this is due. to human rights and a big win on the european picture germany's football thing is open to yodel the host of the four. will be germany. today germany turkey in the competition to host the twenty twenty four european football championships it's the first time for germany since nineteen eighty eight also coming up turkey's president. heard that news while he was in germany he's in

berlin on his first official state visit as president aiming to diffuse recent tensions between the two countries and. with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assault. one hundred percent one hundred. percent of his charge. a day of high drama in washington professor christine ford tells us senators and she was sexually assaulted by president's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh denies the allegations. golf is good to have you with us we begin tonight with a winner and a loser in european football today germany clenched the right to host of football's european championships in twenty twenty four. sure it will be the first time since

the two thousand and six world cup that germany hosts a major soccer event the announcement was made by european football's governing body you wave as germany won by a vote of twelve to four over turkey so they yodel the host of the two twenty four. we beat germany german football association president reinhard grindle pumped his fist the relief for him was culpable germany's move to host the european championships was grendel's project and he put his job on the line gottschall ations to germany now after a long drought only disparaging he found good news. on the other side of the room the turkish delegation sat stone faced having failed for the fourth time to lure the tournament to turkey. the germans already have visions of repeating their success of hosting the twenty six world cup. in the it's

a nice thing is that we can have another huge party in germany everyone can look forward to it we want to take everyone along for the ride and we can all celebrate a tremendous football festival together in europe that's something i think the sport can offer. those who experience the tournaments like i experienced it in my own country i know what it means back then our people the germans were emotional as never before guns and whole world was a guest on it was a huge party and we look forward to doing it again we're well prepared to because we've done it before but this. will be live love the twenty zero six world cup german still call it the summer fairytale so did a selection of folks just after the announcement in the munich pedestrian zone. as here because. i just heard that germany has been chosen to host euro two thousand and twenty four that's great i have only remember the time fourteen years ago when we had a super summer here in germany we were all happy and then the world cup fever maybe

we'll have the same again. to the fois me of course i'm happy if we have guests i would have liked it if it was in turkey for political reasons because before. yesterday to do super we can celebrate here in germany again and i think it'll be like the world cup and twenty six this would be very six there. was a repeat of a nationwide month long festival that's what germans are hoping for as they look ahead to twenty twenty four. was talking here from our sport this is here to help us explain what happened today i mean germany are the hosts of europe twenty twenty four that's not a big surprise is it now it is and i mean they were favorites to begin with but then near the end it did look like this was going to be a very close vote and germany of course the safe choice i mean everything that you look for in

a hole was germany had they haven't even masters of organization you know they've hosted previous like cup sporting events track and field events queued and cakes everything that they asked so and of course they also have the infrastructure and the transportation they have the stadiums i mean germany they basically ready to even host tomorrow if they had to and politically and also politically politics and politically they're also not more stable the economy compared to turkey and the idea of human rights and human rights being respected that continues to be a problem in turkey and we've been hearing reports of that could have been the reason why he went for decided not to give it to turkey i mean this is obviously for you a for this was the first time that in their decision making process that human rights was going to play a role but still at the end i mean you a phase of business and as much as you would like to think it's sometimes wishful thinking to think that it really was human rights i honestly think it was it had more to do with the fact that i think the risk was just too big for ford to let

turkey host i mean the euro. it's dropped and i think what is it that its value has has dropped i think politically the situation there is so precarious and we don't know what's going to happen there six years from now and also i think they were just afraid that maybe the few of investments and also turkey in the campaign they had made these promises of tax breaks of allowing. a five to basically rent free let them be used to stadiums and i think now they see you know economically how they doing they probably knew that a lot of that was not going to happen so the yeah and also one of i mean turkey is so close to syria and one of the host cities was going to be close to syria and we don't know what's going to geopolitically we don't know right now and the assessment report on turkey i understand that was done by the way but it was not made public right so we really don't know what's what the big risk factors were were just guessing there but when you talk about money the euro it had to play

a big role didn't i mean let's you know we can romanticize football all we want but at the end it does come down to money and even like the president if you a fire has not shied away from that and if you look at it i mean they have even said that if you look at the overall capacity of all of the stadiums in germany at the end they would have had around two hundred seventy to three hundred thousand more seats and seats of course equals more tickets equals more money and those people making the decision those people voting at the end all the member states so they know that however profitable this event is going to be at the end you know the money more money ends up in their own pockets so there is a story yeah that's right should be the money works in every language even talking from our sports desk aleem as always they. well turkey's president. he watched that announcement from a hotel room right here in berlin he was in germany on his first state visit

