this is due to be a news line from berlin german police and the hostage situation at colognes main train station the hostage has been freed but is reportedly injured her captor is now in custody will be live in columbus also coming up a man involved in the september eleventh attacks is released from prison in germany authorities say he will now be deported to his home country in morocco and won't be allowed back into germany. must do better german chancellor angela merkel says she needs to do more to regain the public's trust after her conservative allies

suffered massive losses in both various regional elections. plus a deal comes into effect today to end the fighting in syria's last rebel held province but the agreement is already under threat with one rebel group vowing to keep fighting. and there's a need to movement gather steam in india bollywood star tanisha to talk tells t w how she was sexually harassed by a fellow actor but her pleas for help match with no action. i'm sorry so most of it is good to have you with us german police have ended a hostage situation at a major train station in germany that this is in the western city of cologne along the rhine river you'll see here in the map now police say the hostage has been freed and the suspect is quote under control the station is a major hub for passengers traveling around germany and europe and a train. rafiq has been affected by the police operation. well let's get an update

we have that he's dean martin just outside the train station where he's been monitoring events for us hi david what are you hearing from police. so the latest we're hearing now is that the situation the emergency is over we're in sort of a deescalation process now so the perpetrator has been critically injured in a police raid on the stations of the church was holding one victim hostage inside the pharmacy shop inside the station. they believe they freed the hostage she is in she was likely injured in the area in the police range and is being treated on location the perpetrator as i said critically injured been taken to hospital the station behind me remains closed for the time being last i heard is that there are groups of policemen and of the task force officers who was watching the station

making sure there's no signs of any other explosions explosives or anything like that before they reopen the station to the public david it seems have been a very dramatic situation and this is a very busy train station you have heard from at least one witness what did they tell you. that's right we heard the group of reporters behind me we all gathered up to listen to one witness give a statement of what she said was that she was in the inside the main entrance of the station when she heard screaming coming out of one of the restaurants and when she looked she still had two girls running out one of the girls her leg was put into the lake were on fire and that's what she was saying fire reaching up to around her waist tight group of people tried to help her to put out the fire and people were sort of scrambling to help put out the remaining flames that were coming out of the restaurant it's still unclear how this ties in together with the high. stich situation because that was taking place you know pharmacy and sure what

she said is that she didn't see what was happening in the pharmacy at that point before she was then made to evacuate the station so it's unclear if the if the girl who reportedly had turned and laid her legs set on fire was eventually the hostage or if this girl made it out of there that's what we're chills trying to still trying to find out here now david a lot of pieces of information still missing waiting for police to give more information has there been any word on a possible motive in this hostage taking. no word yet so the perpetrator is in critical condition being taken to hospital and doctors actually trying to revive him or resuscitation so he's unconscious this will be very at the moment police reluctant to speculate as to what the motive could be with this terror related will or anything like that soon or nothing that we know

yet i have heard some members around two still unconfirmed reports that the perpetrator and the victim you each other or there was some sort of relation between them all but it's still unclear if that is think if that is indeed the case it's unclear what that relationship would be i'm hearing that's what we have heard from the police is that the victim was a teenage girl to i have heard other reports again unconfirmed that the that the perpetrator was an older man possibly in his sixty's already and yes it just moments that i'm hearing from other reporters and as you said david a lot of unconfirmed information around there but what we do know is that it's police say they do have the situation under control there at the cologne main train station our correspondent david martin thank you very much. now on to some other news and an accomplice in the september eleventh attacks on the united states has been released from prison in germany. was arrested in two thousand and one and

convicted on hamburg in two thousand and six of helping three of the nine eleven attackers german authorities say he will be deported to morocco. on nine eleven two thousand and one al-qaeda terrorists took control of four passenger planes full of civilians and flew them into the world trade center and the pentagon a fourth crashed into a field in pennsylvania roughly three thousand people were killed the terrorist attacks were the largest ever under us soil they were put into action by a group of young men in germany which became known as the hamburg terrorist cell one of the most money and mortar sadik the moroccan student was the only man to be sentenced in germany in connection with the attacks it took more than five years of trials and appeals for germany to convict him he was sentenced to fifteen years for being an accessory to the murders of two hundred forty six people aboard the hijacked planes and membership of a terrorist organization sadik never denied being friends with the hijackers but

