person or to computer in this case. feelings of the instruments that steer us and whoever can control these feelings has great power over us to. 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 trump doug jones is the first democrat to win a senate seat in the state of alabama for twenty five years as republican opponent

couldn't overcome damaging accusations of sexual misconduct also coming up. as turkey's president hosts a meeting of islamic leaders in istanbul he says his country will never accept president recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us delivering a humiliating blow to president the democratic candidate doug jones has won a u.s. senate seat in the deeply conservative state of alabama his republican opponent roy moore's campaign was overshadowed by allegations of sexual misconduct accusations that repelled many moderate republicans and kept them away from the boating booth.

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 their original of the guy. the celebrations hero much to the control vis a surrounding his opponent barely or in the day the republican crusader roy 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 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 by giving place during and thank you for coming tonight weeks not over and 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. is carlina chinmoy has been following the story for us from washington i asked her earlier how big a blow jones's victory is for president donald trump and the republican party well it is a clear defeat for donald trump us well as for the republicans they're a slight majority in the senate has been reduced now even more they have to up from fifty two seats to fifty one seats in the senate this means that republicans only have one seat 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 genia legace later 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. he is currently in

a shim or there reporting from washington well on social media trumps opponents are hailing morris defeat as a big tree for women and minorities actor a list milan of herself a victim of sexual assault and who helped spark the me to movement tweeted thank you for restoring my face and humanity alabama thank you for fighting for what's right doug jones even some republicans celebrating the outcome senator jeff flake simply tweeting decency wins. well the win has revived democrats hopes that this could mark a turning point ahead of next year's congressional elections hillary clinton who lost alabama to trump last year tweeted tonight alabama voters elected a senator who will make them proud and democrats can win in alabama we can and must compete everywhere on word and reclaim their

well turkey's president has called on all countries to recognize jerusalem as the capital of palestine time no one was speaking to leaders of the fifty seven member organization of islamic cooperation meeting in istanbul today to discuss u.s. president recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel out of one said turkey will never accept that decision and that he hopes today's meeting will mobilize support in the muslim world for an independent palestinian state he called it a turning point on the issue. well spring indeed of his story and journey he's standing by in. good morning dorian what sort of turning point is president 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 younker 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 according to took me to 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 on 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 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 evidence of the low profile representation of countries like egypt and saudi arabia dorian thank you devious dorian jones there

in istanbul. now take a look at a couple of other stories in our news in brief iran's southeastern province of cowman has been hit by multiple strong quakes state media said at least eighteen people were injured in dozens of houses damaged the first quake of magnitude five point nine struck on tuesday morning fifty six kilometers north of the provincial capital cap month german chancellor angela merkel has made a surprise visit to the site of last year's christmas market attack here in berlin michael has faced criticism from survivors and relatives of the victims a tunisian asylum seeker killed twelve people and injured around seventy when he drove a truck into the crowded market last year. britain's prime minister is facing one of her stiffness tests yet over breaks it lawmakers from her own party could push through a proposal that would allow parliament to reject any deal she reaches in her 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 this promise could conflict with other pledges she's made and and in ireland are now worried about the effect breaks it will have . 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 bricks 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 as 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 talking to the dissidents powell says the deal with the e.u. will eventually unravel because prime minister to resign may and a 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 peter unionists that there would be no border in the r.e.c. they said to the tears in their own party that we would leave the customs union

single market and they said to the 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 are hoping for in the north as well as in the south. since force news down toward affronts and spanish well it's a winner chris froome has recorded an alleged abnormal drug test the incident

occurred during his victory in this year's spanish race samples reportedly showed a high level of the asthma drug. tumble froome who has said in a statement that his symptoms got worse during the spanish road race and that he upped his dosage but stayed within the guidelines the thirty two year old person made history in september when he became the first rider to win the web and tour de france in the same year. and in the bonus lee appear to sturgis first game in charge of door open was at mines and where the yellow and blacks were looking to end their run of eight bonus league games without a win since his appointment on sunday heavy snow had limited store go to just one training session. he arrived in true pizza struggle style little fuss no ceremony but top and we're hoping this savior had arrived months started on the front foot however so what set out given space to shoot. the woodwork coming to the

rescue with from a book he stranded. went dormant did find space pm erica couldn't find the nets. the strike i'm missing the chance to take up team mate christian pulis seek. nil nil going into half time. in the fifty fifth minute dortmund took the lead. by much to pita struggles to lots of. suckers his conversion off to him a top cracks had a came back off the post. from their goal and sat back and closed out the game. the defense wasn't perfect but it restricted months to mostly hot chances. and in

the eighty ninth minute goldman's had to kill a second. taking out shinji kagawa first good goal of the season. the two know when sol dalton jumped back into the top four in just one match his season's points tally with cologne and broke goldman's hapless winless streak not bad for his first wake in the job. and that's all you news for now we'll be back at the top of the next hour with another bulletin will be joining you then of course you can find our stories meanwhile online it's called thanks for being with us.