knew to take his grandmother yeah he does it's all that. no time rachel join me for me to get bundled up. on for go welcome to the program about accomplices and the september eleventh attacks in the united states has been released from prison in germany. today. many albatross that was taken to the airport to be deported to his home country of morocco or so who is he talking to me and also on the program. german chancellor angela merkel says she has to do more to regain public trust after her conservative allies a supper massive losses and the various regional election. german police and the hostage taking a close main railway station the female hostage has been freed but sustained

injuries the suspect is now in custody. and fogle welcome to the program on a compass in the september eleventh attacks on the united states has been released from prison in germany when it. was released it was arrested in two thousand and one and sentenced in two thousand and seven to fifteen years in jail this was for his role in the deaths of two hundred forty six people on board the hijacked airplanes used in the attacks. 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 on u.s. 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 modest 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. was that more or less from d.w. news reporter one hundred hundred what happens to him now well as we've just heard he's going to be sent back to morocco what happens to him then is really anybody's

guess his family his family's brothers and parents are waiting for him there we think his wife and children are also there what the moroccan authorities decide to do is another matter where they decide to try to question him or even arrest him we really don't know anything they may or may not get from him or anything they may get from surveilling him which one would imagine they might do i'm sure would be shared with the americans but whether he actually gets to live his life out. with his family in morocco nobody really knows yet is for him to. he was released early from germany wasn't yet you still got about a month to service his sentence. initially his lawyers applied for him to be released only be on the grounds of good behavior several years ago but that was turned down the german authorities decided that he hadn't kind of shown remorse for what he had done and so they decided he was therefore still too dangerous to

release but releasing him early now gives them a way of keeping him out of germany they've banned him from germany until he reaches about the age of ninety if he was decide to come back because he hasn't finished his sentence they could arrest him immediately insist upon him serving the rest of his sentence for this which is only a month but that would then give him gives the thirty's the option to try to prosecute him for for breaking this ban that they have now put upon him returning you have met and interviewed him what was he like. you wouldn't expect if you look at this picture of him here he looks well not there but when he's bound up and being taken to the helicopter he looks like a really dangerous man i sat in his prisons in a prison cell with him his lawyer and the author that i was working for to write a book about nine eleven and interviewed him he was a funny guy he was actually very pleasant to spend time with he was interesting he

made jokes but he was also very aware of his own position very aware of how he was being seen. he was he was quite good company i say or did he tell you what motivated him to port to help people put these bombs on planes and kill all these people. he says and unmaintained all the way through all the way through several trials some of which i also covered but also through these these long interviews that i conducted with him with the author and to me some of his for this book he said he didn't know he didn't know anything. about what they were planning he didn't even know that the pilots who went to steer those planes into the twin towers and into the pentagon he said they didn't he didn't even know that they'd gone to the states he moved the money for them and he never denied that but he moved money he says and you know it was it was shown in the trial that he was moving sums of like one hundred fifty year olds to pay for rent and stuff for flats

it was a very strange trial lots of people observers lawyers but also many journalists who went to those trials and watched them were very surprised by the very thin degree of proof that anybody had against him so he said he didn't know anything about it so what was used reaction when he found out what had happened when the planes went in the towers he said he was completely shocked and could not believe that it happened that's what he took you know he had the same reaction as everybody else who you ask where where you were nine eleven he said his reaction was one of total shock so how did he feel about being in jail for something that he says he knows nothing about he felt it was massively unfair obviously as well as one would expect him to say and he was trying to fight for what he said was the truth he maintained always fear that he was innocent and to leave thank you.

