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to battle says she has to do more to gain public trust after conservative allies suffered massive losses in the various regional elections. welcome to the program german police have ended a hostage taking at cologne well way station it happened at a pharmacy inside the building police stormed the shop and freed the hostage two hours after the incident began the station's a major hub for passengers traveling around germany and europe. the reporter david martin is there i welcome david what are police telling you. so the nature we're hearing is that the situation has been defused the hostage crisis is effectively over the hostage herself sustained

injuries she's been taken in for treatment we don't know yet how serious the injuries are that she sustained the hostage taker however has been hospitalized he sustained critical or life threatening injuries during the police raid when ultimately the situation was was handled and deescalated so that's that what we know about the ticket well being of both the victim and and the hostage taker the train station behind me however it does remain shut emergency services and offices are still going through the station checking for any potential traces that could either help help lead to clues as to what may have happened or of course if there's anything still more sinister lying about the station lying around in the stations that we just get to know when the station will reopen here in cologne and is anyone talking about how the hostage came to be injured were the injuries sustained during the hostage taking or during the release that's that's

not clear yet we don't know we know very little about the hostage at the moment what we do know is that the the hostage taker he did sustain the critical life threatening injuries during the police raid. i know you've been talking to people what a very been telling you. so we heard from a witness who was inside the station as everything as the whole incident began to escalate and what she told us is actually before the hostage taking at the pharmacy there was a another incident at a restaurant inside the station in which two girls were seen running outside one of them with her foot and ten leg on fire so she sustained burn injuries up until around the waist police are telling us this girl is about fourteen years old she was taken in for treatment afterwards and then right away after that then the hostage situation began in the pharmacy we don't know yet how these two how whether

these two incidents are linked so we're waiting to find out more from the police in regards to what happened initially with the with the fire and the burning david moss and cologne were certain thank you. accomplice in the september eleventh attacks on the united states has been released from prison in germany but there. metacity was arrested in two thousand and one and sentenced in two thousand and seven to fifteen years in jail for his role in the deaths of two hundred forty six people on board the hijacked airplanes used in the attacks german authorities say he'll be deported to morocco and prevented from returning until he's ninety. on nine eleven two thousand and one al-qaeda terrorists took control of four passenger planes full of civilians and threw 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 them was money a 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 much as 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. but you some of the other stories making news around the

world at least thirteen people have died in flash floods in southwestern france a streams became raging torrent the equivalent of several months of rain fell in just hours worst hit was the howard region and the southwest where the river hold reached flood levels not seen for a century. british and e.u. and negotiators say they've not been able to seal a deal ahead of this week's e.u. summit despite a flurry of meetings on sunday you chief negotiator michel barnier tweeted that key issues remain open particularly the need to avoid a hard border between northern ireland in the u.k. and the irish republic. kensington palace says prince harry and his wife the duchess of sussex are expecting their first baby in spring you know when it came as her american arrived in sydney at the start of a sixteen day trip to australia and the pacific region. now germany's governing coalition is facing an uncertain future today after anger them back calls allies in

bavaria suffered a huge defeat in b. general elections on sunday leaders of germany's three coalition parties are meeting to find a way forward after voters delivered what's being described as a resulting slap to the government a short while ago chancellor merkel said it was clear government has work to do. in the grand coalition has not succeeded in doing what you list 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 regained people's trust and that we deliver on our promises and i will do that as best i can. still more from v.w. political correspondent to thomas spar tell us what you make of the chance of a statement essentially that it reveals just how much pressure and dilemma call is under now at the moment that statement there where she clearly mentions that need

to regain trust is one that we've always heard from politicians or not only from merkel in previous occasions the question however fairly is how they plan to regain that trust how they plan to improve their work when both the conservatives and the social democrats under such pressure given the result in bavaria and given other results in the past as well one area that has been discussed here in berlin where they could focus on is leaving aside or at least not focusing primarily or exclusively on the issue of migration which as you know has been the key issue for the past few years but focusing on other topics as well that for voters are particularly important i'll just give you a few examples education infrastructure health care for the elderly all those are issues that voters have said on repeated occasions that they want the politicians in germany at the federal level that the regional level to focus on and that's one area where i'm going to vocal on how government could certainly work on in the next few months of trying to regain that trust from voters that has been lost and presumably this is why the domestic issues this is why voters are losing faith in

