sure this is a doubly newsline from his present with german chancellor angela merkel back in the survey it is a deeply divided over turkish human rights record so did they manage to bridge the gap also on the program america's senate's judicial committee prepares to vote on putting pressure on supreme court nominations before the full senate just the day after dramatic testimony accusing him of attempted rape.

i'm phil gal welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel and turkish president reptile have taken a first step towards repairing the fractured relationship between their countries at a joint press conference in bergen chance of america admitted that differences between them remain but said that she's hopeful of finding common ground this despite fierce criticism within germany of turkey's human rights record even in germany there are sometimes moments when journalists cannot behave exactly as they please president had a one was in the middle of his press conference with chancellor merkel when a man stood up and revealed a t. shirt with the words press freedom he was quickly bundled out by security officers the brief distractions seem to amuse and but his crackdown on journalistic freedom was one of the issues the chancellor raised with him at their meeting. it's no

secret that there have been serious differences between our see recent years and there still are. not good it's mainly about the rule of law and about press freedom that person head at the stardust asked about the case of chandan darr a turkish journalist now in exile in germany everyone was defiant i don't think you did bush for such which he used a loophole and he fled to germany. but his court sentence remains valid. and this person belongs in jail because he has revealed state secrets learn a new show which is outside on the streets of berlin protesters were also drawing attention to the lack of basic freedoms in turkey a protest that's not against either one but it's against his politics is politics often violation of human rights as politics of violation of freedom of press and

journalism is not a crime but it seems to be a crime in turkey. earlier german president diane my are greeted at a one at bellevue palace this visit is an attempt to normalize relations when times are anything but normal turkey is holding a number of germans as political prisoners not to mention thousands of his own citizens many politicians worry the owners go too far if clobbered a cause for peace i think this appeasement course and to me it smells like appeasement is totally wrong because it better raise and mocks all of those who are victims of oppression and there are hundreds of thousands of them in turkey cows and a mention in the took. a number of demonstrations both for and against the one a do over the next twenty four hours but with thousands of police deployed in central berlin there's a determination that street protests will not overshadow the diplomacy.

well let's get more on president other ones a visit now with say to saddam who's been following the president's visit to a welcome sight of charlotte to chelles impale is amongst the protesters potsdamer platz let's start with you shall welcome these protests and indeed the protesters likely to overshadow anything. so that's certainly what people here told me there are trying to achieve there are several thousand people gathered here now i they've come from not just across germany but we've had from other parts of europe as well the city center here is always completely closed so raise the place there are huge numbers of police on the street but there is some destruction caused in part by these protesters now there are a mix of different organizations represented here ranging from left left wing groups saying they can stand by what they say is at once increasingly austerity encourage hereon rule they're also groups from jennie's turkish community many concerned about what's going on back in turkey limitations on press freedom the

increase the meant to opponents of president added one in particular all say are numbered chad the president says while i'm there that very pro kurdish groups represented here as well they say that they're angry attack he used against the cottage militia in syria the number of different voices being represented here there's a lot of anger they're up until now these protesters have remained largely peaceful shelter stay with us if you will. you've been following the turkish leaders visit you without today's a press conference what stood out for you well of course it's important for germany to have turkey as a partner turkey is important strategically for germany but it's also important for the e.u. refugee deal but at the same time from this press conference what was important is to hear emphasize the rule of law the lack of press freedom in turkey so that was really really important to hear and from the side of our go on he emphasized to the

. turkish people living in germany should be integrated into the german society so those were really important two important points spring back in charlotte chelsea is in the central valley as a show you went through a list of people's problems with president. well this was one of the biggest issues is do they believe that he germany should actually be talking to him in this way. pretty much the main concern people that we've spoken to here of course there's a lot of anger at president add well there's also a lot of anger being directed at the german government as well they say this time they should not be rolling out the right topic quite literally for a man they call a dictator for that reason that they're going to the presidential palace tonight that's where that marching of course state banquet going to take place for president at what they say that they want to make that. the jet and president.

