this is news coming to you live from berlin the international community prepares to ratchet up the pressure on russia over its support for syria's bashar al assad friends accuses moscow of being complicit in the actions of the syrian regime e.u. foreign ministers and u.n. security council are meeting to discuss the crisis also coming up because mali unfit to be president who talks about it treats women like they're pieces of meat who lives. only about matters big and small and since the american people believe after being fired by donald trump the former f.b.i.

director james comey lashes out ahead of publication of his new book and in the bonus league. and don't square it all in germany's biggest derby. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. western leaders are preparing to start a new diplomatic push today to try to end the crisis in syria it comes two days after a u.s. led coalition carried out military strikes on sites in syria the u.n. security council is set to talk about a new resolution for a cease fire across the country you foreign ministers are also discussing a new political initiative but they say moscow will be the key to any success. business as usual that appears to be the message of the syrian state t.v.

images an upbeat president assad welcomed russian politicians to damascus signaling that the u.s. led strikes did not pose a threat to his hold on power russia says it's firmly behind its ally. those relations between the russian and syrian army's are excellent so relations between politicians the army will now fulfill its task and russia and the assigned government are not the only ones defiant the pentagon showed off satellite images of the destruction saying the strikes completely destroyed two targets and seriously damaged another one in damascus was reduced to rubble. we have a responsibility as a world to attack and stop what syria is do it and so the united states with her allies one after three sites these are pinprick targets three targeted sites that we know were housing and testing chemical weapons these people fled eastern ghouta

the site of the alleged chemical attack many refugees in the area are now in syria's rebel held north the feeling here is of disappointment that the airstrikes will do little to stop the war. thought i feel nothing because the u.s. britain and the rest of the world have taken away our emotions they told us with the friends of the syrian people but on the contrary they're our greatest enemies. and we know that they tell us do whatever you want kill as you like. should back in damascus syria's deputy foreign minister greeted a team from the international chemical weapons watchdog but despite western allies already having launched retaliatory strikes inspectors will now determine whether poisonous gas was used in ghouta but they were not. it's a sign playing. well spring indeed. he's standing by

for us in luxembourg georg you foreign ministers are meeting there today or you or they are talking about syria what can we expect. expect you foreign ministers terry here to formally and informally express their support for this military action conducted by the us and by two e.u. member states the foreign policy chief federica morgan really just stopped short of endorsing these strikes when she arrived here but there's an key element that we expect to see in these conclusions today that are expected to to come from this meeting and that is to make clear that the sole aim of these strikes is to deter the syrian regime from a future use of those chemical weapons a clear condemnation of the use of chemical weapons that is the key message coming here from from luxembourg that germany's foreign minister said

a window for dialogue is open with syria's main backer russia here's what he had to say today in luxembourg. this conflict can't be solved without russia we have to find a way to achieve what we all want firstly a cease fire access for humanitarian aid a transitional government in syria a constitutional reform and in time elections. need a solution that everyone in syria can accept. and as the packers of the acid regime the russians also need to understand that. german foreign minister like i'm us there speaking a little earlier georg's with us and in luxembourg a or germany seems very focused on russia's involvement in the syrian conflict and is clearly seeking dialogue is berlin playing a special role here in keeping diplomatic channels to moscow open germany

of course as it has a special role here as seeing that they've abstain from actively participating in these strikes but yet supporting them and they've always emphasized in the past while we had sanctions against russia for instance that you need to keep the channel open the sanctions that the german position here is and a lot of memory you member states are on the same page here sanctions are not an end in themselves but only a means to bring russia back to the negotiating table and that is something that a lot of european member states if not all one to have to see happening so we expect the political initiative to start today and frederica more greeny the foreign policy chief also said there is the economic leverage to bring russia back because she said if and only if the geneva talks can be restarted for a cease fire in syria then the e.u. would also be prepared to deliver more money to stabilize syria to help you with

human terry in eight so so money if you want as the baits to bring russia back in and that is something the russians are also aware of they will need support to rebuild this country if ever the civil war can and now both the u.k. and france participated in those missile strikes over the weekend in syria individual european powers are openly accusing russia of involvement in chemical weapons attacks does that not complicate the use push for diplomacy. now you can of course make that argument but you could make that same argument about the strikes themselves now the french position here clearly is that the strike is only it's not only a one off thing but it's part of a larger strategy and if you want the idea here seems to be also that one wants to speak a language that float in a putin understands and that is why the french president also made it clear that he