says he knew nothing about their nine eleven plans he was brought from this prison in hamburg to the city's airport for deportation to morocco he's banned from returning to germany until his ninetieth birthday by the authorities who still deem him dangerous back home in morocco his wife and children are thought to be waiting for him. did abuse naomi conrad has been following story for us and joins us in our studio now me why is he being released for deportation now he's being released about four weeks early and he's also received an entry ban until his ninetieth birthday as we heard in the report which means should come back authorities can put him back in jail for the remainder of the his time so about four weeks. time they could try to figure out what to do with him next tell us more about who he is how dangerous is he you know what role did he play he was actually quite minor in the group i mean he did go to an al qaeda training camp in afghanistan. that's quite clear but while the group of pilots were training as

pilots in america the ones who actually then hijacked the planes he was back in hamburg he handled their bank transfers he tried to conceal their whereabouts and he also signed atoms we'll say in a way he was quite small but then he's one of the few survivors the question about how dangerous he is is a little bit difficult i mean most experts agree that he's unlikely to join or maybe even the self-proclaimed state but he obviously does have some propaganda value in that they question what will happen with him whether he can and will be used as a symbol of propaganda as you know someone who helped at least was part of the group that perpetrated these terrible attacks so what awaits him now in morocco well he's going to join his family at the big question is what the authorities in morocco to do with him i'm pretty sure they'll keep very close tabs on him maybe even interrogate him the big question is what the americans will do will they spirit him away they'll at least want to be part of any interrogation if and when it happens that's clear there's quite

a good cooperation between the moroccan an american security agencies so pretty sure they'll be watching quite closely what happens in morocco. conrado following all the latest developments of the story for us thank you know me. now to some other stories making news around the world british and euna go shader say they have not been able to seal a brags that deal the head of an e.u. summit this week despite a flurry of meetings on sunday that used chief negotiator michel barnier tweeted that the key issues were still open in particular the need to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the irish republic. kensington palace says prince harry and his wife the duchess of sussex are expecting their first baby in the spring the announcement comes as harry and megan arrived in sydney at the start of a sixteen day trip to australia and the pacific region. germany's governing coalition is facing an uncertain future after uncle america's allies in bavaria suffered a huge defeat in a regional election leaders of germany's three coalition parties are meeting to

discuss the way forward after voters delivered what's being called a resoundingly slap to the government that chancellor angela merkel spoke a little earlier at a conference on foreign trade in services and it was her first appearance since the bavarian election she said it was clear her government has work to do and in the grand coalition has not succeeded in doing what i had tried to do so far and the lesson that i have learned from yesterday's elections is that as the german chancellor behind the coalition need to do more to ensure that we regain people's trust and that we deliver on our promises and i will do that as best i can. bring in political correspondent thomas sparrow he is following the story for us hi thomas good to see you chancellor merkel there promising to regain trust what do you make of that is that really a concession that things aren't going well. yes it is a concession that things are going well we heard that and i'm going to cause

statement there if she was under pressure before these elections so i mean it is clear that these elections have only increased that pressure not only because of the bad results at the conservative side in bavaria but also the bad results of the social democrats have there as well there's only increases the pressure on the federal government as a whole obviously i'm going to merkel talks there about regaining trust this is something that we've also heard before the question there being how one of the elements that have been discussed in the aftermath of the very election but also previously is not only focusing on migration which as we know has been sort of the key overwhelming topic in recent years but trying to focus on other areas that for voters not only in bavaria but in other parts of germany as well are also particularly important health care education infrastructure that's one aspect those are areas where angela merkel and her government could find work to try as she said to regain the trust of the voters is this trend that we're seeing people moving away from the traditional parties significant reshaping of the german political

system i would say so indeed if you see that at a federal level you can also see that the big traditional parties on the center left or on the center right have been losing ground and ground has been gained by a small political party some of which are on the fringes of the political spectrum for example the far right alternative for germany but it is also important to stress that this is not only a german phenomenon to it is it is indeed a european phenomenon in many other european countries you see a very similar phenomenon the big traditional party is losing ground and voters turning all shifting to other smaller parties thomas the big question now chancellor merkel can she remain in power. well that is indeed a big question that's at least i think what she what she hopes for the government hopes but as i said earlier there is a lot of pressure and there was a lot of pressure before there's even more pressure now on the pressure will also increase let's not forget to me that there are elections in the state of hesse that coming up only you know a few weeks time on both the conservatives and the social democrats who want to get