himself same reason the number of german opposition politicians are boycotting that language is the evening president added why the head of this visit that he wants to turn a brand new page in german turkish relations that is not something people here are prepared to accept that they are not forgiving and forgetting there is a lot of i'm going here with a straight chelsea pill. for our international audience i think it's important to point out how significant the turkish leader is to to to germany well of course he is very significant because there are more than three million people of turkish original living in germany so for the people living here are doing is important because the german the turkish society the turkish community actually here is divided into some of them support our don't want some of them are against him so he is a very influential character of course considering how many turkish or asian people live and briefly i will be looking into recess and relations between germany and

turkey well it's really hard to say that right now apparently there are a lot of different difficult situations a lot of difficult problems that they have to overcome one of them being german citizens that are in prison and turkey chancellor merkel told today that this was of course to. i think that they have been discussing so there are a lot of obstacles that the two countries have to overcome for relations to be reset a good talking to thank you for that to say to set up here with me and. show that shells and fill out amongst the protesters thank you both. let's take a look now at some breaking news raising us officials in indonesia say a tsunami has hit the island of sort of ways the water up to two meters high. reportedly washed away houses and cut up power and communications in the island small cities of palo and dongarra the tsunami was triggered by a seven point five magnitude earthquake that struck the region this footage shows

the quakes immediate aftermath we'll bring you more on that story as this as the situation develops. the united states now where the senate judiciary committee has agreed to votes later on whether to put president trump's pick for the supreme court to a vote of the full senate some democrat members of walked out to protest of the way the nomination protesters were you know the nation process is being handled despite there's a full senate vote on brett kavanaugh his nomination could happen as soon as next week today's session comes just twenty four hours after an explosive emotional hearing in which christine blasi forward told committee members that cardinal tried to rape her when they were teenagers then the committee listened to capital refute allegations of d.w. corresponds to mayor schmierer schrader is in washington on the capitol hill welcome my which way do you expect his votes to go. well just before the committee met this morning we got breaking news that one of

the senators who was considered a key swing vote who might swing this against kavanaugh was in fact going to vote yes so they are scheduled to vote in a few hours on whether or not to move his nomination to a full senate vote and it looks like at this point barring something else happening that that will actually go through and that as early as monday next week the full senate could vote on whether brett kavanaugh will be on the supreme court which weighs a vote like this ago. at this point it is looking like he could actually make it through despite what we saw yesterday despite the high emotions on the high drama of the hearing yesterday there are the republicans hold a very very slim majority in the senate right now and they really want to get this on the supreme court secured by a conservative jurist which brett kavanaugh definitely is if you look at his record

and so there they can spare the republicans in the senate can spare exactly two votes and there are two senators who look like they could be swayed based on what happened yesterday so we can imagine that their offices are being bombarded with calls by their constituents saying vote one way or vote the other so it will be a narrow vote but right now the mood is looking like he is actually going to be confirmed so you and i both watched the yesterday's dramatic testimony how have people been reacting to the same set unfolded. well your reaction to it really depends on what side of the aisle you fall on if you're a democrat or someone who says that they believe dr ford and these accusations against brett kavanaugh you what you saw was a woman come forward with a lot of bravery and a lot of poison a lot of dignity and speak very credibly about something horrible that happened to her over thirty years ago on the other hand if you're someone who is

a republican and you believe wreck haven't all what you saw was a man who has been falsely accused of something terrible come forward and very effectively clear his name and we even saw a tweet from the president saying now you all see why i nominated brett kavanaugh and he is an honorable man and he should be on the supreme court it really is an interesting diversion of views on this here in the u.s. for people who very now very strongly are convinced that brett kavanaugh either should or should not be on the supreme court much weight in washington thank you. as an electric comic a task plummeting after u.s. regulators moved to remove its erotic strafe executive office of. the u.s. securities and exchange commission has accused mr musk of fraud after he announced a bit to take the company private and then retracted it shortly afterwards yes he says musk knew all was reckless in not knowing that he was misleading investors i'm

considering taking tests not private at four hundred twenty dollars funding secured this is the message test a c.e.o. eat on must tweeted to his twenty two million followers last month and here's the response of u.s. regulators who've charged him with fraud. musk statements misled members of the investing public to believe that it was virtually certain he could take tesla private at a price of four hundred twenty dollars per share which was a substantial premium over a share price at that time because funding for this proposed transaction had been secured and the only contingency remaining was a shareholder vote. the market reacted to this information and tesla stock price quickly traded out we allege that most statements were false and misleading because they lacked any basis in fact on the day of musts tweet last month testers shares shot up causing the nasdaq to suspend trading for an hour and i hop. that calls

huge losses for so-called short salaries investors who borrow a company's stock betting that it will fall in a statement issued by tesla must call the allegations of fraud unjustified and said that he was taken action in the interests of his investors test shares fell nearly twelve percent after news of the fraud charges broke. on the side there goes to safari talk of the united states is welcome to its new specifically not its smallest residence so one hundred twenty seven kilo baby elephants the female cough is the biggest ever to be born at the zoo the birth of the johns baby took zookeepers by surprise as it came only than expected mother alison got eight on ten you offspring appears to be doing well the zoo is not home to fourteen a mistress. that's it you're up to date i'll have more at the top of the hour in the meantime of

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