of sexual misconduct by roy moore let's listen to what moore said about those allegations during the campaign they said these women. had not come forward for nearly forty years but they waited thirty days before this girl alexion to come forward. if you don't believe in mark here

don't vote for. those sexual misconduct allegations end up costing roy moore the election did his boaters stay home. well the turnout of voters in alabama has been extraordinarily high at least this is what alabama secretary of state said he said an estimated thirty three to thirty five percent of alabama's three dots three million are ridge's are voters cast a ballot and this was higher than expected twenty five percent turnout african americans voted in their majority for democrats and jones and yes maybe many whites what was her state at home but also many of them decided to vote for democrat jones debbie is currently in a shim or there in washington d.c. thanks and let's take

a look at couple of other stories making headlines around the world today iran's southeastern province of kerman has been hit by multiple strong quakes state media said at least eighteen people were injured and dozens of houses damaged first quake of magnitude five point nine struck on tuesday morning fifty six kilometers north of the provincial capital comma and german president part time bias in ghana as part of a four day trip to west africa the visit is aimed at strengthening economic ties and tackling the causes of migration to europe the german government has pledged one hundred million x. three euros to boost renewable energy and vocational training in guyana. hundreds of thousands of catholic pilgrims have converged on mexico city's basilica of waterloo but to mark the day of the burgeoning of one of the buildings often crawl hundreds of kilometers to reach the image of the dark skinned virgin who

appeared before the indian peasant on diego in fifteen thirty one. leaders from islamic countries are meeting in istanbul today to discuss u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel on tuesday turkey's president warned the united states that it was a quote partner took blood shed after trump's decision was followed by violence russia time out of one said that turkey would never recognize the decision out of iran says he hopes today's meeting will mobilize support in the muslim world for an independent palestinian state and called it turning point on the last year. well spring indeed obvious dorian journal he's standing by in istanbul. good morning dorian what sort of turning point is president of the one talking about.

what i think he is hoping that the outrage and anger generated over president trump's decision will bring the muslim world together to unite behind the palestinian cause put the palestinian cause back on the agenda in fact the king abdullah of jordan when he was visiting on car last week also made the same point that the president outrage and violence he said should remind everyone of the need for a just solution to the palestinian cause which includes jerusalem being their capital and one will hope that bringing together muslim leaders that they will galvanize efforts for all that come together to support that calls as you say muslim leaders are gathering there in istanbul you're at the conference or all major important muslim nations represented there. well yes this is a big issue there are twenty two heads of state coming here including the iranian president and the head of the bangladesh among others but it's very notable that there is a much lower parties lower profile participation of key countries like egypt saudi

arabia there are reports that the cornstalks media that there will be only represented on the foreign minister level and this just underlines that they are even though there does appear to be an agreement the president trying to move with an acceptable and there is opposition to it there is little unity among the the muslim world and in particular the arab world and in fact there are deep divisions between countries like iran and saudi arabia and in fact turkey is increasingly part of that division and its view by country of relations between turkey and saudi arabia are very tall part of this growing divide within the region and the fact that there is only a low level of participation by countries including egypt as well underlines that how difficult it will be a challenge. the president want to bring all of the countries together to make a strong statement our growth map is well one in phases of talking about there's a great deal of skepticism well he will be able to achieve that given the deep divisions that exist on the cover of the dence of the low profile representation of

countries like egypt and saudi arabia dorian thank you devious dorian jones there in istanbul. the u.s. decision to recognize to resume as israel's capital has sparked protests around the world here in germany many were shocked after arab demonstrators burned israeli flags in front of berlin's brandenburg gate last week and the gate often served as a backdrop for the nazis but is also a symbol of german reunification the government says it will not tolerate plague burning and the jewish community is calling for tougher laws. was it. there will be renewed protests in berlin on tuesday many here can't understand why don't trump has chosen to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and the palestinians claim east jerusalem as the capital of a future palestinian state and i wonder why there's been so much outrage at the burning of israeli flags. germany it's just about to fly

a simple flag what about the people who are born in a refugee camp were born stateless what about them. well says the woman. that is the doesn't serve our cause and we are against anti-semitism and we strongly condemn it we are also semites. tuesday was also the first day of hanukkah the jewish festival of lights. at the brandenburg gate a huge menorahs been installed. says the holiday is being overshadowed by what he called the dramatic and he semitic scenes of the past weekend i'm going to our friends are not exactly here we witness a horrible and uncomfortable scene demonstrators chanted israel kills children and burned israeli flags we must not tolerate this. german law bans the destruction of flags serving as official symbols like in front of the embassies and government buildings. but there is no bend for example on protesters burning

