this is. from berlin tonight u.s. president donald trump points the finger at russia. are trying to meddle in u.s. elections at the u.n. security council today drum says that. because it doesn't like his tough trade policy he offered no evidence mediately rejected the charge also coming up putting on a brave face but is it the face of a lame duck a leader is the power of. more and more voices saying this is the beginning

of the end of the. it's good to have you with us with just six weeks to go before americans vote in crucial midterm elections a new warning that a foreign power is trying to influence the results tonight u.s. president trump is accusing china of interfering in america's upcoming elections trump made the charge while he chaired a meeting of the u.n. security council today in new york he later offered an advertising supplement in a regional u.s. newspaper as evidence he said that beijing did not want him to win the election because of his tough line on train china has denied this saying that it did not and will not interfere in any country's domestic affairs now on north korea said that talks with pyongyang were making positive progress behind the scenes and that he

expects very good news in the coming months and years. for the start of zero four let's talk about what happened today at the u.n. to do that i'm joined by our correspondent alexander phenomena she is covering the story for us in new york and here in the studio with me is heading rica he is with the german council on foreign relations to both of you welcome alexander let's start out with what we saw today at that you were in the security council meeting and i want to just to listen to what the u.s. president what he had to say about china. regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight teen election coming up in november against my administration they do not want me or us to win because i am the

first president ever to challenge china on trade and we are winning on trade we are winning at every level we don't want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election. xander i mean this accusation and seemed to just come out of the blue what has been the reaction to it. well this was really a bombshell and when you looked at the participants in this security council session they were looking at themselves as if asking what is this all about it was a very surprise i mean the president has talked about this topic in the past saying that it was not only russia that meddled in the u.s. elections but also to china but to make such accusations in such

a high setting with the chinese foreign minister sitting at the very same table that was quite unusual also because the president has not presented any evidence and because he's national security advisers only once one month ago told us a report says that they don't have any specific example evidence that china is meddling in the u.s. elections they named russia as the bad actor here and what i also would like to add is that after the security council meeting there was a briefing by a senior administration official so i thought they would present any evidence but there was no evidence of this and your administration official was very they just talking in general about china and its meddling and he named two examples saying that china is spreading its propaganda concealed as news reports and that china is

deliberately targeting farmers in states and districts that voted for president in twenty sixteen amid all of these accusations seeming to come from nowhere and as you said always under really no mention of russian meddling in u.s. elections in. the region what are we looking at your house so we're our relations between washington and beijing. after the accusation made today i mean these relations on the cusp of getting getting disentangled and. hostile but currently i would i would think what he is doing is putting china into a corner to help him with negotiations on the tariff site. the accusations to have like fake propaganda he invented that in a sense the accusation that china was targeting farmers in his home turf i mean these are the rules that again that he has created exactly and so this isn't

really an x. and so he's trying to put pressure on china. like make goals elsewhere but the truth is that. both countries although heavily depending on each other economically . strongly untangled and in many ways. they might have an urge to move apart china doesn't want to be depending on the technology and the u.s. is angry about the the trade balance trade is old exactly they may come together but this may take a while and of course it's a completely different. when we talk about what was said today about north korea just take a listen to what the u.s. president had to say about the north korean leader but most importantly i believe that chairman kim jong un a man i have gotten to know and like wants peace and prosperity for north korea many things are happening behind the scenes away from the media which nobody know

what they are happening nevertheless and they are happening in a very positive way so i think you will have some very good news coming from north korea in the coming months and years. but we don't have that good news from north korea right now and yet we've got the president praising the north korean leader on the other hand you've got iran which was abiding by the iran nuclear deal and yet all the us president could do today was again trash that deal how do you explain that i think he sees north korea as an example of his his own. solid bargaining diplomacy that he with his own personality could make a change and he doesn't want to dispute his or his own successes in this in this area so what he says is there will be success but it may be years away there will

