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latest from istanbul in washington. also coming up german police as a hostage taking in the city of cologne may have been a terrorist attack. the city's main train station. most popular alcoholic drink. which could lead to a global sure. be. good to have you with us tonight turkish police have saudi arabia's consulates in stamboul to search for clues following the disappearance of salty journalist. uniform turkish police believed to be prosecutors went inside of the compound several hours ago after. being cleared by salt saudi authorities and outspoken
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critic of solving crown prince mohammed bin solomon mr karzai entered the consulate almost two weeks ago he has not been seen since the investigation comes amid growing pressure from the international community regarding the fate of the saudi journalist c.n.n. is now reporting that saudi arabia is preparing to admit that national he was killed during an interrogation that went wrong. and of course that is a new development in this story tonight we want to go now to our correspondent you leon she's in istanbul on this story let's pick up we don't know any more about the report from sea in yulia about saudi arabia possibly preparing to admit that this was an interrogation that went wrong that became deadly for this journalist but let's talk about the consulate inside what are these investigators we assume they're still in the investigating what are they looking for.
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well brian this is of course a day turkish investigators have been waiting for they have been waiting for the saudis to finally give them for a mission to enter and search the saudi consulate the consul's a residence and to also ask some questions to employees and staff so this is the day this happened the turkish investigators a went inside the condition was that this is a joint turkish saudi probe and we've just heard from one person familiar with the investigation on the turkish side that they have been looking for forensic evidence and although the crime scene has been as he said polluted so it was very different difficult to find anything over there they say they secured some evidence but they still need to do further tests before they would go public this person was again speaking on the condition of staying anonymous so the the bigger question all day
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was of course what will this investigation team still be able to find as you mentioned it's been two weeks since jamal khashoggi went to missing and earlier today as if to you know make a point there is very interesting the. cleaning crew went inside this building with a mops and trash bags walking past the journalists and everybody was of course wondering and debate started again over the credibility of this whole investigation but now that it's started something has to come out some kind of forensic evidence maybe or some statement and even maybe this report that c.n.n. is reporting on now. it does beg the question why even a well this investigation to start now if two weeks. cleaning crews to go into what could be a crime scene. well maybe it is as c.n.n.
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reports the saudis are slowly slowly preparing for making a statement for such a report explaining the situation maybe blaming it as c.n.n. reports and i quote on on some rogue element someone in the saudi a killing team or a kidnapping team that then committed a mistake and killed him basically or the pressure has just you know become too much i mean the europeans france germany britain asking for thorough investigation in his disappearance the u.s. creating pressure as well so now like the world is basically demanding answers from the saudis they need to deliver and they conscious make this whole story this whole scandal go away a correspondent you hung on the story for us tonight in is temple and you think you . well u.s. secretary of state might bump aoe is on his way to saudi arabia to discuss this case with king solomon president trump said that he said pompei o after speaking on
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the phone with the saudi king. we are. going to leave nothing on covered with that exact became firmly denies any knowledge of it. he didn't really know maybe i don't want to get as good as mine but it sounded to me like babies did a big row killers oh no we're going to try getting to the bottom of a very serious what is was a flat denial are we want to take this story now to washington d.c. our correspondents stuff and siemens is standing by good evening to use stuff on this possible breaking news story that saudi arabia reportedly planning to admit to that its interrogators were part of the killing of this journalist has there been any reaction in washington to this report.