believes he convinced donald trump that the u.s. is to stay for the long term also militarily in syria the key really is that european partners hope to make it clear to russia that they need to come back to the negotiating table they need to be part of a political solution not a military solution to end the syrian war well not surprisingly russia condemned those strikes in syria over the weekend the u.n. secretary general antonio get terrified at that meeting at the u.n. security council he declared quote that the cold war is back with a vengeance from a european perspective is he right of course the concern on the european part is that this could lead to an escalation not only of that conflict but more a more closely it could undermine if you want the internet national architecture the international legal architecture of the united nations themselves seeing that the single handed action hero three members of the security council three police

officers of your own taking matters into their own hands it's from that perspective not and not exactly helpful and so the key thing here will really be starting a political initiative here also in order to make sure that we do not go down the road that undermines the international the entire international system but to make it clear to russia that they need to be part of a solution for syria. is there covering that you foreign ministers meeting in luxembourg thank you so much. now to some other stories making news around the world today protests have been taking place across india over the gang rape and killing of an eight year old girl eight men have been arrested in the case which has sparked widespread outrage demonstrators demanded justice for her and another case where a member of the ruling b.g.p. party is accused of rape. two christians were killed in southwestern pakistan when

gunmen opened fire on people leaving a church the members of quite a small christian community were returning home when two men on a motorbike began shooting at them several people were wounded. and one of the islands have been voting on whether the international court of justice the i.c.j. should resolve a centuries old territorial dispute with its neighbor believes what amalek continues to lay claim to around half of bullies is territory most countries have to agree to their voters to decide whether to call in the i.c.j. police has yet to fix a date. and there are protests at a starbucks coffee shop in the u.s. city of philadelphia after two black men were arrested their men said they were waiting for a friend before ordering but staff accused them of trespassing there were accusations of racial profiling and starbucks chief executive as paula jones was

asked was forced to apologise. you're watching the news still to come he was fired by donald trump and now the former f.b.i. director james comey is attacking the president in a new book. that makes something unexpected comments about the president. got some business news for us that that's sure german comic creasing flak these days is economics minister as says the country's comic has must do more to invest heavily in electric cars technology and develop battery production facilities to remain competitive in a newspaper interview paid to. the auto industry would have to spend up to one hundred billion euros to keep up with global rivals he fails to understand why they have hesitated for so long that the industry now. we're losing business to the u.s. and asia germany's comic is increasing pressure to shift the focus away from

internal combustion engine since the diesel grade emissions cheating scandal three years ago. let's have a quick check on the markets this morning down there colbert standing by at the function stock exchange for us down here investors have been demanding more action towards inability for a while from german car makers are they happy about the support from the economics minister. investors feel that mr iott by his is right germany has been extremely slow to make a cars a very attractive none of the models when you talk for example of our volkswagen and their ego all of was able to create that's hive when you compare this for example to the united states and their latest tassler model and the production of batteries and batteries cells it's a very sad story here for the german industry as well lately bosch here in germany got very criticized for stopping their battery cells production the company said by

that time that this is too risky and also too expensive we have to remember that i'm going to america have the goal to have more than one million e-cards on the road until twenty twenty this goal will certainly not be reached by in the electronic car a hybrid car at the moment here in germany is still considered as even maybe even a little bit luxury for many drivers also to who don't live in a house or in a party with a high floor driving and car does not just mean higher cost but also less flexibility and the infrastructure is a big issue germany germany has been extremely slow to provide a good working charging system around the country one example just in berlin where you are you need up to five different contracts when you want to charge your cars at different charging station inside of the city don't use events in syria have dominated the headlines over the weekend any collateral damage on the markets. no not really of this morning the situation will certainly be

a still on the investors mind this week but given the fact that at least the tension between the u.s. and russia did not get much worse over the weekend investors are a little bit more relieved again already the trading day at the big indices in asia did not get as bad as some were fearing before the weekend the shanghai composite the nikkei index in the green just the hang as saying index with losses this morning last week investors were worried a warrior they were looking already for a safe haven like gold and oil those are this morning not anymore that much on demand and also the blue chip index that started with a little plastics morning quiet day so far the markets down in frankfurt thank you . turkey is fun to go growing currency crisis even though turkey's economy seems to be ticking along nicely it grew by more than seven percent last year stronger than china's but some economic indicators seem to contradict that the turkish currency the lira has been on