a good result otherwise we could certainly start to see more and more and more problems on her coalition government at the federal level all right our political correspondent thomas sparrow thank you so much thomas now with deal to end the fighting in northern syria comes into effect today but it's already under strain and al-qaeda linked jihadist group hasn't yet put down their weapons and has declared it will keep fighting it province is the last major rebel held area in the country millions of people are trapped between there and the turkish border and government and rebels have agreed to withdraw from a buffer zone of the edge of the disputed area which includes the town of moore back there the deal is largely holding delivering a respite to inhabitants. first fell to rebels four years ago government forces for to retake it this is what is left after repeated attacks and counterattacks with strikes barrel bombs tanks and heavy artillery. amid

the devastation signs of life. people are coming back and trying to rebuild their lives and their homes this was muhammad ali's homes. we're shocked by what we found destroyed houses no infrastructure no services electricity or water in the streets the schools the hospitals there's nothing in a city. maybe families are bringing their children home too many too young to remember what marek used to be like. because marek is in the demilitarized zone the number of families returning is growing fast. and we have so many more students now we were hardly able to welcome them or so the teachers

decided to repair some of the schools themselves. if the buffer zone becomes reality and holds people in mark will be safe at least for a while titians i beg your pardon but several dozen have also fighting to turkey for trying to stop a massacre that they see russia and the syrian government was planning now this statement is being seen as not an outright admission that they will be giving up their weapons or that they will be evacuating the said buffer zone oh a box they actually might rajan really is what the experts of analyzing it to be at this moment we don't know whether the deal will hold or not but that's far too loose if you go but it is holding and russia said that it's not about a day or two as long as a deal is delivered on so we still need to see whether this move will get out and out it's still a bit ambiguous until let's play this for of what happens if the cease fire does not hold. but if it doesn't hold then the. government will get

a knicks has to go in and attack they've already been saying they will be getting every inch of city and territory back it does give russia an excuse to win that's what the russians will then tell the most close this deal has come about because of turkey's epis but also because russia wanted to tell the world that they're not just. a responsible recent problems so they want to get that extent excuse it is also possible that the turkish boots on the ground take on this group along with the rebel factions sitting on the factions that they've been supporting and that will be quite complicated as well including remember that about two point five to two point nine million people in it if this deal doesn't work and we do see a conflict that could be pretty. pretty devastating until as questions have been swirling about the ceasefire elsewhere in syria to border crossings have opened one to jordan and the other to the israeli controlled golan heights how significant is that. well that's pretty good news actually because i mean even though the syrian government by opening these border crossings is trying to send a message that they're trying to normalize things that they have when it is

a sign of the war nearing an end things perhaps beginning to return to normal is a positive move in fact it has an economic dimension because people living in around these border crossings will finally have some sort of work to do do any work because they were operating their businesses around these border crossings and of course an overall economic benefit as well but it also has a huge diplomatic and security dimension to it especially if you look at the israel syria border the opening of the border suddenly disputed because it's the golan heights but syria claims and it's occupied by israel that opening means the messes there is that we go back to preset an uprising phase where golan heights are disputed but the two countries were not an act of war so that is in itself a pretty significant move by syria and israel as well all in all the opening of border crossings of pauses. for us in beirut thank you very much

now u.s. president donald trump says he is sending secretary of state might pump aoe to saudi arabia immediately he's to meet king solomon over missing dissident journalist john. trunk says the saudi king denies any knowledge of the washington post columnist disappearance there are claims that he was murdered by saudi officials and all of this is unsettling foreign investors ben you have one that please some companies are reconsidering their ties with saudi arabia over this case and riyadh is already walking a fine line in its international relations lashing out at foreign critics like canada while rolling out the red carpet to foreign investors for its latest finance conference. this is saudi arabia as it wants to be seen modern and open but with big business now pulling out of this year's future investment initiative the facade is fading the alleged murder of saudi dissident jamal khashoggi puts pressure on global businesses so to the alleged plots ties to the kingdom's young