germany's conservatives yes undoubtedly that's one of the of the reasons the fact that they've been focusing too much on one big topic migration which is undoubtedly important but not the only topic that is important for german voters another aspect that has been discussed on why conservatives have. had such a problem in the last few months in particular in bavaria in these elections is that that idea of emulating part of the strategy of the far right alternative for germany did not seem to work and whereas other parties clearly mentioned their goals and their objectives they didn't seem to gain from these elections whether emulating that strategy was part of the of the problem but yes as you say fail obviously that goal of touching on migration issues time and time again was certainly a big problem for conservatives in bavaria and it's a big problem for ungrammatical government as well at the federal level so it is germany now seeing a significant shift of support away from germany's big centrist parties i would

undoubtedly say so and that is not only something that we see in germany we do see it in germany or for the federal level the fact that the social democrats and the conservatives the big traditional parties on the center left on the center right seem to be losing ground while that ground is now gained by by a smaller parties parties that are on certain occasions even on the fringes of of the political spectrum but that's the thing that you also see no other european countries or germany is not an exception in this case germany spot i would say of a wider phenomenon where these traditional parties are losing ground and other smaller parties seem to me getting some of the voters political correspondent thomas thank you. saudi arabia has allowed to turkey to conduct a joint inspection of a saudi consulate in istanbul riyadh agreed to the search after our growing pressure from the international community regarding the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi turkish officials events at the consulate in istanbul the inspection comes nearly two weeks after mr kosofsky vanished after

a visit to the consulate claims it has recordings of the killing of a saudi journalist he lived in self-imposed exile in the united states and wrote for the washington post he was an outspoken critic of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma saudi arabia denies killing him. to our correspondent yulia han in istanbul unwelcome. what's included in this inspection. well this is the moment turkish investigators have been waiting for to finally be allowed into the saudi consulate now you have to know they can just enter as they wish according to international law embassies and consulates are technically foreign soil so the turks need permission by the saudis so what we are hearing now is that a joint team of turkish and saudi investigators are conducting what they call

a joint investigation it remains unclear however what this investigation will be about what the scope of this investigation will be the turks of course one to do forensic tests they seek to find d.n.a. or blobs traces of jamaah inside the building this would of course support their claim that he was indeed. there but the question is will they be allowed to do so and what will they still be able to find inside the saudi consulate it's been more it's been almost two weeks now that the journalist went missing so this is of course the big question and ironically as if to drive the point home and this is a side note we saw footage of a cleaning crew with mops and trash bags walking into the saudi consulate earlier today past the journalists waiting outside the building and this has of course raised more concerns over the credibility of the whole investigation.

well what most of the observers say here that saudi arabia may have agreed to this search now since really international pressure is growing by western allies by the international community turkish present arab on has talked to saudi king solomon on the phone yesterday on sunday britain germany france old demanding a thorough investigation and most importantly maybe american lawmakers threatening tough punitive action it still remains a little unclear what a u.s. president trumps position is see about he also sets and punishment in case the saudis are really involved in cut shakti is a disappearance and possibly in his mojo so the saudis now really have to

deliver they have to give substantial on says many sides are the minding that and i think it got clear that they say thing well not just go away you know the heart of istanbul thank you a term for the president of the german football association will no longer face trial for tax evasion the charges were linked to alleged vote buying in the country's successful bid to host the two thousand and six zero world cup. was forced to resign after the fact and gulf the association twenty fifteen but of course in frankfurt israel there is insufficient evidence for a trial is pretty sesa affair was months ago how will also face know of action unless prosecutors decide to appeal. don't forget you can always get d.w. news on the go just download from google player from the apple store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use it to satisfy those ads videos

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