flags they bring with them. germany central council of jews is demanding tougher laws against and he semitic demonstrations but some lawmakers are skeptical because it's i don't think laws can solve conflicts what's unfolding here on the street is in fact a very real conflict that israel's actions on the ground as well as its settlements policy exacerbate this conflict. it's not diminished isn't conflict on your from your thoughts as on hope that these are one off events but at the moment it doesn't look like that's the case and that can't continue therefore we'll do everything possible to prevent it. being. despite being supportive of citizens' rights to protest germany remains particularly vigilant when it comes to making sure that legitimate anti israeli protests don't spill over into anti semitism.

well president tropes tax plan might be music to the years of some american executives but it doesn't seem to be going down well here in europe not at all trump's new tax plans of sparks outrage with european leaders and multinational company had speaking out against them the united states president has promised a reform bill that will bring the largest cuts in the history of the united states critics arguing it will increase the deficit and increase the tax burden on many americans and here in europe germany france and the u.k. they have led the protest saying that if the bill becomes normal it will go against global tax agreements. the proposed new cross border details being cooked up on capitol hill arcane and complex trump and his administration supports them but the europeans have already said they could retaliate calling the plan's discriminatory and at odds with world trade organization regulations under the new law u.s.

companies would either be charged twenty percent of the value of goods brought into the us all they would be forced to treat their foreign subsidiaries as u.s. businesses and pay tax on profits accordingly but what's called the europeans angry is that their companies will be charged double first by tax in their home country and second by the new excise duty on the u.s. based subsidiaries. the new rule would apply to businesses transferring more than one hundred million dollars in value the intention to keep profits generated inside the u.s. within the country dampening imports while firing up exports. well let's talk through this now with a new kind of castle's he's a political analyst at the free university of buddy nicholas essentially european companies are accusing the united states of tax dumping with this potential reforms or knocking in investment unfairly is that what the u.s. president is doing absolutely and he's not realizing that the u.s.

is not an export nation it's an importing nation every good sold in the us whether produced there or simply assembled relies in some form on global production lines this is bad for consumers is the entire tax reform with a deficit between one point five trillion or like the wharton analysis from two days ago two trillion. it's bad for business it's bad for the economy and let's consider it from another perspective then what about german companies for example operating in the u.s. some say that they might actually be welcoming this reform well we're talking about a twenty percent border just in tax which means that each product imports it becomes more expensive while this is good news for those producing in the united states it's bad news for everybody selling goods in the united states because you know aside from the very very rich the middle class and poor people bear the brunt

of of course you know the heightened costs because you know the firms don't produce at hype and costs and don't give you know give this or put this through to to consumers consumers will pay for these taxes and i want to touch on that a little bit nicholas because trump says that this tax reform means that companies will create jobs so similar to a bush reform in its architecture although that was slashing capital gains that didn't really happen essentially companies ended up holding on to the profits and we saw a very prolonged time all economic growth which was highly unequal i mean could that then how can this time around. absolutely. the tax reform package is let's let me be blunt you weird combination of trickle down economics and nationalism with the trickle down we know you know the third of this of the taxes kept actually go back into the economy two thirds remain with those producing

those who already have very very much in the united states the inequality rise and the. jobs creation is dependent on way more than just you know taxes spared or possibilities included it's a question of you know education infrastructure all these things that trump promised everything that the people voting for him hope for these are not happening any time soon and i don't see why you know slashing taxes. rendering this state incapable of swift action will actually change that granted but very briefly i want to ask you could this then trigger a race to the bottom from your european companies and you know u.s. tax those w two zero zero zero much criticized w t o is very effective in its dispute settlement and i see a broadening international consensus against the united states here and economists

nicholas castle's from the for university of thank you. canada has dropped plans to buy eighteen fighter jets from boeing over a trade dispute with the united states the deal would have been was well over five billion dollars but it collapsed after the u.s. imposed a three hundred percent on c. series jets made by canada's biggest plane make a bomb badia earlier this year the plan purchase was part of canada's intention to upgrade its entire fleet of fighter jets the country now says it will buy the planes from australia instead. to join facebook has promised to shake up its tax structure the world's largest social network said it would be booking revenues in twenty five countries where it makes its profits rather than via its european headquarters in ireland corporations generally face larger tax bills in countries such as germany france and italy where taxation levels a much higher but experts don't expect facebook to pay more taxes because that will