leader himself thirty three year old mohamed bin solomon the face of saudi arabia's reform story its investment projects and its openness to foreign capital. virgin group c.e.o. richard branson suspended discussions over a one billion dollars saudi stake in version space ventures that the shares of japan's softbank where billions in saudi sovereign wealth are invested have also suffered the kingdom stocks in currency took an unusual tumble sunday after trump threatened severe punishment for any involvement in cars should jesus appearance. saudi arabia denies the murder allegations and says it won't be bullied the world's largest producer and exporter of oil it has also suggested it could force prices up in response to any actions against it a forceful response but almost certainly not the one businesses were hoping for iran's oil exports fell last month as businesses prepared for the reintroduction of u.s. sanctions speaking at an event in tehran on sunday iranian president hassan rouhani

downplayed the risks to the center saying the sanctions will have no effect his comments come as iran grapples with an economic crisis that seen its currency plunge to historic lows earlier this month the price of oil hit its highest point since twenty fourteen driven partly by investors for seeing a drop in supply from iran. the small russian town of surrounds is home to a brand new soccer stadium built for the twenty eight hundred fifty world cup a total of four games were played there during the tournament now the arena is looking increasingly like a costly white elephant a correspondent near drugstore it reports. one last training session ahead of a key game second division surrounds playing at home against course if surrounds quins it would help the club stem its do impling gait count hopes hear a pin down thirty seven year old striker mohammad shin who also captains the team.

the course game is important to us. top of the league right now on the course of. the training ground and the new arena are only a few minutes drive apart it's never far to anywhere in a town of only two hundred ninety thousand people around this new stadium cost two hundred forty million euros moscow the region and the town shared the costs ahead of the twenty eight teams world cup the tournament left a legacy of modern infrastructure in its wake. the arena. is new and modern for players and spectators. we used to get fans at the games and now we get families with children coming to cheer as. is the. surrounds politicians were all for the town's world cup extravaganza they also drew up plans for the stadiums used after the final whistle. practice the same the world over is

that about a stadium as a last make up it's only used for soccer. but also has to be used for a range of cultural and sporting events exhibitions that's the only way to make a stay. on the. surrounds the stadium gates only open nineteen times a year right now and only for soccer so many question the wisdom of all the expense . people here complain about the new stadium investment. not the government they decide where the money goes they could've spent it on schools or hospitals they don't let us decide. money and surrounds were happy with the old soccer stadium where the junior team trains a lot of those youngsters will be watching the professionals later in the new arena which office space for forty five thousand spectators. but most of the seats are empty. and no one sat in the sponsors boxes are either. doesn't have

enough companies for that. things don't turn out well on the pitch either today or surrounds gets a hammering. when there is a we play well away we only lose at home we only play for our fans. it's questionable whether the town of surrounds will be able to afford its new stadium in the long term. wild weather has hit france and that's right at least thirteen people have died in flash floods in southwestern france streams were turned into raging torrents as the equivalent of several months of rain fell in the space of hours worst hit is the audit region where the river reached flood levels not seen in a century. when it happened it happened fast several months worth of rain falling in just a few hours overnight here in southwest france turned rivers to raging destruction cycle mostly of the government there it started at two am raining raining raining.

we heard rushing water i turned on the light and it didn't work it was dark as i get out of bed in my feet or in the water i go towards to kitchen and try to open the door but it's impossible i forced it open and then there was water up to my waist to go because those. such rapid rainfall took its immediate toll in france's district at least one of the victims was swept away by raging waters while sleeping helicopters scrambled to help rescue people from roofs of their homes struggled with bad weather which made operations difficult some two hundred fifty five men and one hundred police have been deployed for the rescue efforts. it was really traumatizing for all our neighbors who were in the same situation i called the firemen it really happened so fast when they responded there was like a wave that came towards our front door the entire house was flooded the waters

rose to my thighs my idea. is that we need to fear ie asli flowing floodwaters have swept everything in their path trees power pylons cars. the region is better known for its mediæval towns them for such blooding of biblical proportions the worst the area has seen in a hundred years. to sports now and germany's national football team is at a new low point at last three nil to the netherlands over the weekend the biggest a feat ever to their traditional rivals and nerves job is now in question on tuesday the team faces world champions france. it's all downhill from here that's what yohimbe loves critics are predicting as the shop to call and since germany's disastrous world cup campaign continues his team has now failed to score in three straight competitive matches for the first time ever in the country's history germany or into injury of being relegated from the nation's league group.