a continuing continuous downward spiral so what's going on. turkey is cheaper than ever for foreign tourists the turkish lira continues to hit new lows against major currencies. it's lost nearly half its value against the euro for examples twenty fifteen. but although that might be great for foreign visitors it's a huge problem for the country because it has to import commodities like oil and gas and the country's central bank could apply the brakes by raising interest rates but president wretched out of want has hamstrung that idea he's betting on a looser monetary policy that wants to retain low interest rates to help drive economic growth and he accuses those who aren't of the same opinion of being tools of western powers ever want to tributes the fall of the leader to turkey's enemies

. he claims that they are playing games with our economy and i say to all those who attack our economy that you will not succeed you fail before and will feel like again. turkish companies are suffering the country's largest manufacturer of food products isn't debt to the tune of billions and hard currencies but in its home market sales are in the falling but it has already warned that it will soon be unable to meet its obligations all told turkish companies oh creditors around three hundred billion dollars some economists now believe turkey could be the flash point that sets off a new financial crisis. and that's all your business now donald trump is coming out of five from one of the of his former top advisers. it's getting hot around the color there in the white house former f.b.i. director james comey has said u.s.

president donald trump is quote morally unfit for the office of the president it's a latest chapter in a bitter feud between the two men let's quickly recap the key events in march last year comey confirmed that the f.b.i. was investigating russian links to the trump campaign but he informed trump that he was not personally under investigation well just weeks later in may trump fired komi raising many questions about the timing the president has been inconsistent in his reasons for firing the f.b.i. director then in june comey testified at a senate intelligence committee hearing accusing trump of lying defaming the f.b.i. and trying to derail an investigation will come his firing triggered robert motos special investigation into possible collusion between russia and trump's election campaign so far has indeed dieted several of the president's campaign staffers

also helped justice officials launch a fraud inquiry into the president's closest associates is personal lawyer michael cohen now cohen is releasing now komi rather is releasing a book ahead of it he's given his first interview since his firing this is why he said that he told us this is what he's talking to the u.s. network a.b.c. said that trump is unsuitable for the office of president. i don't buy the stuff about him being mentally incompetent early stages of dementia strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat who lives constantly about matters big and small and since the american people believe that a person is not fit to be president of the united states on moral grounds. former

f.b.i. director james comey there will joining us now is us political analyst tyson barker from the aspen institute here in berlin good morning tyson morning what do you make of coney's latest statements about the president well clearly there is no love lost between the two men and i mean the interview that he gave yesterday and a.b.c. was dripping with personal distain that i mean and he did bring what he's known for this kind of boy scout persona to that interview saying that he is morally unfit to be president that said he did say that the decision to remove from from office should not be made by any process or technical vote or even even by impeachment up to this point it's there's no evidence but rather by the voters themselves that's the democratic process and the democratic process should be allowed to work itself out. donald trump frozen don't trump the procedure this interview with a tweet storm classic trump style agreements komi let's take a look at one of the more recent tweets he wrote slippery james komi a man who always ends up badly and out of what he is not smart will go down as the

worst f.b.i. director in history by far. tyson who will american voters trust in all of this who are they going to be more inclined inclined to believe trump are coming what do you think the polls show and there was a poll taken last week by politico show that americans trust komi two to one forty eight percent to thirty two percent but that thirty two percent is really important because that's the hard trump base the kind of always trump ors that don't really leave the president they don't defect from the president no matter what happens and the question is is the support for comi and the most investigation as determined as those that thirty two percent that's really sticking with trump and white house reporters are saying that they've never seen trump as angry as he is right now just ahead of the book's release the book to be released tomorrow by comey what is it about all this that angers trump the boats well i. i think that he has directed

most of his eye or over the past year with this russian investigation and his attorney general and deputy attorney general he really sees the spark that started this fire as being the decision by jeff sessions to recuse himself from the investigation thereby starting a chain of events that led to this miller investigation the raid at the f.b.i. the f.b.i. raid of his personal lawyer last week mr cohen has also sparked a lot of nervousness in the white house and particularly for the president himself he is asking to know what evidence was gathered in those raids of course the implication that they want to prepare themselves for whatever might be coming down the pipeline so you've got a president becoming increasingly nervous and agitated i suppose you could say let's listen in to what komi himself had to say when asked if the russians had any compromising information on donald trump i mean these are more words i never thought i'd utter about a president on steroids but it's possible and i wish i wasn't saying it but it's