official state visit as president and mr. hoping to ease recent tensions between their two countries. reject type out a once presidential plane touching down in berlin this is a two one's first state visit to germany as turkish president but it's not without controversy he faces heavy criticism and to learn about the rule of law in turkey and he hopes this visit to lead to closer cooperation between the two nations or one received a mixed reception in the german capital many supporters waited on the streets hoping to catch a glimpse of his motorcade but there were signs of protest outside the turkish embassy the president's visit was hotly debated in parliament with criticism coming from all sides. oftentimes the arbitrary imprisonment of german citizens has taken a heavy toll on bilateral relations german citizens remain behind bars on charges of a seemingly political nature enough to you want to save your own life the government

is rolling out the red carpet for even though he hasn't changed his ways since july twenty seventeen absolutely nothing has improved in turkey that's why i think holding this state visit now sends the wrong signal that it isn't good so much good . and one company not the rich one isn't he because he has suddenly rediscovered his love and affection for our country instead his economy is in tatters he needs money and investment from all businesses but those who suffer from inflation economic disaster the ordinary people in turkey. one three day visit is both politically and logistically a huge challenge for germany and berlin alone some five thousand police officers have been deployed for his visit and a large area of the city center is on lockdown along with next travel to cologne with the shuttle to open the mosque on saturday. an extraordinary senate hearing is under way in washington d.c. that could seal the fate of president trump's nominee for the u.s.

supreme court brett kavanaugh is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct his initial accuser christine blasi forward has completed her testimony for hours over she gave an emotional account of the evening in which she says cavanaugh tried to rape her and they were both teenagers for you dr ford also repeatedly stated that she is one hundred percent certain body that her attacker was brett kavanaugh . here's an excerpt from dr ford's testimony earlier today can you tell us what you don't forget about that night in the stairwell the living room. the bedroom the bed on the right side of the room as you walk into the room there is that bed to the right. the bathroom in close proximity. the laughter they have to worry if laughter and the multiple attempts to

escape and the final ability to do so and angry kavanagh called into question the fords account of that attack he denied the allegations and he labeled them this is the day after the allegation appeared i told this committee that i wanted to hearing as soon as possible to clear my name i demanded a hearing for the very next day unfortunately it took the committee ten days to get to this hearing in those ten long days as was predictable and as i predicted my family and my name had been totally and permanently destroyed by fishes and false additional accusations the ten days away it's been

harmful to me and my family to the supreme court and to the country here's a look at some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the city of brussels has named a square after the british labor m.p. was murdered in her constituency during the blitz in britain campaign so call this is the area frequently when she worked in brussels for several years her family and labor party leader jeremy corbin attended the un daily. thousands of drivers for the ride healing services. i have been protesting in madrid against government plans to tighten regulations a proposed wall is expected to restrict their activities drivers fear that they'll be out of work this fall is years of protests by conventional taxi drivers and against based services the lower house of russia's parliament has adopted a controversial bill to raise the state pension age by five years the measure

proposed by president vladimir putin would mean that men would retire at sixty five women and sixty the move has sparked widespread protests across the country but is progressing nonetheless. to a video that has gone viral here is the moment now brace yourself that a seal slapped a kayaker in the face. with an octopus. i don't want to know what. calum are in your face. was paddling off the coast of new zealand and he said that he could feel the full impact of the octopus on his face. the lesson learned never get in the way of a seal having its lunch. maybe you shouldn't be kayaking there i don't know here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you you

a phone has chosen to germany to host the twenty twenty four european football championships germany saw off a competition from turkey to nab the tournament the first time that it's hosted that tournament since one thousand nine hundred eight and supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh has angrily denied allegations that he sexually assaulted christine blasi forward when the two were teenagers at times during his testimony he broke into tears lazy forward earlier testified to us that she is one hundred percent certain that having all was the one who were. you watching live from berlin with more news coming up at the top of the hour we want to leave you now with pictures from the fascinating world of. pilots competing on tiananmen in the chinese province of hunan enjoy we'll see you again.

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