we are all being heavily criticised now as the coach have to take responsibility for what we somehow have to block that out in the next two days and show some character and face france because it's actually our last chance promised changes to the teams playing style have failed to materialise despite the poor results some of germany's old guard belief they're still performing. probably be accused of not being critical enough but i don't think we played a bad game against them. we have a lot of top players we usually have a good national team and are being treated like amateurs if you follow. yet among the teams younger players the so for flexion has been more critical. we do not make the mistake of talking or proper form and says if you're always losing in such a way that it can no longer be a coincidence. something needs to change that much is clear

another abject performance against france on tuesday and even more fans will be calling for love to pack hughes bags. you're watching news still to come your top star bollywood star who kicked off the me to movement in india she opened the floodgates for many more women to tell their stories for her and fellow activists it's still far from smooth sailing and here in germany the first ever opus classic awards featuring some of the big names in classical music and even benny andersson from swedish pop and abba. plus the president of cuba gets a twitter account but you got to say we'll tell you more coming up in the next thirty minutes. thing who wanted to survive in this journalist and why. go back not one i can. shout all the enemy is. forty five journalists

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modern diplomacy. sixteen forty eight belonging to this starts october twenty fourth on g.w. . film based on the entire immigrant io scheme for jurors or dealing with anyone at the law they killed many civilians in irish come including my father why the face i was a student because i wanted to build a life for myself like this totally but suddenly life became alledge kind of sob. providing insights global news that my. jer's d.w. for mornings. welcome back you're watching news our top story police in the western german city of cologne have ended a hostage situation that shut down the main train station the female hostage was freed with slight injuries while the suspect was critically wounded and had to be

resuscitated no word yet on the suspects motives. in india junior foreign minister is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct as the me two campaign gathers pace in the country protesters took to the streets in delhi to demand m.j. akbar's resignation chanting slogans against the ruling b.j. they clashed with security forces near akbar's home there's been more than a dozen allegations made by multiple women or has denied wrongdoing call it in calling the accusations false baseless and while his filed a defamation suit against at least one of his accusers. now women in many industries across india are naming and shaming men they say have sexually assaulted them in the workplace but many of the claims are being met with what one activist calls aggressive pushback one bawly would start told. how she was sexually harassed by a fellow actor ten years ago but that no action was taken despite her pleas for help

. light. the world to the u.k. welcome to india's and to human capital that churns out the food the hollywood hall is of so. strong and don't secrets. for many this is the bollywood dream. but for some the sexual harassment while filming the dream has turned out to be a nightmare at an event called be the women held in the indian city of bangalore by well known journalist parker that bollywood star doctor spoke out about how she was sexually harassed on the film set by fellow actor not a particle. introduced a dance step which in which she has to fill me up so after i complained of his behavior and they assured me that they want to take care of it

now they introduce a dance to manufacture a dance step where he can basically moral you melissa or you know yeah we are to says that nothing happened after her complaint and somebody asked me why the need to movement is not happening in our country so my answer was hey how limited movement happened here when ten years ago what happened to me has not been addressed there's not been any kind of a tradition to it not been any kind of justice and we did out in that matter. the actor not a particle who missed dr has accused has consistently denied the accusations but the organizer of the the women says the campaign to uncover abuse is only slowly gathering pace it's difficult for any woman anywhere in the world but i think in india the process is still starting and that's why you see this very aggressive pushback whether in terms of legality and legal notices or character assassination and i think that's what women really dread but you will see the floodgates have opened and having opened i don't think they're shutting anytime soon. the

floodgates have indeed opened in india seven minutes taken to social media to make their complaints public against editors and even government ministers i think it's an awful warning at least for some time for men to sort of at least they can second guess themselves and say you know me i'm not doing the right thing seeing that i put an industry that treats its leading me the stars with legendary adulation the me too moment may have come as an unexpected twist in the t.v. . i mean one of whom buys the biggest and most of my comic bollywood studios hundreds of films. but is this really bollywood smee to moment yes and no yes because at least some people are willing to talk about these issues though because some of hollywood's biggest stars have chosen to remain silent about the meta dumping. as the industrial is unfamiliar to its earth will it take up this