juries government coalition is facing an uncertain future after and america's allies in bavaria suffered significant losses in the regional elections leaders of the country's three coalition parties are meeting to find a way forward after voters was delivered what is being described as a resounding slap to the government chancellor merkel has promised to win back voters trust. early in the morning after the bavarian state of actions made one thing very clear germans are fed up with a coalition government. we'll dangerous animal here and heard the warnings are not snow that this was a dummy show i mean it was an improper cannon firing on the us and the one thing that is very lonely is that things cannot go on the way they are always trying to carry consequences to see if it's ok to snitch tripel uncle michael has been on the end of sharp criticism she sees mistakes made in berlin as a contributing factor to the loss of her sister party in bavaria. the us and i

thought i'm good please looking back at the formation of the government in the last twelve months it's clear that people have lost a lot of trust in us that also goes for the union party used to see you and the c s u where you would expect common ground. and that's why until now we have not been able to be clear about what the grand coalition has achieved doit lish mohan quanta but it was the social democrats who suffered most on the night losing half of their voters in the varia. the party leaders it's increasingly difficult to justify why the s.p.d. is still propping up the coalition government. once we do venture my what must we have royalist we don't have and trying everything hand governments are bad images links are contributed to family issues that we're going to ask the populace didn't get through and didn't mention which to cry and wish to she could lose in. a new poll suggests if it eighty eight percent of s.p.d. party members would prefer to leave the grand coalition. now senior figures are

wondering whether it would be better to stay or go. cars surely what is clear is that just because the s.p.d. and its members had good reasons for joining the coalition will not leave the country at the mercy of the rightwing cond and doesn't mean will stay in at the impious. the liberals who only just managed to scrape their way into parliament are ready to capitalise on any collapse. years in. that we're all prepared for the grand coalition to form a charge on that and everything that scenario could break into. the debate continues to simmer behind the scenes become the next day selections and hasn't in two weeks time things could well come to a head. still more from b.w. political correspondent to thomas spar tell us what you make of a chance of a statement essentially that it reveals just how much pressure 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 and previous occasions the question however failed 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 results 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 ravi's not focusing primarily. your 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 and a 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 the trust from voters that has been lost completely presumably this is why the domestic

issues this is why voters are losing faith in germans 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 did seem to gain from these elections where the 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 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 vote as political correspondent thomas thank you. now a team of saudi officials has entered the country's consulate in istanbul the head of a joint to saudi turkish investigation into the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi this comes amid growing pressure from the international community regarding the fate of the saudi writer mystical shakti enter the consulate almost two weeks ago

and hasn't been seen since he claims to have audio recordings of him being killed jamal khashoggi was an outspoken critic of saudi crown prince mohammed bin selma. to our correspondent in istanbul and welcome. 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 murdered 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 president our don 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 threatened 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 stumble thank

you. u.s. president donald trump meanwhile says he's sending secretary of state mike to saudi arabia today is to make king solomon to discussion jamal khashoggi disappearance mr trump says the sight of king denies any involvement. all of this is unsettling foreign investors benhamou yes some companies are reconsidering their business 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 a key finance conference. i 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. puts pressure on global businesses so to the alleged plots ties to the kingdom's young

leader himself thirty three year old mohammed 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 virgin space tensors that shares of japan's softbank where billions in saudi soften wealth or invest that 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 or a forceful response but almost certainly not the one businesses were hoping for authorities in germany is said to order a recall of some one hundred thousand opel vehicles they were found to be equipped with an emissions trading device similar to the ones used by fox in

a scandal that emerged three years ago this follows raids at two opel locations early as today a spokesperson for the comic has confirmed the raids maintains the vehicles in question aka plant with existing laws of was a general motors subsidiary in germany for over eighteen he is was sold to france's p.s.a. last year after a probe long period of painful losses. joins us now frankfurt only is opel in big trouble. it could be if the allegations are true we don't know that exactly one has to wait for the official side to play out but from all that one is hearing it sounds so familiar along the lines of stories of other companies that have been implicated and it's really no surprise that the people here at the stock market where i'm standing when the volkswagen scandal broke in two thousand and fifteen immediately people said we have can't be the only one doing this in numbers from