just it's the truth it always struck me and still strikes me as unlikely and i would have been able to say with high confidence about any other president i'd go with but i can't that's possible. former f.b.i. director casting doubt on trump suggesting that the russians might have some incriminating. evidence what do you make of that how significant is this statement it's very significant the other question that he came up in this interview as you know the george stephanopoulos asked several times for him to render judgment on a number of issues what is your what's your take and he really tried to stay within a certain box because he knows that he is a witness he's not just you know a former f.b.i. director but a witness in a live investigation and he doesn't want to do anything that will affect his credibility as a witness in the motor investigation itself we've seen many developments so far during trump's brief presidency all moving towards an old white house increasingly

in disarray and being on the back foot as it were in turmoil how significant is this development now what is happening with coneys book how much is this adding to the fire well they've clearly komi is clearly set up a p.r. kind of campaign that's going to keep this in the news cycle for a week he's got a number of interviews coming out he's going to do a book tour they've commissioned i think nine hundred thousand books that's about four hundred five hundred thousand books more than the fire and fury book that came out a couple of months ago but the truth is is that the news keeps layering over itself so this is one episode in a long narrative that's been going on since this presidency began but it's certainly not the last episode. i'm sure will have much more to talk about as things continue tyson barker from the aspen institute here in berlin thanks so much . football now in the bonus league is shaka dortmund clubs met in germany's famous ruhr derby on sunday with just one

point separating the two teams in the bundesliga table in their last meeting shaukat managed a stunning comeback from full four goals down to earn a draw this time another throwing match up was in store. dorman and shaka fans were looking to secure the bragging rights in the latest installment of germany's most famous dobby it was a first rodolphe for peter and the first half out to the passion and excitement you would expect. but there was little in the way of quality throughout a scrappy fast car shoppers aleksandar show quick places in the fifth minute but roman baccy tonight. to an early thrashing shot for a set piece is marked by royce testing ralph salmon. no not at the price. but early in the second half the deadline was broke and daniel caligiuri said i haven't thrown up the young and the ukraine when a school his third goal of the season. dortmund would stood for the shock of

pressure and were desperate for a foothold in the guy. who were pushing but not enough. and shocker eventually got their rewards a free kick was laid off and now di he thrust the boeheim from systems merely passing the net and raising the bring in chaos and packing. dortmund champions league hopes in our wrist but joyous shaka a robot that. i. at leipsic travelled braman in the late game on sunday hoping to take advantage of the open slip up they welcomed back star manteo van to the starting line up with champions league qualification firmly in their sights. ralph pozen who was criticized for leaving team advantage out of the lights the side that lost a must say in the europa league on thursday and the twenty two year old was back in the starting line up against braman. the only chances though belongs to the hosts

zach o.-u. news of each came close with a dangerous free kick in the sixty minutes and went through this short rations of the box woods minutes late side nicklaus moistened road to rebound the defender was the first to react in the book lights and keep a piece of good luck he was left scrambling and braman in front. just five minutes after the break equaliser when twenty year old i demoed a new command stick around to check using the frame and penalty area and fly it into the roof of the net then i had a late chance to clinch the three points but could you beat keep reggie recruitment camp. with just three minutes to go it was the hosts time to break but a strong start by curiosity and desperate missed by more sand meant that this one state square. mr johnson's at both ends mean that neither side will be particularly pleased with the point. take a look at health latest endings are with one match left to play tonight in match

day thirty is there on top having wrapped up the title shot four points clear in second place ahead of doughton and later cozen like to take off and hide in frankfurt are fifth through seventh at the bottom cologne in hamburg are both a week closer to relegation. and before we go just a reminder the top stories we're following for you today western leaders are calling for a fresh diplomatic push to end the war in syria two days after u.s. led airstrikes targeted sites linked to the production and storage of chemical weapons and former f.b.i. director james comey says is morally unfit to be president of the u.s. economy was speaking as part of a publice of a campaign to promote a new book about being fired by truck. you're watching news thanks for being with.

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