jonze to clean things up over will it be business as usual. now a political leader using twitter to get a message to the public is nothing special unless you're the president of cuba miguel diaz has become cuba's first tweeting president which seems to be at odds with the country he leads when the least connected and most controlled countries in the world let's talk more about that with our social media editor federica what is cuba's president tweeting about so the us can and he became president in april ending nearly sixty years of the custer family rule and he put out his first treat on wednesday it was a national holiday in cuba and he wrote this he said well we're in the mahogany which is in the south of cuba the place where with the greatest sound of patriotic feelings we are cuba and we are continuing team so of course

a tweet glorify. cuba's communist run a state which of course got a lot of attention straight away is the first cuban president to tweet and he has been tweeting a lot seems he tweeted since seventy times in the last five days which is a lot and he has also gotten a solid following with more than thirty thousand accounts not following him and that of course he has also opened a platform for critics to directly speak against him at him and we've seen that a lot of critics have slammed his new twitter presence they have replied to his tweet calling for more freedom for cuba which is a country that is ranked as you also mentioned as strong not free also by observers like the freedom house for example we have a tweet here by a leading opposition figure who is based outside of cuba she responded to the tweet saying president to become president you have to be elected by the people in free

fair and open elections don't be ridiculous so of course you also get the criticism . then there's no building up he's network he has his following seventeen accounts so far it's mainly government pro-government media outlets and politicians also from other countries like the venezuelan president. who would oh he it would be interesting to see whether opening up to criticism from the internet will have any bearings on him what use of social media is also restricted in cuba so is this actually going to be effective for the president to reach the cubans that he wants to on twitter well generally speaking cuba doesn't block. firms like twitter or facebook they do block some internet pages. from the opposition but the thing is cuba has also some of the world's worst interests internet internet access pardon me so of course that in itself is a form of censorship in

a way. in fact home and mobile access is almost nonexistent about less than ten percent of cubans have internet at home in order to access the internet you need to to buy a prepaid card from one of the government controlled the telecommunications companies and you can use that as a public a wife i bought and then the axes itself is really expensive it's about one dollar per hour it was the average income being being thirty dollars a month so it really is not affordable for many many cubans and the speed is very slow so as i mentioned in the old this amounts to a form of censorship itself and the cuban government has promised to bolster the digital infrastructure we'll have to see if the president's now having a twitter account is a step in that direction ok our social media editor federica baggio thanks so much for bringing us that story. now more than three million people have fled

venezuela as the country's economic and political crisis deepens most head from neighboring colombia and brazil but thousands of also applied for political asylum in the e.u. mainly in spain but a stitch up was published reports from madrid most of the applications there are rejected. this is a. he spent his way seeking asylum in spain earlier this year and fled his home country and arrived in madrid. he told us his story. of the. political persecution from marching for protesting for being in complete opposition to what's happening at the moment i was threatened harassed and robots i left because i got sick and also because of the political issues i tried to stay in my

home in my country with my people. m.e.d.o. arrived in spain on a tourist visa and didn't seek asylum upon arrival he instead waited for five months. i was scared about how asylum was what would come of it and i wouldn't be able to do was always happens is they take your passport from you you can't leave the country and you don't know how long the process takes you don't know what pandora's box it will open so it was for those reasons i decided to take the time and seek political asylum spain's interior ministry turned down our request for an interview but official figures for twenty seventeen have shown the vast majority of asylum applications made by venezuelans in spain were rejected or simply not processed due to a large backlog of applicants over twelve thousand venezuelans have sought asylum so far this year here in spain for various cultural linguistic historical and

family reasons spain is the number one destination for venezuelans fleeing their country. of the united nations refugee agency explained the reality of the asylum application process in spain is the cases of people waiting one or two years and that includes venezuela one process to stay in the country must be cancelled or closed before another can begin one person who has been in spain seeking international protection who's been seeking asylum for two or three years can then include that time in other processes for immigrants to legalize and selves they can use it to prove they have settled in spain or seek spanish nationality. for immediate the legal limbo has been difficult but he remains positive about his new life in madrid. i don't know what's going to happen sometimes i feel positive sometimes i feel down sometimes i really want to push forward but other times i