emissions for it's exactly and that still holds true today interesting not much reaction in the p.s.a. share today the owner today and one has to ask oneself you mentioned g.m. owning it for so much time what the g.m. know and when did they know it and what did they do about it or not other cars share in the news though with a share reaction much more pronounced joy over perhaps an i.p.o. of the porsche subsidiary of the w e w taking the limelight if you will in the state of opals day in court ok let me ask you about this other story only because sterling is holding near a one week low as it goes she asians folded before a crucial european union summit this week less than six months before britain leaves the bloc negotiators from both sides trying to overcome the biggest hurdle to a deal how to keep the u.k. frontier with the irish republic free of border checks come much time as the tories may has told parliament that a deal is possible and something new that

a deal would be better than no deal so only how rough a week is this going to be with the break that summit come wednesday. it's going to be a rough week because the expectancies are being up of course by these statements by the u.k. prime minister and her spokesman says that she has talked or will have talked to today to the president of france to america live germany to the dutch prime minister and it seems that there's a lot of diplomacy going on ahead of this meeting as she still says no deal is better than a bad deal and the business world frankly doesn't like what it sees i mean people in the market or in the business world are having a hard time anyways figuring out who is saying what with what intention and for individuals in the visible freedoms of the e.u. they're still out there making any sort of deal with the e.u. with freedom of access but people almost in a possibility it's hard to figure out the president of ford europe today spoke out

joining the ranks of business leaders very critical of the current drive in the u.k. saying that with no deal would be disastrous what effect could affect he said ford investment in the u.k. ok really bad for the bank but stock exchange. and a couple of the stories for you swedish pharma giant astra zeneca has suspended investments in britain due to the lack of clarity it avoids departure from the european union non-executive chairman life johansson made the announcement in france's the most news paper the company has reportedly spent forty five million euros stockpiling medicine both in britain and continental europe to prevent supply disruptions if the two sides fail to reach an agreement regulating trade come not much of a cynical companies have repeatedly warned of medicine shortages in your above the breaks it. and the u.s. department store c. is has filed for bankruptcy it was once the country's biggest retailer famed for

a catalog that sold everything from clothing to toys and appliances but the firm has struggled since the one nine hundred eighty s. hit 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. you know when it comes to a hedge fund it's all over felt bad thank you for that optimistic note now to some of the other stories making news around the world but usually a uni goes out and say they're not been able to assail or press a deal head of this week's a new summit despite a flurry of meetings on sunday 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. jordan has reopened its main border crossing with syria for the first time in three years the move restores a commercial lifeline to more towards syria claiming a route for exports to arab countries it comes after syrian government troops re

took their side of the crossing in july. syria's foreign minister says more time is needed to save the hard won truce in the war torn italy has collapsed that's after jihadi groups in the stronghold failed to meet the deadline to leave provinces the last major rebel held area in the country millions of people are trapped between there and the turkish border the government and rebels have agreed to withdraw from a buffer zone on the edge of the disputed territory which includes the town of marek the truce where the truce is largely holding. first fell to rebels four years ago government forces fought to retake it this is what is left after repeated attacks and counterattacks with strikes barrel bombs tanks and heavy artillery. yet amid the devastation there are signs of life.

people are coming back and trying to rebuild their lives and their homes this was mohammed ali is house. 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 the city. the families are bringing their children home too many too young to remember what marek used to be like. because mark 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 but there's no guarantee that it will. police in germany have ended

a hostage taking a cologne railway station two hours into the incident have a forced their way into the pharmacy within the station where a woman was being held closed station is a major hub for passengers traveling around germany and europe authorities evacuated the building as a precaution. when the man was apparently armed and took the woman hostage. special forces brought this to a close. the attacker was arrested he's very seriously injured and is being cared for. the hostage was freed. her to go to the water before. at least thirteen people have died in flash floods in southwestern france streams became a raging torrent the equivalent of several months of rain fell in just hours worst hit is the old region where the river reached record levels not seen for 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 . was the addition of a team of the 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 and my feet are 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 borge cause. such rapid rainfall took its immediate toll in france is 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 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 i don't need to do is that me please derrius me flowing floodwaters have swept everything in their path trees power pylons cars . the region is better known for its mediæval towns than for such flooding of biblical proportions the worst the area has seen in a hundred years. that's it you're up to date at the top of the hour around the clock on the web site at c w dot com. have a good day. our

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