be good news but you don't see him today or tomorrow. but this is on a good track although north korea has not given any hint of giving up nuclear weapons and iran was abiding to the nuclear deal but was using its new freedoms to to support shiite groups elsewhere to be in conflict in yemen and syria very active to build up missile technology so that it's all true and the europeans are happy that they could take the nuclear out of the deal but they failed actually through to bring forward successes elsewhere so it's good to put pressure on iran but it was wrong to give up the nuclear deal and which of course he heard that from all the other members of the security council today all right. exactly what the permanent members our correspondent in new york alexander phenomenon and here at the big table with me and he read it to both of you you thank. all right staying in the united states now there are new allegations of sexual misconduct against

supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh a third accuser claims that she witnessed sexually abusive behavior by kavanagh directed at girls at high school parties that they attended in the early one nine hundred eighty s. the woman also says that she was gang raped at one of these parties although she did not accuse kevin of taking part of this comes just one day before a critical senate hearing at which kavanagh's initial accuser is expected to testify kavanagh has denied the latest allegations calling them ridiculous president trump he moved today to swiftly defend his nominee the senate judiciary committee is reviewing the claims amid calls from senate democrats for kavanaugh to withdraw all five i strongly believe judge kavanaugh should draw from consideration and the president should withdraw this nomination if kavanagh won't do it voluntarily if he will not at the very least the hearing and

vote should be postponed while the f.b.i. investigates all of these very serious and very troubling allegations. that was chuck schumer there speaking today in the u.s. congress here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the wife of malaysia's former prime minister has appeared before an anti-corruption agency rosmah manso or was questioned over the alleged misuse of a multibillion dollar state investment fund police found what should be goods and cash during raids on apartments linked to the family shortly after her husband. election defeat in maine a russian member of the anti criminal act of his group pussy riot has been released from a berlin hospital peter a bit of believes that he was poisoned by russia's secret service for investigating the deaths of russian journalist german doctors say that it is highly plausible that he was poisoned but can't determine how it happened or who could be

responsible. but here in germany chancellor angela merkel she suffered a serious blow this week when members of her conservative bloc rejected her personal choice and close ally as their leader in parliament it came as a surprise both to the chancellor and to the political establishment here in berlin opponents believe it could be the beginning of the end for her thirteen year long chancellorship. as if nothing had happened german chancellor angela merkel at her weekly cabinet meeting not a word about yesterday's extraordinary defeat for potus parliamentary bloc ousted its longtime leader and one of merkel's closest confidants the new party where was playing house was only known as a financial expert on tone now he's expected to pull so the conservative parliamentary scroope self-confidence but it will put chancellor angela merkel in an even more difficult position according to one conservative m.p.

. i think that she has to counter with a faction group that is more self-confident and i think now. we gain back a bit more independence and i think that is. slightly challenging because the chancellor will need to fight for her own positions the new group leader promised to listen closely to the m.p.'s and he tried to downplay the significance of the vote after his first meeting with merkel. it was a routine meeting i have already been in contact with the chancellor will work closely together with total trust but the opposition parties are not convinced they say the conservative change of leadership signals a government that's unfit for duty. lead mine we're experiencing a split conservative union week social democrats and a coalition government that's only capable of solving the problems it created itself. the social democrats america's junior coalition partners are all too aware

that a continuous crisis mode is hurting more than the government is mine else have to sky urge seriousness and politics we have a global political situation that is rather chaotic germany cannot afford to gamble on the contrary we are an anchor of stability also for europe and i expect the seriousness from both the social democratic as well as the conservative parliamentary group. it sounds less says her coalition is getting back to uk but lately crisis mode has become business as usual for the company that rolls out mercedes cars is losing its chief executive dieter zetsche is said to step down in may next year after twelve years in the driving seat. in the german car industry respond to the emissions scandal the prospects of bans on diesel cars and the threat of terrorists from the united states. di

miller's currency stands shoulder to shoulder with his soon to be successor dieter said chip pointing the way to the company's future with an electric s.u.v. . despite good sales not all has been well at the comic in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal german authorities forced the company to recall seven hundred thousand diesel vehicles across europe. the c.e.o. was frequently summoned to berlin over issues related to diesel. for years was a model figure among the chief executives of big german companies after he jettisoned the company's last bringing us partner chrysler now earlier than expected to chair is to make way for r. and d. chief all of. the forty nine year old swede represents a new generation of the top of dime luck but dieter zetsche it may still keep

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