feel like i want to give up i sometimes think of giving up my asylum application but like everyone i have dreams i want to come true i have goals and i think spain can allow me to achieve them. perhaps a small glimmer of hope for the increasing number of venezuelans seeking asylum in spain. right then is back now with another new chapter of ben in the diesel good scandals it gets more and more exciting every day so you may authorities in germany now set to order a recall of some one hundred thousand opel vehicles they were found to be equipped with an emissions cheating device similar to the ones used by fox wagon in a scandal that emerged three years ago as you know and it follows raids at two opel locations earlier today a spokesperson for the carmaker has confirmed the raids but maintains the vehicles in question a compliant with existing laws over was a general motors subsidiary in germany for over eighty years but was sold to france's p.s.a. last year after a prolonged period of painful losses. swedish pharma giant astra zeneca suspended

investments in britain due to the lack of clarity its the posture from the european union non-executive chairman life johansson made the announcement in france's the more news paper the company has reportedly spend forty five million euros stockpiling medicine in britain and continental europe to prevent supply disruptions if the two sides failed to reach an agreement regulating trade come march pharmaceutical companies have repeatedly warned of medicine shortages in europe after breaks it. and as a no deal breakers it looks increasingly likely the british pound is under pressure as one of this week's headaches for trade is another coming from italy as it prepares to submit a costly twenty nine thousand budget plan to the european commission the day was originally set for today has now been moved to choose day rome has the biggest government debt in the u. and the government wants to raise the target for next year's deficit to two point

four percent of gross domestic product to finance generous welfare promises. announced watering common era is unlikely to be on the european commission's menu today instead it could. find itself choking on today's it's highly and main course made up of a whole lot of debt rome is set on increasing state spending but with two point three trillion euros of debt it has the highest level of it in the e.u. and now that figure is set to rise beyond what was originally planned blackmail says the e.u. but the italian government dismisses such accusations. it's not true that our budget works against the e.u. that this is the narrative of members of european parties who are currently sitting in european institutions italy is one of the founding countries of the european union and we've always said that not only do we want to remain in it but we want to improve this union and make it more democratic make it more supportive. but

on the street opinions differ about borrowing more money to finance campaign promises. in the end i believe that the e.u. is carrying out a policy of attack against italy without carefully analyzing its budget nor is just an attack regardless of the content of the budget law. we have a government of naive amateurs. honestly i'm very pessimistic and worried about the future of our country. but if the. fears about the future are understandable italy's extensive debts will once again put the stability of the euro to the test now that the other problem case greece seems to be out of the woods but italy is the e.u. third largest economy and the e.u. fears that economic instability there could have a ripple effect brussels and rome must now cooperate to ensure that the italian

national dish remains palatable. after that of course for the gold bars for markets think about italy's big budget. well there's nothing less at stake than the financial stability of the eurozone and to be truthful if the euro zone's in trouble if the euro goes downhill and goes crashing than europe as a whole will be affected and so will financial markets and economies the world over and italy's financial situation is seen almost at the critical point we heard just a moment ago how high the indebtedness is and of course at the moment there's still the european central bank buying up greek not greek but italian debt and that's preventing worse things if it weren't for that then the there's no way the italian government could go forth with such a budget even so people think it's a very dangerous move and there are fears for the euro because of it another

constant worry is breaks it how's the no deal scenario going down way you want. it's going down terribly people think that would be the worst possible situation at the same time it seems ever more likely still even after the deadline is reached there is time to set certain parameters for a transition period and you know people i talked to here there's still hope here in germany in the continent that there might just be a second referendum hope. just briefly for us to pop and still see is has filed for bankruptcy it was once the country's biggest retailer famed for a catalog that sold everything from clothes to toys and appliances but the firm has struggled since the nine hundred eighty s. it first by discount retailers like wal-mart and then by online shopping a hedge fund now runs the company but has failed to find a profitable strategy leading to massive job cuts. any tears perceived soon