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no not so far not until now or as of yet stares no reaction from the white house the white house's ministration or from any of the parties democrats republicans g.o.p. senate or house whatsoever. this c.n.n. reports. relating this on to sources that the saudis may be prepared to admit to a enter a geisha and gone wrong makes the president of course look at a little bit outdated with his alternative narrative that maybe roque killers or somebody wrote was involved in this but we'll see this is so far still speculation two sources c.n.n. is claiming they have now let's wait what this will come out of there right just doesn't leave a developing story for who responded chiffon on the story for us not in washington john thank you. well police here in germany say that they have not ruled out the possibility that a hostage taking earlier today was motivated by terrorism it happened at the main
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railway station in the city of cologne in western germany police stormed a pharmacy inside the station to free a hostage who had been held for two hours special security forces led the assault and it resulted in serious injuries for the suspect the hostage was whitely wounded a police comb the station for clues about the suspects motives. what makes us think it was more than a hostage taking is that he had flammable liquid and among other things several gas canisters. got all the small ones used for camping and this was an area where he was holding the hostage. two of the gas canisters were strapped together with duct tape. are going to take this over to our correspondent david martin he is in cologne good evening to you david what we just heard there from
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police you know that gives us more information in some clues into their thinking what else do you know about the suspect well as we had that the fact that they found so many gas canisters and fire excitement suggests that this could have been a much more serious incident had police not intervened sooner what we also know is that the suspect claim to be a member of the jihadist terrorist group. the so-called islamic state police still trying to confirm what's behind those claims and we also know that following the incident police found a identity documents belonging to a syrian citizen who was living in cologne. reduction to say in another incident at the train station earlier today what happened there. that's right sir just before the hostage incident the suspect through some sort of
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family or it can explosive it believed to be among most of cocktail into a fast food restaurant also located inside cologne central station a witness told me that she saw. two victims run out of the fast food restaurant one of them a teenage girl who was whose leg was on fire she was on fire up and up to where a sweet head from police afterwards that girl has since been taken to hospital where she's receiving treatment for david martin a list were forced to live in cologne david thank you for here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world britain's prime minister to resign may says that she is still optimistic about reaching a deal on leaving the european union fears of a new deal works that are growing after talks between britain and the e.u. stalled on sunday the main sticking point to held to a board of physical border between northern ireland and britain and the irish republic belgium has elected
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a black mayor for the first time ever and he's the father of international footballer vincent kompany pierre company arrived as a refugee to belgium from year back in one nine hundred seventy five he became active in local politics in a brothel suburb over a decade ago archaeologist in iceland have made an unusual discovery they've unearth and amulets known as thor's hammer carved in the shape of the weapon carried by the viking god of thunder it's believed this is the first discovery of a thor's hammer amulet made from stone. lilies twelve people have died in flash floods in southwestern france streams became raging torrents as the equivalent of several months of rain fell in just a few hours. when it happened it happened fast several months worth of rain falling in just a few hours ava night here in southwest france turns rivers to raging destruction.
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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 tried to open the door but it's impossible i forced it open and then there was water up to my waist to go bush gorge cause. such rapid rainfall took its immediate toll in france his 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
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rose to my thighs i don't need to do this at least fieri 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. are some soccer news now england pulled off a surprise in their your way for nations a league match against spain. scored twice as england sealed a three two victory in the spanish city of seville spain still remain top of the group. well a new study says that climate change might reduce the global crop of barley which is a key ingredient in beer that is more at work for beer drinkers a future of expensive brew. fear the world's most popular alcoholic drink it's associated with cultural traditions like here at
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october fest in munich germany it's that association with good times that has some researchers report will a possible barley shortage spell the end of social life. sabir play it plays out quite a bit it's a social kind of a tool. for the stability as well if we still want to have some locks or essentials to have such like beer talk of the coffee tea things and that the climate change is not going to go and help with us china is where the most beer is drunk forty nine billion liters a year a threat to the supply could cause a variety of problems the country's center for agricultural policy is on the case which i'm going to call it under the most extreme climate change scenario the beer supply in china will drop by approximately nine to ten percent and there'll also be a clear increase of the price. actually china should also make efforts to upgrade
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crop seeds and technologies to produce barley that can be used to produce beer. for beer drinkers can start tightening their belts now and get used to the idea of a beer less future. to drink water you're watching the news i'll see you next time . as long as. you know good day. you know the banks are mine and so watch the language of the bank. speaking the truth global news that matters g.w. made for mines. here see how. high money is right in any of the dots a memoir so long there's. this week.
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