come down to how the company accounts for expenses in each country or to terry now taking a look at the future for northern ireland in light of brics it terry that's right it's a very uncertain prospect at this point helena britain's prime minister faces her stiffest test yet on managing to break that process today lawmakers from her own party could push through a proposal to allow parliament to reject any deal she reaches meanwhile the european parliament in strasbourg is also debating the state of bragg's at the goshi ations today one of the key points of discord is the irish border in a recent deal with the e.u. theresa may promised that there would be no hard border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland which is a member of the european union but that promise could conflict with other pledges made has made the w.'s better get musts as this report. the esther ian

yuri in northern ireland is actually a border and yet nobody can see it invisible borders have brought peace to northern ireland that's why people in communities such as nuri voted against bracks and go on here for what they mean mckinney fights against an exit from the e.u. that would see the return of border posts nias far. at the back of that is the republic of ireland there are two hundred seventy crossings previously there was only eighteen points by which she could cross if it came back to the us if would be an enormous inconvenience a sharp break cept for us will be an economic disaster but it's not just the economy that's at stake memories of the troubles the conflict between protestants and catholics that gripped the island for decades are still on people's minds jonathan powell was i'm a negotiator of the process that eventually led to. the will i fear be more

violence as a result of this if you put the hard border back in again you have an installations you have to have border posts you have to have guards on the border and they will of course be targets for the dissidents powell says the deal with the e.u. will eventually unravel because prime minister to resign may enter government promised too many things to too many different people and the protection of the belfast agreement they said to the irish that there would be no hard border they guaranteed it they said to the do you peel unionists that there would be no border in the r e c they said to the brics it is in their own policy that we would leave the customs union single market and they said to the use that there would be regulatory alignments if there was no over agreement those four things are not compatible. some people like these protesters in london don't want to leave the e.u. at all but there is also a lot of pressure on me from within their own party to make a clean break with the e.u.

one obvious solution for northern ireland would be for the whole of the u.k. to stay close to the e.u. to stay in the single market and the customs union but this would be very difficult to sell to the committed brick city is here in parliament and the conservative party so the problem is far from solved yet. the u.k. will have to decide whether to align itself closely with the e.u. even after breck's it. and that's one thing that most people in the island of ireland a hoping for in the north as well as in the south. well let's look at some bonus league soccer pay to store goes first game in charge of dortmund came at mines where the black and yellows were looking to end their run of eight bonus league games without a win since his appointment on sunday heavy snow had limited to just one training session. he arrived in troop a to struggle style little fuss no

ceremony but dalton were hoping the savior had arrived month started on the front foot however so what set out given space to shoot. the woodwork coming to the rescue with from a bookie stranded. went dormant did find space pm erica me and couldn't find the nets. the strike i'm missing the chance to take up teammate christian pulis seek. nil nil going into half time. in the fifty fifth minute dortmund took the lead. by much to peta struggles to lots of socrates converting off to oma top racks had a came back off the post. from their top and sat back and closed out the game.

the defense wasn't perfect but it restricted months to mostly hot chances. and in the icy ninth minute dortmund how to kill a second. taking of shinji kagawa chris good goal of the ses and. the two know when sol dortmund jumped back into the top four in just one match stud equalled his season's points tally with cologne and broke dortmund's hapless winless streak not bad for his first wake in the job. let's take a look now at all the results from match day sixteen so far as we saw mines went down to doth mund bog played out another draw this time against live say i borg pulled off a one nil win over gladbach and hamburg lost two one at the hands of frankfurt and more matched

a sixteen action on wednesday by an host cologne shot to take on. hoffenheim placed it got out a host found over and leverkusen play for a. and just before we go are minor of the top stories we're following for you here today. democratic candidate doug jones has narrowly won a u.s. senate seat in alabama there result deals a blow to president donald trump who backed scandal plagued republican lawyer. and turkey's president hosts leaders from islamic countries in istanbul today discussed u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. which is a time i don't want to call the u.s. partner to lunch. you are watching the news coming to you from

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