yeah definitely i remember doing all my christmas shopping there that sell out a sad story but true you've got a real money spinner that i do vent that's right the series october fester in the german city of munich set a new record with more than six million visitors from all over the world but the legendary beer festival is not only a magnet for visitors to germany the october fest has become a global brand that's being exported to many faraway places bringing a taste of german traditions with it. in this little workshop in young gone under the watchful eyes of there's a piece of german culture in the making. masala might well be the only tailor. who knows what it takes to make a traditional bavarian dirndl. de i have to be very careful with the sleeve patterns to make sure it's

a circle to time but for someone skilled in the art of sewing more complex myanmar dresses are a relatively manageable task. their initials are confident and bigger. but they. are traditional myanmar dresses are harder to make because they need to fit perfectly. otherwise dress will just not be ok to wear it. but why in the land of golden pagodas would women even once a day. beyond the annual young gone october fest. some call this the best offshoot of the famous german beer festival in all of southeast asia but like the the whole event takes some getting used to it first. but is very new for them now my collar job by example i like it for me when i walk on the street where my be in doubt everywhere i look good to me that i can run out the walk the most and drive

a festival of water festival but this is the second most enjoyable first dividing them up beyond where it's a beer festival so we get drunk that's what this is all about what. some of the food also takes a little getting used to. that one is looking is present. not. but when you eat is a day's a piece but when you first see the dish the. reason they shoot. my son is also here it's her first time. makes me happy when i see that they're wearing my dresses and i see how beautiful they are. done more than just make

a few done things she's done her part to bring a little bit of both area to be on. the . release or pictures from the opus classic music prize gala held for the first time on sunday night in berlin this was the grand finale all prize winners singing a rendition of thank you for the music accompanied on the piano by swedish composer benny andersson one of the. current helps out from our culture desk is here to tell us more about this hi karen so this is a classical music prize we're hearing oh that's because benny andersson was actually one of the prize winners and he picked up an award possibly his first that had nothing to do with aba but rather with his own brand new piano album which is a really intimate the instrumental recording that does include six songs that he

composed for this is an album that he originally apparently made for his grandchildren so it was supposed to be just a private thing for interesting way enough for his fans it's in the mainstream and of course proves that he's just a virtuoso instrumentalist and what this prize it seemed to come out of nowhere well it's interesting because normally this event would have been the echo classic the echo was german was germany's top music prize and covered all three areas of jazz pop and classical music but you remember you might remember so. months ago at the eco pop awards that the event died a sudden death when german rockers fighting fighting and korn ego won the award for best hip hop album well they went on to perform their song eight one five in which they refer to their muscles as more defined than those of fits that with an obvious no no that generated huge protest and controversy at the time so the word was scrapped completely when the classical music scene had simply created its own with

the aim of sort of departing from the echo rules which were controversial and the echo was based entirely on record sales and so they want to focus more on quality and of course privileged younger musicians ok so who are the winners ok so the female singer of the year we'll start with her was germany's incredible operatic soprano down adama who gave him a really knockout rendition of vanity and let's have a quick listen to the performance that she gave. on. the air.

then to you word for male singer of the year went to peruvian tenor one do you feel dance for his mozart album. i. after accepting his award he also gave a special command performance of the song the samee mucho. incredible voices there all the women in the crowd literally rulings yeah yeah

absolutely you know by the way that female conductor that we saw there leading the contact house orchestra right here in berlin that was the mexican conductor along that i believe pata who is based in new york but she is the host of series news become my star so many people will probably recognize her for you talk about some younger musicians who could be a recognized there are lots of great musicians are making names for themselves including for instance they used seven brothers who are far from the netherlands they are twenty five and twenty two years old respectively both virtue also pianists who've been playing for just world peace that's about two thousand and five they won the award for the gold records for children and he was there for these.

for lots of it yeah absolutely impressive stuff a lot of great acts like the quartet frankford bass quartet four times baroque they refer to as the boy band of broken british cellist a mason who played for prince harry in macon markel at their wedding they were among the winners of the classical scene is alive and blooming there's lots of really great tellme to look forward to all right karen help from our culture just thank you very much. if you're watching it did have you news still go we'll have an update on your headlines in just a few minutes don't go away. move .

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