u.s. president. but it china for trying to meddle in u.s. elections at the u.n. security council today said that is interfering because he doesn't like his tough trade policy immediately rejected the charge also coming putting on a brave face but is it the face of a leader german chancellor. more and more voices saying this is the beginning of the end of the. slate of matches in the book this league with dortmund

looking like a contender. and the victory helped leapfrog to second place. it's good to have you with us with just six weeks to go before americans vote in crucial midterm elections and a new warning that a foreign power is trying to influence the results tonight u.s. president donald trump is accusing china of trying to interfere in america's democratic process made the charge while sharing a meeting of the u.n. security council today in new york he said that beijing did not want his party to win the election because of his tough line on trade china has denied the charge saying that we did not and will not interfere in any country's domestic affairs.

our let's take this over now to new york our correspondent xander phenomenas on the story for us good evening to you alexandra i want to start by the shocking claim that was made today by the u.s. president against china take a listen 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. alexander you saw the reaction there by the chinese foreign minister and he basically

shrugged his shoulders when he heard the translation this accusation that came out of the blue has there been more reaction in new york. well you're right it was a real bombshell here and people in the security council were looking at themselves asking themselves what it is all about it's we have to say that the president has talked about this topic before saying that it was not only russia to meddle in you as elections but also other nations such as china for example but to make such accusations in such a high a profile setting and the security council meeting when the chinese foreign minister was sitting at the same table is highly on the usual surprise also because according to the national security adviser as it is russia that is

continuing its efforts to interfere in the u.s. elections only a month ago they told us that they didn't have any evidence that china is trying to interfere but the president president trump he doubled down later on on twitter saying that china is placing its at its regional newspapers that look like news reports so i guess this was his way of trying to show some evidence or he claims it is amazing the claim that was made today because if you look at the president there at the security council the two people sitting behind nikki haley and the secretary of state mr both of them have said publicly that there is evidence that russia tried to meddle they have not said anything about china today we heard the us. president you know adding that china is guilty of intellectual property theft and he said the trade tariff the dispute shows that the

u.s. policy is winning and now this accusation of chinese election medley how bad are relations between washington and beijing to knowing. what we have to say that the trade war between the the ass and china is escalating very quickly and that it's going to have consequences and he talks so far did inch. closer to a solution and we hearing from beijing that the chinese government thinks that to the you ass is trying to punish china for its economic growth export see how over to say that president is just trying to increase pressure to get china to make more concessions however we have to say that's because our economies are so connected today in the long term this dispute is going to hurt china and the united states

the united states right a correspondent alexander phenomenal the story for us tonight at the united nations in new york city alexandra thank you for. staying in the u.s. there are new allegations of sexual misconduct against a supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh a thirty cues are claims that she witnessed sexually abusive behavior by kavanagh directed at girls at high school parties in the one nine hundred eighty s. the woman also says that she was gang raped at one of those parties although she did not accuse kavanagh of taking part of this comes just one day before a critical senate hearing which kavanagh's initial accuser is expected to testify. cavanaugh has denied the latest accusations calling them ridiculous president trump moved swiftly to defend his nominee today the senate judiciary committee is reviewing all of the claims amid calls from senate democrats for kavanaugh to

withdraw all 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 of a senate minority leader chuck schumer there here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world thousands of palestinians have a rallied on the border between israel and the gaza strip some burned tires and hurled rocks at israeli forces who responded with tear gas gazans have stated near or staged in their weekly demonstrations since last march calling for an end to the israeli egyptian blockade that has crippled gaza's economy

a danish appeals court has upheld a life sentence for inventor months and he was found guilty of murdering the swedish journalist killed wall aboard his homemade submarine last year matz and had appealed to the court for a time limited prison sentence. a russian member of the anti kremlin activist group opposing riot has been released from a berlin hospital peter selloff believes that he was poisoned by russia's secret service for investigating the deaths of russian journalist german doctors say that it's highly plausible that he was poisoned but they can't determine how it happened or who could be responsible. here in germany the chance there are going to medical suffered a serious blow this week when members of her conservative block 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 merkel's 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 potus parliamentary bloc ousted its longtime leader and one of merkel's closest confidants the new party web was playing house was only known as a financial expert on tom 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 come around with affection group that is more a set of confidence and i think now. we gain back a bit more independence and i think that is. slightly challenging because

the chance we 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 that vote after his first meeting with merkel and some of the 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 conservatives change of leadership signals a government that's unfit for duty. we're experiencing a split conservative union week social democrats and a coalition government that's only capable of solving the problems that created itself. the social democrats america's junior coalition partners all too aware that a continuous crisis mode is hurting more than the government my nails 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 of 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. our sports news now the one is link is a night wrapped up its midweek slate of matches with dortmund looking to jump from fourth to second place in the standings one hosted nuremberg and made a statement by winning easily. dortmund was in a festive mood and even coach lucianne farve was all smiles and was expecting to extend its perfect home record against newly promoted nuremberg. and accordingly it took dortmund just nine minutes to open the scoring through the broom larsson. to meet flicks the first from provider christian politike the second to finish off the move and give dortmund an early lead. which marco royce should have doubled

a minute later only to be denied by norm berg's fabienne brave low. but shortly after the half hour mark dortmund's captain made up for his wasted chance i. too neil the well deserved lead coming through royce whose shot took a slight deflection to the onrushing georg mark reiter. in the second half the already one sided affair became even more humiliating for the visitors first awestruck he made it three after forty nine minutes the on loan player from rail madrid scoring on his bundesliga debut. were playing cat and mouse with nuremberg marco royce with his second of the evening making it for now. by this point the dortmund players were taking turns at trying to score against their hapless opposition manwell a conduit make it five nil after seventy four minutes. and it wasn't over yet jaden sensual scoring the sixth of the evening and he later turned provider for julieann

vital two rounded off the scoring at seventy dortmund's biggest quintus legal win in more than thirty years. a labor couzens start to the new season has been their worst since one thousand nine hundred two with three defeats and just one went but that one victory last weekend seems to have given them a boost and in iran river derby leverkusen defeated dusseldorf. it was last season's second division champions who started this one on the front foot and they would have taken the lead after just five minutes if you can spread it he hadn't spread himself to deny benito the man. after another smartly worked attack by the hosts the next chance fell to groove in headings but once again later couzens finished stop up refused to be beaten. continued to produce some fine attacking combinations in the first half but couldn't take their chances on thirty

three minutes it was one small remand let's play the fusion off. still things looked good for the home side at half time. but just five minutes after the restart for to know were punished for their failure to school kevin fall and left alone at the post after a corner poked his side in front of last season's top scorer from a refusing with his first of the campaign. the guests were on fun in the second half and it again fell to fallen to exploit their dominance the twenty six year old bottled his way through the defenders challenges before converting a beautifully weighted cross from card have that. deep into added time going to ten top gave away a penalty with this foul on me kogi so much. but few home fans would have hoped for much more than a consolation which riven henning's duly provided. still at full

time it was the away fans cheering heiko hellish men go into saturday's clash with dortmund in high spirits. and you're up to date with the news live from berlin for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company will see you again have the top of the hour. from. birth. home is of species. a home words if you can. get those are big changes and most start with small steps but little ideas tell stories of creative people into innovative projects or.